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- 21 Jan 2020
- News
When Community Becomes Your Competitive Advantage
- 07 Sep 2021
- Cold Call Podcast
How to Lead through a Merger: US Airways and American Airlines
Keywords:
Re: David G. Fubini
- August 2022 (Revised August 2023)
- Case
NOW PT (A): Should We Invest?
By: George A Riedel, Amy Klopfenstein and Mel Martin
In fall 2021, a team of students from the HBS Impact Investing Fund considered Neurologic Optimal Wellness Physical Therapy (NOW PT) for a potential investment. Dr. Banks, the founder of NOW PT, drove to visit patients. She sought an investment from the fund to open a...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Finance;
Investment;
Health;
Health Care and Treatment;
Medical Specialties;
Buildings and Facilities;
Health Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
North and Central America;
United States;
Massachusetts
Riedel, George A., Amy Klopfenstein, and Mel Martin. "NOW PT (A): Should We Invest?" Harvard Business School Case 323-009, August 2022. (Revised August 2023.)
- 2019
- Chapter
Integrated Partnerships in Cultural Sponsorship: The Cases of Guggenheim UBS and MFA Boston-Fleet
By: Stephen A. Greyser and Ragnar Lund
This chapter presents and interprets two field-based studies of sponsorship collaborations between major museums and significant financial institutions—a global multi-year partnership between the Guggenheim Foundation and UBS, and the pioneering regional integrated...
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Greyser, Stephen A., and Ragnar Lund. "Integrated Partnerships in Cultural Sponsorship: The Cases of Guggenheim UBS and MFA Boston-Fleet." Chap. 11 in Museum Marketization: Cultural Institutions in the Neoliberal Era, edited by Karin M. Ekström, 188–207. Mastering Management in the Creative and Cultural Industries. Routledge, 2019.
- Article
The Value of Trading Relations in Turbulent Times
By: Marco Di Maggio, Amir Kermani and Zhaogang Song
This paper investigates how dealers’ trading relations shape their trading behavior in the corporate bond market. Dealers charge lower spreads to dealers with whom they have the strongest ties and more so during periods of market turmoil. Systemically important dealers...
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Keywords:
OTC Markets;
Network;
Corporate Bonds;
Crisis;
Intermediation Chains;
Leaning Against The Wind;
Networks;
Bonds;
Behavior;
Financial Crisis
Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Zhaogang Song. "The Value of Trading Relations in Turbulent Times." Journal of Financial Economics 124, no. 2 (May 2017): 266–284.
- October 2015
- Case
Transpower New Zealand: Evaluating Board Performance
By: Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Sarah L. Abbott
Mark Verbiest, Chairman of Transpower New Zealand, initiated a performance review of Transpower's board of directors. The review, which took four months to complete, provided board members with individualized feedback on their performance, as well as information on how...
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Keywords:
Board Of Directors;
Performance Evaluation;
Governance;
Leadership;
Performance;
Organizations;
Human Resources;
Decision Making;
New Zealand
Groysberg, Boris, Paul M. Healy, and Sarah L. Abbott. "Transpower New Zealand: Evaluating Board Performance." Harvard Business School Case 416-024, October 2015.
- June 2014
- Article
Collective Genius
By: Linda A. Hill, Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove and Kent Lineback
Competitiveness depends in great part on the ability to innovate. The perennial challenge, then, is to build an organization capable of innovating again and again. Traditional, direction-setting leadership can work well when the solution to a problem is known and...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Innovation Leadership;
Leadership;
Innovation and Invention;
Organizational Culture
Hill, Linda A., Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove, and Kent Lineback. "Collective Genius." Harvard Business Review 92, no. 6 (June 2014): 94–102.
- November 2010
- Article
The Litigation of Financial Innovations
By: Josh Lerner
This paper examines the litigation of patents relating to financial products and services. I show that these grants are being litigated at a rate 27 to 39 times greater than that of patents as a whole. The patents being litigated are disproportionately those issued to...
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Lerner, Josh. "The Litigation of Financial Innovations." Journal of Law & Economics 53, no. 4 (November 2010): 807–831.
- December 2011
- Case
PepsiCo India: Performance with Purpose
In 2010, PepsiCo India's management is working to translate PepsiCo's new mission, "Performance with Purpose," into practice in the India market. The mission calls for continued financial performance and market leadership, as well as greater emphasis on healthy...
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Kanter, Rosabeth M., Rakesh Khurana, Rajiv Lal, and Natalie Kindred. "PepsiCo India: Performance with Purpose." Harvard Business School Case 512-041, December 2011.
- September 2010
- Case
Bush Brothers & Company
By: Lena G. Goldberg and Chad Carr
The chairman and CEO of Bush Brothers grapples with leading and managing changes in strategy, governance and board composition, as well as succession, compensation and ownership issues, as he takes the family owned/family operated business into its fourth generation....
