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  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership

already using their Citizens United supercharged political power to strongly oppose progressive climate policy. “The problem is that these companies have been relatively quiet, and are generally outgunned by fossil fuel money” But there... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Energy; Utilities
  • 07 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

natural gas that were burdened with highly inefficient delivery systems. In time, the company supported his basic concept with EnronOnline, a Web-based trading platform that instantly became the world's largest e-commerce system in 1999.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • November 2005 (Revised August 2007)
  • Case

ConAgra Foods: The Next Chapter

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Mary L. Shelman
In 2005, CEO Bruce Rohde has almost completed the integration of ConAgra Foods' collection of 90 independent operating companies into a focused, value-added firm and was beginning to think about his successor. ConAgra had become the second largest food company and No.... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Corporate Strategy; Leading Change; Management Succession; Strategic Planning; Brands and Branding; Food; Agribusiness; Product Marketing; Management Teams; Transformation; Customer Focus and Relationships; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States
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Goldberg, Ray A., and Mary L. Shelman. "ConAgra Foods: The Next Chapter." Harvard Business School Case 906-409, November 2005. (Revised August 2007.)
  • January 2013
  • Supplement

Wanxiang Group: A Chinese Company's Global Strategy (B)

By: William C. Kirby, Nancy Hua Dai and Erica M. Zendell
Supplements the A Case 308-058. With an almost forty-year history as a business in China, the Wanxiang Group has navigated through the significantly different political and economic changes in China to succeed as a global leader in the auto parts industry, and to... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Global Strategy; Business Conglomerates; Vertical Integration; Goals and Objectives; Mergers and Acquisitions; Auto Industry; China; United States
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Kirby, William C., Nancy Hua Dai, and Erica M. Zendell. "Wanxiang Group: A Chinese Company's Global Strategy (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 313-096, January 2013.
  • May 2003 (Revised October 2003)
  • Case

BEA Systems, Inc.: Constant Reinvention to Cope with Market Waves

Developed in 1995 as a specialist software vendor, BEA Systems, Inc. had already transformed itself twice from a transaction processing product company to a server application provider. By July 2002, it had become the fastest company in history to reach $1 billion in... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Digital Platforms; Business Growth and Maturation; Management Practices and Processes; Applications and Software; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Culture; Web Services Industry; Information Technology Industry
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Sull, Donald N., Ramiro Montealegre, and Jeannette Dale. "BEA Systems, Inc.: Constant Reinvention to Cope with Market Waves." Harvard Business School Case 803-118, May 2003. (Revised October 2003.)
  • February 12, 2021
  • Article

The Commercial Space Age Is Here

By: Matt Weinzierl and Mehak Sarang
In May of 2020, SpaceX made history as the first private company to send humans into space. This marks not only a tremendous technological achievement, but also the first indication that an entirely new “space-for-space” industry—that is, goods and services designed to... View Details
Keywords: Space Economy; New Markets; Emerging Markets; Opportunities; Entrepreneurship; Commercialization; Aerospace Industry
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Weinzierl, Matt, and Mehak Sarang. "The Commercial Space Age Is Here." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (February 12, 2021).
  • 25 Apr 2005
  • Research & Ideas

New Learning at American Home Products

The success of American Home Products reflects a unique path of learning. The company originated with the merger of several companies in related businesses. During the seventy years following its formation... View Details
Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Chemical; Health; Manufacturing; Pharmaceutical
  • May 2004 (Revised June 2004)
  • Case

Lucas Chevrolet File, The

An insurance company claim manager is deciding how to negotiate a large liability claim and reviewing the company's approach to settling large claims. This case provides background on the claim and the 4-1/2-year history of negotiations to date. It also gives profiles... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Insurance; Legal Liability; Insurance Industry
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Hammond, John S. "Lucas Chevrolet File, The." Harvard Business School Case 904-078, May 2004. (Revised June 2004.)
  • February 1991 (Revised June 1993)
  • Case

Ross Perot and General Motors

By: Jay W. Lorsch
In December, 1986 the General Motors Board of Directors must decide whether to accept the buyout agreement between GM and Ross Perot, a director of GM and its largest stockholder. The agreement called for GM to purchase all of Perot's GM shares in exchange for his... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Mergers and Acquisitions; Stock Shares; Resignation and Termination; Business or Company Management; Agreements and Arrangements
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Lorsch, Jay W. "Ross Perot and General Motors." Harvard Business School Case 491-027, February 1991. (Revised June 1993.)
  • January 2024 (Revised February 2024)
  • Case

