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01 Sep 2010
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James Has New Role

(photo by Susan Young) (photo by Susan Young) Ralph James (MBA 1982), who previously headed Executive Education at HBS, became executive director of External Relations in July. In his new role, James is responsible for development and... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

January 1980 (Revised April 1994)
Case

New Balance Athletic Shoes

By: Kim B. Clark

Faced with growth exceeding 100% per year, James Davis, president of New Balance, must decide how to meet the need for additional capacity. Several factors contribute to a climate of extreme uncertainty. Several options are considered, ranging from a second shift to... View Details

Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Forecasting and Prediction; Financial Strategy; Information; Growth Management; Organizational Design; Performance Capacity; Risk and Uncertainty; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Republic of Ireland

September 1994 (Revised January 2004)
Case

Forging the New Salomon

By: Lynn S. Paine and Michael Santoro

Describes Salomon Brothers' recovery from the August 1991 Treasury auction scandal. Details the impact of the firm's disclosure of bidding improprieties and describes how the new management team, led by Warren Buffett and Deryck Maughan, guided the company through the... View Details

Keywords: Crisis Management; Ethics; Organizational Culture; Law; Business or Company Management

06 Jul 2015
News

New name, new look for Chestnut Hill mall

23 Apr 2019
Video

New Teachers Thriving Final Pitch New Venture Competition 2019 Social Enterprise Track

The New Market Conundrum

Brand-new markets are like the wormholes of science fiction, where the usual rules of time and space do not apply. When a market has just been born, the forces of competition there are constantly in flux, it's unclear who your customers really are, and conventional... View Details

06 Oct 2023
News

New Faculty Profiles: Louis E. Caldera

January 2013 (Revised November 2016)
Case

The New Carolina Initiative

By: Michael E. Porter and Jorge Ramirez-Vallejo

The New Carolina Initiative case explores the process of fostering competitiveness in the subnational region, South Carolina, one of the poorest states in the United States. The case has been developed primarily for use in the course "Microeconomics of... View Details

Keywords: Public Sector; Poverty; Competitive Strategy; Private Sector; Economic Growth; South Carolina

01 Sep 2006
News

New HBSAA Members

Twelve new members will join the HBS Alumni Association Board in October for three-year stints. They are: Jessie d’E. Bourneuf (MBA ’75), Milton, Massachusetts Miro Copic (MBA ’87), San Diego, California Adolfo B. Fastlicht (MBA ’93),... View Details

01 Dec 2010
News

New Orleans Resonance

A former corporate financier with Boeing, Ben Kleban (MBA ’05) moved to New York, intending to open a charter school. After Hurricane Katrina struck, New Orleans’s dire need compelled Kleban to decamp to... View Details

Keywords: charter schools

New Perspectives on Regulation

New regulation shouldn't rely on old ideas. Since the 1960s, influential research on government failure helped to drive the movement for deregulation and privatization. Yet even as this branch of research was flourishing, very different ideas were sprouting in the... View Details

December 2008 (Revised February 2010)
Case

ViniBrasil: New Latitude Wines

By: David E. Bell, Marcos Flava Neves, Luciano Thome e Castro and Mary Louise Shelman

ViniBrasil is a small wine venture in Brazil started by a top Portuguese wine company, Dao Sul. ViniBrasil grows its grapes in a novel environment (close to the equator) using innovative management practices such as controlled irrigation and year-round harvesting.... View Details

Keywords: Agribusiness; Global Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Management Practices and Processes; Demand and Consumers; Competition; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Brazil