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- April 2005 (Revised November 2005)
- Case
Tata Consultancy Services Iberoamerica
By: Michael Chu and Gustavo Herrero
To launch its Latin American operations, the Indian IT giant Tata Consultancy Services recruits a seasoned executive who becomes the only non-Indian member of senior management. Reviews the start-up operations, from the site selection to staffing and training, the...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Initial Public Offering;
Investment;
Globalization;
Human Resources;
Selection and Staffing;
Management Teams;
Emerging Markets;
Problems and Challenges;
Consulting Industry;
Latin America
Chu, Michael, and Gustavo Herrero. "Tata Consultancy Services Iberoamerica." Harvard Business School Case 705-020, April 2005. (Revised November 2005.)
- December 8, 2023
- Article
What Makes a Company Great at Producing Leaders?
By: Sarah Abbott, Robin Abrahams and Boris Groysberg
GE is well known as an “academy company”—a talent incubator that exports effective leaders to other organizations and even industries. To better understand which companies are top talent incubators today, the authors worked with the Official Board, a firm that provides...
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Keywords:
Personal Development and Career;
Talent and Talent Management;
Training;
Organizational Culture
Abbott, Sarah, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg. "What Makes a Company Great at Producing Leaders?" Harvard Business Review (website) (December 8, 2023).
- January 2020
- Case
Khan Academy 2018 (Abridged)
By: William A. Sahlman and Nicole Tempest Keller
Founded in 2008, Khan Academy was a global educational nonprofit with a mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone anywhere in the world. By 2018, the organization had expanded into numerous content areas, product areas, and geographic markets....
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Keywords:
Entrepreneur;
Sustainability;
Scaling;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Education;
Entrepreneurship;
Strategy;
Teaching;
Education Industry
Sahlman, William A., and Nicole Tempest Keller. "Khan Academy 2018 (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 820-086, January 2020.
- March 1997 (Revised August 2017)
- Case
Compagnie du Froid, S.A.
By: Robert Simons and Antonio Dávila
The owner of an ice cream company must evaluate the performance of three regional businesses. To do the analysis, students must flex the budget by seasonal temperature; calculate revenue, volume, price, and efficiency variances; analyze the effects of transfer prices;...
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Keywords:
Analysis;
Investment Return;
Performance Evaluation;
Revenue;
Budgets and Budgeting;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Europe;
France;
Spain;
Italy
Simons, Robert, and Antonio Dávila. "Compagnie du Froid, S.A." Harvard Business School Case 197-085, March 1997. (Revised August 2017.)
- Research Summary
Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and Beyond
Part of the fear and misunderstanding of state capitalism in the post-Berlin Wall era stems from the fact that most observers see state-owned enterprises (SOEs) as inefficient soviet companies. In Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and... View Details
- September 1994
- Case
BayFunds
By: Alvin J. Silk, Lisa Klein Pearo and Jamie Harper
In June, 1994, the Senior Vice President of BayBank's Investment Management Group is preparing a strategic plan for her organization's line of mutual funds. Sixteen months earlier, BayBank, Massachusetts's leading retail bank, had entered the mutual fund business by...
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Keywords:
Banks and Banking;
Marketing Strategy;
Brands and Branding;
Investment Funds;
Product Marketing;
Integration;
Financial Services Industry
Silk, Alvin J., Lisa Klein Pearo, and Jamie Harper. "BayFunds." Harvard Business School Case 595-031, September 1994.
- Article
The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership
By: Joseph L. Bower and Lynn S. Paine
Agency theory, a new model of governance promulgated by academic economists in the 1970s, is behind the idea that corporate managers should make shareholder value their primary concern and that boards should ensure they do. The theory regards shareholders as owners of...
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Bower, Joseph L., and Lynn S. Paine. "The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership." Harvard Business Review 95, no. 3 (May–June 2017): 50–60. (Reprinted in HBR’s 10 Must Reads: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review 2019, Boston, Mass: Harvard Business Review Press, 2019, pp. 165-192.)
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow
remarkable about the Guide Dogs example is that Peacock sought to create networks with a range of organizations. She didn't seek to grow her organization larger to deliver on her mission. She saw that there were already former competitors out there doing the same jobs...
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by Martha Lagace
- January 2024
- Case
Runa
By: Paul Gompers and Carla Larangeira
In early 2022, Courtney McColgan, founder and CEO of Runa, a human resources and payroll Software-as-a-Service platform, faced an unexpected tech market downturn. Founded in 2018, Runa catered to small and medium-sized businesses in Mexico, offering an affordable and...
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- March 2021
- Case
P.F. Chang's
By: Ashish Nanda, Nitin Nohria and Margaret Cross
Excited yet apprehensive after being named CEO of P.F. Chang’s beginning July 1st, 2020, Damola Adamolekun was well aware of the extraordinary challenges facing the firm. The closure of businesses deemed “nonessential” owing to the COVID-19 pandemic had devastated the...
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Keywords:
Restaurants;
COVID-19 Pandemic;
Scenario Planning;
Scenarios;
Health Pandemics;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Strategy
Nanda, Ashish, Nitin Nohria, and Margaret Cross. "P.F. Chang's." Harvard Business School Case 721-380, March 2021.
- August 2017
- Article
Catering to Investors Through Security Design: Headline Rate and Complexity
By: Claire Célérier and Boris Vallée
This paper investigates the rationale for issuing complex securities to retail investors. We focus on a large market of investment products targeted exclusively at households: retail-structured products in Europe. We hypothesize that banks strategically use product...
