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December 2015
Case

Negotiating the Path of Abraham, 2015 Progress and Challenges

By: James K. Sebenius

The Abraham Path board reviews the last five years and seeks to frame and act on its major strategic, negotiating, and operational challenges going forward. The Abraham Path Initiative seeks to revitalize a route of Middle East cultural tourism following Abraham's path... View Details

February 2013 (Revised March 2013)
Supplement

CalSTRS and Relational Challenge Occidental's Governance (C)

By: George Serafeim

February 2013 (Revised March 2013)
Supplement

CalSTRS and Relational Challenge Occidental's Governance (B)

By: George Serafeim

February 2013 (Revised March 2013)
Case

CalSTRS and Relational Challenge Occidental's Governance (A)

By: George Serafeim

2009
Article

The Harvard Economic Service and the Problems of Forecasting

By: Walter Friedman

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Higher Education; Problems and Challenges; Economics

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06 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

The Problem with Hedge Funds

While investors are still learning what happened to them in the 1990s and are trying to get their money back, they find themselves facing a new set of dangers—in some cases from the same people who victimized them before. View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

21 Jan 2016
Video

2016 Precision Trials Challenge

1981
Chapter

Sparsity and Piecewise Linearity in Large Portfolio Optimization Problems

By: André Perold and Harry M. Markowitz

Keywords: Investment Portfolio; Mathematical Methods

February 2001 (Revised November 2019)
Case

Delivery Problems at Arrow Electronics, Inc. (A)

By: Andrew P. McAfee, Frances X. Frei and Kerry Herman

Describes a dramatic decrease in service levels (on-time shipments) from the warehouse network of a large electronics distributor. Students need to analyze the root cause of the problem and propose actions. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details

Keywords: Order Taking and Fulfillment; Problems and Challenges; Business Processes; Distribution Industry; Electronics Industry

October 1978
Article

Problems in Eurobond Underwriting

By: J. Pattison and J. Quelch

23 Sep 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Operational Failures and Problem Solving: An Empirical Study of Incident Reporting

Keywords: by Julia Adler-Milstein, Sara J. Singer & Michael W. Toffel; Health

August 2015 (Revised May 2021)
Exercise

Business Models Problem Set

By: Ramana Nanda, William A. Sahlman, Robert White and Hunter Ashmore

September 2020
Case

Wladimir Klitschko: F.A.C.E. Your Challenges

By: Boris Groysberg, Michael Norris and Carin-Isabel Knoop

In 2020, Olympic goal medal winning boxer and former heavyweight world champion Wladimir Klitschko had built himself a “second ring” to continue his career after retiring from professional boxing. He was a hotelier, boxing promoter, author, teacher, speaker, and had... View Details

Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Business Education; Training; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Sports; Sports Industry; Consulting Industry; Education Industry; Ukraine; Germany

1997
Book

Case Problems in Finance

By: W. C. Kester, W. E. Fruhan Jr., T. R. Piper and R. S. Ruback

Keywords: Finance

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15 Feb 2017
News

Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

December 2018 (Revised October 2019)
Case

Barteca: The Challenge and Opportunity of Private Equity

By: Lena G. Goldberg and Michael S. Kaufman

Andy Pforzheimer and Sasa Mahr-Batuz, co-founders of a highly successful seven-location restaurant brand, had just opened the first location of a new brand. They had mapped out future expansion for both brands but wondered if, rather than lining up an assortment of... View Details

Keywords: Restaurants; Brands and Branding; Expansion; Private Equity; Strategy; Decision Making

December 2008 (Revised May 2009)
Background Note

Corporate Governance in China: Current Practice, Key Problems

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Joanne Xu and Tracy Manty

This note introduces the current corporate governance system in China, identifies its key problems and assesses recent improvements and future challenges. View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Practice; Problems and Challenges; China