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  • 13 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 13, 2007

(Abridged) Harvard Business School Case 705-441 Designed as an overview of all aspects of the strategy process: industry analysis, positioning, dynamics and sustainability, and scope issues of corporate strategy, including vertical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • October 2009 (Revised July 2014)
  • Teaching Note

New Century Financial Corporation

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Krishna G. Palepu
Teaching Note for [109034] and [113-002]. View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Business Model; Financial Liquidity; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Managerial Roles; Accounting Audits; Financial Crisis; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • December 2018
  • Case

Bata versus Relaxo—Analyzing Performance

By: Suraj Srinivasan, Iris Leung and Quinn Pitcher
Set in 2016, “Bata India versus Relaxo—Analyzing Performance” compares the strategies and financial performance of two Indian footwear companies. Bata India had long been the market leader in footwear in India, but its leading market position was being challenged by... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Strategy; Operations; Performance Evaluation; Financial Statements; Analysis; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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  • 20 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 20

http://www.springer.com/economics/development/book/978-1-4614-1878-8?changeHeader Employee Selection as a Control System Authors:Dennis Campbell Publication:Journal of Accounting Research (forthcoming) Abstract Theories from the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 21, 2009

how much to bid for the loans. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209088 The Suzlon Edge Harvard Business School Case 708-051 With prices of oil, coal and gas at historically high levels, the wind View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 20, 2015

of the variation in industry imports from China and changes in federal spending) and two supply-side ones (TFP shocks and variation in knowledge/ideas coming from foreign patenting). In each case, we find substantial propagation of these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Dec 2015
  • News

A Leader’s Call to Action

community service, and for actively assisting women in their attainment of professional excellence and leadership skills” over her more than 30-year career in the electric and gas industry in the Midwest. It’s fitting that Plato’s words... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 09 Apr 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy

position to do something about it. Money for new enterprises had been restricted, they believed, by the New Deal's onerous tax system, and by the increasing prominence of ultraconservative investment trusts. Investment trusts and life insurance companies View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
  • 02 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road

performance problems in the United States. This seems surprising at first sight. The United States is by far the world's largest host economy for multinationals. Foreign firms hold large, and sometimes commanding, positions in such major View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2006
  • News

One-on-One with Jeff Hicks

industry entirely. Instead, the Miami native went home after graduation to join an upstart agency that seemed interested in doing things a little differently. At the time, Crispin Porter + Bogusky (CP+B) had a regional focus, with 55... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

The Class of 1977

debt, asleep-at-the-wheel boards of directors, and multiple mega-bankruptcies. We have watched with disbelief the disintegration of a major accounting firm, the discrediting of an alarming number of CEOs, and the growth of a widespread... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

Growing Together

for example, Kanter worked with the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce and the Associated Industries of Massachusetts on a forum held at HBS in April 1994, which helped stimulate the formation of the Alliance for the Commonwealth, a... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
  • March 1993
  • Supplement

Burroughs Wellcome and AZT (C)

By: Willis M. Emmons III
Describes key developments relating to Burroughs Wellcome, AZT and other AIDS drugs, and the AIDS issue in general from late 1989 through 1992. Includes excerpts from Wellcome PLC's financial statements and updated statistics on AIDS in the United States. View Details
Keywords: Health Pandemics; Multinational Firms and Management; Financial Statements; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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  • 08 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 8

firearms industry company in its community is examined. Publisher's link: https://archive.harvardbusiness.org/cla/web/pl/product.seam?c=32094&i=32096&cs=80fcfaa8da53da1a3cdd0ea8f861eeed August 2013 Journal of Finance Is a VC... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2011 (Revised July 2011)
  • Supplement

Caterpillar, Inc. (B)

By: David F. Hawkins
Analyst must identify role of management and actuarial judgment in measuring corporate post employment benefit obligations and assets. View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Compensation and Benefits; Resignation and Termination; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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  • October 22, 2015
  • Article

The Mayo Clinic Model for Running a Value-Improvement Program

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Derek A. Haas, Richard A. Helmers, March Rucci and Meredith Brady
Applying time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) in health care cannot be delegated to the finance function. The most successful implementations have had strong executive support, exceptional clinical leaders, and dedicated, multi-disciplinary project teams. The... View Details
Keywords: Service Delivery; Activity Based Costing and Management; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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  • 07 Nov 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy

reflections of capitalism; the rise of accounting and accountability; the origins of industrial policy in the West; and the ways in which merchants and bankers thought about risk, particularly the deadly... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Vive la Madeleine!

he made in the food industry were equally discouraging. “They told me I was crazy, that Jeannette was dead, that near the end they had been producing the worst madeleines in France. To restart production and change its image at the same... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova
  • Web

ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

in the development of new technologies and industries during the war, the US government had assumed significant risk," HBS Professor Tom Nicholas asserts. "The fact that several of these risks paid off–in ways that Doriot had seen... View Details
  • June 2000
  • Case

Risk Management and Leasing at Nissan Motor Corporation, USA

Market pressures, accounting, and managerial incentives can result in managerial choices that have a long-term detrimental effect on the firm. View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Value; Decision Choices and Conditions; Accounting; Auto Industry
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