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  • 09 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

will provide transparency, visibility, and some stability. Communicate Your recovery strategy will need to include a detailed communication plan focused on all internal and external constituents. Internal communication is as important, if not more important, than... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
  • 12 Jun 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

Corporate Resilience and Response During COVID-19

Keywords: by Alex Cheema-Fox, Bridget LaPerla, George Serafeim, and Hui (Stacie) Wang
  • February 2012 (Revised December 2013)
  • Case

Saks Incorporated

By: Carliss Baldwin and Stefon Burns
Saks Fifth Avenue, a luxury department store chain, has been hard hit by the 2008 financial crisis and stock market crash. Speculation about impending bankruptcy is rampant in the press. The CEO, Stephen Sadove, must decide how to respond. View Details
Keywords: Retail; Fashion; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Crisis; Fashion Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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  • 09 Mar 2021
  • Working Paper Summaries

Real Credit Cycles

Keywords: by Pedro Bordalo, Nicola Gennaioli, Andrei Shleifer, and Stephen J. Terry
  • April 1998 (Revised October 1998)
  • Background Note

Indonesia's Pharmaceutical Industry in 1998

By: Carin-Isabel Knoop and Anthony St. George
This case describes the Indonesian pharmaceutical market in 1997 and the impact on the market of the Indonesian rupiah's 75% devaluation since July 1997. Major foreign and domestic players are described. It raises the issue of how the Indonesian pharmaceutical market... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Pharmaceutical Industry; Indonesia
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  • February 1997 (Revised October 2002)
  • Case

Mexico (C): Reform and Crisis, 1987-1995

By: Huw Pill
Describes the evolution of the Mexican economy and its relation with the international capital markets in the period leading up to the Peso crisis of December 1994. Emphasizes the role of "Washington consensus" policies in stimulating the inflows, and the inability of... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Economies and Regions; Capital Markets; Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Mexico
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  • 13 Oct 2009
  • Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

affirmative, then you are well positioned to come out of this crisis as the winner in your market. Following these 7 steps with clarity and rigor will enable your organization to emerge from the crises you face as a leader in your field.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 27 Apr 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Building Businesses in Turbulent Times

Battered by contracting markets and frozen credit, many businesses today are fighting for survival. Indeed, the current global financial crisis provides a mandate for restructuring. But survival is not the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • Research Summary

Overview

By: Mattias E. Fibiger
Professor Fibiger conducts research on twentieth-century international history, focusing primarily on political economy and international relations in Southeast Asia.

Professor Fibiger's first book is entitled Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast... View Details
Keywords: Authoritarianism; Political Economy; Foreign Aid; Foreign Direct Investment; Foreign Policy; Southeast Asia; United States; Finance; International Economy; International Capital Markets; History; International Relations; National Security; Government and Politics; Development Economics; Southeast Asia; United States; Indonesia; Philippines; Malaysia; Singapore
  • October 1982 (Revised May 1992)
  • Case

Johnson & Johnson: The Tylenol Tragedy

By: Stephen A. Greyser
In October 1982, Johnson & Johnson was confronted with a major crisis when seven deaths were attributed to poisoned Tylenol. The case reviews the facts as known a week after the incident occurred, and raises a wide range of questions regarding consumer behavior,... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Competitive Strategy; Crisis Management; Health Care and Treatment; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • October 2022 (Revised February 2024)
  • Case

Masdar City: Aiming for Sustainable and Profitable Real Estate

By: Boris Vallee and Fares Khrais
Masdar City broke ground in 2008 and was conceived by the Abu Dhabi government to be an international beacon of innovation in sustainable energy and real estate. It was also to be a profitable investment for the government. At first glance, the two goals pulled in... View Details
Keywords: Analysis; Business Growth And Maturation; Decisions; Public Sector; Financial Crisis; Construction; Climate Change; Green Technology; Borrowing And Debt; Corporate Finance; Capital; Capital Budgeting; Capital Structure; Cost Of Capital; Equity; REIT; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Initial Public Offering; Innovation; Growth And Development Strategy; Emerging Markets; Urban Development; Middle East; United Arab Emirates; Sustainable Cities; Green Building; Business and Government Relations; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financing and Loans; Real Estate Industry; Construction Industry; Energy Industry; Green Technology Industry; Abu Dhabi
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  • October 2010 (Revised June 2014)
  • Case

Volkswagen do Brasil: Driving Strategy with the Balanced Scorecard

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
A new management team at VW do Brazil develops and deploys a strategy map and Balanced Scorecard to accomplish a turnaround and cultural change after eight consecutive years of financial losses and market share declines. The team uses the strategy map to align... View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Developing Countries and Economies; Management Teams; Leadership; Balanced Scorecard; Strategic Planning; Balance and Stability; Motivation and Incentives; Communication Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Auto Industry; Brazil; Germany
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  • 08 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency

analyze in advance exactly what would happen the day the article came out and what precisely he should do to channel fear, anger, and confusion into a determination to act fast and succeed. The day came. A full-blown crisis was created.... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter
  • 30 Jun 2010
  • News

In A.I.G. Bailout, Amnesty for Big Banks

  • January 2007 (Revised October 2007)
  • Case

Procter & Gamble: Organization 2005 (A)

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski and Alessandro L. Spadini
In response to a huge crisis in 2000, the new CEO of Procter & Gamble has to decide whether to continue with an unusual organizational design or to revert to the old matrix organization. Describes all the organizational designs used by Procter & Gamble from the 1920s... View Details
Keywords: Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure
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  • 15 Feb 2018
  • News

Warren Buffett’s Mosquito

  • January 2009 (Revised November 2011)
  • Case

The Tip of the Iceberg: JP Morgan Chase and Bear Stearns (A)

By: Clayton S. Rose, Daniel Baird Bergstresser and David Lane
"Bear Stearns & Co. burned through nearly all of its $18 billion in cash reserves during the week of March 10, 2008, and an unprecedented provision of liquidity support from the Federal Reserve on Friday, March 13 was insufficient to reverse the decline in Bear's... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Financial Crisis; Capital; Financial Liquidity; Financial Strategy; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Competition; Valuation; Financial Services Industry
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  • 25 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?

markets. As an HBS marketing professor, he understands the mindset of the average pharmaceutical executive, who obsesses about protecting their organization’s inventions to drive profits. But as the world emerges from the coronavirus,... View Details
Keywords: by Esther Schrader; Pharmaceutical; Health
  • October 2018 (Revised January 2019)
  • Case

The Financial Crisis: Hank Paulson in 2008

By: Adi Sunderam, Robin Greenwood, Sam Hanson and David Scharfstein
On the afternoon of Monday October 13, 2008, Hank Paulson Jr., the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, walked into the large conference room across the hall from his office in the Treasury Department. Joining him were Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke,... View Details
Keywords: Bailout; Regulation; Financial Crisis; History; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Decision Making; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Real Estate Industry; United States
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  • January 2011 (Revised July 2019)
  • Case

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah L. Abbott
One of the leading publishers of textbooks and other educational materials for the U.S. K-12 educational instruction market has suffered a dramatic decline in sales and profits in the wake of the 2008-2009 financial market crisis and economic recession, and is now... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Capital Structure; Financial Crisis; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Publishing Industry; Massachusetts
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