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- 2002
- Chapter
Strategic Uncertainty and the Future of Electronic Consumer Interaction: Developing Scenarios, Adapting Strategies
By: Stephen P. Bradley and Eric K. Clemons
Bradley, Stephen P., and Eric K. Clemons. "Strategic Uncertainty and the Future of Electronic Consumer Interaction: Developing Scenarios, Adapting Strategies." Chap. 4 in Digital Marketing: Global Strategies from the World's Leading Experts, edited by Jerry Wind and Vijay Mahajan, 78–101. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002.
- January 2002
- Case
Teledesic
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Daniel J. Green and Douglas R Rogers
Management of a satellite-delivered broadband data communications company sets strategy in an uncertain environment, using Michael Porter's scenario planning tools to assess likely outcomes and determine which actions to take. This case draws a distinction between...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Business or Company Management;
Infrastructure;
Strategic Planning;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Strategy;
Internet;
Information Technology Industry
Eisenmann, Thomas R., Daniel J. Green, and Douglas R Rogers. "Teledesic." Harvard Business School Case 802-154, January 2002.
- August 2001 (Revised April 2002)
- Case
Strategic Capital Management, LLC (A)
By: Mark L. Mitchell, Erik Stafford and Todd Pulvino
Strategic Capital Management, LLC, is a hedge fund that is planning to make financial investments in Creative Computers and Ubid. Creative Computers recently sold approximately 20% of its Internet auction subsidiary, Ubid, to the public at $15 per share. Ubid's stock...
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Keywords:
Risk and Uncertainty;
Business Subsidiaries;
Internet and the Web;
Investment Funds;
Price;
Performance Efficiency;
Capital Markets;
Auctions;
Investment Return;
Equity;
Planning;
Financial Services Industry
Mitchell, Mark L., Erik Stafford, and Todd Pulvino. "Strategic Capital Management, LLC (A)." Harvard Business School Case 202-024, August 2001. (Revised April 2002.)
- August 2001
- Case
Strategic Capital Management, LLC (B)
By: Mark L. Mitchell, Erik Stafford and Todd Pulvino
Supplements the (A) case.
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Keywords:
Risk and Uncertainty;
Business Subsidiaries;
Internet and the Web;
Investment Funds;
Price;
Performance Efficiency;
Capital Markets;
Auctions;
Investment Return;
Equity;
Planning;
Financial Services Industry
Mitchell, Mark L., Erik Stafford, and Todd Pulvino. "Strategic Capital Management, LLC (B)." Harvard Business School Case 202-025, August 2001.
- August 2001
- Case
Strategic Capital Management, LLC (C)
By: Mark L. Mitchell, Erik Stafford and Todd Pulvino
Supplements the (A) case.
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Keywords:
Risk and Uncertainty;
Business Subsidiaries;
Internet and the Web;
Investment Funds;
Price;
Performance Efficiency;
Capital Markets;
Auctions;
Investment Return;
Equity;
Planning;
Financial Services Industry
Mitchell, Mark L., Erik Stafford, and Todd Pulvino. "Strategic Capital Management, LLC (C)." Harvard Business School Case 202-026, August 2001.
- November 2000 (Revised December 2000)
- Background Note
Online Content Providers
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Alastair Brown
Describes the business model for online content providers, companies that distribute copyright content via the Internet. Focuses on their revenue and cost drivers and on the ways that online content providers create value for consumers. Also investigates the benefits...
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Keywords:
Internet and the Web;
Customers;
Value Creation;
Business Model;
Internet and the Web;
Cash Flow;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Problems and Challenges;
Decision Making;
Profit;
Information Industry
Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Alastair Brown. "Online Content Providers." Harvard Business School Background Note 801-261, November 2000. (Revised December 2000.)
- November 1999
- Case
Adam Opel AG (A) and (B) (Condensed)
By: Joseph L. Bower
Focuses on the strategic issue of how to approach the East German market after the Berlin wall came down in late 1989. Within an unusually rich economic-political and organizational-personal context, the chairman of GM's German subsidiary has to respond to Volkswagen's...
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- December 1998 (Revised December 2014)
- Background Note
A Note on Identifying Strategic Risk
By: Robert L. Simons
Outlines: 1) the sources of business risk, 2) how to assess internal risk pressures, and 3) the antecedents of misrepresentation of fraud.
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Simons, Robert L. "A Note on Identifying Strategic Risk." Harvard Business School Background Note 199-031, December 1998. (Revised December 2014.)
- November 1998 (Revised February 1999)
- Case
Microsoft Office: Finding the Suite Spot
By: Stefan H. Thomke and Steven Sinofsky
Describes a key decision-making process within Microsoft's Office products division. At a time when the PC software business has a great deal of uncertainty, Microsoft's management has to make a key decision regarding the future of software suites. A strengthening of...
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Keywords:
Decisions;
Applications and Software;
Strategic Planning;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Product Development;
Managerial Roles;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Goals and Objectives;
Digital Platforms;
Innovation and Management;
Computer Industry;
Information Technology Industry
Thomke, Stefan H., and Steven Sinofsky. "Microsoft Office: Finding the Suite Spot." Harvard Business School Case 699-046, November 1998. (Revised February 1999.)
