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- 31 Mar 2020
- News
How To Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup
- 19 Jan 2018
- News
Jana’s Jab at Apple May Be a Route to Reverse Its Shrinking Assets
- 28 Aug 2017
- News
Business in a Common Tongue
- 08 Aug 2017
- News
Great News For Everyone! Elon Musk Is Building A Hyperloop
- Web
Diversity and Inclusion - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
with curiosity, candor, and respect. Discussing Sensitive Topics Approaches for managing the discussion of sensitive topics include purposeful actions at the beginning of class, at the time a challenging moment occurs in class, and at the...
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- October 1992 (Revised September 1996)
- Case
McDonald's Corporation
By: David M. Upton and Joshua D. Margolis
McDonald's has over many years built an operating strategy based on consistency and quality through a limited product range. Competitive forces have drawn the company into a much wider variety of foods and services in order to maintain growth. Now, new competitors...
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Keywords:
Corporate Strategy;
Diversification;
Problems and Challenges;
Environmental Sustainability;
Quality;
Competitive Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Operations;
Integration;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United States
Upton, David M., and Joshua D. Margolis. "McDonald's Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 693-028, October 1992. (Revised September 1996.)
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Product Innovation: What Business Leaders Need to Know
- Profile
Bobby Tuohy
Everyone wants to hang out with him; he’s even played with our section’s basketball team.” For his internship, Bobby has secured a role as an operations product manager with Apple in Cupertino, what he describes as a “50/50 tech and...
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- 2011
- Working Paper
Top Executive Background and Financial Reporting Choice
By: Francois Brochet and Kyle Travis Welch
We study the role of executive functional background in explaining management discretion in financial reporting. Taking goodwill impairment as our reporting setting, we focus on top executives (CEOs and CFOs) whose employment history includes experience in investment...
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Keywords:
Financial Reporting;
Goodwill Accounting;
Experience and Expertise;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Managerial Roles;
Agency Theory
Brochet, Francois, and Kyle Travis Welch. "Top Executive Background and Financial Reporting Choice." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-088, February 2011. (Revised November 2011.)
- March 2022
- Module Note
Navigating Nascent Industries and Product Categories
By: Rory McDonald
This Note introduces a module of cases used at Harvard Business School to teach fundamental concepts about navigating nascent industries and product categories. It elaborates a set of ‘innovation tensions’ that managers must address in these domains. In connecting the...
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McDonald, Rory. "Navigating Nascent Industries and Product Categories." Harvard Business School Module Note 622-097, March 2022.
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Know Your Customers' 'Jobs to Be Done'
By: Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon and David S. Duncan
Firms have never known more about their customers, but their innovation processes remain hit-or-miss. Why? According to Christensen and his coauthors, product developers focus too much on building customer profiles and looking for correlations in data. To create...
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Keywords:
Customer Relationship Management
Christensen, Clayton M., Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, and David S. Duncan. "Know Your Customers' 'Jobs to Be Done'." Harvard Business Review 94, no. 9 (September 2016): 54–62.
- October 2003
- Case
Henry Tam and the MGI Team
By: Jeffrey T. Polzer, Ingrid Vargas and Hillary Anger Elfenbein
Within a short time frame, seven diverse team members assemble to write a business plan for a new company and struggle to define their roles, make decisions together, and resolve conflict. Henry Tam, a second-year Harvard MBA student, who joins an aspiring start-up...
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Keywords:
Interpersonal Communication;
Business Plan;
Groups and Teams;
Decision Making;
Jobs and Positions;
Leadership Style;
Human Resources;
Management Teams;
Conflict and Resolution;
Diversity
Polzer, Jeffrey T., Ingrid Vargas, and Hillary Anger Elfenbein. "Henry Tam and the MGI Team." Harvard Business School Case 404-068, October 2003.
- September 2003 (Revised June 2006)
- Case
"American Challenge, The:" Europe's Response to American Business
By: Geoffrey G. Jones and Meghan Gallagher-Kernstine
Examines the tensions multinationals cause by focusing on Europe's reaction to the growing U.S. multinational investment in the 20th century. Initially, Europeans rarely felt threatened by U.S. investments, however, tensions grew over time. After the Second World War,...
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Keywords:
Management Practices and Processes;
Investment;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
United States;
Europe
Jones, Geoffrey G., and Meghan Gallagher-Kernstine. "American Challenge, The:" Europe's Response to American Business. Harvard Business School Case 804-057, September 2003. (Revised June 2006.)
- August 2013 (Revised November 2013)
- Case
Ford vs. GM: The Evolution of Mass Production (A)
By: Willy Shih
This case explores the very different paths taken by the Ford Motor Company and the General Motors Corporation in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Henry Ford's Model T was a car for the masses. After considerable experimentation, Ford Motor... View Details
Keywords:
Innovation;
Exploration;
Dominant Design;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business History;
Innovation and Management;
Innovation Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Leading Change;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Product Positioning;
Product Design;
Product Development;
Business Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Vertical Integration;
Auto Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Michigan
Shih, Willy. "Ford vs. GM: The Evolution of Mass Production (A)." Harvard Business School Case 614-010, August 2013. (Revised November 2013.)
- September 1993 (Revised January 1994)
- Case
Habitat for Humanity International
Habitat for Humanity, a not-for-profit, volunteer-based home builder, is coping with years of rapid growth and success. They now face a series of options to continue their successful course and must make corresponding organizational adjustments. Teaching objectives...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Growth Management;
Housing;
Service Industry;
United States
Loveman, Gary W. "Habitat for Humanity International." Harvard Business School Case 694-038, September 1993. (Revised January 1994.)
- February 2016 (Revised March 2019)
- Case
Bankruptcy at Caesars Entertainment
By: Kristin Mugford and David Chan
Caesars Entertainment was a large casino operator in the United States that had been purchased in a 2008 leveraged buyout by Apollo and TPG. In January 2015, Caesars Entertainment Operating Company (CEOC), its largest subsidiary, filed for Chapter 11. This set up a...
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Keywords:
Gaming;
Chapter 11;
Fraudulent Conveyance;
Apollo;
TPG;
Bankruptcy;
Leveraged Buyouts;
Restructuring;
Capital Structure;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Private Equity;
Financial Management;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Negotiation;
Games, Gaming, and Gambling;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Las Vegas
Mugford, Kristin, and David Chan. "Bankruptcy at Caesars Entertainment." Harvard Business School Case 216-052, February 2016. (Revised March 2019.)
- July 2008 (Revised January 2009)
- Case
Londolozi: Towards a Sustainable Business Model and Ecological Integrity in Southern Africa
By: Rawi E. Abdelal and Thomas Koelble
The Londolozi game viewing reserve in South Africa became a defining icon of ecotourism during the 1990s and early 2000s-that is, a tourist business promoting ecological land management and, at the same time, local economic development. The reserve was in a region in...
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Keywords:
Developing Countries and Economies;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Business and Community Relations;
Business and Government Relations;
Environmental Sustainability;
Tourism Industry;
South Africa
Abdelal, Rawi E., and Thomas Koelble. "Londolozi: Towards a Sustainable Business Model and Ecological Integrity in Southern Africa." Harvard Business School Case 709-001, July 2008. (Revised January 2009.)
- 09 Jan 2023
- News
Alumna Leads Biggest Ever Debut for a Woman-led Hedge Fund
Photo via Surgo Foundation Photo via Surgo Foundation Mala Gaonkar (MBA 1996) kicked off the new year with the debut of her hedge fund SurgoCap Partners, whose $1.8 billion under management made it the "largest debut of a woman-led hedge...
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