Publications

September 2011 (Revised February 2014)
Case

Duke Energy and the Nuclear Renaissance

By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Forest L. Reinhardt

Duke Energy, an American investor-owned electric utility, confronts multibillion dollar decisions about its future fuel mix. In particular, its leaders are considering building new nuclear capacity. Whether this is sensible depends, among other things, on demand... View Details

Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Expansion; Policy; Business Strategy; Energy Sources; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; United States

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

Keywords: Agribusiness

18 Dec 2018
Blog Post

Finding Your Family at HBS

some, HBS is the first place they are free to be out, and we’re excited to support that journey. For others, this is the first time they’ve had a queer community and culture to join. For those from large queer-friendly cities, this is a further View Details

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Corporate Strategy Course - Project Resources

expansions and strategies; labor/management actions; stock exchanges, ticker symbols, and industries; and principal subsidiaries, divisions, operating units, and competitors. Information is sourced from publicly accessible data as well as... View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

Cathy A. Nichols

and several other potential sites in Asia and Europe are being investigated. For Nichols, who is responsible for 8,000 employees and capital expansion projects exceeding $4 billion, overseeing this phenomenal growth, continually refining... View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick

01 Jun 2009
News

The New “In” Crowd

Just ask Elizabeth Scharpf (MBA ’07), recipient of the Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship. Two years out of HBS, she has already founded a health-care-focused social enterprise and launched a spin–off venture in Rwanda. “First and foremost, I’m a businessperson,” says... View Details

22 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs

firm. The researchers found a strong link between expansions in a firm's young skilled immigrant employment (those under 40 years old) and expansions in other parts of the firm's skilled workforce. Anecdotal... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Computer; Financial Services

February 1998 (Revised September 1998)
Case

Insteel Wire Products: ABM at Andrews

By: V.G. Narayanan and Ratna G. Sarkar

Insteel implements an activity-based costing (ABC) system in 1996. It finds pallet nails to be its most profitable product and decides to expand the number of cells making pallet nails from two to four. A repeat of the ABC study in 1997 shows pallet nails have become... View Details

Keywords: Cost Accounting; Expansion; Resource Allocation; Activity Based Costing and Management

May 1989 (Revised September 1989)
Case

Jacobs Suchard: Reorganizing for 1992

By: Robert G. Eccles Jr.

Jacobs Suchard, the Swiss-based coffee and chocolate producer, is preparing for the common market and EEC 1992. At the time of the case, the company is still organized toward independent, local country markets, and believes it must move toward a more global... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Expansion; Organizational Structure; Markets; Global Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Switzerland

Keywords: Natural Resources

Profile

Mi Zhou

hedge fund to help with its business expansion in Asia. In 2014, she married her HBS classmate Thongchai Rattanaruengyot (MBA 2011), and they recently had a baby boy. View Details

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Harvard Business School

curriculum. Existing first–year required courses such as "Human Behavior in Organizations" and "Planning and the Business Environment" started to incorporate case studies on Black entrepreneurship and corporate expansion into urban... View Details

01 Mar 2008
News

HBS Records an “Excellent” Year

$9 million on the strength of higher circulation and foreign edition royalties for Harvard Business Review; growth in sales of cases, teaching materials, and HBS Press books; and expansion of HBSP’s eLearning business. Another year of... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Feb 2002
News

Europe Business Conference Forecasts the Future

a New Yorker. In the business world, Hannezo predicted that synergies will continue to develop between Europe and the United States, thanks to a shared system of values and a wealth of talent on both sides of the Atlantic. "Together, we will succeed in enhancing the... View Details

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The Case Method Classroom | Baker Library

and instructor should be avoided.” (2) The basic design of the 17 classrooms in Aldrich Hall has proved fundamental to the case method of instruction and participant-centered learning at HBS and at business schools around the world. Previous: View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

Cutting Edge

and bolts: exiting underperforming adjunct businesses (e.g., pickles and fresh poultry); shaking up the management team; improving the supply chain (thereby increasing plant productivity by 50 percent); and developing a sequenced regional View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

01 Sep 2003
News

The Kids Are Alright: Alumni Children Crack Case

Reunion kids in class: with comments ranging from random to brilliant, analyzing an online company. Eisenmann: adventures in Neopia. Growth is something that children experience every day. And they certainly know a lot about the Internet. So when it comes to seeking... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

September 2024
Case

Open Door Legal: Universal Legal Access

By: Brian Trelstad, Taylor Greenthal and Sarah Mehta

This case is about Open Door Legal (ODL), a San Francisco-based civil legal aid nonprofit. CEO Adrian Tirtanadi founded the organization in 2012 with a mission to achieve universal access to legal representation for all city residents. By 2024, ODL had opened four... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Law; Growth Management; Nonprofit Organizations; Civil Society or Community; Business Model; Expansion; Legal Services Industry; United States; California; Los Angeles; San Francisco

October 1995
Case

Robert Mondavi Corporation

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Thomas N. Urban Jr

As the Mondavi Corp. moves from a private to a public company and increases the number of types of wine it sells, how does it position itself in various segments of the market and what brand and distribution system is most important? View Details

Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Brands and Branding; Distribution; Product Positioning; Going Public; Expansion; Change; Food and Beverage Industry