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- July 2014
- Case
Venture Capital at the Harvard Management Company in Historical Perspective
By: Felda Hardymon, Tom Nicholas and Vasiliki Fouka
The compromise between capital preservation and growth has always been central to the performance of the Harvard endowment. Setting an institutional structure for effectively governing this compromise became especially important when the Harvard Management Company...
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Keywords:
Venture Capital;
Financial Management;
Asset Management;
Higher Education;
Investment;
Financial Services Industry;
Education Industry;
Cambridge
Hardymon, Felda, Tom Nicholas, and Vasiliki Fouka. "Venture Capital at the Harvard Management Company in Historical Perspective." Harvard Business School Case 815-047, July 2014.
- September 2010
- Case
New Heritage Doll Company
By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Heide Abelli
A manufacturer and retailer of specialty doll products must decide which of two projects to fund. The decision requires the student to compute cash flows for the 2 projects, discount values to the present and compare and contrast different project performance measures.
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Keywords:
Forecasting;
Resource Management;
Resource Allocation;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Capital Budgeting;
Manufacturing Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Retail Industry
Luehrman, Timothy A., and Heide Abelli. "New Heritage Doll Company." Harvard Business School Brief Case 104-212, September 2010.
- 2004
- Working Paper
Judging Fund Managers by the Company They Keep
By: Randolph Cohen, Joshua Coval and Lubo Pástor
We develop a performance evaluation approach in which a fund manager's skill is judged by the extent to which his investment decisions resemble the decisions of managers with distinguished performance records. The proposed performance measures are estimated more...
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Cohen, Randolph, Joshua Coval, and Lubo Pástor. "Judging Fund Managers by the Company They Keep." NBER Working Paper Series, No. W9359, January 2004.
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Exploring how companies manage talent and career development
Harvard Business School Professor Boris Groysberg (DBA 2002) describes his research into how companies manage hiring and talent development. (Published April 2014)
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- July 1996 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
THG Management Services
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and D. Scott Lurding
THG Management is in the second module of the Innovating in Health Care course that discusses how to start an innovative health care firm, in this case, a firm that deals with health insurance. THG Management, now bankrupt, examines the risks of lack of diversification...
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Keywords:
Managed Care;
Capitation;
Entrepreneurship;
Insurance;
Health Care and Treatment;
Risk Management;
Motivation and Incentives;
Expansion;
Health Industry;
Insurance Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E., and D. Scott Lurding. "THG Management Services." Harvard Business School Case 197-011, July 1996. (Revised January 2024.)
- Article
Governments as Owners: State-Owned Multinational Companies
By: Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Andrew Inkpen, Aldo Musacchio and Kannan Ramaswamy
The globalization of state-owned multinational companies (SOMNCs) has become an important phenomenon in international business (IB), yet it has received scant attention in the literature. We explain how the analysis of SOMNCs can help advance the literature by...
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Keywords:
Multinational Corporation;
State-owned Enterprises;
State Capitalism;
FDI;
Internationalization;
Government And Business;
National Oil Companies;
State Ownership;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Business Subsidiaries;
Acquisition;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Energy Industry;
China;
India;
Europe
Cuervo-Cazurra, Alvaro, Andrew Inkpen, Aldo Musacchio, and Kannan Ramaswamy. "Governments as Owners: State-Owned Multinational Companies." Special Issue on Governments as Owners: Globalizing State-Owned Enterprises edited by Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Andrew Inkpen, Aldo Musacchio and Kannan Ramaswamy. Journal of International Business Studies 45, no. 8 (October–November 2014): 919–942.
- 2003
- Working Paper
Judging Fund Managers by the Company They Keep
By: Randolph Cohen, Joshua Coval and Lubo Pástor
Cohen, Randolph, Joshua Coval, and Lubo Pástor. "Judging Fund Managers by the Company They Keep." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 04-023, November 2003.
- March 2001 (Revised August 2003)
- Case
Wilkerson Company
By: Robert S. Kaplan
The president of Wilkerson, faced with declining profits, is struggling to understand why the company is encountering severe price competition on one product line while able to raise prices without competitive response on another product line. The controller proposes...
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Keywords:
Activity Based Costing and Management;
Competition;
Profit;
Product;
Consumer Products Industry
Kaplan, Robert S. "Wilkerson Company." Harvard Business School Case 101-092, March 2001. (Revised August 2003.)
- June 2015 (Revised February 2017)
- Case
Uber and Stakeholders: Managing a New Way of Riding
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Daniel Fox
By 2015, technological innovations—the smartphone and the advanced data connectivity that enabled it—created new opportunities for people to move around cities quickly and conveniently without owning a car, via car-sharing services like Zipcar or new ride-sharing...
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Keywords:
Uber;
Ride-sharing;
Sharing Economy;
Transportation Network Company;
Leadership And Change Management;
Stakeholder Management;
Managing Change;
Leadership;
Regulation;
Smartphones;
Web-enabled Application;
Disruptive Technology;
Startup Management;
Entrepreneurship;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Transportation;
Mobile Technology;
Transportation Industry;
Technology Industry
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Daniel Fox. "Uber and Stakeholders: Managing a New Way of Riding." Harvard Business School Case 315-139, June 2015. (Revised February 2017.)
