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- August 2010 (Revised January 2013)
- Case
Avi Kremer
By: Joshua D. Margolis and Mark Wetzel
If you were diagnosed with a terminal illness, how would you respond and what would you do with your remaining time? Avi Kremer contemplates four options for how to devote himself 18 months after being diagnosed with ALS. His experience thus far and the choices he...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Values and Beliefs;
Health Disorders;
Leadership Development;
Personal Development and Career;
Social Enterprise;
Personal Characteristics
Margolis, Joshua D., and Mark Wetzel. "Avi Kremer." Harvard Business School Case 411-022, August 2010. (Revised January 2013.)
- August 2010 (Revised January 2020)
- Case
Rupert Murdoch: The Last Tycoon
By: Geoffrey Jones and Hari Balkrishna
The case examines the entrepreneurial career of Rupert Murdoch and the growth of News Corporation from a small Australian newspaper to a global media giant. It shows how he expanded geographically to Europe, the United States, and Asia and from newspapers to the film...
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Keywords:
Family Business;
Entrepreneurship;
Media;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Business History;
Business and Government Relations;
Power and Influence;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
Publishing Industry;
Journalism and News Industry;
Europe;
United States;
Australia
Jones, Geoffrey, and Hari Balkrishna. "Rupert Murdoch: The Last Tycoon." Harvard Business School Case 811-017, August 2010. (Revised January 2020.)
- 2010
- Chapter
Business Groups in Historical Perspectives
By: Geoffrey Jones and Asli M. Colpan
Business groups-collections of legally independent firms interconnected by multiple economic and social linkages that exhibit widely diversified product portfolios-are viewed as the prototypical large-enterprise form in contemporary emerging economies. By exploring the...
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Keywords:
Business History;
Management Skills;
Emerging Markets;
Alliances;
Groups and Teams;
Competitive Advantage;
Great Britain
Jones, Geoffrey, and Asli M. Colpan. "Business Groups in Historical Perspectives." Chap. 3 in The Oxford Handbook of Business Groups, edited by Asli M. Colpan, Takashi Hikino, and James R. Lincoln. Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management. Oxford University Press, 2010.
- February 2010 (Revised April 2010)
- Case
China: Getting Richer Still
By: Diego A. Comin and Richard H. K. Vietor
In the last quarter of 2009, China's GDP growth rate again approached 10%. While the global financial crisis had certainly hurt - causing layoffs of as many as 20 million factory workers - a huge stimulus package on top of continuing domestic demand had restored...
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- September 16, 2009
- Comment
Lehman in Context: A Historical Perspective
By: Nancy F. Koehn
Koehn, Nancy F. "Lehman in Context: A Historical Perspective." The Conversation Harvard Business Review Blogs (September 16, 2009).
- July 2009 (Revised June 2011)
- Case
RiskMetrics Group
By: Jay W. Lorsch and Kaitlyn Simpson
RiskMetrics Group, a risk and governance consultancy, had a great deal of influence on U.S. companies. This case examines the history and growth of the company, the governance services it offers, the extent of its impact on shareholders, the controversy surrounding its...
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Keywords:
Conflict of Interests;
Risk Management;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Corporate Governance;
Power and Influence;
Consulting Industry;
United States
Lorsch, Jay W., and Kaitlyn Simpson. "RiskMetrics Group." Harvard Business School Case 410-008, July 2009. (Revised June 2011.)
- June 2009 (Revised April 2019)
- Case
Crosley
By: Tom Nicholas and David Chen
In October 1941, a top secret envoy from the U.S. military was sent to Crosley Corporation in Cincinnati, Ohio to request their assistance to construct a weapon that would drastically strengthen the defenses of U.S. troops: the proximity fuze. Such a fuze would allow...
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Keywords:
Information Technology;
History;
Production;
National Security;
Organizational Structure;
Corporate Strategy;
Research and Development;
Product Development;
Business and Government Relations;
Creativity;
Innovation and Invention;
Ohio
Nicholas, Tom, and David Chen. "Crosley." Harvard Business School Case 809-160, June 2009. (Revised April 2019.)
- June 2009 (Revised February 2010)
- Case
Cirque du Soleil -- The High-Wire Act of Building Sustainable Partnerships
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Maxime Aucoin
The case describes the history and business model of Cirque du Soleil (CdS). The case allows for a rich discussion and analysis of Cirque du Soleil's business model with an emphasis on how it interacts with that of MGM Mirage. Le Cirque and MGM's business models...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Investment;
Profit;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Market Entry and Exit;
Partners and Partnerships;
Trust;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Maxime Aucoin. "Cirque du Soleil -- The High-Wire Act of Building Sustainable Partnerships." Harvard Business School Case 709-411, June 2009. (Revised February 2010.)
- April 2009 (Revised April 2009)
- Background Note
Note on the Nonprofit Sector
By: Allen S. Grossman and Naomi Greckol-Herlich
This note introduces students to the current state of the nonprofit sector around the world. It also provides insight into the sector's origin and purpose as well as the identifying important current trends. The note draws on numerous sources to provide a single...
