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Disney (D): The Mouse in Times Square
Wheeler, Michael A.; Levenson, Georgia; Dretler, Thomas D.Case HBS-898021-EStrategySupplements the (C) case.Starting at €5.74
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Three Decades of Cluster Policy in Catalonia: What's Next?
Ketels, Christian H.M.Case HBS-724404-EEconomicsThe case profiles the development of cluster-based economic development activities in Catalonia, one of Spain's most prosperous region's, over the last thirty years. It describes the evolution of these activities between 1990 and 2022 and puts these changes into the context of the broader evolution of Catalonia's economy. The case is targeted at students that want to understand the nature of cluster-based economic policies, either fro...Starting at €8.20
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The Globalization of Martini & Rossi, 1863-2023
Reinert, Sophus A.; Barale, LorenaCase HBS-724008-EEconomicsStarting at €8.20
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TransDigm in 2017: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?
Esty, Benjamin C.; Fisher, DanielCase HBS-720422-EStrategyTransDigm was a highly acquisitive company that manufactured a wide range of highly engineered aerospace parts for both military and commercial customers. Over the ten years ending in 2016, its stock price had increase ten times, and both EBITDA and revenues had grown at compound annual rates in excess of 20%. But in early 2017, investors, customers, and government officials began to question the implementation, sustainability, and ethics of the ...Starting at €8.20
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Note on Difficult Conversations in the Family Enterprise
Wing, Christina R.Case HBS-624044-EService and Operations ManagementThe best time to have a difficult conversation is, ideally, as soon as possible. Engaging in challenging conversations early can produce beneficial results for several reasons, such as resolving issues, improving communication, preserving relationships, and increasing efficiency. This note includes best practices for difficult conversations, how to initiate conversations, steps for guiding the dialogue, methods for upholding intentions, and examp...Starting at €8.20
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Automating Morality: Ethics for Intelligent Machines
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr.; Quinn, TomCase HBS-324007-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityAs autonomy became a more significant part of modern life - most notably in autonomous vehicles (AVs), such as Teslas - ethical debates about whether and how to impart ethics to machines heated up. Utilitarians pointed out that autonomous vehicles crashed much less often than human-driven cars, making their adoption a net positive in terms of lives saved; deontologists worried about the implications of programming a car to swerve to kill its pass...Starting at €8.20
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Legal Analysis: Insider Trading Liability
Fetter, Trevor; Soltes, Eugene; Wahlquist, GrantCase HBS-320080-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThere are numerous restrictions against trading on material, nonpublic information (MNPI)-typically called "insider trading." This note describes the limitations facing managers and investors as enforced civilly and criminally within the United States.Starting at €8.20
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Nintendo and the Future of Video Gaming
Harris, Jared D.; Lenox, Michael; Harrison, Katharine; Reiss, Mathew; Goldberg, RebeccaCase DARDEN-S-0341StrategyThis case presents the evolution of Nintendo’s gaming technology and discusses the history of the video gaming sector over eight generations of releases. It illustrates how industry dynamics shift over time and how different phases of the competitive life cycle place different demands upon those firms that are all vying for the top position. The case provides history and context for students to discuss an age-old question: How do firms sustain a ...Starting at €8.20
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Deadly Wells in Bangladesh
Debaere, PeterCase DARDEN-GEM-0158EconomicsThis case allows instructors to lay out the challenges of providing universal access to safe drinking water in developing and emerging countries—one of the current UN development goals. This is not to say that all developing countries find themselves in a comparable predicament of widespread exposure to arsenic contamination—although the exposure is on a much larger scale than is often assumed. The implication is also not that there are no water ...Starting at €8.20
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Governments and Markets in the 21st Century
Murphy, DanielCase DARDEN-GEM-0187EconomicsAs Joseph Biden began his presidency in early 2021, he was faced with the enormous task of balancing his more centrist tendencies with the increasingly activist part of his coalition. More generally, he would need to understand the forces that contributed to subpar economic performance and to redirect government efforts to supporting a market economy that benefitted all Americans. To do so, he would need to understand the arguments for and agains...Starting at €8.20