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The 3-Stage Process That Makes Universities Prime Innovators
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How Cisco Created Their Own Talent Incubator
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Why Business Schools Need to Teach Experimentation
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What Did 2020 Do to Retail?
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Explo Leisure Products
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Tim Trowac and Dave Rahall, two former investment bankers, skillfully execute the leveraged buyout of a golf ball recycling company after working intensely... -
Diversity and Inclusion at the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator
Communication Case Study11.95View Details In 2016, the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator undertook formal efforts to improve diversity and inclusion (D&I) efforts with the hire of Estelle Reyes.... -
Wanxiang Group: A Chinese Company's Global Strategy (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the A Case 308-058. With an almost forty-year history as a business in China, the Wanxiang Group has navigated through the significantly different... -
Cancer Treatment Centers of America (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details This case, a follow-up to Cancer Treatment Centers of America (A), HBS No. 313-012, begins with the debate over New Hampshire's certificate-of-need (CON)... -
Note on Creating a Viable Venture - A Global Perspective
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This note identifies the key issues that must be addressed in the creation of a viable venture, and provides an overview of the processes and techniques... -
Ctrip: Scientifically Managing Travel Services
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Ctrip is a $437 million Chinese on-line travel services company with a scientific, data driven approach to management. The case explores Ctrip's founding... -
Dharavi: Developing Asia's Largest Slum (A)
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Maharashtra state is accepting bids to redevelop Dharavi, the largest slum in Asia. A real estate developer assesses the risks and tenders a bid. The... -
Jim Sharpe: Extrusion Technology, Inc. (Abridged)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Jim Sharpe, 10 years after receiving his MBA from Harvard and working for others, has finally become his own boss and 100% owner of manufacturer of aluminum... -
Lisa Sherman (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details The case of Lisa Sherman (B) describes a highly successful executive at Verizon, who decides to leave the company because of the negative views of gays... -
Monsanto: Leadership in a New Environment
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Monsanto is the biotechnology leader in agriculture. How does it use its leadership in Round Up to fund long-term research and development in biotechnology... -
MuMate
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details MuMate, a fictional cult beverage company, requires capital to fund national expansion. Its cofounders, who have bootstrapped to this point, are now negotiating... -
Asia Renal Care
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Presents a business plan for a start-up company focused on building a network of high-quality dialysis centers in the Asia-Pacific region. Includes a... -
Ford Motor Company: Strengthening the Dealer Network
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The case describes a five-year effort (2006-2011) of distribution rationalization and consolidation at Ford. The financial crisis in the second-half of... -
Esmark, Inc. (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Involves the management of a firm with a market value of a going concern that is less than its breakup value. How does management maximize value for shareholders... -
Ayala Corporation & the Philippines: Asset Allocation in a Growing Economy (A)
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details While the Philippines are located in the vicinity of many of the "Asian Tigers," its development has followed a unique path. The country suffered for... -
Investor Relations at TOTAL
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Examines investor relations and financial communications in a large company with a diverse group of financial stakeholders. Total is an "energy major"... -
China's Rural Leap Forward
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Collectively owned township and village enterprises (TVEs) played a pivotal role in China's rapid growth during the 1980s and 1990s. Although they originated... -
PureTech Ventures in 2011
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In early May 2011, Daphne Zohar, founder and managing partner of PureTech Ventures, a life science venture creation company in Boston, MA, was reviewing... -
FIJI Water: Carbon Negative?
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Seeking to go beyond global best practices in reducing environmental impacts, FIJI Water, a premium artesian bottled water company in the United States,... -
Governance and Sustainability at Nike (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Two members of Nike's executive team must decide what sustainability targets to propose to Nike's CEO and to the corporate responsibility committee of...
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Explo Leisure Products
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Tim Trowac and Dave Rahall, two former investment bankers, skillfully execute the leveraged buyout of a golf ball recycling company after working intensely... -
Diversity and Inclusion at the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator
Communication Case Study11.95View Details In 2016, the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator undertook formal efforts to improve diversity and inclusion (D&I) efforts with the hire of Estelle Reyes.... -
Wanxiang Group: A Chinese Company's Global Strategy (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the A Case 308-058. With an almost forty-year history as a business in China, the Wanxiang Group has navigated through the significantly different... -
Cancer Treatment Centers of America (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details This case, a follow-up to Cancer Treatment Centers of America (A), HBS No. 313-012, begins with the debate over New Hampshire's certificate-of-need (CON)... -
Note on Creating a Viable Venture - A Global Perspective
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This note identifies the key issues that must be addressed in the creation of a viable venture, and provides an overview of the processes and techniques... -
Ctrip: Scientifically Managing Travel Services
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Ctrip is a $437 million Chinese on-line travel services company with a scientific, data driven approach to management. The case explores Ctrip's founding... -
Dharavi: Developing Asia's Largest Slum (A)
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Maharashtra state is accepting bids to redevelop Dharavi, the largest slum in Asia. A real estate developer assesses the risks and tenders a bid. The... -
Jim Sharpe: Extrusion Technology, Inc. (Abridged)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Jim Sharpe, 10 years after receiving his MBA from Harvard and working for others, has finally become his own boss and 100% owner of manufacturer of aluminum... -
Lisa Sherman (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details The case of Lisa Sherman (B) describes a highly successful executive at Verizon, who decides to leave the company because of the negative views of gays... -
Picking Winners: A Conversation with MacArthur Fellows Program Director Daniel J. Socolow
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIn the business world, "creativity" has become the latest buzzword. How to attract, nurture, and direct the extraordinarily talented people who will come...