- January 1998 (Revised May 1999)
- Case
General Scanning, Inc. (A)
By: H. Kent Bowen, Sean McClenaghan and Charles Tillen
General Scanning, Inc. was founded by Jean Montagu and Pierre Brosens, two MIT mechanical engineers with an interest in developing innovative products based on the early application of lasers. They invented proprietary technology for laser beam positioning and scanning...
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Keywords:
Transition;
Entrepreneurship;
Management Practices and Processes;
Product Development;
Strategic Planning;
Research and Development;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Commercialization;
Manufacturing Industry
Bowen, H. Kent, Sean McClenaghan, and Charles Tillen. "General Scanning, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 698-036, January 1998. (Revised May 1999.)
- October 1997
- Case
Planned Parenthood Federation of America (B)
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Elaine V. Backman
Outlines the process of strategy reinvention adopted by Planned Parenthood. It lays out the new strategic proposals, and the reactions of the various constituencies to those proposals.
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Framework;
Core Relationships;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Adaptation;
Health Industry
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Elaine V. Backman. "Planned Parenthood Federation of America (B)." Harvard Business School Case 598-002, October 1997.
- 1997
- Conference Presentation
The Architecture of Cooperation: Managing Coordination Uncertainty and Interdependence in Strategic Alliances
By: Ranjay Gulati
- July 1995
- Background Note
Reengineering: Competitive Advantage and Strategic Jeopardy
By: Richard L. Nolan
Nolan, Richard L. "Reengineering: Competitive Advantage and Strategic Jeopardy." Harvard Business School Background Note 196-019, July 1995.
- November 1993 (Revised April 2007)
- Case
Continental Airlines--1992 (Abridged)
By: Stuart C. Gilson
The CEO is preparing a recommendation to the board regarding several potential outside investments in the company, which is currently operating in bankruptcy. In making his decision, the CEO has to consider various financial and strategic factors, including possible...
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Keywords:
Capital Structure;
Cash Flow;
Cost of Capital;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Investment;
Taxation;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Valuation;
Aerospace Industry;
United States
Gilson, Stuart C. "Continental Airlines--1992 (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 294-058, November 1993. (Revised April 2007.)
- September 1992 (Revised October 1992)
- Case
Acid Rain: The Southern Co. (B)
In addition to the issues of expected cost minimization elucidated in Acid Rain: The Southern Co. (A), problems involving regulatory uncertainty are critical to the firm's Clean Air Act compliance strategy. The regulatory uncertainty affects, and is affected by, the...
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Keywords:
Energy Generation;
Business Strategy;
Environmental Sustainability;
Cost vs Benefits;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Strategic Planning;
Investment Return;
Government Legislation;
Wastes and Waste Processing;
Business and Government Relations;
Utilities Industry;
Energy Industry;
United States
Reinhardt, Forest L. "Acid Rain: The Southern Co. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 793-040, September 1992. (Revised October 1992.)
- June 1992
- Article
The Strategic Management of Uncertainty
By: David J. Collis
Collis, David J. "The Strategic Management of Uncertainty." European Management Journal 10, no. 2 (June 1992): 125–135.
- March 1992
- Case
Amgen, Inc.: Planning the Unplannable
By: Nitin Nohria
By the early 1990s, Amgen--a pharmaceutical company started little over a decade ago as Applied Molecular Genetics--was within range of becoming a billion-dollar company. With two extremely successful biotechnology drugs on the market, Amgen stood as the largest and...
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Keywords:
Growth and Development Strategy;
Strategic Planning;
Success;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Nohria, Nitin. "Amgen, Inc.: Planning the Unplannable." Harvard Business School Case 492-052, March 1992.
- December 1988
- Article
Strategic Responses to Automobile Emissions Control: A Game-Theoretic Analysis
By: Dennis Yao
This paper examines the dynamics of standard-setting regulation under technological uncertainty and asymmetric information about technological capability. A two-period model which allows fully strategic action is developed and applied to the regulation of automobile...
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Keywords:
Transportation;
Pollutants;
Standards;
Governance Controls;
Technological Innovation;
Research and Development;
Mathematical Methods
Yao, Dennis. "Strategic Responses to Automobile Emissions Control: A Game-Theoretic Analysis." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 15 (December 1988): 419–438. (Harvard users click here for full text.)
- January 1980 (Revised April 1994)
- Case
New Balance Athletic Shoes
By: Kim B. Clark
Faced with growth exceeding 100% per year, James Davis, president of New Balance, must decide how to meet the need for additional capacity. Several factors contribute to a climate of extreme uncertainty. Several options are considered, ranging from a second shift to...
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Keywords:
Factories, Labs, and Plants;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Financial Strategy;
Information;
Growth Management;
Organizational Design;
Performance Capacity;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Republic of Ireland
Clark, Kim B. "New Balance Athletic Shoes." Harvard Business School Case 680-110, January 1980. (Revised April 1994.)
- Teaching Interest
Strategy Execution
By: Dennis Campbell
This course takes strategy as given and teaches what students need to know to execute and win in highly competitive markets. Using fundamental building blocks based on accountability systems and structures, this course is divided into seven modules:
1....
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