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Curriculum - MBA
& Entrepreneurship This course is designed to develop the legal literacy of MBA students by honing legal instincts that will help business leaders avoid legal pitfalls, attain a competitive edge and promote long-term success. Expanding...
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- April 1990 (Revised April 1993)
- Case
Bridgeton Industries: Automotive Component & Fabrication Plant
Bridgeton Industries was experiencing reduced sales. To become more competitive it introduced a classification procedure for products based upon their productivity and other factors. Products were classified into three groups: world class, potentially world class, and...
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Keywords:
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Competition;
Cost Management;
Manufacturing Industry;
Auto Industry
Cooper, Robin. "Bridgeton Industries: Automotive Component & Fabrication Plant." Harvard Business School Case 190-085, April 1990. (Revised April 1993.)
- January 1987 (Revised May 1989)
- Case
Merck-Banyu
By: Timothy A. Luehrman
Merck acquired control of Banyu in 1983. This was the first acquisition by outsiders of a major publicly traded Japanese company. This case is focused on valuing strategic investments in an environment of global competition. The case is complex because of the...
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Keywords:
Acquisition;
Investment;
Globalization;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Industry Structures;
Negotiation Deal;
Public Ownership;
Competition;
Valuation;
Japan
Luehrman, Timothy A. "Merck-Banyu." Harvard Business School Case 287-061, January 1987. (Revised May 1989.)
- October 2021 (Revised September 2022)
- Case
SmartOne: Building an AI Data Business
By: Karim R. Lakhani, Pippa Armerding, Gamze Yucaoglu and Fares Khrais
The case opens in August 2021, as Habib and Shahysta Hassim, husband and wife co-founders of the data labeling company SmartOne, contemplate the strategy of the high growth company. Between 2016 and 2021, SmartOne had kept doubling its size every two years and now,...
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Keywords:
Artificial Intelligence;
Data Labeling;
Entrepreneurship;
Strategy;
Operations;
Business Model;
Growth Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
AI and Machine Learning;
Africa;
Madagascar;
Europe;
France;
United States
Lakhani, Karim R., Pippa Armerding, Gamze Yucaoglu, and Fares Khrais. "SmartOne: Building an AI Data Business." Harvard Business School Case 622-059, October 2021. (Revised September 2022.)
- November 2003 (Revised February 2011)
- Case
Sanford C. Bernstein: The Fork in the Road (A)
By: Boris Groysberg and Anahita Hashemi
Soon after the death of the firm's legendary founder, the individuals then serving as chairman and as president--Lewis A. Sanders and Roger Hertog, respectively--talked about the future of their firm. Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., a private investment firm, had grown...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Performance Expectations;
Competitive Advantage;
Valuation
Groysberg, Boris, and Anahita Hashemi. "Sanford C. Bernstein: The Fork in the Road (A)." Harvard Business School Case 404-001, November 2003. (Revised February 2011.)
- Research Summary
Competing on a Common Platform
Why have over 100 firms joined the Eclipse Foundation to collectively produce an open source platform and tools for software application development? What are they trying to accomplish? This research analyzes IBMs divestment of the Eclipse Java Integrated Development...
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- October 2008 (Revised February 2009)
- Case
Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering
Explores the journey of aggressive learning and capability building in the operations of a major Korean Shipbuilder. While DSHM had once used its superior learning capability to topple its Japanese competition, it now faced the potential for a similar attack from new...
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Keywords:
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Ship Transportation;
Competitive Strategy;
Globalization;
Manufacturing Industry;
Japan;
China;
South Korea
Upton, David M., and Bowon Kim. "Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering." Harvard Business School Case 609-018, October 2008. (Revised February 2009.)
- 19 Oct 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Games of Threats
- June 2016
- Case
Aggressive Growth Plans For Zimmer Spine
By: Kevin Schulman and Miranda Shaw
Steve Healy, the President of Zimmer Spine, has to transform his organization into a market leader. Zimmer is a major medical device firm, but the Spine division has underperformed, and its core technology did not get the expanded FDA label that had been expected. The...
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Keywords:
Medical Device;
Organizational Innovation;
Organizational Growth;
Organizations;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Schulman, Kevin, and Miranda Shaw. "Aggressive Growth Plans For Zimmer Spine." Harvard Business School Case 316-106, June 2016.
- 29 Sep 2010
- Other Presentation
Value-Based Health Care Delivery
This presentation draws on Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results (with Elizabeth O. Teisberg), Harvard Business School Press, May 2006; ―A Strategy for Health Care Reform—Toward a Value-Based System, New England Journal of Medicine, June...
