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- 11 Apr 2022
- News
Why Don’t Wharton and Harvard Have Online MBA Programs?
- 16 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Level of campus sexual violence largely unchanged, survey says
- 10 Oct 2023
- News
HBS Responds to the Attacks on Israel
MESSAGE FROM DEAN SRIKANT DATAR Dear members of the HBS community, I wanted to follow up on the message I joined with Harvard’s leadership in sending last evening, and on the statement issued by President Claudine Gay earlier today. Over the past few days, I have...
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- August 2000 (Revised September 2005)
- Case
Callaway Golf Company
By: Rajiv Lal and Edie Prescott
Describes a situation faced by Mr. Ely Callaway, the 80-year-old founder, chairman, and CEO of Callaway Golf Co., in the fall of 1999. After a decade of stunning success with the marketing concept, Callaway suffered a significant loss and witnessed a steep decline in...
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Keywords:
Marketing Strategy;
Crisis Management;
Communication Strategy;
Product;
Business Strategy;
Change Management;
Competitive Advantage
Lal, Rajiv, and Edie Prescott. "Callaway Golf Company." Harvard Business School Case 501-019, August 2000. (Revised September 2005.)
- June 2005 (Revised January 2008)
- Case
Good Technology: Empowering Mobility Around the Globe (A)
By: Geoffrey G. Jones and Adam Minnick
Describes the global growth of Good Technology, a Silicon Valley start-up in wireless handheld computing software and service. Reviews the evaluation of wireless standards, the emergence of the world wireless market for voice and data, and the growth of the major firms...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Partners and Partnerships;
Expansion;
Wireless Technology;
Communications Industry;
Communications Industry;
California
Jones, Geoffrey G., and Adam Minnick. "Good Technology: Empowering Mobility Around the Globe (A)." Harvard Business School Case 805-139, June 2005. (Revised January 2008.)
- February 2015 (Revised August 2016)
- Case
Nokia's Bridge Program: Redesigning Layoffs (A)
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Susan J. Winterberg
"Not another Bochum." Nokia Board Chairman Jorma Ollila was clear in the goals he set for the 2011 restructuring that Nokia's new CEO, Stephen Elop, had decided was necessary to address the dramatically changed competitive environment the company faced in smartphones...
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Keywords:
Layoffs;
Plant Closure;
Outplacement;
Shared Value;
Business or Company Management;
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Restructuring;
Employee Relationship Management;
Telecommunications Industry
Sucher, Sandra J., and Susan J. Winterberg. "Nokia's Bridge Program: Redesigning Layoffs (A)." Harvard Business School Case 315-002, February 2015. (Revised August 2016.)
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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online
five minutes. Description of silent animated video above: Learner completes an interactive question by dragging and dropping choices into two different categories Get social by collaborating with a global community of peers before,...
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- 19 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
$15 Billion in Five Years: What Data Tells Us About MacKenzie Scott’s Philanthropy
Over the last five years, MacKenzie Scott has gone from relatively unknown in the US philanthropic community to arguably its single most influential figure. When she signed the Giving Pledge in 2019 following her divorce with Amazon...
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- 20 Jun 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
What Else Do Shareholders Want? Shareholder Proposals Contested by Firm Management
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Application Requirements - Doctoral
three applications from any one individual over the course of their lifetime. If your 2023 application is incomplete and you are denied admission, GSAS will not count it toward our lifetime limit of three total applications that an individual may submit due to the...
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- July 2004 (Revised March 2006)
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RosettaNet and ebXML: Betting on the Right eBusiness Standard
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Veronika Belokhvostova
A major enterprise software company must select which technologies to support, based on their long-term and short-term viability and benefits. The protagonist is involved in the release of the B2B integration component of major enterprise software whose purpose is to...
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Keywords:
Communication Technology;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Markets;
Standards;
Science-Based Business;
Situation or Environment;
Applications and Software;
Technology Adoption;
Information Technology Industry
McFarlan, F. Warren, and Veronika Belokhvostova. "RosettaNet and ebXML: Betting on the Right eBusiness Standard." Harvard Business School Case 305-006, July 2004. (Revised March 2006.)
- February 2009
- Article
Suspended in Self-Spun Webs of Significance: A Rhetorical Model of Institutionalization and Institutionally Embedded Agency
By: Sandy Edward Green, Yuan Li and Nitin Nohria
This article employs rhetorical theory to reconceptualize institutionalization as change in argument structure. As a state, institutionalization is embodied in the structure of argument used to justify a practice at a given point in time. As a process,...
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Green, Sandy Edward, Yuan Li, and Nitin Nohria. "Suspended in Self-Spun Webs of Significance: A Rhetorical Model of Institutionalization and Institutionally Embedded Agency." Academy of Management Journal 52, no. 1 (February 2009): 11–36.
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Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
in real-world experience, linking theory and practice to shape business practice and train business leaders. Asian Community Development Corporation: Building Housing and Community By: Michael Chu and Alexis...
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Elizabeth J. Altman
Dr. Elizabeth J. Altman is an associate professor of management (with tenure) at the Manning School of Business, University of Massachusetts Lowell and a visiting scholar at the Harvard Business School. She has been guest editor of the MIT Sloan Management Review... View Details
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Managing Health Care Delivery
who share their latest research and engage you in a dynamic exchange of ideas with a global community of peers. Each module is carefully designed to maximize the impact, enable immediate application, and accelerate leadership growth....
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- October 1998
- Case
Farallon Capital Management: Risk Arbitrage (B)
By: Andre F. Perold and Robert Howard
Farallon Capital Management, an investment firm that specializes in risk arbitrage, has taken significant long and short positions in MCI Communications and British Telecommunications, respectively, in the belief that the proposed merger of these firms will be...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Capital Markets;
Investment;
Risk Management;
Strategy;
Financial Services Industry
Perold, Andre F., and Robert Howard. "Farallon Capital Management: Risk Arbitrage (B)." Harvard Business School Case 299-021, October 1998.
- June 2014
- Teaching Note
Steve Carpenter at Cake Financial
After investing $9 million of venture capital, Cake Financial had failed to reach critical mass. In early 2010 Cake's assets were sold and the company was dissolved. Founded in 2006, the San Francisco-based Internet company allowed users to monitor their investments...
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- December 1990
- Case
Allen-Bradley's ICCG: Repositioning for the 1990s
By: Nitin Nohria
Allen-Bradley's Industrial Computer and Communication Group (ICCG) underwent a period of rapid transformation in the 1980s, instituting a wide array of innovations from product development to information systems. In 1990 the Ohio-based group announced a major...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Technological Innovation;
Information Technology;
Organizational Culture;
Business Organization;
Problems and Challenges;
Information Technology Industry
Nohria, Nitin. "Allen-Bradley's ICCG: Repositioning for the 1990s." Harvard Business School Case 491-066, December 1990.