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BlackRock (B): Acquire MLIM (with video links)
Gulati, Ranjay; Rivkin, Jan W.; Gilson, Stuart C.; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-717485-EStrategyIn early 2006, BlackRock, Inc. is considering acquiring Merrill Lynch's asset management business. The asset management industry was in a state of transition. In the prior year, more than 130 mergers and acquisitions had taken place. The proposed deal between BlackRock and Merrill Lynch would change BlackRock from a chiefly U.S.-based fixed income asset manager for institutional clients, to a firm with a global footprint and a strong equities and...Starting at €5.74
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Hilti (A): Fleet Management, Teaching Note
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Rivkin, Jan W.Teaching Note HBS-719404-EThis teaching note accompanies the case Hilti (A): Fleet Management 718419. It provides guidelines for class discussion, as well as a board plan and transcripts of the associated videos, Hilti Fleet Management Video Supplements. The associated case explores the strategic decision-making process of premium power tools manufacturer Hilti in 1999, when the company was considering implementing a fleet management system in the construction industry. ...Starting at €0.00
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Southwire and 12 For Life: Scaling Up (A)
Rivkin, Jan W.; Lee, RyanCase HBS-714434-EStrategySouthwire, a leading maker of cable based in rural Georgia, has partnered with the local school system to staff a factory with at-risk high school students. The positive impact on student outcomes has been remarkable, and the factory makes a profit for the company. Now leaders of the effort wonder how they can encourage other businesses to launch similar win-win partnerships with educators.Starting at €8.20
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Southwire and 12 For Life: Scaling Up (B)
Rivkin, Jan W.; Lee, RyanCase HBS-714435-EStrategySouthwire, a leading maker of cable based in rural Georgia, has partnered with the local school system to staff a factory with at-risk high school students. The positive impact on student outcomes has been remarkable, and the factory makes a profit for the company. Now leaders of the effort wonder how they can encourage other businesses to launch similar win-win partnerships with educators.Starting at €5.74
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Seek Strategy the Right Way at the Right Time
Gavetti, Giovanni; Rivkin, Jan W.Article HBS-F0801G-EStrategyDeliberate, emergent, and analogical approaches to finding the best strategy all have their advan-tages, depending on where an industry is in its life cycle. Be open to the best option at each juncture and wise enough to make the right call.Starting at €8.20
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Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2001, 2007, and 2009 Teaching Note
Rivkin, Jan W.; Roberto, Michael A.; Gulati, RanjayTeaching Note HBS-711487-EStrategyTeaching Note for 710450, 710451, and 710452.Starting at €0.00
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BlackRock (D): Organizing for the Future (with video links)
Gulati, Ranjay; Rivkin, Jan W.; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-717487-EStrategyBy the end of 2015, BlackRock had succeeded beyond any of the early dreams of its founders. The firm remained the world's largest asset manager, with more than $4.6 trillion under management, and other financial services companies used BlackRock's Aladdin platform to monitor an additional $12.9 trillion of assets. With its success, the firm had become far more complex. The scale and scope of BlackRock were helpful to clients when the parts of the...Starting at €5.74
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Intellectual Ambition at Harvard Business School: Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger
Rivkin, Jan W.; Migdal, AmramCase HBS-717469-EThis case, set in the 1920s and 1930s, discusses Harvard Business School (HBS) Professors Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger and their contributions to management research at the School and the rise of the Human Relations Movement in management research. The case focuses on an overview of their research program at the Western Electric Hawthorne Works manufacturing plant between 1927 and 1932, known as the Hawthorne studies, and the resulting ins...Starting at €8.20
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Microsoft's Search, Teaching Note
Rivkin, Jan W.; Van Den Steen, EricTeaching Note HBS-710416-EStrategyTeaching Note for [709461].Starting at €0.00
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Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2009
Rivkin, Jan W.; Roberto, Michael A.; Gulati, RanjayCase HBS-710452-EStrategyThis case, a supplement to the "Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2001 (Abridged)" case (710-450) and the "Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2007" case (710-451), reviews the FBI's progress in its transformation effort from 2007 to 2009.Starting at €8.20