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  • 2019
  • Article

Go-Shops Revisited

By: Guhan Subramanian and Annie Zhao
A go-shop process turns the traditional M&A deal process on its head: rather than a pre-signing market canvass followed by a post-signing “no shop” period, a go-shop deal involves a limited pre-signing market check, followed by a post-signing “go shop” process to find... View Details
Keywords: Go-shop Process; Mergers and Acquisitions; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Deal; Performance Effectiveness; Technological Innovation
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  • Program

Real Estate Management Program

succeed in a complex market by taking a holistic approach to real estate projects and addressing challenges from a cross-disciplinary perspective. As you examine sustainability goals, design considerations, financing strategies, industry relationships, View Details
Keywords: Real Estate; Real Estate
  • March 2022 (Revised November 2023)
  • Case

Doubling Down: Elon Musk's Big Bets in 2022

By: David Yoffie and Daniel Fisher
2021 was a banner year for Elon Musk. CEO of the electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla, the aerospace manufacturer SpaceX, and a few smaller startups, Musk became the richest person on Earth after Tesla reached a market capitalization of $1 trillion and SpaceX a private... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Management; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Transportation; Strategic Planning; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Aerospace Industry; Auto Industry; Battery Industry; United States; Europe; China
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    Roy D. Shapiro

    Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

    • 01 Jul 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    A Bank That Takes Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan

    Since 1953, the regional bank Credito Emiliano has accepted curious collateral for small-business loans: giant wheels of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese. Known locally as Credem, the bank is the subject of a new Harvard Business School case... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Food & Beverage
    • 26 Sep 2011
    • HBS Case

    HBS Cases: Lady Gaga

    Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta in New York City, was merely a supporting act in a reunion tour of the erstwhile-boy band, New Kids on the Block. "When you tell that to people now they look at you... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Entertainment & Recreation; Music

      Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

      * Top 10 Technology Books of 2020 (Forbes)
      * 10 Best Business Books of 2020 (Inc. Magazine)
      * Top Shelf Pick of Best Business Books 2020: Technology & Innovation (Strategy + Business)
      * 9 Best Business Books for 2020... View Details

      • Web

      Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

      progress towards its key priorities. Video Recording Reskilling in the Age of AI 10:00–11:15 a.m. ET Speaker: Raffaella Sadun , Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration; Senior Associate Dean for HBS Publishing The rapid evolution of View Details
      • January 2025
      • Case

      Summer Health: Raising an AI-First Company?

      By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Sarah Mehta and Maxim Pike Harrell
      In October 2023, Summer Health CEO Ellen DaSilva arrived at a defining juncture for her pediatric telehealth startup. Founded in 2021, Summer Health offered parents rapid access to licensed pediatricians via text message. DaSilva, an experienced telehealth executive,... View Details
      Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Technology Adoption; Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Business Startups; Health Care and Treatment; Business Strategy; Product Development; Health Industry; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Determinants of Early-Stage Startup Performance: Survey Results

      By: Thomas R. Eisenmann
      To explore determinants of new venture performance, the CEOs of 470 early-stage startups were surveyed regarding a broad range of factors related to their venture’s customer value proposition, product management, marketing, technology and operations, financial... View Details
      Keywords: Startups; Survey Research; Performance Analysis; Entrepreneurship; Performance; Analysis; Business Startups; Failure; Surveys
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      • 2011
      • Working Paper

      The Organization of Firms Across Countries

      By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
      We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the decentralization of investment, hiring, production, and sales decisions from Corporate Headquarters to local... View Details
      Keywords: Geographic Location; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Multinational Firms and Management; Organizational Structure; Performance Productivity; Trust; Asia; Europe; United States
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      • April 2002
      • Case

      In vivo to in vitro to in silico: Coping with Tidal Waves of Data at Biogen

      By: Juan Enriquez-Cabot, Gary P. Pisano and Gaye Bok
      Biogen is a successful biotech company facing a critical juncture. CEO John Mullen ponders how technological changes introduced into the research function will shape larger corporate decisions. This world in which biotechnology companies operated had changed... View Details
      Keywords: Change; Decisions; Product Development; Research and Development; Expansion; Technology; Biotechnology Industry
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      • March 2023 (Revised March 2025)
      • Case

      Accelerating AI Adoption in the U.S. Air Force

      By: Maria P. Roche and Alexander Farrow
      In August 2022, the Pentagon tasked U.S. Air Force Captain Victor Lopez to launch a new office for AFWERX, an Air Force innovation unit that leveraged commercial developers and military talent to acquire advanced technologies. This task was particularly arduous because... View Details
      Keywords: Technological Innovation; Organizational Design; AI and Machine Learning; Adoption; Technology Adoption; United States
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        Trevor Fetter

        Trevor Fetter is a Senior Lecturer and the Henry B. Arthur Fellow at Harvard Business School, where he has been on the faculty since 2019. He teaches two MBA required courses: Financial Reporting and Control and Leadership and Corporate Accountability. He has also... View Details

        • April 2018
        • Case

        Cisco Systems and OpenDNS: Strategic Integration

        By: Andy Wu, George Gonzalez and David Wang
        With more than 72,000 employees and revenues approaching the $50B mark, Cisco Systems is one of the largest information technology and networking firms globally. As the company grew and expanded into different lines of businesses, Cisco consistently looked outwards for... View Details
        Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Integration; Corporate Strategy; Change Management; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Culture; Information Technology Industry
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          Paul A. Gompers

          Paul Gompers, Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, specializes in research on financial issues related to start-up, high growth, and newly public companies. Professor Gompers has an appointment in both the View Details
          Keywords: high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology
          • June 1998 (Revised April 2000)
          • Case

          GM Powertrain

          By: Amy C. Edmondson and Mikelle Eastley
          Discusses a young MBA plant manager who is improving the operations of a small General Motors components plant in Fredericksburg, Virginia. At 29 years old, Joe Hinrichs is the youngest plant manager at GM, and in his new assignment, he is faced with the daunting... View Details
          Keywords: Service Operations; Labor Unions; Problems and Challenges; Technological Innovation; Change Management; Machinery and Machining; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; United States
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          • January 2018
          • Case

          Blue Harbour's Activism at Babcock & Wilcox

          By: Suraj Srinivasan and Quinn Pitcher
          The case describes Blue Harbour Group's investment in Babcock & Wilcox and its transformation into BWX Technologies. In 2004, activist hedge fund Blue Harbour Group invested in Babcock & Wilcox, an energy and construction company. Blue Harbour developed an investment... View Details
          Keywords: Corporate Governance; Investment Activism; Leading Change; Energy Industry; Construction Industry; United States
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          • 2012
          • Teaching Note

          UFIDA (F) (TN)

          By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li and Guo Jia
          As an extension of UFIDA (A-E), UFIDA (F), using early 2012 as the time node, looks at UFIDA's major steps taken during 2010-2011, accomplishments, and major future opportunities and challenges. The case focuses on the new market development of Cloud Computing and... View Details
          Keywords: China; Strategy; China
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          • Research Summary

          Energy, IT, real estate, and sustainability

          By: Rebecca M. Henderson

          Professor Henderson’s current research focuses on the energy, information technology, and real estate sectors and the challenges firms encounter as they attempt to act in more sustainable ways. This work is an outgrowth of her decade-long examination of the... View Details