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- March 1993
- Case
Clarion Optical Co.
By: Michael J. Roberts and Howard H. Stevenson
Focuses on two individuals' attempts to purchase Clarion Optical Co. Forces students to consider alternative proposals for financing the purchase; generate pro forma cash flows to assess the feasibility of these proposals; estimate the sources and magnitude of... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Financing and Loans; Investment Return; Cash Flow; Forecasting and Prediction
Roberts, Michael J., and Howard H. Stevenson. "Clarion Optical Co." Harvard Business School Case 393-116, March 1993.
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
but the budgeting systems of well-run companies can easily cut off support for programs very early that are going nowhere. Lagace: Is there a role for entrepreneurs and small businesses in particular? Bower... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions to be answered: Can "lean" productions methods improve service industries? How can a... View Details
- April 2025
- Case
Giving Up on a Passion: Elizabeth Rowe at the Boston Symphony Orchestra
By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon and Alexis Lefort
For 20 years, Elizabeth Rowe was a world-renowned principal flutist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. But in 2024, Rowe decided to leave her position to pursue a new full-time career as a leadership coach. At 50, Rowe was well under the typical retirement age, and,... View Details
Keywords: Arts; Small Business; Social Media; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Learning; Music Entertainment; Values and Beliefs; Creativity; Happiness; Identity; Interests; Satisfaction; Motivation and Incentives; Prejudice and Bias; Reputation; Culture; Resignation and Termination; Personal Development and Career; Consulting Industry; Fine Arts Industry; Music Industry; United States
Jachimowicz, Jon M., Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon, and Alexis Lefort. "Giving Up on a Passion: Elizabeth Rowe at the Boston Symphony Orchestra." Harvard Business School Case 425-037, April 2025.
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
differentiation: de-emphasizing the strategic orientation their main rival is emphasizing. Finally, we show that the greater the competitive intensity, the greater the contribution strategic orientation differentiation has on business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
found in only a small number of tasks and functions. In the majority of situations, spans of accountability were wider than spans of control. This "Entrepreneurial Gap" is posited to be a result of management's desire for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Horrible Boss Workarounds
aren't purposefully bad, says Harvard Business School Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, who has authored several business management books, including Confidence: How Winning and Losing Streaks Begin and End... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
Leaders, edited by Michael Kinsley and Conor Clark, 170-171. Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2008 No abstract is available at this time. Cases & Course Materials Arcapita-2002 Harvard Business School Case 209-023 tIn 2002, Arcapita Bank,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- January 2024
- Teaching Note
Frank Cornelissen: The Great Sulfite Debate (A) & (B)
By: Tiona Zuzul
Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 724-391 and 724-398. In 2018, artisanal Italian vineyard Frank Cornelissen was one of the world’s leading natural wine vineyards. Its founder, Frank Cornelissen, faced weather related conditions that forced him to have to decide between... View Details
Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Business Earnings; Agribusiness; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Family Business; For-Profit Firms; Small Business; Change Management; Transition; Communication Strategy; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Profit; Revenue; Spending; Globalization; Global Strategy; Goods and Commodities; Innovation Strategy; Crisis Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth Management; Success; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Cognition and Thinking; Reputation; Strategy; Adaptation; Expansion; Mission and Purpose; Values and Beliefs; Food and Beverage Industry; Europe; Italy
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. "In an organization, all the employees already have some of this, in varying degrees." “Altruistic capital is the idea that every individual has... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- February 2000 (Revised October 2000)
- Case
Kendle International Inc.
By: Dwight B. Crane, Paul W. Marshall and Indra Reinbergs
Candace Kendle and Christopher Bergen, the CEO and COO of Kendle International, Inc., are reviewing ways to finance the growth of their privately-owned company. Kendle is a contract research organization that conducts clinical drug trials for pharmaceutical and... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Financing and Loans; Venture Capital; Stock Options; Banks and Banking; Debt Securities; International Finance; Financial Strategy; Management Skills; Private Ownership; Initial Public Offering; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
Crane, Dwight B., Paul W. Marshall, and Indra Reinbergs. "Kendle International Inc." Harvard Business School Case 200-033, February 2000. (Revised October 2000.)
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge Authors:Bo Becker, Guhan Subramanian, and Daniel B. Bergstresser Publication:Journal of Law and Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We use the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
Working PapersSocial Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs Authors:Pierre Azoulay, Christopher C. Liu, and Toby E. Stuart Abstract Actors often match with associates on a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
makeup. Ten Proven Ways To Avoid Deep Change Sprinkle Internet responsibilities throughout the company—a little Web site here, a little brochure-ware there. Let them all go forward, as long as they stay small and innocuous. If any look... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge Authors:Bo Becker, Daniel B. Bergstresser, and Guhan Subramanian Abstract We use the SEC's unexpected announcement on October 4, 2010 that it would significantly delay... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- April 2009 (Revised March 2014)
- Teaching Note
Evan Williams: From Blogger to Odeo (A) and (B)
By: Noam T. Wasserman
Teaching Note for [809088]. View Details
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
the draw anymore. By conducting a series of diagnostics, companies in any industry can quickly identify the most promising opportunities. This article shows how to conduct customer, portfolio, and competitor diagnostics to pinpoint the highest-potential opportunities... View Details
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
long-term study of successful CEOs, some of them outlined in the August 2008 Harvard Business Review article, "The Uncompromising Leader," cowritten with Russell A. Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, Tobias Fredberg, and Flemming... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
With cross-sector collaborations on the rise, a new book exploring partnerships between business and social organizations in the Americas comes at just the right time. Social Partnering in Latin America: Lessons Drawn from Collaborations... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
Haythornthwaite engaged large teams to work on a new strategy for Invensys, while Jim Kilts devised Gillette's strategy for each line of business by himself, working with a small group of trusted executives.... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter