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Entrepreneurial Management Faculty - Faculty & Research
Sahlman Baker Foundation Professor Dimitri V. D'Arbeloff - MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus Reza R. Satchu Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Arthur I Segel Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice Poorvu Family...
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Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research
Dilemmas: The Tradeoffs of Board Selection By: David G. Fubini , Suraj Srinivasan and Patrick Sanguineti September 2024 | Case | Faculty Research After retiring from a long and successful career in financial auditing, Linda McGill looked...
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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Faculty - Faculty & Research
Benjamin Bushong Visiting Scholar Tristan Gagnon-Bartsch Visiting Scholar Natalia Karelaia Visiting Scholar Michael A. Wheeler Senior Fellow, MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management Practice, Retired
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- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
UnileverA Case Study
the purchase of the toothpaste company Pepsodent in 1944. Expansion into margarine followed with the purchase of a Chicago firm in 1948. The postwar years proved very disappointing for Lever Brothers, for a number of partly related reasons. Countway, on his View Details
- August 15, 2014
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Can an Outside CEO Run a Family-Owned Business?
By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
This article explores the intricate dynamics that often characterize family-owned businesses, shedding light on key archetypes that play prominent roles within these organizations. Using a narrative approach, the article illustrates the challenges faced by leaders...
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Family Ownership;
Personal Characteristics;
Family and Family Relationships;
Management Practices and Processes
Baron, Josh, and Rob Lachenauer. "Can an Outside CEO Run a Family-Owned Business?" Harvard Business Review (website) (August 15, 2014).
- 16 Nov 2021
- HBS Case
How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves
2001, the once-profitable company lost 8.3 billion euros (equal to $15.1 billion today)—the second-biggest loss of any French company ever. A year later, the company’s debts totaled 71 billion euros, three times the value of the firm. Early View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21
Publications Civilization: The Six Ways the West Beat the Rest Author: Niall Ferguson Publication: Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Review the book:...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Ways to Give Today - Alumni
02241-2275 OR President and Fellows of Harvard College, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge, MA 03138 Learn about establishing a donor-advised fund at Harvard University. From Your IRA If you are at least 70½ years old, you can use your individual View Details
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HBS - The year in Review
David Frieze, Division of Research and Faculty Development, retired John (Jack) J. Gabarro, UPS Foundation Professor of Human Resource Management, Emeritus Patty Haviland, Human Resources, retired Alice...
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Mark Giragosian
College and Northwestern University, including internships in consulting and investment banking. Upon retiring from the Joffrey, Mark worked at Morgan Stanley. “I wanted to have another career, not just another job. I looked for...
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Faculty & Research - Entrepreneurship
Management Practice Chair, MBA Required Curriculum Arthur I Segel Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice Poorvu Family Professor of Management Practice, Retired Shai Benjamin Bernstein MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Business...
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Research - Global
Selection By: David G. Fubini , Suraj Srinivasan and Patrick Sanguineti After retiring from a long and successful career in financial auditing, Linda McGill looked forward to the prospect of joining a board. She felt the time was right to...
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Faculty & Research - Leadership
People Resist Retirement By: Teresa M. Amabile Research suggests making the decision to retire means grappling with three psychological issues. First, identity issues can loom large for any deeply engaged...
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Leadership - Faculty & Research
Questions for a Winning Climate-transition Business Strategy." Strategy + Business (website) (September 9, 2024). Why People Resist Retirement By: Teresa M. Amabile July 22, 2024 | Article | Harvard Business Review Digital Articles...
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Finance - Faculty & Research
Savings Policies By: James J. Choi, David Laibson, Jordan Cammarota, Richard Lombardo and John Beshears 2024 | Working Paper | Faculty Research Medium- and long-run dynamics undermine the effect of automatic enrollment and default savings-rate auto-escalation on View Details
- June 2015 (Revised October 2015)
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High Liner Foods, 2015
By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In 2015, Canadian-based High Liner Foods Ltd was one of North America's largest frozen fish processors with extensive shares of both the food service and retail channels in Canada, the USA and Mexico. With over C$1 billion in revenues, the company had grown four fold...
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- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?
action for executives and boards in America than in Asia. But more common in America are firms that are run by professional managers who are replaced by other professional managers, either as a consequence of retirement or of replacement...
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by D. Quinn Mills
- 01 Dec 2023
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Thinking Ahead
As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We...
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- 16 Oct 2023
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Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta
taking off. Then COVID hit, and the airline industry went into lockdown, along with the rest of the country. Delta offered early retirement and buyouts to its workforce, and in August 2020, 25 percent—more than 20,000 employees—took the...
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Chip Bergh
Chip Bergh is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School. Prior to joining HBS, Chip served as president and chief executive officer of Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) from September 2011 until January 2024. He also served on the Company’s Board of Directors... View Details