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- July 2012 (Revised May 2024)
- Case
Lyric Dinner Theater (A)
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Jim Sharpe
Looking back at five years of losses, Rivka Belzer, a newly minted MBA, steps into her family owned business with their mandate to turn it around or close it. In her first six months, she has made a number of changes, with mixed results, but is beginning to show a... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurial Management; Crisis Management; Family Business; Turnarounds; Financial Crisis; Boards Of Directors; Operations Management; Strategy Implementation; Career Planning; Entrepreneurship; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States
Hamermesh, Richard G., and Jim Sharpe. "Lyric Dinner Theater (A)." Harvard Business School Case 813-043, July 2012. (Revised May 2024.)
- July 2012 (Revised May 2024)
- Supplement
Lyric Dinner Theater (B)
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Jim Sharpe
Supplements the (A) Case. Deborah Denenberg reflects on the results and actions taken during the 12 months following her first 6 months on the job. View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurial Management; Crisis; Turn; Family Business; Financial Crisis; Boards Of Directors; Operations Management; Strategy Implementation; Career Planning; Entrepreneurship; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States
Hamermesh, Richard G., and Jim Sharpe. "Lyric Dinner Theater (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 813-044, July 2012. (Revised May 2024.)
- (Revised May 2024)
- Teaching Note
Lyric Dinner Theater (A) and (B)
By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Jim Sharpe and Noah Fisher
This teaching note is associated with HBS cases 813-043 and 813-044. View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Dinner Celebrates Professorships
Administration (held by David A. Thomas), the Eugene Holman Professorship, the Lumry Family Professorship at Harvard Business School (held by Alan MacCormack), the MBA Class of 1950 Faculty Development Fund, the MBA Class of 1975... View Details
- August 2013
- Supplement
Lyric Dinner Theater (Video Supplement)
By: Jim Sharpe
Keywords: Turnarounds; Operations; Boards Of Directors; Family-owned Business; Hiring; Entrepreneurship; Family and Family Relationships; Family Business; Family Ownership; Entertainment; Negotiation; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Saint Louis
Sharpe, Jim. "Lyric Dinner Theater (Video Supplement)." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 813-729, August 2013.
- Research Summary
Family Business Governance
Davis's other current work explores family, business, and ownership governance in the family business system. A book on this topic is in process. Included in this body of work is a large-scale survey project on corporate governance of Brazilian family companies and... View Details
- Article
Total Cost Control in Project Management via Satisficing
By: Joel Goh and Nicholas G. Hall
We consider projects with uncertain activity times and the possibility of expediting, or crashing, them. Activity times come from a partially specified distribution within a family of distributions. This family is described by one or more of the following details about... View Details
Keywords: Project Management; Time And Cost Control; Robust Optimization; Satisficing; Linear Decision Rule; PERT; Management; Cost Management; Projects
Goh, Joel, and Nicholas G. Hall. "Total Cost Control in Project Management via Satisficing." Management Science 59, no. 6 (June 2013): 1354–1372.
- January 2025
- Supplement
Colbún’s Angostura Dam Project (B)
By: James K. Sebenius and Nicolas Andrade
The A case describes Colbún Chile’s plans for the Angostura dam in the Bío Bío River, a hydroelectric construction venture with major challenges given the region’s history of indigenous resistance. This context was especially unfavorable given the highly contentious... View Details
- January 2025 (Revised January 2025)
- Case
Colbún’s Angostura Dam Project (A)
By: James K. Sebenius and Nicolas Andrade
The A case describes Colbún Chile’s plans for the Angostura dam in the Bío Bío River, a hydroelectric construction venture with major challenges given the region’s history of indigenous resistance. This context was especially unfavorable given the highly contentious... View Details
- 08 Jun 2023
- News
Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner
Clubs News Clubs News New York Alumni Honor Outstanding Leaders at Annual Dinner The HBS Club of New York held its 54th Annual Leadership Dinner on April 24, honoring three alumni who embody the HBS mission... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Simmons Family Endows Professorship
and make time for family life, believe in hard work, and support their communities. The family recently established a fund to create the Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professorship of Business Administration at... View Details
- 31 Jul 2017
- HBS Case
It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family
finds equally beneficial lessons in a much different setting: a small family-owned Vietnamese restaurant in Boston’s inner-city neighborhood of Dorchester. Challenges lie in navigating complex family relationships, transitioning from... View Details
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
A: Make sure that the family is open to really including the non-family managers in important management decisions. Quite often in the family they get together on Sunday afternoon for View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
- 25 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Attending HBS to Grow the Family Business
fulfillment I’ve never had at any other job. What advice do you have for prospective students (from family business backgrounds) as they consider business school? Go in with a goal in mind and stick with your priorities. If you have the... View Details
- Web
Projects - Business History
Projects Projects Harvard Business School supports a number of multi-faculty projects that focus on historical research. The projects are... View Details
- Web
Team - Case Method Project
as the creation of the Case Method Project at Harvard Business School in 2015 and, subsequently, the Case Method Institute for Education and Democracy in 2020. Joanna Beinhorn Joanna Beinhorn is the program coordinator for the Case Method... View Details
- September 2012
- Article
The Unwanted Self: Projective Identification in Leaders' Identity Work
By: Gianpiero Petriglieri and Mark Stein
This paper employs a psychodynamic perspective to examine the development and maintenance of a leader's identity, building on the premise that such identity work involves both conscious and unconscious processes. We focus on the latter by suggesting that those in... View Details
Petriglieri, Gianpiero, and Mark Stein. "The Unwanted Self: Projective Identification in Leaders' Identity Work." Organization Studies 33, no. 9 (September 2012): 1217–1235.
- 13 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Entrepreneurs Needed for Long-Run Success
business plans, and also fairly within the family. Even if some entrepreneurial projects don't succeed, these investments will help you spot talent to keep your business growing. And you are sending an important message: this View Details
Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
started as a solstice celebration, where Larry Harvey, the founder, wanted to do a project with his son. And so they built a man. And then they dragged it down to the beach and burned it on the night of the summer solstice. And people... View Details
- Research Summary
Family, Inc. Historical Development of German and US Family Firm
Family-owned businesses are the most common form of business organization worldwide. This project deals with the main characteristics of closely-held ownership and more precisely families as majority owners. It strives for an international comparison of family firms... View Details