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    James L. Heskett

    James L. Heskett is UPS Foundation Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author of his latest book, With From Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive... View Details

    • 22 Aug 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

    It is a classic leadership challenge of the early twenty-first century: How do you steer your business and motivate your people to pursue breakthrough growth while giving... View Details
    Keywords: by Paul Michelman
    • January 2019 (Revised October 2019)
    • Case

    Commercial Sales Transformation at Microsoft

    By: Doug J. Chung
    Industry leaders should adapt to changes in the business context and consider different ways to grow. Advances in technology had shifted software demand to the cloud. As a result, Microsoft announced a strategic shift in direction from its existing ‘Windows first’... View Details
    Keywords: Sales; Strategy; Transformation
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    • November–December 2024
    • Article

    How Robust Is Your Climate Governance?

    By: Lynn S. Paine and Suraj Srinivasan
    During the past few years, as evidence of climate change and its effects has mounted, many corporate boards have added climate governance to their agendas. But the maturity of boards’ climate-oversight processes and activities varies widely.
    To better... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Governance; Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Governing and Advisory Boards
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    • 09 Aug 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: August 9

    note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/611082-PDF-ENG Knowledge Creation at Eisai Co., Ltd Hirotaka Takeuchi, Ikujiro Nonaka, and Mayuka YamazakiHarvard Business School Case 711-492 Eisai has used... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • January 2011
    • Supplement

    Shar Matin (B)

    By: David A. Thomas and Elisa Farri
    The head of the subsidiary of a US company faced the decision to present an aggressive growth plan despite his CFO's lack of support. View Details
    Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Decisions; Growth and Development Strategy; Planning
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    • October 2008 (Revised October 2009)
    • Case

    New Century Financial Corporation

    By: Krishna G. Palepu, Suraj Srinivasan and Aldo Sesia
    After years of rapid growth and stock price appreciation, New Century Financial Corporation, one of the largest subprime loan originators in the U.S., reported accounting problems in early 2007. The resulting liquidity crisis forced the company to file for Chapter 11... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting Audits; Financial Reporting; Business Model; Financial Crisis; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Mortgages; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • September 2012
    • Teaching Note

    Stryker Corporation: Capital Budgeting (TN)

    By: Timothy A. Luehrman
    This case examines some parts of Stryker Corporation's systems and procedures for approving and authorizing capital spending of many different types, including buildings, machinery, and working capital for existing businesses, as well as transactions with third parties... View Details
    Keywords: Capital Expenditures-equipment; Capital Expenditures-machinery; Internal Rate Of Return; Discounted Cash Flows; Net Present Value; Cost of Capital; Valuation; Cash Flow; System; Organizational Culture; Policy; Business Processes; Capital Budgeting
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    • October 2022
    • Case

    Star Magnolia Capital: Becoming Experts at Finding Experts

    By: Lauren Cohen, Hao Gao, River Ewing and Grace Headinger
    Shinya Deguchi, Founder and Managing Partner of Star Magnolia Capital, a Shanghai-based multi-family office (MFO), considered how to convince a new prospective family that the MFO’s endowment model approach would best suit their needs. In recent decades, there has been... View Details
    Keywords: China; Asia; Family Office; Shanghai; Financial Industry; Asset Management; Financial Instruments; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Investment; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Human Capital; Family Business; Financial Services Industry; China; Shanghai
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    • January 1999 (Revised April 2004)
    • Case

    Infox System GmbH

    Apax, a private equity firm, has an opportunity to invest in a travel-related print-materials distribution business in Germany. Infox is typical of many buyout opportunities. One of the founders seeks to exit the business, and recently hired managers will have to... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Leveraged Buyouts; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Financial Services Industry; Germany
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    • August 1998 (Revised October 1998)
    • Case

    Lark International Entertainment Ltd. (A)

    By: Linda A. Hill and Jennifer Suesse
    Two HBS MBA's leave McKinsey and Morgan Stanley to become entrepreneurs in Hong Kong. Together they start up a cinema chain throughout Asia. This case describes the experiences of managing a team in their Wuhan, China cinema. Looks at the challenges of managing growth... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Problems and Challenges; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Emerging Markets; Leadership Style; Leadership; Groups and Teams; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Hong Kong; China; Asia
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    • 02 Feb 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States

    Keywords: by David H. Autor, William R. Kerr & Adriana D. Kugler
    • June 2010 (Revised November 2013)
    • Case

    Momentive Performance Materials, Inc.

    By: Victoria Ivashina and David Scharfstein
    After nearly violating its loan covenants in 2009, Momentive Performance Materials, backed by its financial sponsor Apollo Global Management, took a variety of actions to restructure its debt. The restructuring steps included an open market repurchase of publicly held... View Details
    Keywords: Restructuring; Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Private Equity; Financing and Loans
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    • January 2011
    • Case

    Shar Matin (A)

    By: David A. Thomas and Elisa Farri
    The head of the subsidiary of a US company faced the decision to present an aggressive growth plan despite his CFO's lack of support. View Details
    Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Decision Choices and Conditions; Globalized Firms and Management; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; United States
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    • 22 Dec 2019
    • News

    America’s competitiveness problem

    • 23 Jul 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Sam Walton: Great From the Start

    He could have added that he had not had a day's experience in running a business of any kind. He paid a price for this inexperience and excessive enthusiasm before his store even opened. He had selected the... View Details
    Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow; Retail
    • October 2023 (Revised November 2023)
    • Case

    Sprout Solutions

    By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Bonnie Yining Cao and Dawn H. Lau
    Husband-and-wife co-founders Patrick and Alexandria Gentry had built Sprout Solutions to be one of the biggest Software-as-a-Service human resources management platforms in the Philippines, guided by the mission to "impact the life of every Filipino by improving... View Details
    Keywords: Software; Startup; Technology Ventures; Human Resources; Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Emerging Markets; Business Startups; Applications and Software; Venture Capital; Philippines
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    • March 2024
    • Case

    Biomanufacturing Decentralization by Stämm

    By: Paul A. Gompers, Jenyfeer Martínez Buitrago and Mariana Cal
    In Buenos Aires, Argentina, cousins Llamazares and D’Alvia founded Stämm, a startup based on the idea of decentralizing biomanufacturing processes and downsizing biotech facilities. After raising its seed and series A rounds, and while finalizing its series B round in... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Selection and Staffing; Technological Innovation; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Launch; Research and Development; Biotechnology Industry; Latin America; South America; Argentina; Buenos Aires
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    • August 2008 (Revised August 2009)
    • Case

    Lan Airlines in 2008: Connecting the World to Latin America

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Jorge Tarzijan and Mitchel Jordan
    Lan Airlines operates three distinct models: low-cost for domestic short-haul flights, full-service for international routes; and an international cargo business, the latter of which makes up 33% of Lan's overall revenues (markedly different from many U.S. legacy... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Air Transportation Industry; Latin America
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    • April 2018
    • Case

    Wilderness Safaris: Ecotourism Entrepreneurship

    By: James E. Austin, Megan Epler Wood and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard
    Wilderness Safaris sees itself as a conservation company that is built on a business model of providing high-end, premium-priced wildlife safaris in various locations in Africa. Dependent on functioning, healthy ecosystems for its long-term survivability as a business,... View Details
    Keywords: Sustainability; Conservation Planning; Corporate Social Responsibility; Ecotourism; Strategy; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Expansion; Growth and Development Strategy; Tourism Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Travel Industry; Africa; Botswana
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