- February 2010 (Revised January 2014)
- Case
Tennant Company
By: Toby E. Stuart, Lynda M. Applegate and James Weber
Tennant, a leading producer of floor cleaning equipment, must determine how to create, finance, structure, staff, govern, measure, and manage a new venture for developing a fundamentally new product line. In 2005, Tennant Company had developed an innovative,...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Change Management;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Disruptive Innovation;
Product Development;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Research and Development
Stuart, Toby E., Lynda M. Applegate, and James Weber. "Tennant Company." Harvard Business School Case 810-040, February 2010. (Revised January 2014.)
- April 2013 (Revised October 2013)
- Case
Google's Project Oxygen: Do Managers Matter?
By: David A. Garvin, Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Liz Kind
Google's Project Oxygen started with a fundamental question raised by executives in the early 2000s: do managers matter? The topic generated a multi-year research project that ultimately led to a comprehensive program, built around eight key management attributes,...
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Keywords:
Organizational Behavior;
Business Policy;
General Management;
Human Resource Management;
Management;
Leadership;
Human Resources
Garvin, David A., Alison Berkley Wagonfeld, and Liz Kind. "Google's Project Oxygen: Do Managers Matter?" Harvard Business School Case 313-110, April 2013. (Revised October 2013.)
- 11 Mar 2014
- News
Innovation in Big Companies
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
(Illustration: Dave Cutler) After a decade of extraordinary growth, Nike faced slowing sales in the early 1980s because the normally market-wise company had missed a major turn in the road. Reebok had introduced softer and more...
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by Laurie Joan Aron
- October 2014 (Revised October 2014)
- Case
RedBrick Health: How to Fatten the Company That Slims...
By: Robert F. Higgins and Robert M. Greenglass
The case describes this health and wellness service company and poses the question: should RedBrick stay on the path of building out its product platform, or should the RedBrick platform be launched directly to health insurers, ACOs, or directly to customers?
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Keywords:
ACOs;
Accountable Care Organization;
Healthcare;
Health Services;
Healthcare Industry;
Health Engagement Company;
Entrepreneurship;
Health Care and Treatment;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Health Industry;
United States
Higgins, Robert F., and Robert M. Greenglass. "RedBrick Health: How to Fatten the Company That Slims..." Harvard Business School Case 815-035, October 2014. (Revised October 2014.)
- October 2016 (Revised October 2020)
- Case
Essent: From a State-Owned Utility to a Commercial Company
By: Ananth Raman and Elena Corsi
Patrick Lammers, Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) for the Dutch energy company Essent NV, once a state-owned company, was pleased with the progress Essent’s consumer (“B2C”) business had made: Earnings Before Income Tax (EBIT) for B2C had gone from a loss of €18 million...
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Keywords:
Lean Management;
Operation Management;
Service Management;
Commercialization;
Operations;
Management;
Energy;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Service Operations;
Performance;
Energy Industry;
Europe
Raman, Ananth, and Elena Corsi. "Essent: From a State-Owned Utility to a Commercial Company." Harvard Business School Case 617-026, October 2016. (Revised October 2020.)
- April 2005
- Case
Handleman Company
By: Janice H. Hammond and Kevin Dolan
Describes the organization and operations of the Handleman Co., an intermediary in the music industry that buys recorded music and resells it to mass retailers such as Wal-Mart. The company provides distribution, inventory management, retail merchandising, and category...
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Keywords:
Business Organization;
Music Entertainment;
Cost Management;
Growth and Development;
Business or Company Management;
Distribution Channels;
Problems and Challenges;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Online Technology;
Value Creation;
Music Industry
Hammond, Janice H., and Kevin Dolan. "Handleman Company." Harvard Business School Case 605-024, April 2005.
- April 2013 (Revised April 2014)
- Case
Transitions Asia: Managing Across Cultures
By: Roy Y.J. Chua and Dawn H. Lau
The director of an interim executive search firm, Chee Lung Tham, faced a clash of culture and management styles when his mainland Chinese client threatened to fire the American interim manager that Tham had assigned. The client, Wong Lung, ran a family-owned garment...
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Keywords:
China;
Cross-cultural Management;
Management Style;
Conflict Management;
Family Business;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Service Industry;
China
Chua, Roy Y.J., and Dawn H. Lau. "Transitions Asia: Managing Across Cultures." Harvard Business School Case 413-099, April 2013. (Revised April 2014.)
- 10 Dec 2010
- Lecture
Inside Corporate China." Panel Moderator, "Harvard Management Company China Day.
By: Lynn S. Paine
Keywords:
China
- January 2012 (Revised March 2013)
- Case
Ctrip: Scientifically Managing Travel Services
By: David A. Garvin and Nancy Hua Dai
Ctrip is a $437 million Chinese on-line travel services company with a scientific, data driven approach to management. The case explores Ctrip's founding and early growth, its expansion into multiple market segments including hotel reservations, air ticketing, leisure...
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Keywords:
Scientific Management;
Data-driven Management;
Management;
Expansion;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Market Entry and Exit;
Mathematical Methods;
Business Processes;
Information Management;
Travel Industry;
China
Garvin, David A., and Nancy Hua Dai. "Ctrip: Scientifically Managing Travel Services." Harvard Business School Case 312-092, January 2012. (Revised March 2013.)