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- January 2009 (Revised April 2009)
- Case
Disaster in April: The Obligations of Kelly Construction
By: John D. Macomber, Christopher M. Gordon and Ben Creo
A construction company experiences a crane accident with multiple fatalities. The CEO, a client, and an employee must make choices to meet the company's obligations. Set in 2006, the case looks at the choices faced by board members of a museum that is an important...
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Keywords:
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Family Business;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Compensation and Benefits;
Contracts;
Crisis Management;
Construction Industry
Macomber, John D., Christopher M. Gordon, and Ben Creo. "Disaster in April: The Obligations of Kelly Construction." Harvard Business School Case 209-099, January 2009. (Revised April 2009.)
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
a Big Three but with a Big One in a year or two because there’s obviously excess capacity, and it’s hard to see how all three automakers can survive. I think it’s right to avoid a complete shutdown and mass layoffs right now. But the kind...
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- November 2004 (Revised May 2010)
- Case
RightNow Technologies
By: William A. Sahlman and Dan Heath
The founder and CEO of a CRM software start-up must decide between an attractive acquisition offer and the opportunity to go public. Discusses the growth of the company--including a lengthy discussion of entrepreneurial bootstrapping--as well as an aborted IPO attempt...
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Keywords:
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Applications and Software;
Going Public;
Management Teams;
Finance;
Strategy;
Value Creation;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Acquisition;
Computer Industry
Sahlman, William A., and Dan Heath. "RightNow Technologies." Harvard Business School Case 805-032, November 2004. (Revised May 2010.)
- January 2002 (Revised July 2002)
- Case
Vialog Corporation
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Michele Lutz
Traces the origin of Vialog Corp.--from its founding in 1996 through a roll-up of several independent teleconferencing companies in 1997 and its initial public offering (1999) and eventually to a potential merger or acquisition in June 2000. The company has grown...
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Keywords:
History;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Internet and the Web;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Partners and Partnerships;
Initial Public Offering;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Business Processes;
Information Technology Industry;
Europe
Hamermesh, Richard G., and Michele Lutz. "Vialog Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 802-008, January 2002. (Revised July 2002.)
- March 2000 (Revised May 2000)
- Case
Spec's Music (A)
By: John A. Davis and Susan Harmeling
Presents the story of a music retailer in Miami which started in the late 1940s, grew throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and went public in 1985 before experiencing a deep industry crisis in the mid-1990s. At issue in 1996 is whether the company should attempt to sell...
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Keywords:
History;
Family Business;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Management Succession;
Entrepreneurship;
Crisis Management;
Performance Improvement;
Music Industry;
Miami
Davis, John A., and Susan Harmeling. "Spec's Music (A)." Harvard Business School Case 800-336, March 2000. (Revised May 2000.)
- August 1998
- Case
HIMSCORP, Inc.
By: William A. Sahlman, Michael J. Roberts and Laurence E. Katz
Himscorp is an industry consolidation of records storage companies providing management and retrieval services of active medical records to healthcare institutions. Kent Dauten, a former general partner at Madison Dearborn Partners with 15 years of venture capital and...
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Keywords:
Value Creation;
Initial Public Offering;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Consolidation;
Information Industry
Sahlman, William A., Michael J. Roberts, and Laurence E. Katz. "HIMSCORP, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 899-021, August 1998.
- May 1994 (Revised August 1994)
- Case
Motorola-Elma
By: Shoshana Zuboff and Janis Lee Gogan
Motorola's old automative electronics plant in Arcade, outside Buffalo, New York, faced the prospect of closure in the mid-1980s, but leading customers persuaded Motorola to give the plant a second chance. The new plant manager, Dennis Fiehn, recognized that existing...
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Keywords:
Factories, Labs, and Plants;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Customers;
Leading Change;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Organizational Structure;
Competitive Strategy;
Expansion;
Telecommunications Industry;
New York (state, US)
Zuboff, Shoshana, and Janis Lee Gogan. "Motorola-Elma." Harvard Business School Case 494-136, May 1994. (Revised August 1994.)
- August 1986 (Revised May 2005)
- Case
Mike Finkelstein (B)
By: Carliss Y. Baldwin, Charles Bryan and Ken Leet
Following his successful turnaround of WTXX, Waterbury, Mike Finkelstein joined Odyssey Partners with a mandate to build a communications company. From 1982-1985, he acquired three more stations, financing each as an independent partnership. However, increasing...
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Keywords:
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Cash;
Business or Company Management;
Bonds;
Cost vs Benefits;
SWOT Analysis;
Alignment;
Acquisition;
Financial Strategy;
Corporate Finance;
Communications Industry
Baldwin, Carliss Y., Charles Bryan, and Ken Leet. "Mike Finkelstein (B)." Harvard Business School Case 287-021, August 1986. (Revised May 2005.)
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
employees. Yet with several important R&D projects still under development, and capacity needed in factories for many more months, Nokia's board and leaders wanted to avoid the mistakes the company had made in a plant shutdown in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- March 1999 (Revised November 2001)
- Case
Honda-Rover (A): Crafting an Alliance
By: Ashish Nanda, James K. Sebenius and Ron Fortgang
Faced with vexing financial challenges in 1993, British Aerospace (BAe) is determined to shed its loss-making automaker, Rover. It offers to sell its stake in Rover to Honda, Rover's partner since 1979, but Honda is reluctant to raise its stake in Rover. Meanwhile, BMW...
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Keywords:
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Joint Ventures;
Alliances;
Knowledge Sharing;
Strategy;
Contracts;
Negotiation Process;
Change Management;
Negotiation Tactics;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Auto Industry;
United Kingdom
Nanda, Ashish, James K. Sebenius, and Ron Fortgang. "Honda-Rover (A): Crafting an Alliance." Harvard Business School Case 899-223, March 1999. (Revised November 2001.)