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Porter, Michael E. "Value-Based Health Care Delivery." Medical Care and the Corporation, Tuck School of Business Administration, Hanover, NH, September 29, 2010.
- 1 Oct 2010
- Other Presentation
Value-Based Health Care Delivery
This presentation draws on Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results (with Elizabeth O. Teisberg), Harvard Business School Press, May 2006; "A Strategy for Health Care Reform—Toward a Value-Based System," New England Journal of...
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Porter, Michael E. "Value-Based Health Care Delivery." Harvard Business School Alumni Reunion, Boston, MA, October 1, 2010.
- 29 Oct 2010
- Other Presentation
Value-Based Health Care Delivery
This presentation draws on Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results (with Elizabeth O. Teisberg), Harvard Business School Press, May 2006; "A Strategy for Health Care Reform—Toward a Value-Based System," New England Journal of...
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Porter, Michael E. "Value-Based Health Care Delivery." Harvard Kennedy School, Center for Public Leadership, Cambridge, MA, October 29, 2010.
- 1 Nov 2010
- Other Presentation
Value-Based Health Care Delivery
This presentation draws on Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results (with Elizabeth O. Teisberg), Harvard Business School Press, May 2006; "A Strategy for Health Care Reform—Toward a Value-Based System," New England Journal of...
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Porter, Michael E. "Value-Based Health Care Delivery." Arion Bank, Reykjavik, Iceland, November 1, 2010.
- 18 Jan 2011
- Other Presentation
Value-Based Health Care Delivery
This presentation draws on Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results (with Elizabeth O. Teisberg), Harvard Business School Press, May 2006; "A Strategy for Health Care Reform—Toward a Value-Based System," New England Journal of...
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Porter, Michael E. "Value-Based Health Care Delivery." Rethinking Malaria: A Leadership Forum, January 18, 2011.
- 1 Feb 2011
- Other Presentation
Value-Based Health Care Delivery
This presentation draws on Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results (with Elizabeth O. Teisberg), Harvard Business School Press, May 2006; "A Strategy for Health Care Reform—Toward a Value-Based System," New England Journal of...
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Porter, Michael E. "Value-Based Health Care Delivery." Innovation in Healthcare Symposium, Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, February 1, 2011.
- 8 May 2012
- Other Presentation
Value-Based Health Care Delivery
This presentation draws on Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results (with Elizabeth O. Teisberg), Harvard Business School Press, May 2006; ―A Strategy for Health Care Reform—Toward a Value-Based System, New England Journal of Medicine, June...
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Porter, Michael E. "Value-Based Health Care Delivery." American Psychiatric Association, Philadelphia, PA, May 8, 2012.
- May 1986
- Supplement
Gillette Co.: Dry Idea Advertising (C), Video
Designed for use in class as an epilogue to the story of the struggle to solve creative problems on Gillette's Dry Idea antiperspirant. The videotape announces the bake-off competition winner: BBDO. It also shows excerpts from interviews conducted a year and a half...
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Bonoma, Thomas V. "Gillette Co.: Dry Idea Advertising (C), Video." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 886-513, May 1986.
- October 1994
- Case
Daewoo Shipbuilding and Heavy Machinery
Daewoo Shipbuilding and Heavy Machinery rescued its plant from the labor riots of 1987 to make it the fastest improving shipyard in the world by 1994. With its competition in Korea making huge investments in additional capacity in anticipation of the end of the...
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Keywords:
Management;
Machinery and Machining;
Performance Improvement;
Manufacturing Industry;
South Korea
Upton, David M., and Kim Bowon. "Daewoo Shipbuilding and Heavy Machinery." Harvard Business School Case 695-001, October 1994.
- February 1997
- Case
Archer Daniels Midland: Direction and Strategy
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Thomas N. Urban Jr
Sets out the strategy and competitive competencies of one of the leading grain trade and processing companies in the world. An overview of the company's innovations in corn and oilseed by-products is provided. The strategy of the firm is to add by-products to corn,...
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Keywords:
Innovation and Invention;
Strategic Planning;
Business Strategy;
Value Creation;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Goldberg, Ray A., and Thomas N. Urban Jr. "Archer Daniels Midland: Direction and Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 597-039, February 1997.
- August 1993 (Revised January 1994)
- Case
Prochnik: Privatization of a Polish Clothing Manufacturer
Prochnik was a large state-owned clothing manufacturer located in the textile-production-intensive region of Lodz, Poland. In the early months of economic reform, Prochnik was one of the first five state enterprises to be privatized through initial public offerings and...
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Loveman, Gary W., and David T. Kotchen. "Prochnik: Privatization of a Polish Clothing Manufacturer." Harvard Business School Case 394-038, August 1993. (Revised January 1994.)