Publications

06 Sep 2007
News

Nonperforming CEOs

24 Apr 2019
News

What Tops Kraft Heinz’s Menu? Cost Cuts or Mac ‘n’ Cheese?

12 May 2011
Research & Ideas

The Difficult Transition from For-Profit to Nonprofit Boards

giving helping others to give (hence the phrase, "give, get, or get off.") Finally, the execution of the work of the board is deeply different from that of boards in the for-profit world because of the tasks of mission performance... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

April 2004 (Revised March 2008)
Case

Precise Software

By: Paul A. Gompers and Sara Bergson

Yossi Sela, general partner at Gemini Venture capital, considers a new investment in Precise Software. The firm is at a crisis point, and Sela needs to decide whether he will fire the firm's chief executive officer. Conflicts between the American CEO and the Israeli... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment; Resignation and Termination; Crisis Management; Managerial Roles; Conflict and Resolution; Israel; United States

June 2003 (Revised September 2004)
Exercise

The Pacific Sentinel: Role for Chris Coleman

By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Dina R. Pradel

A new publishing company has just purchased the Pacific Sentinel, a fictional West Coast newspaper. The new publisher is willing to invest $1 million in the future success of the paper and has asked the executive editor and advertising manager to develop a joint plan... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation; Conflict of Interests; Decision Making; Publishing Industry

May 1987
Supplement

Copeland Corp.: The Focused Factory, Video

By: David A. Garvin

Introduces students to the products, shows the company's focused factories, introduces the principal managers, and describes the process the company went through in executing a major change in manufacturing strategy and philosophy. Can be used independently to... View Details

Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Change; Machinery and Machining; Product; Production; Strategy

29 Nov 2018
News

Harvard forms subsidiary to advance Enterprise Research Campus

04 Feb 2020
Video

Dr. Elizabeth Mary Okelo

Mary Okelo, who pursued a successful career as an executive of Barclays Bank In Kenya before founding the only women’s bank in Africa and the Makini schools system, describes how, while a manager at Barclays,... View Details

Program

Mergers and Acquisitions

Summary Across the globe, mergers and acquisitions are reshaping the corporate and competitive landscape. To help companies gain a strategic advantage and expand market share, this M&A program takes you inside the process—from strategy and valuation to View Details

November 1998 (Revised August 1999)
Case

Mickey Maurer: IBJ Corp. and MyStar Communications

By: Paul W. Marshall and Jeremy Dann

Mickey Maurer is a successful entrepreneur who retired in the late 1980s and then reentered the business world with the purchase of two media companies. In the radio industry he faces competition from large national players. In his publishing enterprise, Maurer... View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Competition; Business Growth and Maturation; Entrepreneurship; Management Teams; Media and Broadcasting Industry

November 1995
Case

The Benetton Group

By: James L. Heskett

The management of the Benetton Group includes senior executives advocating two different strategies: 1) expanding manufacturing to develop economies in order to grow Benetton's sales in those markets, and/or, 2)find ways to provide additional support to retailers, some... View Details

Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Business Strategy; Global Strategy; Sales; Growth and Development; Distribution; Distribution Channels