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  • November 2000 (Revised May 2002)
  • Case

Oracle Corporation

By: Frances X. Frei and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar
Oracle Corp., the world's second-largest independent software company (behind Microsoft) was the world's dominant supplier of database software. Oracle also sold application software, such as the popular enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Internet and the Web; Service Operations; Service Delivery; Applications and Software; Management Teams; Innovation and Invention; Web Services Industry; Information Technology Industry
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    Do Experts or Collective Intelligence Write with More Bias?

    Co-authored by Feng Zhu

    Which source of information contains greater bias and slant-text written by an expert or that constructed via collective intelligence? Do the costs of acquiring, storing, displaying, and revising information shape those... View Details
    • March 2001 (Revised November 2001)
    • Case

    Merrill Lynch HOLDRS

    By: Andre F. Perold and Simon E. Brown
    Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and HOLDRS (Holding Company Depositary Receipts) represent recent and highly successful capital market innovations. HOLDRS closely approximates a buy-and-hold strategy, and Merrill Lynch believes the product has significantly lower taxes... View Details
    Keywords: Capital Markets; Cost; Stocks; Financial Strategy; Investment Funds; Taxation; Innovation and Invention; Product; Success; Expansion
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    • May 2009
    • Article

    Asymmetric Information Effects on Loan Spreads

    By: Victoria Ivashina
    The paper estimates the cost arising from information asymmetry between the lead bank and members of the lending syndicate. In a lending syndicate, the lead bank retains only a fraction of the loan but acts as the intermediary between the borrower and the syndicate... View Details
    Keywords: Cost; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Interest Rates; Capital; Investment Portfolio; Credit; Diversification; Risk and Uncertainty
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    • February 2022 (Revised April 2024)
    • Case

    Aleph Farms: A New Culture of Meat

    By: Elie Ofek and Jeff Huizinga
    Aleph Farms, an Israeli food-tech start-up, was hoping to play a major role in disrupting the conventional meat sector. Compared to intensive agricultural practices, Aleph’s cultured (or lab-grown) meat solution held the promise of considerably reducing greenhouse gas... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Disruptive Innovation; Adoption; Go To Market Strategy; Industry Evolution; Food Industry; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Marketing Of Innovations; Brand Building; Capital Expenditures-equipment; Disruption; Green Technology; Environmental Sustainability; Food; Market Entry and Exit; Brands and Branding; Consumer Behavior; Competitive Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry
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    • Article

    We Need Better Carbon Accounting. Here's How to Get There.

    By: Robert S. Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna
    Any effective system of greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting needs to measure each company’s supply-chain carbon impacts accurately. Such information would provide visibility and incentives for the company to make more climate-friendly product-specification and purchasing... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Greenhouse Gas Emissions; GHG; Carbon Accounting; Environmental Accounting; Environmental Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Supply Chain
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    • May 2017 (Revised February 2024)
    • Case

    Battle for the Soul of Capitalism: Unilever and the Kraft Heinz Takeover Bid (A)

    By: William W. George and Amram Migdal
    This case describes Kraft Heinz Company’s (KHC) February 2017 unsolicited $143 billion takeover offer to acquire Unilever. The offer was made to Unilever CEO Paul Polman by KHC chairman Alexandre Behring, who was also co-founder and CEO of Brazilian-based 3G Capital... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Value Creation; Decision Choices and Conditions
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    • April 2021
    • Case

    Zeynep Ton: The Good Jobs Strategy

    By: Francesca Gino and Frances X. Frei
    The link to this multimedia case should be provided to students in advance as preparation for classroom case discussion.

    In Zeynop Ton’s 2014 book The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost... View Details
    Keywords: Organizations; Selection and Staffing; Compensation and Benefits; Operations; Performance Effectiveness
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    • October 2008 (Revised June 2011)
    • Case

    JetBlue Airways: Managing Growth

    By: Robert S. Huckman and Gary P. Pisano
    Considers the situation facing David Barger, President and CEO of JetBlue Airways, in May 2007 as he addresses the airline's need to slow its growth rate in the response to increasing fuel costs and the effects of major operational crisis for the airline in February... View Details
    Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Operations; Performance Capacity; Performance Efficiency; Competitive Strategy; Air Transportation Industry
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    • Program

    Managing Health Care Delivery

    reform, and payers are demanding cost control. These factors have placed great strain on health care delivery, and pose significant challenges for vulnerable populations. These issues are not unique; they are systemic factors that... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care; Health Care
    • 03 Oct 2013
    • News

    How to Design a Bundled Payment Around Value

    • 11 Jun 2013
    • News

    For companies to grow, they have to sell you more

    • July 2014
    • Article

    Second-Opinion Pathologic Review is a Patient Safety Mechanism That Helps Reduce Error and Decrease Waste

    By: Lavinia Middleton, Thomas W. Feeley, Heidi W. Albright, Ronald Walters and Stanley Hamilton
    We have a crisis in health care delivery, originating from increasing health care costs and inconsistent quality-of-care measures. During the past several years, value-based health care delivery has gained increasing attention as an approach to control costs and... View Details
    Keywords: Pathology; Diagnostic Errors; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; North and Central America
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    • 19 Oct 2017
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Games of Threats

    Keywords: by Elon Kohlberg and Abraham Neyman; Education
    • March 2001
    • Case

    Corruption in International Business (A)

    By: Robert E. Kennedy and Rafael M. Di Tella
    Explores various aspects of corruption in international business, in two sections. The first section provides a broad discussion of the ethical, business, and legal aspects of corruption. The second section provides a series of "caselets" that are designed to promote... View Details
    Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Emerging Markets; Policy; Globalization
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    • February 1995 (Revised April 1997)
    • Case

    EG&G Rotron Division

    Rotron has recently entered the commercial motor market, after many years of servicing government military contracts. Faced with fierce commercial competition, Rotron has attacked its costs and reduced its delivery times and its plants. A new crisis, however, is... View Details
    Keywords: Competition; Production; Expansion; Manufacturing Industry
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    • 09 Dec 2015
    • News

    The US advantage at Paris climate talks

    • 16 Jun 2021
    • News

    Government Creates Online Repository of Local and Global Education Courses

    • 20 Feb 2020
    • News

    Investors have doubts about the latest American fintech bank

    • 16 Jul 2019
    • News

    Space case: Why reaching for the stars could soon be a $1 trillion industry