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Célérier, Claire, and Boris Vallée. "Catering to Investors Through Security Design: Headline Rate and Complexity." Quarterly Journal of Economics 132, no. 3 (August 2017): 1469–1508.
- August 2022
- Case
In-Q-Tel: Innovation On A Mission
By: Joshua Lev Krieger and Josh Lerner
In 2022, the leaders of In-Q-Tel (IQT) considered what was next for the unique mission-driven organization. Since 1999, IQT had one mission: to be the most sophisticated source of strategic technical knowledge and capabilities to the U.S. government and its allies. IQT...
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Keywords:
Mission and Purpose;
National Security;
Technological Innovation;
Research;
Geopolitical Units;
Risk Management;
Recruitment;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Venture Capital;
Knowledge Management;
Information Industry;
Banking Industry
Krieger, Joshua Lev, and Josh Lerner. "In-Q-Tel: Innovation On A Mission." Harvard Business School Case 823-031, August 2022.
- July 2009 (Revised January 2014)
- Case
Sustainability at Millipore
By: Michael W. Toffel and Katharine Lee
This case describes Millipore Corporation's approach to becoming a more environmentally sustainable company. As he prepared for his quarterly meeting with the CEO, the Director of Sustainability needed to develop positions on several issues. Tactically, he needed to...
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Keywords:
Investment;
Corporate Disclosure;
Operations;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Organizational Structure;
Natural Environment;
Environmental Sustainability;
Pollutants
Toffel, Michael W., and Katharine Lee. "Sustainability at Millipore." Harvard Business School Case 610-012, July 2009. (Revised January 2014.) (defining sustainability in a corporate context, managing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions including inventories, targets, disclosure, reduction strategies.)
- 2021
- Article
The Virtues and Limitations of Dynamic Capabilities
By: Bharat Anand and David J. Collis
Dynamic capabilities have been identified as a key determinant of competitive advantage. This paper explores the foundations of dynamic capabilities, and the limits to their effectiveness, first theoretically and then through the case of Danaher, the most successful...
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Keywords:
Dynamic Capabilities;
Danaher;
Resources;
Theory Of The Firm;
Value-based Strategy;
Organizations;
Performance Effectiveness;
Competitive Advantage;
Strategy
Anand, Bharat, and David J. Collis. "The Virtues and Limitations of Dynamic Capabilities." Strategic Management Review 2, no. 1 (2021): 47–78.
- February 1999
- Case
Lifeline Systems, Inc. (B)
By: H. Kent Bowen and Marilyn Matis
In 1997, Lifeline Systems continues to grow its service business to $32 million, 56% of the company's total revenues. More local hospital Lifeline programs turn over their monitoring service to Lifeline Central, expanding the company's subscriber base by 30%. The...
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Information Technology;
Expansion;
Cost Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Partners and Partnerships;
Change;
Customer Relationship Management;
Service Operations;
Age;
Investment;
Health Industry;
Technology Industry;
Cambridge;
Boston
Bowen, H. Kent, and Marilyn Matis. "Lifeline Systems, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 699-038, February 1999.
- November 2009 (Revised August 2010)
- Case
NovoCure Ltd.
By: William A. Sahlman and Sarah Flaherty
Venture capitalist William Doyle must raise $35 million for a portfolio company with a promising, novel cancer therapy, just as global capital markets are imploding in the fall of 2008. NovoCure, Ltd., has developed an electrical-field-based therapy, called Tumor...
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Keywords:
Financial Crisis;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Investment;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Testing and Trials;
Technological Innovation;
Financial Services Industry
Sahlman, William A., and Sarah Flaherty. "NovoCure Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 810-045, November 2009. (Revised August 2010.)
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0986298603/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me= February 2015 Strategic Management Journal Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection By: Baldwin, Carliss Y., and Joachim Henkel Abstract—Modularity...
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Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 2007
- Chapter
Microeconomic Determinants of Location Competitiveness for MNEs
By: Christian H.M. Ketels
The concept of microeconomic competitiveness based on the frameworks developed by Michael Porter since 1990 are popular with policy makers interested in improving the attractiveness and economic performance of their countries and regions. This concept also has many...
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Keywords:
Microeconomics;
Geographic Location;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Competition
Ketels, Christian H.M. "Microeconomic Determinants of Location Competitiveness for MNEs." In Foreign Direct Investments, Location and Competitiveness. Vol. 2, edited by John Dunning and Philippe Gugler. Progress in International Business Research. Oxford: Elsevier, 2007.
- October 2019 (Revised June 2020)
- Case
Pantheon Ventures in 2019
By: Victoria Ivashina and Tonia Labruyere
The case discusses the strategy of Pantheon, a UK-based fund of funds investing in private equity. Client demands and preferences had changed in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis and Pantheon had to adapt its business model to accommodate requests for...
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Keywords:
Financial Management;
Private Equity;
Corporate Strategy;
Financial Services Industry;
United Kingdom
Ivashina, Victoria, and Tonia Labruyere. "Pantheon Ventures in 2019." Harvard Business School Case 220-001, October 2019. (Revised June 2020.)
- 02 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 2
Publications Corporate Social Responsibility and Access to Finance Authors: Beiting Cheng, Ioannis Ioannou, and George Serafeim Publication: Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract In this paper, we investigate whether...
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Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne