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- October 1991 (Revised August 1993)
- Case
Acid Rain: Burlington Northern, Inc. (A)
Burlington Northern (BN) hauls low-sulfur coal from the northern Great Plains to electric utilities in the Midwest. Acid rain legislation may affect the geographic scope of BN's markets. Railroad managers need to assess the economic effects of acid rain controls and... View Details
Keywords: Rail Transportation; Environmental Sustainability; Development Economics; Government Legislation; Natural Environment; Policy; Metals and Minerals; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Rail Industry; United States
Reinhardt, Forest L. "Acid Rain: Burlington Northern, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 792-018, October 1991. (Revised August 1993.)
- 28 Mar 2018
- Blog Post
Event Planning for Recruiting Success - Part 1
Hosting a company recruiting event is a great way to build brand awareness and engage with HBS students. At the same time, we know that event planning requires a commitment from your team in preparing... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 21 Aug 2014
- News
Delivering Everything, Except Perhaps Profits
- 31 Jul 2014
- Blog Post
Launch Your 1st Year Recruiting Efforts at Company Information Day
Company Information Day is the first day organizations are able to present on-campus to 1st year students. Students do not have class on Company Information Day which maximizes your attendance numbers. It is a View Details
- 20 Jul 2010
- News
Dodd-Frank Financial Commentary from HBS Faculty
- September 2018
- Case
ProdEng: Services for Oil & Gas Extraction
By: Frank V. Cespedes, Maria Fernanda Miguel and Mariana Cal
ProdEng is a venture created as part of a PE fund and provides oil field services in Argentina. In 2016, an industry-wide unforeseen oil and gas demand slump drove ProdEng’s average service rates down by more than 37%, with EBITDA margins falling from 50% to 24% in the... View Details
Cespedes, Frank V., Maria Fernanda Miguel, and Mariana Cal. "ProdEng: Services for Oil & Gas Extraction." Harvard Business School Case 819-003, September 2018.
- Person Page
DENIAL reviews
"A wake-up call to be sure that we dont allow ourselves to confuse our maps with the actual territory."
strategy+business "2010 Best Business Books," Winter 2010
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- 17 Jun 2014
- News
Rebooting Social Science
- 21 Jul 2016
- News
What Donald Trump Can Learn About Negotiations
- 14 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as a Beta Site for Business Innovation
write a check to community residents or a small neighborhood organization to do the work. And that, indeed, is what many companies do. A great deal of business participation in social sector problems derives... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- June 2014
- Case
Starbucks Coffee Company: Transformation and Renewal
By: Nancy F. Koehn, Kelly McNamara, Nora N. Khan and Elizabeth Legris
Starbucks Coffee Company: Transformation and Renewal analyzes the turnaround and reconstruction of Starbucks Coffee Company from 2008 to 2014 as led by CEO and co-founder Howard Schultz. The case offers executives and students an opportunity to examine in depth how... View Details
Keywords: Howard Schultz; Starbucks; Transformation; Turnaround; Change; Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development; Leadership; Organizations; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategy; Value; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry; North and Central America; Europe; Asia; South America; Middle East; Latin America
Koehn, Nancy F., Kelly McNamara, Nora N. Khan, and Elizabeth Legris. "Starbucks Coffee Company: Transformation and Renewal." Harvard Business School Case 314-068, June 2014.
- 25 Nov 2014
- Blog Post
Checking out Dublin's Tech Scene
offices of Dropbox, Google and Twitter. It was great to meet HBS alumni and recruiters at their place of work and to see that the cultures of these firms are alive and well while incorporating View Details
- October 2012
- Course Overview Note
FIELD 2—Working with Global Partners
Most FIELD 2 teams develop great working relationships with their Global Partner. But managing Global Partner expectations can be challenging. This note describes three scenarios with which FIELD teams struggled in the past and asks the reader to make decisions about... View Details
James K. Sebenius
JAMES K. (“Jim”) SEBENIUS, is the Gordon Donaldson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he founded the Negotiation unit and teaches advanced... View Details
- 23 Sep 2014
- News
We Cool? Your Guide to Avoiding Fights at Work
- January 2018
- Background Note
Math Tools for Strategists
By: Tarun Khanna and Jan W. Rivkin
Great strategists rely heavily on numbers as they go about their work. This note offers an overview of the highbrow and lowbrow quantitative tools that individuals commonly encounter during strategy courses and in actual strategy work. The note focuses especially on... View Details
Khanna, Tarun, and Jan W. Rivkin. "Math Tools for Strategists." Harvard Business School Background Note 718-477, January 2018.