OB44
Jeffrey Pfeffer, Victoria Chang
2003
Keith Ferrazzi had certainly come a long way. The son of a steelworker and a cleaning lady, he was picked on by other kids for being poor at the private school he attended and at the same time by his poor friends in the neighborhood for trying to act like…
OB43(B)
David Caldwell, Charles O'Reilly III, Robert Pearl
2003
In 1999, Richard Townsend, M.D., the newly appointed Executive Director (CEO) of the Liberty Medical Foundation (LMF) was sitting in his Pittsburgh office reviewing materials for a presentation the following day to the Board of Directors. Dr. Townsend…
M303
Frederic Descamps, Michaela Draganska, Christopher Pennya
2003
In August 2002, Microsoft approached the one-year anniversary of its video game console, the Xbox. The first wave of console systems were available in the U.S., Japan, Europe and Australia, and the second wave of rollouts was targeted four Asian markets…
P45
David Baron
2003
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 provided a structure for the deregulation of the telecommunications industry from long distance to local service. In 2002 the FCC began its Triennial Review of the UNE requirement under the leadership of chairman…
SPM10
Victoria Chang, George Foster
2003
By 2003, Murdoch and his team had built an impressive global sports regime within News Corp., while transforming the industry with innovative strategies, implementation, and technologies. Murdoch had used FOX’s acquisition of the National Football League…
SM35B
Robert Burgelman, Philip Meza
2003
This case examines the challenges and opportunities facing Charles Schwab in 2003. The company is a leading brokerage, but the entire industry has been in a severe downturn over the past few years. Schwab made its name as a discount brokerage and grew…
OB45
Jeffrey Pfeffer, Victoria Chang
2003
In 1998, 38-year-old Gary Loveman was perfectly content with his job as an untenured associate professor at the Harvard Business School (HBS). He was a popular teacher with standing room only classes in service management. He lived comfortably with his…
SM106
Robert Burgelman, Philip Meza
2003
Through in-depth interviews with Intel’s most senior executives, this case examines Intel’s efforts to establish itself in new markets by developing and acquiring competencies in areas beyond PC microprocessors. Intel pioneered the market for computer…
SM120A
James Lattin, Mark Leslie, Erin Yurday
2003
In October 1998, VERITAS and Seagate’s Network Storage and Management Group, which both sold data storage management software, agreed to merge. In terms of employee size and revenues, it was nearly a merger of equals. Until regulatory approval for the…
SM29D
Robert Burgelman, Philip Meza
2003
This case examines the challenges and opportunities that entertainment conglomerate Disney faces as it tries to commit itself to embarking on a “Digital Decade” in 2003. The company has built its business models largely around analog distribution…
OB43(A)
David Caldwell, Charles O'Reilly III, Robert Pearl
2003
In 1999, Richard Townsend, M.D., the newly appointed Executive Director (CEO) of the Liberty Medical Foundation (LMF) was sitting in his Pittsburgh office reviewing materials for a presentation the following day to the Board of Directors. Dr. Townsend…
SM116
John McMillan, David Hanley
2003
Grameen Bank was a microcredit bank in Bangladesh, annually lending hundreds of millions of dollars to its millions of poor entrepreneurs. The bank’s managing director, Muhammad Yunus, was faced with tremendous challenges brought about by the political…
SI66
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, David Hoyt
2003
Philanthropy as an industry, with professionally managed organizations addressing the root causes of social problems, was developed in the United States. This paper traces is development from early colonial days through the formation of the first great…
M305(A)
Victoria Chang, Sonya Grier
2003
In 1997, Lyle Hubbard, CEO of Gardenburger, a producer and marketer of veggie burgers and meat alternative products, waited in his Portland, Oregon office for his executive team. He had called together the group to discuss Gardenburger’s advertising…
P39
David Baron, Soon Jin Lim, Deborah Liu
2003
In Africa GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) confronted the reality of the AIDS crisis every day, and its decisions impacted thousands. There were no ready answers to the crisis, but everyone—governments, non-governmental organizations, the media, shareholders, and…
SI103
Jeremy Bahr, William Meehan III, Brian Tayan
2003
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has approved a $110 million Nursing Initiative to improve patient care in hospitals by addressing problems of nursing shortages and lack of nursing training in the San Francisco Bay Area. The case addresses issues of how…
SI48
William Barnett, William Durham
2003
In 1985, Daniel Janzen, one of the world’s foremost tropical ecologists, proposed a bold plan to preserve and restore a substantial tropical forest in Costa Rica, called the Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG). The project reformed the Costa Rican…
SI64
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, David Hoyt
2003
This short paper introduces considerations in corporate philanthropy. It discusses possible motivations for corporate philanthropy, and the forms such philanthropy can take. It also introduces arguments for and against corporate philanthropy: is…
P41
David Baron, Soon Jin Lim, Deborah Liu
2003
Note on the AIDS epidemic, including history, treatment, drug pricing, and economics.
SI16C
James Phills, E Martenson
2003
In early January 1993, American Repertory Theatre’s (ART) Artistic Director Robert Brustein and Managing Director Robert Orchard were concerned about ART’s financial situation. Major government funders had communicated plans to cut sharply, and possibly…
SI65
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, David Hoyt
2003
Investors in for-profit companies have clear measures of company performance in meeting their economic objectives. However, the effectiveness of investments in not-for-profit organizations is more difficult to measure, since a significant objective of…
SI51
William Barnett, William Durham, Nathaniel Fisher
2003
The Community Baboon Sanctuary, located in north-central Belize, was founded in 1985. Primatologist Robert Horwich and a few local villagers worked with local landowners to develop a voluntary sanctuary to protect and grow the local Howler Monkey…
M305(B)
Victoria Chang, Sonya Grier
2003
In 1997, Lyle Hubbard, CEO of Gardenburger, a producer and marketer of veggie burgers and meat alternative products, waited in his Portland, Oregon office for his executive team. He had called together the group to discuss Gardenburger’s advertising…
SI45
William Barnett, Erik Budde, William Durham
2003
The Wild Salmon Center was originally created to provide anglers access to some of the best fishing in the world in return for funding research and conservation. Starting in 1998, the Wild Salmon Center expanded from angling tourism to the implementation…