- February 2010 (Revised September 2011)
- Case
Lehman Brothers
By: Tom Nicholas and David Chen
In 2008, the U.S. financial system was in a state of crisis and Lehman Brothers went from a major Wall Street investment bank to an insolvent institution. It was a swift end for a firm that had its beginnings over 150 years prior. What would be the firm's legacy? And...
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Keywords:
History;
Business History;
Development Economics;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Investment Banking;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Economic Growth;
Financial Crisis;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Nicholas, Tom, and David Chen. "Lehman Brothers." Harvard Business School Case 810-106, February 2010. (Revised September 2011.)
- April 2012
- Case
People Express Airlines
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Lauren Barley
Recounts the history of People Express Airlines, which grew rapidly after its inception in 1980 then failed spectacularly in 1986. Profiles People's aggressive strategy and its distinctive approach to human resource management, which emphasized job rotation and minimal...
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Keywords:
Strategy;
Air Transportation;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Organizational Structure;
Entrepreneurship;
Failure;
Human Resources;
Business Startups;
Air Transportation Industry
Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Lauren Barley. "People Express Airlines." Harvard Business School Case 812-134, April 2012.
- August 1993
- Case
Applichem (A) (Abridged)
By: Janice H. Hammond and Gary P. Pisano
Applichem manufactures the same chemical product in four plants, each of which is located in a different country. The company has completed a major study comparing the productivity and performance of these plants. Using the data from the study, students must decide...
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Keywords:
Business or Company Management;
Management Practices and Processes;
Performance Productivity;
Performance Efficiency;
Performance Evaluation;
Strategy;
Judgments;
Factories, Labs, and Plants;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Chemical Industry
Hammond, Janice H., and Gary P. Pisano. "Applichem (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 694-030, August 1993.
- February 2020
- Supplement
Theranos: Who Has Blood on Their Hands? (B)
By: Nien-he Hsieh, Christina R. Wing and John Masko
This supplemental case tracks the results of the Colman and Taubman-Dye class action suit against Theranos as well as Theranos’ other legal challenges and chronicles the final demise of the company in 2019.
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Keywords:
Health Testing and Trials;
Corporate Accountability;
Organizational Culture;
Misleading and Fraudulent Advertising;
Crime and Corruption;
Entrepreneurship;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
California;
United States
Hsieh, Nien-he, Christina R. Wing, and John Masko. "Theranos: Who Has Blood on Their Hands? (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 320-091, February 2020.
- October 1998
- Case
CRA Managed Care, Inc. (A)
By: Myra M. Hart and Jennifer Starr
Silverman and her co-founder, Don Larson, own the largest privately held injury-management and cost-containment services firm in the United States. When their $80+ million company attracts substantial interest of investment bankers and venture capitalists, the two must...
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Keywords:
Transition;
Leadership Development;
Venture Capital;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Investment;
Business or Company Management;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Personal Development and Career;
Entrepreneurship;
Service Industry;
United States
Hart, Myra M., and Jennifer Starr. "CRA Managed Care, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 899-068, October 1998.
- April 2015 (Revised October 2017)
- Teaching Note
Buffett's Bid for Media General's Newspapers
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Annelena Lobb
On May 12, 2012, BH Media Group, a subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, announced an offer to buy Media General's (MEG) newspaper division for $142 million in cash and provide debt financing to the struggling firm. Reactions from investors and industry...
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Keywords:
Mergers & Acquisitions;
Bankruptcy;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Valuation;
Capital Structure;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Financial Strategy;
Risk Management;
Executive Compensation;
Cash Flow;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Media;
Advertising;
Restructuring;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
Publishing Industry;
United States
- March 2023
- Case
Interior Collab
By: Lindsay N. Hyde, Thomas R. Eisenmann and Tom Quinn
After venture capital-funded online interior design agency Homepolish collapsed, its former freelance designers met to discuss next steps. The bitter experience led some of them to create a workers’ collaborative called Interior Collab. The founding members needed to...
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- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
rise and grab it by the horns.” Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Earlier this year, as the coronavirus pandemic swept across the globe, the MBA Class of 2020 faced the daunting prospect of graduating into an economy battered by widespread View Details
- November 2003 (Revised November 2004)
- Case
Ottawa Devices, Inc. (B)
By: Henry B. Reiling and Harry Clegg Midgley IV
The Rollins family assembly was meeting to discuss and decide which one or combination from among an estate freeze, installment sale of stock, ESOP (employee stock ownership plan), leveraged capitalization, annual gifts of stock, one-time outright gift of stock, or...
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Keywords:
Employee Stock Ownership Plan;
Property;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Stocks;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Family Business;
Human Needs;
Financial Strategy;
Manufacturing Industry
Reiling, Henry B., and Harry Clegg Midgley IV. "Ottawa Devices, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 204-102, November 2003. (Revised November 2004.)
- May 2019 (Revised September 2019)
- Case
Mobike and ofo: Dancing with Titans (A)
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Haibo Zhao
This case address pacing issues – how fast does a company need to scale? It also examines the role of investors in determining company strategy and exit.
Mobike and ofo were two dominant players in China’s emerging dockless bike-sharing market, that allowed users... View Details
Mobike and ofo were two dominant players in China’s emerging dockless bike-sharing market, that allowed users... View Details
Keywords:
Information Technology;
Venture Capital;
Financing and Loans;
Competition;
Value Creation;
Governance;
Economics;
Business Startups;
Strategy;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Entrepreneurship;
Infrastructure;
Transportation;
Bicycle Transportation;
China
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Haibo Zhao. "Mobike and ofo: Dancing with Titans (A)." Harvard Business School Case 819-135, May 2019. (Revised September 2019.)