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- November 2005 (Revised July 2009)
- Case
Cutter & Buck (A)
By: William A. Sahlman and Victoria Winston
Only three short months into her new position as CEO of publicly traded golf apparel manufacturer Cutter & Buck, Fran Conley discovers accounting irregularities that call into question the reliability of this company's financial statements. Working closely with her...
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Keywords:
Financial Statements;
Crime and Corruption;
Corporate Disclosure;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Going Public
Sahlman, William A., and Victoria Winston. "Cutter & Buck (A)." Harvard Business School Case 806-028, November 2005. (Revised July 2009.)
- 19 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Marc Duranteau (MBA 2019)
completely re-learned how to listen to people and understand their arguments. In the case method, everybody has to get in; you do not get to speak very often (once every three class on average). Therefore, you learn the value View Details
- 2012
- Teaching Note
Beyondsoft Co., Ltd. (B) (TN)
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li and Hong Zhang
The case "Beyondsoft Co., Ltd. (A)" completed in early 2010 described the strategic path of Beyondsoft over its history of more than 10 years since its foundation in 1995, containing its major business lines and the relations with the major customers at that time, the...
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Keywords:
Computer Software;
Entrepreneurship;
Information Technology;
Outsourcing;
Strategy;
China;
Applications and Software;
China
McFarlan, F. Warren, Donghong Li, and Hong Zhang. "Beyondsoft Co., Ltd. (B) (TN)." Tsinghua University Teaching Note, 2012.
- November 2014 (Revised January 2017)
- Case
Micromax: Scaling the Largest Indian Mobile Handset Company
By: Ranjay Gulati, Rachna Tahilyani and Alicia DeSantola
It is January 2014 and Rahul Sharma, cofounder of Micromax Informatics (Micromax), the largest Indian mobile handset company, is preparing for an emergency conference call with his private equity investors. In the last six years, Micromax had grown its annual product...
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Keywords:
Mobile;
Scaling;
Indian Software Development;
Consumer Behavior;
Management Turnover;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Management;
E-commerce;
Technology Industry;
Telecommunications Industry;
India
Gulati, Ranjay, Rachna Tahilyani, and Alicia DeSantola. "Micromax: Scaling the Largest Indian Mobile Handset Company." Harvard Business School Case 415-034, November 2014. (Revised January 2017.)
- December 2009
- Article
Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment
By: Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton
We use a new firm-level dataset that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries. Using a combination of four-digit-level information and input-output tables, we find the share of vertical FDI (subsidiaries that provide...
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Keywords:
Business Subsidiaries;
Competency and Skills;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Geographic Location;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Industry Structures;
Production
Alfaro, Laura, and Andrew Charlton. "Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment." American Economic Review 99, no. 5 (December 2009): 2096–2119. (Also Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 08-018 and NBER Working Paper No. 13447.)
- May 2005 (Revised January 2006)
- Case
Mortgage Backs at Ticonderoga
Ticonderoga is a small hedge fund that trades in mortgage-backed securities--securities created from pooled mortgage loans. They often appear as straightforward so-called "pass-throughs," but can also be pooled again to create collateral for a mortgage security known...
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Chacko, George C., Peter A. Hecht, Vincent Dessain, and Anders Sjoman. "Mortgage Backs at Ticonderoga." Harvard Business School Case 205-122, May 2005. (Revised January 2006.)
Monique Burns Thompson
Monique Burns Thompson is an accomplished social entrepreneur who returns to HBS (class of 1993) and brings her twenty years of successful start-up and organizational leadership experience to her research and teaching at HBS. She has led as a co-founder, President,... View Details
- February 1993 (Revised October 1993)
- Case
Brent Walker Group PLC,The
The Brent Walker Group completed the largest out-of-court restructuring in the United Kingdom. After overexpansion in the 1980s, the company pursued a large acquisition financed with debt and then encountered falling asset prices. With the assistance of the Bank of...
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Fenster, Steven R. "Brent Walker Group PLC,The." Harvard Business School Case 293-078, February 1993. (Revised October 1993.)
- April 2022 (Revised May 2022)
- Case
Mastercard Labs (A) (Abridged)
When Ajaypal (Ajay) Banga became the CEO of Mastercard in 2010, he shifted the company’s competitive focus from card networks to cash itself. Mastercard’s new vision of a “World Beyond Cash” distilled into a three-pronged framework: Grow the core business, Diversify...
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Keywords:
Organizational Behavior;
Culture;
Organizational Culture;
Culture Change;
Organizational Adaptation;
Organizational Effectiveness;
Alignment;
Leadership;
Leadership Development;
Innovation;
Innovation Ecosystems;
Diversity;
Collaboration;
Co-creation;
Learning Organizations;
Empowerment;
Ecosystem;
Agility;
Prototype;
Experiment;
Partnerships;
Operating Model;
Risk Management;
Metrics;
Payments;
Financial Inclusion;
Financial Industry;
Ambidexterity;
Corporate Innovation;
Innovation Lab;
Accelerator;
Start-up;
Intrapreneurship;
Competitive Strategy;
Business Model;
Technological Innovation;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Digital Transformation
Hill, Linda A., Sunil Gupta, Emily Tedards, and Julia Kelley. "Mastercard Labs (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 422-082, April 2022. (Revised May 2022.)
- September 2013
- Teaching Note
Gary Hirshberg and Stonyfield Farm
By: Nancy F. Koehn and Nora N. Khan
Gary Hirshberg and Stonyfield Farm is the story of one entrepreneur's vision and journey to create a market-leading, environmentally responsible business founded on the principles of product quality, organizational alignment and sustainability. A former... View Details
- February 1991 (Revised November 2010)
- Case
Tennessee Controls: The Strategic Ranking Problem
By: Robert L. Simons and Dale Geiger
Tennessee Controls has instituted a new formal asset acquisition process to rank competing proposals. Judy Starnes, the new division manager, is asked to rank three proposals by using techniques to quantify economic returns, risk, as well as the credibility of the...
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Keywords:
Capital Budgeting;
Governance Controls;
Management Systems;
Strategic Planning;
Mathematical Methods;
Electronics Industry
Simons, Robert L., and Dale Geiger. "Tennessee Controls: The Strategic Ranking Problem." Harvard Business School Case 191-083, February 1991. (Revised November 2010.)
- February 2018 (Revised June 2019)
- Case
Jaguar Capital S.A.S., Take the Money and Run?
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
In January 2014, Tomas Uribe and Rodrigo Sanchez-Rios of Jaguar Capital S.A.S. (Jaguar or Jaguar Capital), were considering an offer from White Stone, the world’s largest private equity real estate investor. Jaguar Capital needed capital to fund its investment thesis,...
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Keywords:
Real Estate;
Investing;
Private Equity Financing;
Deal Structuring;
Emerging Market;
Emerging Economies;
Emerging Market Finance;
International Entrepreneurship;
Finance;
Entrepreneurship;
Agreements and Arrangements;
Emerging Markets;
Real Estate Industry;
Retail Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Colombia;
Latin America;
United States
Lietz, Nori Gerardo, and Sayiddah Fatima McCree. "Jaguar Capital S.A.S., Take the Money and Run?" Harvard Business School Case 218-078, February 2018. (Revised June 2019.)
- 18 Jun 2019
- News
Can Khan Academy Scale to Educate Anyone, Anywhere?
- December 2013
- Teaching Note
Choosing a Charitable Giving Vehicle
By: Robert C. Pozen, Mayur Desai and Maura A. Graul
Elaine White is an accountant advising two couples, the Carsons and Bradleys, regarding their charitable giving options and related tax strategies. The Carsons are an upper-middle class family with $295,000 in income, a moderate amount of deductions, and...
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- March 2011
- Case
Insight Communications
By: Rajiv Lal and Natalie Kindred
After undertaking a multi-year, metrics-driven operational and cultural overhaul, in April 2010 Insight Communications was planning the next phase of its development. Insight was a New York-based provider of cable, landline phone, and high-speed Internet service to...
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- 13 Jan 2023
- Blog Post
Video: Introduction to the Harvard MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences
View Video TRANSCRIPT Robert D. Howe: The MS/MBA program is a dual degree program. So in two years, you'll earn an MBA from Harvard's Business School and a Master of Science in engineering from Harvard's Engineering School. The core View Details
- Web
Direct from the Director - MBA
with some good news to share! The Harvard Business School MBA is now a STEM-designated degree. This designation will allow all our MBA students, beginning with the Class of 2025, to pursue the opportunities...
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- Program
Owner/President Management
fast-moving classes and small group discussions. Learning Commitment Residency on campus is required for the on-campus units, and classes are held six days a week. Your active participation in all classroom...
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- May 2006
- Module Note
Leading Culturally Diverse Teams
By: Robin J. Ely
Describes the Leading Culturally Diverse Teams module (eight class sessions), which teaches students the leadership perspectives and skills necessary to develop high-functioning, culturally diverse teams (teams diverse in, for example, race, ethnicity, gender,...
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Ely, Robin J. "Leading Culturally Diverse Teams." Harvard Business School Module Note 406-097, May 2006.