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15 Aug 2016
Blog Post

Writing a Case as a Student at HBS

second year, many students decide to try their hand at writing a case themselves. Why write a case with a professor? In case you aren’t yet familiar with HBS cases, they are the 10-30 page packets upon which almost every View Details

26 May 2016
Video

Harvard Business School Commencement 2016

18 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

give-and-take among students, professor, and manager, the class touched on the tension between the romance of... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

October 2019
Case

Kaspi.kz IPO

By: Victoria Ivashina and Esel Çekin

This case follows Kaspi.kz, a private equity (Baring Vostok) co-owned retail bank in Central Asia that evolved into a fintech, payments and e-commerce company. It provides insights into private equity financing, portfolio company management, and initial public offering... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Private Equity; Initial Public Offering; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Central Asia

05 Jun 2014
Video

Career & Professional Development Overview

26 May 2022
Video

2022 Welcome Address Jan Rivkin & Jana Kierstead

25 Mar 2010
News

Dartmouth's Chief Tackles Endowment Hit With Tough Cuts

Willy C. Shih

Willy Shih is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration. He is part of the Technology and Operations Management Unit, and he teaches in the MBA and Executive Education Programs. His expertise is in manufacturing, product... View Details

Keywords: aerospace; automotive; biotechnology; communications; computer; digital imaging; electrical equipment; electronics; entertainment; high technology; industrial goods; information technology industry; manufacturing; retailing; semiconductor

November 1989 (Revised November 1991)
Case

Transformation at Ford

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Richard Pascale

In 1980 Ford was near disaster. The company lost billions of dollars between 1980 and 1982. By 1988 the company had been transformed into one of the most successful corporations in the United States. Describes what happened and then examines how it happened. The major... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Success; Transformation; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; United States

24 Mar 2021
News

Intel Puts Marker Down to Grab Chip Leadership Again: Willy Shih

17 Nov 2015
Blog Post

What is HBS START Week?

Hayden (MBA 2015), to learn more. What activities take place during START week? Academically, START introduces students to their sections and the case method. Following the “big reveal” of section... View Details

Accounting Standards and International Portfolio Holdings

A long stream of literature shows that investors significantly underweight foreign investments, a phenomenon referred to as home bias, which is consistently observed across different classes of investments and types of investors. One common explanation for the... View Details

June 2010 (Revised July 2012)
Supplement

Dubai: Debt, Development, and Crisis (B)

By: Aldo Musacchio, Andrew Christopher Goodman and Claire K. Qureshi

On November 25, 2009, the city state of Dubai stunned markets by announcing that Dubai World, its flagship state holding company, would seek a six month "standstill" on at least $4 billion U.S. dollars of its $26 billion in debt obligations. This case describes Dubai's... View Details

Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Development Economics; Crisis Management; Dubai

March 2022
Article

Learning to Rank an Assortment of Products

By: Kris Ferreira, Sunanda Parthasarathy and Shreyas Sekar

We consider the product ranking challenge that online retailers face when their customers typically behave as “window shoppers”: they form an impression of the assortment after browsing products ranked in the initial positions and then decide whether to continue... View Details

Keywords: Online Learning; Product Ranking; Assortment Optimization; Learning; Internet and the Web; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; E-commerce

April 1990 (Revised April 1993)
Case

Bridgeton Industries: Automotive Component & Fabrication Plant

Bridgeton Industries was experiencing reduced sales. To become more competitive it introduced a classification procedure for products based upon their productivity and other factors. Products were classified into three groups: world class, potentially world class, and... View Details

Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Competition; Cost Management; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry

June 2011
Case

Reed Supermarkets: A New Wave of Competitors

By: John A. Quelch and Carole Carlson

Reed Supermarkets is a high-end supermarket chain with operations in several Midwestern states. Meredith Collins, vice president of marketing, visits stores located in Columbus, Ohio, an important region with the largest market and the greatest impact on revenue... View Details

Keywords: Product Positioning; Marketing Strategy; Business Growth and Maturation; Competitive Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Brands and Branding; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Ohio