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Keywords:
Family Business;
Change Management;
Decision Making;
Selection and Staffing;
Leading Change;
Management Succession;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Wages;
Values and Beliefs;
Growth and Development Strategy
Goldberg, Lena G., and Chad Carr. "Bush Brothers & Company." Harvard Business School Case 311-052, September 2010.
- March 2008
- Article
Toward an Understanding of When Executives See Crisis As Opportunity
Whereas it has long been noted that crises may be sources of opportunity for organizations and their constituents, relatively little is known about the conditions under which executives come to perceive crises as opportunity. The authors delineate some factors that...
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- May 2005 (Revised December 2022)
- Case
Aristotle Onassis and the Greek Shipping Industry
By: Geoffrey Jones and Paul Gomopoulos
Examines the career of Aristotle Onassis and his creation of one of the world's largest shipping companies between 1945 and 1973. Explores the role of ethnic and family networks in Greek shipping and how Onassis was able to penetrate this system despite being an...
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Keywords:
Networks;
Ethnicity;
Family Business;
Innovation Strategy;
Management Succession;
Competitive Advantage;
Personal Development and Career;
Entrepreneurship;
Shipping Industry;
Greece
Jones, Geoffrey, and Paul Gomopoulos. "Aristotle Onassis and the Greek Shipping Industry." Harvard Business School Case 805-141, May 2005. (Revised December 2022.)
- June 2004 (Revised May 2005)
- Case
Judah Folkman and the War on Cancer
Judah Folkman, professor in the Division of Vascular Biology at Children's Hospital in Boston, is considering how best to advance the research in his lab in an era where biomedical research has gotten more interdisciplinary and collaborative. Specifically, Folkman has...
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Keywords:
Conflict of Interests;
Leadership;
Research;
Personal Development and Career;
Health Care and Treatment;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Biotechnology Industry;
Health Industry;
Boston
West, Jonathan, Ambuj Sagar, and Mona Ashiya. "Judah Folkman and the War on Cancer." Harvard Business School Case 604-091, June 2004. (Revised May 2005.)
- March 2000
- Case
Heartport, Inc.
By: Gary P. Pisano and Shoshana Dobrow
Heartport, an entrepreneurial medical device maker, has introduced several innovative systems for conducting less-invasive cardiac surgery. Despite initially high expectations, the company has struggled to get its technology adopted by cardiac surgeons. The company's...
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Keywords:
History;
Product Positioning;
Knowledge Acquisition;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Technology Adoption;
Health Care and Treatment
Pisano, Gary P., and Shoshana Dobrow. "Heartport, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 600-020, March 2000.
- February 1999 (Revised August 2004)
- Case
I Lost My Volvo in New Haven: Tennis Event Sponsorship
By: Stephen A. Greyser, Brian R. Harris and Mitchell Truwit
Focuses on event management and sponsorship from the perspective of the event owner (rather than that of the sponsorship company). Describes in depth the search by one of the tennis tournaments on the professional circuit for a principal sponsor. Detailed economics of...
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Keywords:
Marketing Communications;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Management;
Product Positioning;
Television Entertainment;
Sports;
Partners and Partnerships;
Sports Industry
Greyser, Stephen A., Brian R. Harris, and Mitchell Truwit. "I Lost My Volvo in New Haven: Tennis Event Sponsorship." Harvard Business School Case 599-037, February 1999. (Revised August 2004.)
- March 1996 (Revised November 1997)
- Case
Dewar's (C): Exploring New Media Opportunities
By: Alvin J. Silk and Lisa Klein Pearo
Dewar's is considering employing new media options. The company had committed resources to a new CD-ROM magazine, Launch, in 1994, as its first experiment with new media. During 1994, a number of additional opportunities have been presented to both Leo Burnett and S&S...
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Keywords:
Advertising Campaigns;
Cost Management;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Brands and Branding;
Marketing Strategy;
Product Launch;
Market Entry and Exit;
Media;
Corporate Strategy
Silk, Alvin J., and Lisa Klein Pearo. "Dewar's (C): Exploring New Media Opportunities." Harvard Business School Case 596-094, March 1996. (Revised November 1997.)
- September 1988 (Revised January 1989)
- Case
Unisys: The Merger of Burroughs and Sperry
Mike Blumenthal, CEO of Burroughs, successfully executes the merger of Burroughs and Sperry in 1986. The case discusses the putting together of the two firms in a fast time period in order to achieve cost savings, high earnings, and an integrated culture. Blumenthal...
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Jick, Todd D. "Unisys: The Merger of Burroughs and Sperry." Harvard Business School Case 489-055, September 1988. (Revised January 1989.)
- April 1992 (Revised April 1996)
- Case
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.
By: Hugo Uyterhoeven
The board and management of General Cinema has to determine whether the acquisition of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (HBJ), thereby entering the publishing business, makes strategic sense. The case describes HBJ's involvement in several segments of the publishing industry:...
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Uyterhoeven, Hugo. "Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 392-045, April 1992. (Revised April 1996.)
- 14 Dec 2015
- News