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Anita Elberse
Anita Elberse is the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Professor Elberse develops and teaches an MBA course covering the "Businesses of Entertainment, Media, and Sports," which ranks among the most sought-after and longest-running elective courses in the School’s curriculum, and chairs a short executive education program, also named "The Business of...
- Aug 2020
- Conference Presentation
Impacting Grand Challenges: A 'Both/And' Approach
By: Natalie Slawinski, Wendy K. Smith, Robin J. Ely, Tobias Hahn, Andrew J. Hoffman and Anita M. McGahan
In this panel symposium, we seek to build on growing efforts by management scholars to engage with grand challenges and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Reflective of the All- Academy Theme description, we note that research and scholarship... View Details
- April 2014 (Revised October 2015)
- Case
Texas Teachers and the New Texas Way
By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Luis M. Viceira, John D. Dionne and Nathaniel Burbank
In 2011 Britt Harris, the Chief Investment Officer for the $107.4 billion Teachers Retirement System of Texas (TRS), was considering whether to pursue strategic partnerships with a group of large private equity firms. After spending four years aggressively moving the... View Details
- November 2007 (Revised March 2010)
- Case
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and Tom Cruise
By: Anita Elberse and Peter Stone
In November 2006, Harry Sloan, chairman and CEO of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. (MGM) offers movie star Tom Cruise and his business partner Paula Wagner a chance to run United Artists (UA), a dormant studio within MGM's portfolio. Just over two months earlier, Viacom... View Details
- June 2003
- Case
Memphis City Schools
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Kevin Morris
Associate Superintendent Marieta Harris needs a plan for continuing the momentum of systemic change in this urban school district while facing shifts of leadership and curriculum philosophy, uneven progress on reforms, new tests that put a high proportion of schools on... View Details
- February 2003
- Supplement
The Baseball Strike
By: Anita M. McGahan and Jan W. Rivkin
Data spreadsheet for use with case (9-796-059), The Baseball Strike. Download Only. (Exhibits 8 and 10). View Details
Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling
- February 2003
- Other Article
The Emergence and Sustainability of Abnormal Profits
By: Michael E. Porter and Anita M. McGahan
In this paper, we examine the emergence and the sustainability of abnormal profits among businesses that were part of U.S. public corporations between 1981 and 1994 and that reported financial results for at least six years. Our results reveal strong asymmetries... View Details
- January 2003
- Supplement
Saturn: A different Kind of Car Company
By: Pankaj Ghemawat, Anita M. McGahan and Jan W. Rivkin
- Other Article
What Do We Know About Variance in Accounting Profitability?
By: Anita M. McGahan and Michael E. Porter
In this paper, we analyze the variance of accounting profitability among a broad cross-section of firms in the American economy from 1981 to 1994. The purpose of the analysis is to identify the importance of year, industry, corporate-parent, and business-specific... View Details
- June 1999
- Supplement
Adesemi Communications International: African Communications Group
By: John A. Deighton and Anita M. McGahan
Presents a May 1999 interview with CEO Monique Maddy and CFO Lome Lague that updates the case and describes plans for the future. View Details
- February 1999
- Article
The Persistence of Shocks to Profitability
By: Anita M. McGahan and Michael E. Porter
In this study, we use data for 1981 through 1994 on a large sample of U.S. companies to examine the persistence of incremental industry, corporate-parent, and business-specific effects on profitability. Our results indicate that the incremental effects of industry on... View Details
- 1997
- Working Paper
The Emergence and Sustainability of Abnormal Profits
By: Anita M. McGahan and Michael E. Porter
- 1997
- Working Paper
The Persistence of Shocks to Profitability: Comparing the Market-Structure and Chicago Views
By: Anita M. McGahan and Michael E. Porter
- September 1981
- Article
Portfolio Analysis with Factors and Scenarios
By: André Perold and Harry M. Markowitz
- 1981
- Chapter
Sparsity and Piecewise Linearity in Large Portfolio Optimization Problems
By: André Perold and Harry M. Markowitz
- May–June 1978
- Article
Strategies for Low Market Share Business
By: Richard G. Hamermesh, M. Jack Anderson Jr. and J. Elizabeth Harris
Keywords: Business Ventures