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Grossman, Allen S., and Naomi Greckol-Herlich. "Note on the Nonprofit Sector." Harvard Business School Background Note 308-033, April 2009. (Revised from original May 2008 version.)
- 2009
- Chapter
Entrepreneurship and the History of Globalization
By: G. Jones and R. Daniel Wadhwani
In this article, we build on the recent efforts of scholars to reintroduce entrepreneurship into the research agenda of business historians. We examine the value and limitations of adapting recent social scientific theories and methods on entrepreneurship to research...
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- Article
Putting Patients First: Social Marketing Strategies for Treating HIV in Developing Nations
By: Zoe Chance and Rohit Deshpandé
It is more than mere coincidence that the highest rates of HIV occur in the world's poorest countries. Of the over 40 million people currently living with HIV, 95 percent are in the developing world. The first part of this paper explores the economics of HIV and...
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Keywords:
Health Disorders;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Poverty;
Health Care and Treatment;
Social Marketing;
Perspective;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Profit;
Africa;
Asia;
South America
Chance, Zoe, and Rohit Deshpandé. "Putting Patients First: Social Marketing Strategies for Treating HIV in Developing Nations." Special Issue on Metric and Interpretive Explorations of Macromarketing. Journal of Macromarketing 29, no. 3 (September 2009).
- December 2008
- Case
The Financial Crisis of 2008
This case presents excerpts from the speeches of observers to the 2008 financial crisis, including former and current central bankers, a private banker, and a Nobel-prize winning economist. They present different interpretations of the causes of the financial crisis...
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Trumbull, J. Gunnar. "The Financial Crisis of 2008." Harvard Business School Case 709-036, December 2008.
- December 2008 (Revised June 2010)
- Background Note
Political and Economic History of the People's Republic of China: An Annotated Timeline
By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby, Elisabeth Koll and F. Warren McFarlan
Brief political, economic, and social timeline of China from 1949 to present to give context on and provide overview of modern Chinese history.
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Abrami, Regina M., William C. Kirby, Elisabeth Koll, and F. Warren McFarlan. "Political and Economic History of the People's Republic of China: An Annotated Timeline." Harvard Business School Background Note 309-073, December 2008. (Revised June 2010.)
- 2008
- Working Paper
From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America
By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana
As the main producers of managerial elites, business schools represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American...
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- 2008
- Other Unpublished Work
From Public Purpose to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America
By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana
As the main producers of managerial elites, business schools represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American...
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- February 2008 (Revised July 2008)
- Case
Banco Compartamos: Life after the IPO
By: Michael Chu and Regina Garcia Cuellar
After an international IPO yielding extraordinary returns to original investors, Banco Compartamos, Mexico's leading microfinance institution, contemplates its future strategic and competing priorities: maintaining growth, defending industry, leadership, preserving...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Microfinance;
Initial Public Offering;
Non-Governmental Organizations;
Competition;
Value Creation;
Banking Industry;
Mexico
Chu, Michael, and Regina Garcia Cuellar. "Banco Compartamos: Life after the IPO." Harvard Business School Case 308-094, February 2008. (Revised July 2008.)
- 2008
- Book
The Oxford Handbook of Business History
By: G. Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin
The Handbook of Business History contains 25 original chapters from around the world to present a comprehensive, critical and interdisciplinary examination of current research in business history. The Handbook reveals business history as a wide-ranging and...
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Jones, G., and Jonathan Zeitlin, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Business History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
- 2007
- Book
From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession
By: Rakesh Khurana
Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform....
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Keywords:
Social History;
Business Education;
Moral Sensibility;
Profit;
Leadership;
Managerial Roles;
United States
Khurana, Rakesh. From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. (Winner of Association of American Publishers Best Professional/Scholarly Publishing Book in Business, Finance and Management. Winner of Max Weber Award for Distinguished Scholarship for the book which makes an outstanding contribution to scholarship on organizations, occupations, and/or work presented by American Sociological Association.)
- October 2007 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
Dove: Evolution of a Brand
By: John A. Deighton
Examines the evolution of Dove from functional brand to a brand with a point of view after Unilever designated it as a masterbrand, and expanded its portfolio to cover entries into a number of sectors beyond the original bath soap category. The development causes the...
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Keywords:
History;
Expansion;
Marketing Strategy;
Social Marketing;
Digital Marketing;
Brands and Branding;
Consumer Products Industry;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
Deighton, John A. "Dove: Evolution of a Brand." Harvard Business School Case 508-047, October 2007. (Revised March 2008.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- August 2007 (Revised June 2020)
- Case
Trouble with a Bubble
By: Tom Nicholas
Examines technology, firm performance, and the stock market during the 1929 Great Crash and the Great Depression of the 1930s. The 1920s was an extraordinary period of technological progress marked by a strong run-up in stock market prices. Firms invested heavily in...
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Keywords:
Bubble;
Stock Market;
Great Depression;
Irving Fisher;
Information Technology;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
History;
Financial Markets;
Performance;
Labor and Management Relations;
Equity;
Financial Crisis;
Innovation and Invention;
United States
Nicholas, Tom. "Trouble with a Bubble." Harvard Business School Case 808-067, August 2007. (Revised June 2020.)