Harvard Business School Case Studies Samples For Students

RE: The Clean Air Act Amendment

There is no doubt into our commitment to comply with the new regulations on the use of coal in our plants. However, there are underlying complexities that need to be addressed. While there remains the need to control industrial emissions to sustainable levels, particular challenges are experienced. Installation of pollution-control equipment is one of the projected solutions to this long-standing issue that requires agent redress to sanitize our air. The Act creates compelling reasons that make its implementation indispensable (Davidson & Joseph 57-75). Given this, it is critical to underline the business perspective of the decision to either purchase the ...

Table of Contents

Introduction..3

Marketing Briefing Document3
A. Importance of Maintenance of Relationships with Clients..5
B. Suggestions Regarding Improvement of Relationships with
Clients.5
A. Evaluation of Issues Faced by The Creative Agency..7
B. General Recommendations.8

The current paper relates the case study of The Creative Agency, further named The Agency. The Agency faced several problems which are to be solved urgently since it is on the verge of bankruptcy. The Agency management applied to the experts for advice.
The paper represented here contains four parts. The first part is a marketing briefing document. The second ...

Describe the “problem” that the McCann Agency was asked to solve. (This includes a brief “situation analysis.”)
MT contacted McCann Agency due to own inability to influence the observed level of accidents and deaths, which occurred due the passengers’ reckless behavior. The statistics showed that “serious incidents involving train operations totaled 21 in 2008, 24 in both 2009 and 2010, and 27 in 2011” (Queltch, 2014). The agency was asked to develop an efficient advertising campaign, which would educate people, in specific young and skeptical audience, about safety proof behavior in metro facilities and motivate them to follow these ...

Introduction

The case study will focus on Pankaj et al (2004) and David, B. Y & Renee, K (2013), articles published in Harvard Business School, journal, to review and discuss Wal-Mart’s operations capabilities and way forward.
Wal-Mart as an organization is a story of astonishing success in terms of revenues and the way it has touched lives through its products and services made Forbes declare the company in March 2003, as the largest and most admired American company.

Wal-Mart’s strategy in the discount retailing industry

The strategy of Wal-Mart is affixed on differentiated pricing, cost leadership, strong distribution, inventory management and most importantly in tandem with the technology-based ...

Introduction

Wine Lovers Enterprise is a private family business that deals with the production of wine packaging materials such as bottles, synthetic corks, and labels. The company is located in the Finger Lakes area of New York. The company has had a profitable streak so far and has maintained a fair share of the market in a competitive environment. The business climate is changing and there is an urgent need to implement changes in Wine Lovers Enterprise. The company is facing stiff competition from cheap china imports in the wine industry. Other players in the industry have adopted modern ways of doing business such ...

The process of making hotplates involves a number of departments in which they are different workers to complete the job. The initial arrangement was in such a manner that each hotplate would pass through different workers with each having to complete the manufacturing process partially. This involved teamwork and collaboration within the workers as the work of one affected the other. This method did not however work as each worker preferred making own plate from the beginning to the end instead sharing the manufacturing duties.
Absenteeism in the workplace was caused by the low morale of the workers regarding the ...

Business

2016-03-24
The current paper is devoted to the company Samsung Electronics and its functioning in the 1990s-2000s. Samsung Electronics Company is a part of the Samsung Group that it the largest conglomerate in South Korea (Official Site of Samsung, 2016). The main business directions of the Samsung Group were electronics, trade and services, finance. There were five directions of Samsung Electronics at those years. One of them is the Semiconductor Business. Let’s analyze this sector and its competitive environment in the 1990s-2000s in more detail, analyze data and evaluate the advantages of Samsung Electronics (Ellet, 2007).

Chinese Firms on the Market of Semiconductor Products

A lot ...

Coach Knight and Coach K. have very different styles of coaching. One style of coaching displays a softer side to leadership and coaching while the other style believes in the notion of exercising tough love in leadership. Generally speaking, Coach K’s style seems to be more sincere, personal and at times compassionate while Coach Knight’s leadership style is rigid and strict. Both coaches have had very successful careers in coaching. The numerous wins reveal the success of the college basketball teams that they have coached. The difference in their coaching styles and leadership techniques leads one to wonder ...

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Background
Angus Cartwright has been hired as the investment planner and advisor for two clients named John and Judy DeRight and. Both of these clients have acquired a new passion for real estates and thus have approached Angus Cartwright to recommend a best option for their investment. Both the clients are inclined towards acquiring a spacious properly that is so large to an extent it attracts real estate management companies that are professional and also to accrue a minimum leverage of at least 12% after tax. Also, both the clients are of a strong belief ...

A balanced score card is a strategic management and planning tool that is presently used extensively in business, governments, nongovernmental organization and other forms of businesses in order to align the activities of the business with the vision, mission, strategy and goals of the organization. The balanced score card is also concerned about the improvement of companies internal and external communication and the monitoring of an organizations performance against the strategic goals (Kaplan & Norton, 2004).
Developed by Drs Robert Kaplan and David Norton of the Harvard business school, the balanced score card adds to the traditional financial metrics in ...

Introduction:

Hallmark is among the leading card making companies. Its headquarters are in Kansas City and is privately owned. The company’s vision is to be the company that produces superior experiences, services and products. It is in its vision to enrich the lives of its consumers by facilitating communication amongst them, connecting and celebrating. Hallmark’s mission is enriching lives. Among its strategies is diversification of its products in addition to producing high quality products that satisfy its consumers. There are a number of objectives the company has in relation to their customers’ perspective. These objectives include the following: Capturing ...

1. On what specific customer perspectives did each company focus, and what measures did each company use to ascertain how well it was meeting the goals implied by those specific perspectives?

Hyde Park Electronics, a manufacturer of ultrasonic proximity sensors focused on customer satisfaction and measured it by looking at the increase in sales and net income as a result of increased product acceptance and the incidence of returning/repeating customers. With 42 people employed in 2001, the company enjoyed its most profitable year having this perspective in mind. To enable the company to perform better, it used the Balanced Score Card ...

Page No.

1. Executive Summary.. 4
1. Introduction.. 4
2. Porters five forces (Task 1). 5
2.1. Threat of Entry 5
2.2 Power of Suppliers. 6
2.3 Threat of Substitutes.. 6
2.4 Competitive Rivalry. 6
2.5 Power of Buyers. 6
3 PEST Analysis 7
3.1 Political Aspect 7
3.2 Economic View.. 7
3.3 Sociological View.. 8
3.4 Technological View 8
4. SWOT Analysis.. 8
4.1 Strength 9
4.2 Weakness 9
4.3 Opportunity.. 10
4.4 Threat 10
5. Marketing and Positioning strategies (Task 2) ...

A Reflection on the Article

It has been observed that at different periods, we tend to move our thoughts in a specific direction. This is usually as per geographical borders. The majority of the people tend to think, speak and/or act this specific way, the similarities being more pronounced as the geographical area decreases. This similar interest in a specific time is called the trend at that time. This article details why ignoring trends is not healthy for a business. The article also shows how trends can give companies the chance to innovatively assimilate its products or services in line with the trend, by application of strategic ...

Question 1

When implementing a certain change in an organization, the employees should be given time to internalize and accept the change. Managers should not be overambitious and too focused on the possible results that may arise. They should leave an allowance for employees to acclimatize themselves with the possible effects. Different employees are motivated by different things. For some, the urge to go up the hierarchy is not sufficient motivation. External consultants can be brought onboard to shed more light to the employees as opposed to the managers themselves as they may be biased in their discussions.

Question 2

Before reading the case

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