OpenAI: Idealism Meets Capitalism

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
In November 2023, the board of OpenAI, one of the most successful companies in the history of technology, decided to fire Sam Altman, its charismatic and influential CEO. Their decision shocked the corporate world and had people wondering why OpenAI had designed a... View Details
Keywords: AI; AI and Machine Learning; Governing and Advisory Boards; Ethics; Strategy; Technological Innovation; Leadership
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Ghosh, Shikhar, and Shweta Bagai. "OpenAI: Idealism Meets Capitalism." Harvard Business School Case 824-134, January 2024. (Revised February 2024.)
  • June 2016
  • Case

Big Spaceship: The Evolving Agency

By: Boris Groysberg and Matthew G. Preble
This case discusses the evolution of Big Spaceship, an advertising and marketing agency, from a product-focused business to a relationship-oriented one as clients seek deeper and more meaningful long-term partnerships. The 15-year-old company had already evolved... View Details
Keywords: Digital Marketing; Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Marketing; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Social Media; Advertising Industry; United States; New York (city, NY)
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Groysberg, Boris, and Matthew G. Preble. "Big Spaceship: The Evolving Agency." Harvard Business School Case 416-003, June 2016.
  • May 2009
  • Article

The Definitive Guide to Recruiting in Good Times and Bad

By: Claudio Fernández-Aráoz, Boris Groysberg and Nitin Nohria
This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Few companies are thinking about hiring right now, but that's a mistake. If history... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Management Practices and Processes; Managerial Roles
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Fernández-Aráoz, Claudio, Boris Groysberg, and Nitin Nohria. "The Definitive Guide to Recruiting in Good Times and Bad." Harvard Business Review 87, no. 5 (May 2009): 74–84.
  • January 2024 (Revised May 2024)
  • Case

Generation Investment Management

By: Vikram S. Gandhi, Michael Norris and David Allen
In September 2021, the sustainable investment firm Generation Investment Management (Generation) considered whether to add Schneider Electric to the focus list of companies in which it was prepared to invest. Dedicated to promoting a sustainable world through its... View Details
Keywords: Sustainable Investing; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Governance; Private Equity; Public Equity; Financial Markets; Investment Return; Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Institutional Investing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom; England; London
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Gandhi, Vikram S., Michael Norris, and David Allen. "Generation Investment Management: Sustainable Investing in a Warming World." Harvard Business School Case 324-043, January 2024. (Revised May 2024.)
  • 15 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 15

innovation, our results also help to explain why technological development was still robust following one of the largest shocks in the history of the U.S. banking system. Working Papers Team Scaffolds: How Minimal Team Structures Enable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

began to emerge, first in the United States and then in Europe: the vertically integrated, multidivisional (or "M-form") corporation that made large investments in manufacturing and marketing and in management hierarchies to coordinate those functions. Over... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • January 1991 (Revised April 1995)
  • Case

Cooper Industries' Corporate Strategy (A)

By: David J. Collis
Describes the development of a successful corporate strategy based on the acquisition and subsequent consolidation of low-technology manufacturing companies. Starting with a company history and discussion of current business segments, the case goes on to detail the... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Corporate Strategy; Acquisition; Manufacturing Industry
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Collis, David J. "Cooper Industries' Corporate Strategy (A)." Harvard Business School Case 391-095, January 1991. (Revised April 1995.)
  • 27 Jul 2019
  • Op-Ed

Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?

regulation, history is likely to repeat itself. “Without a push by Facebook’s customers or more fundamental federal government regulation, history is likely to repeat itself.” After all, the ability of... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
  • Research Summary

Is there a Relationship Between IT Investment and Industry Structure?

A provocative current argument is that 'IT doesn't matter' in a competitive sense -- that it benefits all companies equally, and so provides advantage and differentiation to none and leaves industry structures unchanged.

As we accumulate a longer history of IT... View Details

  • 2021
  • Working Paper

The Origins of CE Marking: Standards, Business, and the European Market in the 1980s–1990s

By: Grace Ballor
Many products—from consumer electronics to machinery to children’s toys—bear the CE Mark, the symbol of conformity to the ‘essential requirements’ of European standards governed by the process of CE Marking. This working paper traces the development of the system of... View Details
Keywords: Business And Government; Market Liberalization; Standards; Markets; Trade; Integration; Business History; Globalization; Business and Government Relations; Europe; European Union
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Ballor, Grace. "The Origins of CE Marking: Standards, Business, and the European Market in the 1980s–1990s." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-142, June 2021.
  • January 2011 (Revised April 2023)
  • Course Overview Note

The Coming of Managerial Capitalism: Overview

By: Tom Nicholas
This is a course overview note for The Coming of Managerial Capitalism. CMC is chronologically organized. It starts in the late eighteenth century when America gained independence, spans the remarkable rise to industrial maturity during the nineteenth and twentieth... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Business or Company Management; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Welfare; War; Transformation; Information Technology; Finance; Situation or Environment; Decision Making; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; United States
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Nicholas, Tom. "The Coming of Managerial Capitalism: Overview." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 811-033, January 2011. (Revised April 2023.)
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