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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
Robert C. Merton
Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of...
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- October 2014
- Case
McKinsey & Company, 2012
By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In 2012, McKinsey & Company (McKinsey) was the world's premier management consultancy, providing advice to CEO's and top executives of leading companies around the globe. Many consulting firms were bigger but few could match the reputation McKinsey had built over more...
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- 26 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest
mountain, Everest has never been a cakewalk: 148 people have lost their lives attempting to reach the summit since 1922. Newspaper and magazine articles and books—most famously, Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the...
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by Michael A. Roberto
- 14 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide
were appealing to a wealthy customer with a curated selection of healthy products that people could trust.” The company also earned loyalty from team members—it was named one of America’s best companies to work for by Fortune magazine a...
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- 24 May 2017
- News
David G. Bradley, MBA 1977
2016 The Atlantic awarded Magazine of the Year Chairman, Atlantic Media David Bradley sits at an Arlington, Virginia, diner, his papers spread out in front of him. Dapper and courteous, he evokes a different era as he takes notes on index...
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Susan Young
- 26 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Lipstick Tips: How Influencers Are Making Over Beauty Marketing
Instagram and YouTube. In the competition for the consumer’s attention, influencers are winning with pretty packages of photos and videos, as consumers increasingly reject more traditional forms of marketing like TV commercials and View Details
- 12 May 2021
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The Hard Truth About Being a CEO
scratch-and-sniff test, where you used to scratch and smell something from a magazine insert. When you are a leader, people are doing that with you all the time, assessing how credible you are. If you are faking it, people sense it very...
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Mar 2024
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In Harmony
Kim at Seoul’s government-built Hoehyeon “Citizens’ Apartments.” Opened in 1970, it stands as a reminder of a Korea from a very different era. Like so many South Koreans of a certain age, Michael ByungJu Kim (MBA 1990) lives in a country where the past lingers,...
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- 01 Jan 2007
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Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987
manufacturing into Japan, Singapore, Vietnam, and China, have been profitable, allowing Ayala to post a 57 percent rise in net income in the first half of 2007. Asiamoney magazine recently named Ayala the best-managed large capitalization...
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Healthy Outcomes - Managing the Future of Work
Stacey Vanek Smith & Cardiff Garcia 24 Dec 2018 | The Indicator William Kerr on ‘The Gift of Global Talent’ James Pethokoukis 21 Dec 2018 | AEI: Political Economy The Global HR Challenge William R. Kerr 18 Dec 2018 | HR.com The Innovation Engine John A. Griffin 17 Dec...
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Photography and Print Advertising - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
was an expensive enterprise, and before World War I magazine and newspaper publishers tended to favor drawn illustrations over photographs. In the 1920s, the tremendous increase in industrial output and consumer demand led executives to...
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Resources - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
Method by David Garvin October 2003 Harvard Magazine Making the Case by David Garvin Background Notes 1995, rev. 1996 Choreographing a Case Class by V. Kasturi Rangan Compares four different approaches to case teaching: lecturing,...
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The Railroads: The First Big Business - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine , September 1877, p. 614. Statement Showing the First Mortgage Gold Bearing Six Per Cent. Bonds of The Atchison & Pike’s Peak Railroad Company (Central Branch of the Union Pacific) to be A First-Class...
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- 07 Jul 2021
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Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust
history of right to wipe out one wrong. A company will have to be on the right side of trust again and again,” Sucher says. Lost trust often has financial consequences. An Economist magazine analysis of Volkswagen, Wells Fargo, and six...
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by Lane Lambert
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Impact Stories - Impact Stories
Innovation: How to Overcome Adoption Challenges Professor Rebecca Karp Play Generating Breakthrough Therapies: Risk and Reward Professor Josh Krieger Play Alumni Student Mentorship Match Associate Director Tracy Perry Preparing for a Career in Consumer Health Elena...
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Faculty & Advisors - MBA
product and engineering leader in various roles at Alphabet, where he launched Play Books and Magazines at Android, built the Verily Life Science product teams and Boston office, and shipped several AI/ML and computer vision products...
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- 10 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Has #MeToo Changed How Hollywood Hires?
Female representation in movies has been consistently low, with women making up only 4.5 percent of directors and 14.4 percent of writers for top-grossing films. Worse, many women have endured sexual harassment and abuse. In October 2017, the New York Times and the New...
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- 11 May 2023
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How FOMO Became a Fixture
days before my HBS reunion in 2014, a reporter from Boston Magazine hunted me down. He was writing an article on the history of FOMO and traced it back to me. We met for an interview while I was in Boston, and the rest is history. His...
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- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
and services that supported sales managers, including trade journals and popular magazines about salesmen and sales management. The creation of methods of sales management also opened up new branches of academic inquiry, such as...
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by Laura Linard