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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
best hospitals in Boston,” recalls McCance, chairman and president of the Boston-based venture-capital firm Greylock Partners. “It was nearly 100 years after the disease was first identified, and yet the best physicians in town could only... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
Charles Dickens’s Bleak House can cost as little as $0.99, depending on the edition). HBS senior lecturer Peter Olson sees huge potential in digital readers. “I think this is a great opportunity to make reading more attractive to a generation that we might lose... View Details
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
The (C) case, to be handed out at the end of class, describes what the team ultimately decided and how they executed it. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/811024-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 614-023 PadFone vs. FonePad To Jonney Shih, View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
VP for North Asia, had been negotiating a possible acquisition with Jackie Jin, the chairman of a leading Chinese appliance manufacturer named Hefei Rongshida Sanyo Electric Company (Hefei Sanyo), for almost six months when suddenly Hefei... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
impatient with the results of Chairman and CEO A.G. Lafley's attempted turnaround. Five-year shareholder returns were well below those of the S&P 500 and the S&P 500 Consumer Staples index. After returning to the company in 2013... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
of America Acquires Merrill Lynch (A) Robert C. Pozen, Charles E. BeresfordHarvard Business School Case 310-092 On December 22, 2008, Bank of America (BofA) chairman and CEO Ken Lewis convened a special board of directors meeting to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
systems-change initiatives. By working with social entrepreneurs and philanthropists, the organization aims to break down barriers to opportunity in America. Jeff Walker (MBA 1981), chairman Rebuild Congress Initiative brings together... View Details
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
coastline, continues to tarnish Total's image in its home market today. An explosion at 1 of their plants in the south of France in 2001, addressed immediately—with Total's chairman going to the site to show support and take... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
and a shoebox containing $2,000, the firm's total finances. Less than twenty years later, her California-based producer of manufacturing systems software, ASK Computer Systems, had reached $450 million in revenues. Kurtzig, who is now the View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Photographed by Melissa Golden David Bradley was painting a picture with words. The owner and chairman of Atlantic Media had gathered about 400 staffers in a small Kennedy Center theater near the company’s Watergate offices. It was the... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
too. “It’s a nation-building exercise,” the former co-CEO and chairman of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion says. “It’s critical to Canada’s history and to our future.” The Erebus sank in 1845, part of an ill-fated mission by British... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
development also involved working with the Slum Redevelopment Authority to relocate and build on the site homes in towers for at least 20,000 slum dwellers and restoring much of the site to green space. At the request of Chairman... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
Chairman of the Emergency Department of the world-renowned, university-based Mercy Hospital, was deeply disturbed when he read the letter from the family of John Samson, a patient who had come to the emergency room one week earlier, that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28
H&M to Gap had overtaken Benetton in revenue and profitability. How could chairman Luciano Benetton turn around the company's struggling fortunes? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/benetton-group-s-p-a-2000/an/713510-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
serves as chairman of the consultancy TruePoint Partners and of its educational and research institute, the TruePoint Center for Higher Ambition Leadership. In the e-mail interview that follows, Beer talks about the book and what boards... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/410110-PDF-ENG Purchase this supplement (B):http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/410111-PDF-ENG Mirae Asset: Korea's Mutual Fund Pioneer Mukti Khaire, Michael Shih-Ta Chen, and G.A. DonovanHarvard Business School Case 810-123... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
"The same holds true for the bailout that Secretary Paulson and Chairman Bernanke have proposed. I just want to make sure that if we’re going to manage this extraordinary risk in the financial sector, we also remain attentive to the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
Harvard's highest academic rank. With Porter as its chairman and CEO, the ICIC has a mission to "spark new thinking about the business potential of inner cities, thereby creating jobs and wealth for inner-city residents." The many... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
(1776). Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55548 Harvard Business School Case 719-456 OTE: Managing in Times of National Crisis (A) In late 2010, Michael Tsamaz was appointed CEO and Chairman of Greek... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8
BartonHarvard Business School Case 410-061 Wayne Leonard became CEO of Entergy in 1999. After serving as CEO for close to eight years, the Entergy Board named Leonard chairman and CEO. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne