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  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

Steady as She Goes

Courtesy Coles This was going to be the year everything got back to normal. Since Leah Weckert (MBA 2008) became the CFO at Australia’s Coles Group in 2018, the supermarket giant had announced a demerger—the largest in the country’s history—from View Details
Keywords: April White; COVID-19; change management; leadership; women; grocery stores; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
  • 13 May 2013
  • Blog Post

Exploring in a Passion Safe Environment

landscape and ecosystem, and develop an understanding of various corporate structures / lifestyle including business “vocabulary”. They’ve taught me that it’s not okay to tell my classmates to, Drop and give... View Details
  • 02 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

interdependent system components. (The hypothesis claims a correspondence between organizational structure and technical architecture, but allows causality to flow in either direction.) Scholars in a range of disciplines have argued that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • May 1985 (Revised October 2001)
  • Case

Comdisco, Inc.

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Rita J. Seymour
Comdisco, the largest independent dealer and lessor of computers and peripheral equipment, needs financing in order to match its market's growth of 20-30% per year. The company has access to two types of risk capital, but there are substantial costs and risks... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Strategy; Cost vs Benefits; Capital Structure; Financing and Loans; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Growth and Development Strategy; Computer Industry; Distribution Industry
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  • January 2010 (Revised February 2011)
  • Case

The Random House Response to the Kindle

By: Bharat N. Anand and Peter Olson
In early 2010, e-readers, like Amazon's Kindle and Apple's impending iPad, threatened to disrupt the book publishing industry. The case provides an overview of the industry, describes the broader trends regarding e-readers, and asks: how should major publishers like... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Trends; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Consumer Behavior; Industry Structures; Corporate Strategy; Hardware; Publishing Industry
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  • January 2003 (Revised December 2003)
  • Case

Joint Juice

Focuses on Joint Juice, a start-up in the new-age beverage category. The company has a patented formula for producing a glucosamine beverage, the only one on the market. (Glucosamine is a nutritional supplement believed to help rejuvenate joints and treat arthritis.)... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Business or Company Management; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Corporate Strategy; Industry Structures; Entrepreneurship; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 05 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 5, 2016

Hai Precision Industry Company, Ltd. (Hon Hai) announced its investment in the Sharp Corporation (Sharp). The deal was structured in two parts: the first had Hon Hai investing in Sharp, and the second... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 15 Nov 2013
  • News

Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again

Côme Laguë by Robert S. Benchley Côme Laguë (MBA 1993) has no respect for firms he calls "patent trolls"—holding companies that buy up and bank the intellectual property of closed businesses solely for the purpose of generating income through View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
  • 27 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

unrelated to managerial performance, we document that a significant subset of firms, who choose index-based rTSR-benchmarks in lieu of specific peers, do not adequately achieve this objective. Structural estimates reveal that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Industrial Giant

it is highly probable that the equipment placed in the car will become obsolete. Also, OnStar can only be used in the car, which may make it cumbersome for customers used to the easy accessibility of cell phones. 83 GM is also attempting to revamp its business View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Davis Dyer & Frederick Dalzell; Manufacturing
  • 01 Feb 2018
  • News

HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86

business policy and the role of the middle manager. He also examined the domestic and international economy, particularly the interaction between business and government, as well as the subjects of productivity, corporate profits, and... View Details
  • 28 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 28

the Public Corporation, and Greater Commitments to Sustainability: Signals from the Corporate Board By: Eccles, Robert G., J. Herron, and George Serafeim Abstract—This book is a comprehensive reference work exploring recent changes and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 3

quite limited. The best path forward involves extensive experimentation and careful evaluation. Publisher's link: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/I/bo18508109.html August 2013 Advances in Strategic Management The Effect of Institutional Factors on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 20, 2007

Burton had to assess the plans from a global perspective. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508009 The Hertz Corporation (A) Harvard Business School Case 208-030 Examines the leveraged... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2005
  • News

One-on-One with Edwin Reed

what sorts of activities do you oversee? Allen’s corporations provide myriad social services and operate a school, a resource center for battered women, senior-citizen complexes with 630 units, a for-profit transportation company, and... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 03 Mar 2010
  • What Do You Think?

To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?

the commitment and loyalty of employees who perceive themselves as the most disposable of corporate assets ." What will it take to turn around negative trends in "identity"? Ajay Kumar Gupta suggests that "creation of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 12 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

poor financial markets, b) increases in the share of FDI or the relative productivity of the foreign firm leads to higher additional growth in financially developed economies compared to those observed in financially under-developed ones, and c) other local conditions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Bad Times for Business

Professors Lorsch, Palepu, Kanter, Healy, Koehn, and Hall. Spangler Center, Fall 2002. Photography by Webb Chappell. With corporate America rocked by revelations of conflict of interest, malfeasance, negligence, and greed, a group of HBS... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 1991
  • Book

Advantage Sweden

By: Michael E. Porter, Orjan Solvell and I. Zander
Keywords: Industry Clusters; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Industry Structures; Global Strategy; Economy; Sweden
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  • 05 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 5

this case:http://hbr.org/search/312109-PDF-ENG Credit Unions: The Future of the Cooperative Financial Institution Robert C. Pozen and Grace HouHarvard Business School Case 312-131 Credit unions are a specialized type of depository institution with a cooperative,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne