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- November 1997 (Revised August 1998)
- Case
Palm Computing, Inc. 1995: Financing Challenges
By: Myra M. Hart and Stephanie Dodson
The president, Donna Dubinsky, and the chairman and founder, Jeff Hawkins, discuss an opportunity to sell their company to U.S. Robotics. They must weigh this option versus accepting venture capital funding, partnering with a large company that could provide...
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Keywords:
Venture Capital;
Partners and Partnerships;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Computer Industry;
Information Technology Industry
Hart, Myra M., and Stephanie Dodson. "Palm Computing, Inc. 1995: Financing Challenges." Harvard Business School Case 898-090, November 1997. (Revised August 1998.)
- September 1997 (Revised October 1997)
- Case
Information at the World Bank: In Search of a Technology Solution (B)
By: W. Earl Sasser and Josep Valor
Acting on his vision to make the World Bank a knowledge institution, bank President Wolfensohn announces the creation of an Information and Knowledge Management Council and an Information Solutions Group, headed by a newly nominated CEO, Mohamed Muhsin. This case...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Information Technology;
Knowledge Management;
Management Teams;
Information Management;
Banks and Banking;
Banking Industry
Sasser, W. Earl, and Josep Valor. "Information at the World Bank: In Search of a Technology Solution (B)." Harvard Business School Case 898-054, September 1997. (Revised October 1997.)
- September 1997
- Case
Information at the World Bank: In Search of a Technology Solution (A)
By: W. Earl Sasser, Josep Valor and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Information Technology Services Director Mohamed Muhsin planned to restructure the World Bank's information technology in response to President Jim Wolfensohn's call to build a knowledge bank. Several reorganization efforts taken by the bank in the 1980s led to a...
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Keywords:
Restructuring;
Information;
Knowledge Management;
Mission and Purpose;
Technology;
Public Administration Industry
Sasser, W. Earl, Josep Valor, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Information at the World Bank: In Search of a Technology Solution (A)." Harvard Business School Case 898-053, September 1997.
- June 1997 (Revised October 2001)
- Case
Elliot Lebowitz
By: Paul A. Gompers and Alexander Tsai
Elliot Lebowitz, president and CEO of BioTransplant, must decide on a strategy for this young biotechnology start-up. Among the issues to be resolved are focus of research and search for strategic alliance partners.
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Keywords:
Alliances;
Research;
Business Startups;
Management Teams;
Business Strategy;
Biotechnology Industry;
United States
Gompers, Paul A., and Alexander Tsai. "Elliot Lebowitz." Harvard Business School Case 297-094, June 1997. (Revised October 2001.)
- March 1997 (Revised October 2017)
- Case
Hospital Equipment Corporation
By: Clayton M. Christensen and Rory McDonald
Hospital Equipment Corp. is a very successful maker of hospital beds. Due to outstanding performance in new product development, it grew to dominate its primary market and is searching for other opportunities to grow through new product development. It discovers that...
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Keywords:
Growth and Development Strategy;
Innovation and Management;
Opportunities;
Business Processes;
Product Development;
Technological Innovation;
Expansion;
Markets;
Problems and Challenges;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
United States
Christensen, Clayton M., and Rory McDonald. "Hospital Equipment Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 697-086, March 1997. (Revised October 2017.)
- February 1997 (Revised December 2012)
- Case
Jim Sharpe: Extrusion Technology, Inc. (A)
By: H. Kent Bowen and Barbara Feinberg
Jim Sharpe, 11 years after receiving his MBA from Harvard and working for others, has finally become his own boss and 100% owner of manufacturer of aluminum extrusions. After 10 months of an unfunded search, he acquires the business in an LBO and prepares to face his...
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Keywords:
Acquisitions;
Search Funds;
Entrepreneurial Management;
Entrepreneurs;
Turnarounds;
Bank Loan;
Manufacturing;
Metals Processing;
Entrepreneurial Finance;
Leveraged Buyouts;
Labor Unions;
Entrepreneurship;
Financing and Loans;
Crisis Management;
Management Skills;
Experience and Expertise;
Borrowing and Debt;
Manufacturing Industry
Bowen, H. Kent, and Barbara Feinberg. "Jim Sharpe: Extrusion Technology, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 697-078, February 1997. (Revised December 2012.)
- December 1996 (Revised June 1997)
- Case
Trinity College (A)
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Jaan Elias
Trinity College was an elite, private, liberal-arts college of some 1,800 students located in Hartford, CT. When Tom Gerety was chosen as Trinity's 17th president in 1989, he pledged to stay for ten years. Now less than five years at the job, Gerety announced he was...
