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- March 1977
- Case
North American Soccer League (NASL)
Greyser, Stephen A. "North American Soccer League (NASL)." Harvard Business School Case 577-139, March 1977.
- December 1971 (Revised September 1986)
- Case
North American Rockwell: Draper Division
By: Wickham Skinner
Keywords:
North and Central America
Skinner, Wickham. "North American Rockwell: Draper Division." Harvard Business School Case 672-145, December 1971. (Revised September 1986.)
- November 1995 (Revised January 1998)
- Case
Transformation of Pratt & Whitney North Haven (A)
By: H. Kent Bowen, Linda A. Hill, Andrew P. Burtis, Sylvie Ryckebusch and John Schiavone
Pratt & Whitney is a leader in the development and manufacturing of gas turbine engines for commercial and military aircraft. Economic conditions for the airline and defense industries are forcing the airplane engine builders to restructure. Ed Northern, a new general...
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Keywords:
Transformation;
Restructuring;
Production;
Opportunities;
Economy;
Aerospace Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Connecticut
Bowen, H. Kent, Linda A. Hill, Andrew P. Burtis, Sylvie Ryckebusch, and John Schiavone. "Transformation of Pratt & Whitney North Haven (A)." Harvard Business School Case 696-066, November 1995. (Revised January 1998.)
- April 2004 (Revised September 2004)
- Case
IKEA Invades America
By: Youngme E. Moon
In 2002, the IKEA Group is the world's top furniture retailer, with 154 stores worldwide. In the United States, IKEA operates 14 stores, all of which have been enormously popular despite their self-service requirements. The company's goal is to have 50 stores in...
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Keywords:
Growth and Development Strategy;
Brands and Branding;
Product Positioning;
Goals and Objectives;
Competitive Advantage;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Retail Industry;
United States
Moon, Youngme E. "IKEA Invades America." Harvard Business School Case 504-094, April 2004. (Revised September 2004.)
- July 2000 (Revised June 2002)
- Case
Dawn Riley at America True (A)
By: Linda A. Hill and Kristin Doughty
Dawn Riley is the CEO/Captain of America True, the first coed syndicate to race for the America's Cup. Over three years, based on her vision for America True, she built the syndicate from scratch, bringing on investors and sponsors, designing and building a boat, and...
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Keywords:
Management Style;
Leadership;
Problems and Challenges;
Sports;
Gender;
Business Startups;
North and Central America;
New Zealand;
San Francisco
Hill, Linda A., and Kristin Doughty. "Dawn Riley at America True (A)." Harvard Business School Case 401-006, July 2000. (Revised June 2002.)
- 2007
- Report
Competitiveness Index: Where America Stands
Competitiveness Index: Where America Stands benchmarks current U.S. competitiveness against twenty years of domestic and global economic data. The baseline year, 1986, was chosen because it marked the beginning of cyclical expansion in the domestic economy, a high...
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Porter, Michael E. "Competitiveness Index: Where America Stands." Report Series, Council on Competitiveness, January 2007.
- May 1992 (Revised February 1994)
- Case
North American Free Trade Agreement: Free For Whom?
Mexico, the United States, and Canada have negotiated a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that would create the largest free trade zone in the world. The union would build on the three-year-old Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Canada....
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Shapiro, Helen, and Phyllis Dininio. "North American Free Trade Agreement: Free For Whom?" Harvard Business School Case 792-049, May 1992. (Revised February 1994.)
- February 2008 (Revised September 2009)
- Case
Lance Johnstone: Developing 3000 North Broad
The case focuses on Lance Johnstone, a former NFL player, who has dabbled in real estate development during his playing career, and now, as a retired player, is trying to pursue the development of a 10-unit rental apartment building in a depressed area of Philadelphia,...
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Keywords:
Budgets and Budgeting;
Development Economics;
Construction;
Entrepreneurship;
Financing and Loans;
Investment Return;
Urban Development;
Real Estate Industry;
Philadelphia
Roberts, Michael J., and Nabil N. El-Hage. "Lance Johnstone: Developing 3000 North Broad." Harvard Business School Case 808-126, February 2008. (Revised September 2009.)
- October 2019 (Revised February 2020)
- Case
Relevent and LaLiga: Bringing Spanish Soccer to America
By: Anita Elberse and David Moreno Vicente
“Barcelona backs out of proposed LaLiga match in Miami.” It is December 2018, and Daniel Sillman, chief executive officer of sports and entertainment company Relevent, is tasked with finding a way forward after a significant setback. Relevent had found success by...
