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  • October 2016
  • Case

La-Z-Boy (A)

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Natalie Kindred
Kurt Darrow, CEO of La-Z-Boy furniture, must decide whether to continue an overhaul of the company's strategy in the face of a collapse in demand during the great recession. Having pared back La-Z-Boy's portfolio of brands and manufacturing network, he intends to... View Details
Keywords: Retail; Manufacturing; Organizational Transformations; Reorganization; Furniture Industry; Corporate Strategy; Home Fashion; Turnaround; Portfolio Rationalization; Globalization Of Supply Chain; Brand Repositioning; Business Growth and Maturation; Brands and Branding; Competitive Strategy; Vertical Integration; Retail Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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  • October 2018 (Revised October 2018)
  • Teaching Note

La-Z-Boy (A)

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Julia Kelley
Kurt Darrow, CEO of La-Z-Boy furniture, must decide whether to continue an overhaul of the company's strategy in the face of a collapse in demand during the great recession. Having pared back La-Z-Boy's portfolio of brands and manufacturing network, he intends to... View Details
Keywords: Retail; Manufacturing; Organizational Transformations; Reorganization; Furniture Industry; Corporate Strategy; Home Fashion; Turnaround; Portfolio Rationalization; Globalization Of Supply Chain; Brand Repositioning; Business Growth and Maturation; Brands and Branding; Competitive Strategy; Vertical Integration; Transformation; Retail Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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  • March 2010 (Revised May 2010)
  • Case

Boston Scientific Corporation (A)

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Charlie Attlan
Boston Scientific Corporation just bought Guidant at a record breaking price to expand their cardiovascular franchise. They need to rationalize their product portfolio to make the acquisition work. What should they sell and why? View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Decision Choices and Conditions; Growth and Development; Product Marketing; Product Development; Franchise Ownership; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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  • 06 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors

How "sleepy" or "awake" are you when it comes to your stock portfolio? If you're like most people, you probably don't spend a great deal of time monitoring your investments. So when another company uses stock to acquire a firm in which you hold a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • January 2012 (Revised January 2014)
  • Case

Hengdeli: The Art of Coexistence

By: Rohit Deshpandé and Nancy Hua Dai
In October 2011, Zhang Yuping, founder and chairman of Hengdeli, the largest Swiss watch retailer in the world, wondered how to work more closely with its key suppliers—Swatch Group, Richemont Group, LVMH Group, and Rolex Group—to maintain strong growth in the Greater... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Retail Industry; China
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  • 2020
  • Article

Mutual Funds: Skill and Performance

By: Jonathan B. Berk, Jules van Binsbergen and Max Miller
The authors summarize the recent literature on mutual fund manager skill and performance. They discuss the latest contributions in the field and reinterpret them through the lens of the rational expectations framework (efficient market hypothesis). They further discuss... View Details
Keywords: Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Financial Management; Performance Evaluation; Measurement and Metrics
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  • 26 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

a unique aspect of our research setting allows us to test who is responsible for the earnings management. While firms appear unable to increase the frequency of display promotions in the short run, they can reallocate these promotions within their View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Oct 2023
  • Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

the things that we talk about is that there's a there's a portfolio that the happiest people all maintain. It's an investment portfolio. You can teach it. Yeah. I teach at HBS. So, I can talk this way. There's an investment but it's a... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
  • Research Summary

Supply Chain Inventory Planning

My work studies management decision-making in demand and supply planning contexts with a focus on forecasting and inventory planning decisions.  I examine these decision-making processes from both a supply chain (i.e. across firm) and an... View Details

  • 02 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

managers, and rationalizes administrative processes. In the end, the acquiring company has greater market share, a more efficient operation, better managers, more clout, and the industry as a whole has less excess capacity. What's not to... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower
  • 24 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 24, 2008

Bazerman Abstract The optimal moment to address the question of how to improve human decision making has arrived. In recent research, judgment and decision-making scholars have moved beyond the concept of bounded rationality to recognize... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

today, while boldly gesturing to where it might head in the future. This handbook transcends the received dichotomy between political economy as an application of rational choice theory or as the study of the causes of societies’ material... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 22

Justifying and Rationalizing Questionable Preferences Authors:Zoë Chance and Michael I. Norton An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-018.pdf The Financing of R&D and Innovation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

Change What role should business leaders play in trying to affect climate change? Harvard Business School faculty share their thoughts. A: Actuarial Thinking. Assessing probabilities and portfolio risk is how property insurance companies... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities
  • 25 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 25

products. We find that public choices in which participants display their preferences to others encourage feature-seeking behavior, but that the anticipation of having to use a product in front of others provides an incentive to avoid additional features.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 18, 2008

because venture capitalists repeatedly sell their portfolio companies through acquisitions, venture capitalists may be able to certify the quality of the assets that an outside party is buying because they are "staking their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-082.pdf Individual Rationality and Participation in Large Scale, Multi-Hospital Kidney Exchange Authors:Itai Ashlagi and Alvin E. Roth Abstract As multi-hospital kidney exchange clearinghouses have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 20, 2008

Life-Cycle Funds Authors:Francisco J. Gomes, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Luis M. Viceira Abstract We investigate optimal consumption, asset accumulation and portfolio decisions in a realistically calibrated life-cycle model with flexible... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 24

March 2015 American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics A Behavioral Model of the Popularity and Regulation of Demandable Liabilities By: Rotemberg, Julio J. Abstract—Overoptimism regarding one's ability to arrive early in a queue is shown to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

changing competitive landscape, consumers who may not have considered buying a GM vehicle over the past decade may now be inclined to do so again. What the company has done in rationalizing the number of brands in its View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto

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