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- December 1992 (Revised March 1993)
- Case
Dan Gordon
Describes Dan Gordon's first month on the job as Chief Operating Officer of Club Sports International (CSI), a chain of 7 health and fitness clubs. Describes the company's strategy and organization. The company needs Dan to tighten up its operations and create a base...
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Decision Choices and Conditions;
Governance Controls;
Business or Company Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Organizational Design;
Health Industry
Roberts, Michael J. "Dan Gordon." Harvard Business School Case 393-087, December 1992. (Revised March 1993.)
- 2010
- Book
Winning in Emerging Markets: A Road Map for Strategy and Execution
By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu and Richard Bullock
The best way to select emerging markets to exploit is to evaluate their size or growth potential, right? Not according to Krishna Palepu and Tarun Khanna. In 'Winning in Emerging Markets,' these leading scholars on the subject present a decidedly different framework...
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Developing Countries and Economies;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Emerging Markets;
Organizations;
Opportunities;
Business Strategy
Khanna, Tarun, Krishna G. Palepu, and Richard Bullock. Winning in Emerging Markets: A Road Map for Strategy and Execution. Boston: Harvard Business Press, 2010.
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
Ramaswany's customer co-creation process might prove most relevant. If the company has distinctive capabilities in important business processes— operations management, customer data mining, View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 09 Mar 2016
- News
Time for a shake-up at United Airlines
- 22 Jul 2021
- News
Sandra Sucher and Ram Charan
- August 2019 (Revised March 2022)
- Case
Lemonade: Disrupting Insurance with Instant Everything, Killer Prices, and a Big Heart
By: Elie Ofek and Danielle Golan
Launching its first products in the fall of 2016 in New York, insurtech startup Lemonade was on a mission to disrupt the insurance market by using AI and behavioral economics principles. The company offered renters, homeowners, and condo insurance and mainly targeted...
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AI;
Business Startups;
Insurance;
Technological Innovation;
Business Model;
Disruption;
Brands and Branding;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Global Strategy;
Decision Making;
Insurance Industry;
Technology Industry
Ofek, Elie, and Danielle Golan. "Lemonade: Disrupting Insurance with Instant Everything, Killer Prices, and a Big Heart." Harvard Business School Case 520-020, August 2019. (Revised March 2022.)
- November 1982 (Revised May 1984)
- Case
Jim Sawyer (A)
Jim Sawyer, 40, a manager at United Industries Plastics Division has exhibited signs of alcoholism. Personnel must now consider how the company should address this kind of problem. Provides an opportunity to examine the role corporations should play in helping...
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Goodpaster, Kenneth E., and Dekkers L. Davidson. "Jim Sawyer (A)." Harvard Business School Case 383-029, November 1982. (Revised May 1984.)
- 16 Jan 2019
- News
Apple in China, and Payday Lending
- January 1994 (Revised March 1995)
- Case
De Passe Entertainment and Creative Partners
By: Linda A. Hill
After 24 years at Motown Industries, Hollywood executive Suzanne de Passe has decided to go out on her own to start two new businesses. The case describes de Passe's career from her beginning as Berry Gordy's assistant at Motown Records to her presidency of Gordy/de...
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Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Partners and Partnerships;
Business or Company Management;
Entertainment;
Personal Development and Career;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Music Industry;
California
Hill, Linda A. "De Passe Entertainment and Creative Partners." Harvard Business School Case 494-013, January 1994. (Revised March 1995.)
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
Failure to Phoenix: 7 Lessons to Learn from Failure
How to Stress-Test Your Strategy
What are the biggest problems companies face in executing their strategies? Robert Simons explains why management teams must ask themselves tough questions, like "What could cause our business to fail?"
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- Book
Management: An Integrated Approach
The goal of Management: An Integrated Approach 2nd ed., is to prepare students for leadership positions in 21st century companies by addressing the many facets involved in answering one key question: How are leaders successfully managing competitive companies in...
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Gulati, Ranjay, Anthony Mayo, and Nitin Nohria. Management: An Integrated Approach. 2nd ed. Boston: Cengage Learning, 2016.
- 14 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World
forecasting, strategic planning, and statistical decision making have not prepared them for this amount of flux in the environment. In short, these rapid-fire changes are putting extreme pressure on business leaders to lead in ways not...
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by Bill George
- April 2012
- Case
Bank of America: Mobile Banking (Abridged)
By: Sunil Gupta and Michael Norris
In January 2010, Bank of America is discussing its future mobile strategy. Should the company add complexity to its app, design multiple apps for business segments, or expand into other mobile channels?
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Technology Adoption;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Banks and Banking;
Banking Industry;
United States
Gupta, Sunil, and Michael Norris. "Bank of America: Mobile Banking (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 512-082, April 2012.
- November 2006
- Case
Tickle
By: William A. Sahlman and Dan Heath
Describes a set of decisions confronting the management team of a rapidly growing online psychological testing and social networking company. They can either sell the company to a large public company, raise another round of capital from a preeminent venture capital...
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- 24 Jun 2021
- News
Study Shows CEO and Worker Pay Gap Is Widening
- November 2011 (Revised August 2012)
- Background Note
Customer Discovery and Validation for Entrepreneurs
By: Frank V. Cespedes, Thomas Eisenmann and Steven G. Blank
Provides practical guidelines for conducting market research to explore and validate demand for entrepreneurial offering. Explains how the research objectives of entrepreneurs might differ from those relevant to managers evaluating product or service offerings to...
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Cespedes, Frank V., Thomas Eisenmann, and Steven G. Blank. "Customer Discovery and Validation for Entrepreneurs." Harvard Business School Background Note 812-097, November 2011. (Revised August 2012.)
- 18 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Learning in Action
was nothing but red ink from 1989 to 1993. Managers signed up for CAP training as a last resort in 1994. By the end of the year the business was breaking even. In 1995 net income was $18 million and the...
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by David A. Garvin
Hubert Joly
Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Best Buy
Author of The Heart of Business– Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism
Hubert Joly is a senior lecturer in the General Management unit and... View Details