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- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
challenges arise against the backdrop of the accelerated approval process, uncertainty about what the FDA will ultimately decide, and whether the company should indeed pursue early approval. Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
there is great uncertainty as to whom the successor should be and how the process of finding a successor should be managed. There is something very wrong with this picture. I would have been surprised by this situation before completing...
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2014
(HBP) and Executive Education, as well as philanthropic income from gifts, HBS was solidly cash flow positive, extending a record that began more than a decade ago. This cash flow enabled HBS to fund its core educational programs, spur innovation in teaching and...
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- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
can think strategically about where the business will be and how they might build for the future. A great example is Lou Gerstner (HBS MBA '65). When he took the helm at IBM, he had to take $7 billion out of the company's cost structure...
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by Staff
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
strategic naïveté. Economic Uncertainty and Earnings Management By: Stein, Luke C.D., and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—In the presence of managerial short-termism and asymmetric information about skill and...
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Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
Total Quality Management was strategic when it was developed? Not strategic in the sense that I use the word strategic. "Strategic" is a word that gets used promiscuously—some people use it to mean...
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by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
research and discuss his contributions to management and economics. We look at three distinct bodies of work. In the first, Clark (in conjunction with Robert Hayes and Steven Wheelwright) argued that the abandonment by U.S. managers of manufacturing as a View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
uncertainty into the consumer's relative product valuations since she is unable to observe the entire catalog of products that the retailer will sell that season. Rationally acting consumers may respond to this additional View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
of rapid profit improvement. The question facing CEO Thomas J. Wilson was how to maintain the momentum. This case tracks the evolution of Allstate's strategy over 20 years, examining the logic behind the strategic changes, and the...
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Martha Lagace
- January 2003 (Revised March 2004)
- Case
Silverado (A)
By: Jan W. Rivkin and Charles J. Woodard
Silverado has raised $50 million and launched its first product: an Internet-based trivia game with innovative software. In a highly uncertain environment, the young management team must decide whether to continue developing the product and whether to branch out into...
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Risk and Uncertainty;
Technological Innovation;
Strategic Planning;
Internet and the Web;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Product Launch;
Business Strategy;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Rivkin, Jan W., and Charles J. Woodard. "Silverado (A)." Harvard Business School Case 703-441, January 2003. (Revised March 2004.)
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
information about a company he or she manages. The student must make decisions about pollution-reducing investments and production levels in the face of uncertainty about pollution permit prices. Students form groups of five, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
instructor, and later as a strategist for the Pentagon: O: Observe O: Orientate D: Decide A: Act Boyd's insight came from the need to develop a strategic approach—simple in nature, easy to execute and communicate—that made up for the fact...
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by Euvin Naidoo
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
Regulation By: Drake, David, Paul R. Kleindorfer, and Luk N. Van Wassenhove Abstract—We study the impact of emissions tax and emissions cap-and-trade regulation on a firm's technology choice and capacity decisions. We show that emissions price View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Why the Bull Market in Leadership Books?
in settings where those being led are highly independent. The task is to achieve alignment between the strategic requirements of the business and the needs (very special, in this case) of its key employees. A "survival guide" is...
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by James Heskett
- Research Summary
Overview
Jurgen's research focuses on the challenges and opportunites to the energy sector created by technological change and externalities, in particular those associated with greenhouse gas emissons. Specific areas of interest include the development of potential pathways to...
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Alternative Energy;
Energy Conservation;
Energy Generation;
Energy Sources;
Non-Renewable Energy;
Renewable Energy;
Disruptive Innovation;
Market Design;
Strategic Planning;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Technology Adoption;
Sustainable Cities;
Business Strategy;
Auto Industry;
Battery Industry;
Energy Industry;
Transportation Industry;
Utilities Industry
- 16 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Delivering Solutions During a Crisis: an Interview with Hans Kristian Furuseth
through crisis while operating an ecommerce organization during Brexit. With business in the UK and across the EU, Furuseth and his team had to adjust to foreign exchange rates and find ways to quickly cut costs. The experience of rapid growth at Vaniday and managing...
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- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
flowers, juice, and ice cream, was at a strategic crossroads in 2014. CEO Alvaro Muñoz had to choose the best way to achieve profit goals and provide his company with a sustainable competitive advantage. The company had already developed...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
often see staged financing in new venture situations. The fourth is sources of financing. While traditional finance courses have focused on classic corporate financing options, we introduce venture capital, angel investors, strategic...
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by Staff
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
where the firm chooses capacities in two technologies in stage one, demand uncertainty resolves between stages (as does emissions price uncertainty under cap-and-trade), and then the firm chooses production...
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Carmen Nobel
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
as a separate marketplace, because each has its own legal requirements, cultural traditions, and business methods, and most have their own currencies. The dramatic changes in strategic thinking and organizational relationships have made...
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Sean Silverthorne