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Keywords:
Higher Education;
Crisis Management;
Management Succession;
Planning;
Social Enterprise;
Education Industry;
Connecticut
McFarlan, F. Warren, and Jaan Elias. "Trinity College (A)." Harvard Business School Case 397-068, December 1996. (Revised June 1997.)
- October 1996 (Revised January 1997)
- Case
Mt. Auburn Hospital
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Jaan Elias
In December of 1993, two of Boston's largest and best known hospitals, Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's, announced that they were setting aside their historic rivalry to form an alliance and build a regional health network. The announcement set off a wave...
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Negotiation Offer;
Alliances;
Networks;
Social Enterprise;
Horizontal Integration;
Health Industry;
Boston
McFarlan, F. Warren, and Jaan Elias. "Mt. Auburn Hospital." Harvard Business School Case 397-083, October 1996. (Revised January 1997.)
- June 1996
- Case
Pathfinder Capital
By: William A. Sahlman and Andrew S. Janower
Two former consultants have raised a search fund and are looking for a company to buy and run. After eight months of looking at deals, they have just signed a letter of intent to buy the second largest book retail chain in Canada in a turnaround situation. They must...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Leveraged Buyouts;
Financing and Loans;
Venture Capital;
Change;
Decisions
Sahlman, William A., and Andrew S. Janower. "Pathfinder Capital." Harvard Business School Case 396-067, June 1996.
- September 1994 (Revised August 2006)
- Case
Giddings & Lewis: In Search of the Cutting Edge (Consolidated) (A)
By: Nitin Nohria, Bharat N. Anand and Kyle F. Barnett
Describes the conditions leading to the acquisition of Cross and Trecker by Gidding & Lewis.
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Nohria, Nitin, Bharat N. Anand, and Kyle F. Barnett. "Giddings & Lewis: In Search of the Cutting Edge (Consolidated) (A)." Harvard Business School Case 495-018, September 1994. (Revised August 2006.)
- September 1994
- Supplement
Giddings & Lewis: In Search of the Cutting Edge (Consolidated) (B)
By: Nitin Nohria and Robert G. Eccles Jr.
Supplements the (A) case.
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Nohria, Nitin, and Robert G. Eccles Jr. "Giddings & Lewis: In Search of the Cutting Edge (Consolidated) (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 495-019, September 1994.
- November 1993 (Revised December 2004)
- Case
Elizabeth Fisher (A)
By: David A. Thomas
Elizabeth Fisher is a graduating MBA who must reconcile her job search with Paul, her fiance's, job constraints. The case gives vivid detail of Elizabeth and Paul's process. At one point, the two must decide whether to have a commuter marriage or have Paul give up his...
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Thomas, David A. "Elizabeth Fisher (A)." Harvard Business School Case 494-002, November 1993. (Revised December 2004.)
- November 1993 (Revised December 2004)
- Supplement
Elizabeth Fisher (B)
By: David A. Thomas
Continues the discussion of the job search.
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Thomas, David A. "Elizabeth Fisher (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 494-003, November 1993. (Revised December 2004.)
- November 1993 (Revised November 1993)
- Supplement
Elizabeth Fisher (C)
By: David A. Thomas
Continues the discussion of the job search.
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Thomas, David A. "Elizabeth Fisher (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 494-004, November 1993. (Revised November 1993.)
- August 1993
- Case
Giddings & Lewis: In Search of the Cutting Edge (A)
By: Robert G. Eccles Jr., Nitin Nohria and Norman Klein
Eccles, Robert G., Jr., Nitin Nohria, and Norman Klein. "Giddings & Lewis: In Search of the Cutting Edge (A)." Harvard Business School Case 494-023, August 1993.
- August 1993
- Supplement
Giddings & Lewis: In Search of the Cutting Edge (B)
By: Robert G. Eccles Jr., Nitin Nohria and Norman Klein
Keywords:
Industrial Products Industry
Eccles, Robert G., Jr., Nitin Nohria, and Norman Klein. "Giddings & Lewis: In Search of the Cutting Edge (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 494-024, August 1993.
- August 1993
- Supplement
Giddings & Lewis: In Search of the Cutting Edge (C)
By: Robert G. Eccles Jr., Nitin Nohria and Norman Klein
Supplements the (A) case. Intended as an in-class handout.
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Eccles, Robert G., Jr., Nitin Nohria, and Norman Klein. "Giddings & Lewis: In Search of the Cutting Edge (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 494-025, August 1993.
- August 1993
- Supplement
Giddings & Lewis: In Search of the Cutting Edge (D)
By: Robert G. Eccles Jr., Nitin Nohria and Norman Klein
Supplements the (A) case. Intended as an in-class handout.
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Eccles, Robert G., Jr., Nitin Nohria, and Norman Klein. "Giddings & Lewis: In Search of the Cutting Edge (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 494-026, August 1993.