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Keywords:
Soccer;
Football;
Superstars;
Talent;
Talent Development;
General Management;
Marketing;
Entertainment;
Sports;
Media;
Talent and Talent Management;
Globalization;
Strategy;
Sports Industry
Elberse, Anita, and David Moreno Vicente. "Relevent and LaLiga: Bringing Spanish Soccer to America." Harvard Business School Case 520-021, October 2019. (Revised February 2020.)
- June 2018
- Supplement
Feeding America (B)
By: Scott Duke Kominers and Alan Lam
Supplements the (A) case.
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Keywords:
Social Enterprise;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Food;
Resource Allocation;
Fairness;
Performance Efficiency;
United States
Kominers, Scott Duke, and Alan Lam. "Feeding America (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 818-131, June 2018.
- October 1997
- Teaching Note
SAP America TN
By: David A. Garvin
Teaching Note for (9-397-057).
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Keywords:
United States
- July 2000
- Case
Scotts Company: North American Corporate Strategy
By: Michael E. Porter and Brian S. Silverman
Porter, Michael E., and Brian S. Silverman. "Scotts Company: North American Corporate Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 701-002, July 2000.
- April 2000 (Revised June 2000)
- Case
Teach for America
On the eve of Teach For America's tenth reunion, Wendy Kopp, the 32-year-old founder and leader of the national teacher corps, is considering how to increase the impact of the organization. To date, the organization has placed 5,000 teachers in under-resourced public...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Teaching;
Leadership Style;
Education Industry;
United States
Sawhill, John C., and Sarah S. Khetani. "Teach for America." Harvard Business School Case 300-084, April 2000. (Revised June 2000.)
- June 2018
- Case
Feeding America (A)
By: Scott Duke Kominers and Alan Lam
This case describes how Feeding America, the third-largest nonprofit organization in the U.S., designed a marketplace for allocating donated food across its network of food banks. It considers the promises and pitfalls of using market-based allocation in the context of...
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Keywords:
Social Enterprise;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Food;
Resource Allocation;
Fairness;
Performance Efficiency;
United States
Kominers, Scott Duke, and Alan Lam. "Feeding America (A)." Harvard Business School Case 818-130, June 2018.
- May – June 2008
- Article
America the Difficult
By: Mihir Desai
Keywords:
United States
Desai, Mihir. "America the Difficult." The American: A Magazine of Ideas (May–June 2008).
- April 1999
- Teaching Note
America Online, Inc. TN
By: Krishna G. Palepu and Amy P. Hutton
Teaching Note for (9-196-130).
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- Winter 2009
- Article
Is Private Equity Out of Control in Latin America?: The Impact of Structures on Private Equity Transactions in Latin America 1988-2007
By: Roberto Charvel
This article explores the private equity industries in 25 Latin American countries from 1988 to 2007.
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Keywords:
Latin America;
Entrepreneurial Finance;
Business Startups;
Business Cycles;
Development Economics;
Economic Systems;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Assets;
Capital Markets;
Venture Capital;
Capital Structure;
Private Equity;
Latin America;
North and Central America
Charvel, Roberto. "Is Private Equity Out of Control in Latin America? The Impact of Structures on Private Equity Transactions in Latin America 1988-2007." Journal of Private Equity 13, no. 1 (Winter 2009): 80–88.
- 2022
- Working Paper
The Political Polarization of Corporate America
By: Vyacheslav Fos, Elisabeth Kempf and Margarita Tsoutsoura
Executive teams in U.S. firms are becoming increasingly partisan. We establish this new fact using political affiliations from voter registration records for top executives of S&P 1500 firms between 2008 and 2020. The new fact is explained by both an increasing share...
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Keywords:
Political Polarization;
Partisanship;
Executives;
Government and Politics;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
United States
Fos, Vyacheslav, Elisabeth Kempf, and Margarita Tsoutsoura. "The Political Polarization of Corporate America." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-003, July 2022.
- July 2000
- Case
Dawn Riley at America True (C1)
By: Linda A. Hill and Kristin Doughty
This version of the (C) case can be taught independently of the (A) and (B) cases. Dawn Riley, CEO/Captain of America True, the first coed syndicate to race for the America's Cup, is based in Auckland, New Zealand, where racing will begin in six weeks. Riley has built...
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Keywords:
Management Style;
Leadership;
Groups and Teams;
Decision Making;
Organizational Culture;
Problems and Challenges;
Gender;
Management Teams;
Sports;
Business Startups;
New Zealand;
North and Central America
Hill, Linda A., and Kristin Doughty. "Dawn Riley at America True (C1)." Harvard Business School Case 401-011, July 2000.
- 20 Nov 2018
- Cold Call Podcast