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  • 24 May 2017
  • News

Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA 1979

path through the upper ranks of investment banking as well as his success building one of the world’s leading investment funds focused on infrastructure. Today he runs Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), managing a portfolio that... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Bloomberg: mutual funds

How do I screen for or find performance and rankings of mutual funds in Bloomberg? To create a Fund Performance Chart that compares returns of funds across various time periods type FPC and hit GO. Use the filters to create a list of... View Details
  • Web

Greenhill House | About

rank of president. In 1993, Greenhill became chairman and CEO of Smith Barney. Greenhill’s many contributions to HBS include service on the School’s Visiting Committee and Centennial Global Business Summit Steering Committee, as well as... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Sylvester Wee

"You’ll never make it." I’ve heard that same line too many times growing up, but never once succumbed to it. I started competitive tennis late at the age of 12 but trained hard to eventually become the top ranked player in Singapore. I... View Details
  • May 2013
  • Case

Wendy Peterson

By: Linda A. Hill and Alisa Zalosh
Wendy Peterson was recently promoted to Vice President of Sales at the Plano, Texas, office of AccountBack, an accounting software and services company. To penetrate a perceived market niche, Peterson hires Fred (Xing) Wu, whose familiarity with and access to Chinese... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Conflict Management; Salesforce Management; Rank and Position; Performance Evaluation; Management Teams; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Accounting Industry; Texas
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  • 2008
  • Article

Industrial Specialization and Regional Clusters in the Ten New EU Member States

By: Orjan Solvell, Christian H.M. Ketels and Goran Lindqvist
Purpose—The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of regional concentration patterns within ten new European Union (EU) member states, EU10, and make comparisons with EU15 and the US economy.
Design/methodology/approach—Industrial... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Policy; Employment; Industry Clusters; Industry Structures; European Union; United States
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  • 03 Jan 2023
  • What Do You Think?

How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?

Scouts of the USA from 1976 to 1990, was ranked by Fortune magazine in 2015, according to her obituary, as the “37th in its list of the world’s 50 greatest leaders, ahead of Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase.” Peter... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • 12 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser

them more aware of misdeeds.” During arbitration, claimants and brokerages rank their preferred arbitrators from a random Finra-generated list, striking ones that might side with the opposing party. Brokerages typically tap into vast... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
  • February 1998 (Revised May 2007)
  • Case

Airborne Express

By: Jan W. Rivkin
In the wake of a highly successful quarter, senior managers of Airborne Express, the third largest player in the express mail industry, review the firm's competitive position. Airborne has survived, and recently prospered, in an industry with significant economies of... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Business Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; Global Strategy; Rank and Position; Service Industry
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  • 25 Oct 2010
  • HBS Case

Tesco’s Stumble into the US Market

its US management ranks mostly with British expats instead of hiring locally. How did that strategy work for them? What can we all learn? A: Tesco established Fresh & Easy as a greenfield investment rather than acquiring or joint... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

the year Lehman Brothers was ranked by Fortune Magazine as the #1 “Most Admired Securities Firm.” From the early 2000s leading up to the financial crisis of 2008, however, Lehman Brothers’ high amount of borrowing in proportion to its... View Details
  • 13 Dec 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams

States, Zhang found that purchased companies added nearly 15 percent more minority managers and 4 percent more female managers to their ranks than unacquired companies during the same period. "When the old ways are not working, we need to... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
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Bloomberg: hedge funds

How do I screen for or find performance and rankings of hedge funds in Bloomberg? Type HFND <GO> for an overview of Bloomberg's Hedge Fund Database. Type FPC <GO> for the Fund Performance Rankings. Click the... View Details
  • Web

Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

financial advisory capacity in U.S. and foreign transactions. By 1966, Lehman Brothers, described by Time magazine as “a diversified department store of high finance,” ranked among the nation’s top investment banks in total dollar volume.... View Details
  • 27 Sep 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Managers, Your Employees Don’t Want to Be Facebook ‘Friends’

colleagues and managers online, fearing that the connection could come with career risks, according to a recent study in the Academy of Management Journal. The study—OMG! My Boss Just Friended Me: How Evaluations of Colleagues’ Disclosure, Gender, and View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
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Employers by city (United States)

How do I find the major employers in a U.S. city or metropolitan area? Use the American City Business Journals database.  Digital editions of weekly business journals and electronic versions of the Book of Lists which include View Details
  • 20 Apr 2021
  • Book

A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success

Oberholzer-Gee, the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration. “No wonder these businesses end up receiving rave reviews and loyal customers.” "If a US company that ranked 50th today jumped to 40th next year, its return on... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • Web

The Essential Porter - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

2001 to further his work and research. Impact & recognition Advisor to countries, corporations, non-profits, and academic circles across the globe Seven-time winner of the McKinsey Award for the best Harvard Business Review article of the year View Details
  • 22 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries

order of tasks. A complementary tool, the SCE (system complexity estimator), ranks a software module based on its complexity and compares its actual architecture with its ideal (simplest) architecture in order to learn where a team might... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer
  • 08 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem

sellers rate one another, providing rankings that bolster users' confidence in the system. Sellers with consistently good evaluations attain PowerSeller status; those with bad evaluations are excluded from future transactions.... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien