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- February 1994
- Case
Kathryn McNeil (A)
Charles Foley, vice president of the computer retailing firm Sayer MicroWorld, must decide whether or not to fire his employee, Kathryn McNeil, a 37-year-old product manager who has been unable to work as many hours as her colleagues due to her status as a single... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Employees; Work-Life Balance; Resignation and Termination; Mergers and Acquisitions; Retail Industry
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr. "Kathryn McNeil (A)." Harvard Business School Case 394-111, February 1994.
- February 1998
- Case
Lyondell Petrochemical Company
By: Jay W. Lorsch and Daniel P. Erikson
In August 1994, Lyondell Petrochemical Co.'s corporate parent and largest single shareholder effectively shed its stock, resulting in the resignation of 5 of its 11 directors. The remaining outside directors immediately acted to overhaul the executive compensation plan... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Design; Business or Company Management; Management Teams; Mining Industry
Lorsch, Jay W., and Daniel P. Erikson. "Lyondell Petrochemical Company." Harvard Business School Case 498-028, February 1998.
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Babies
commercial business," Spar said. "I think this is wrong. The demands of the parent will outweigh political and moral opposition." However, those who want to succeed in the market need to fight to shape property, privacy,... View Details
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
probably in some sense the most objective in that regard. The one thing that none of them rank well, which is something that parents care about enormously, is teaching. Teaching and education, inspiration, mentorship—not a View Details
- July 2020 (Revised January 2021)
- Case
Pattern Brands
By: Sunil Gupta, Elie Ofek and Julia Kelley
In March 2020, direct-to-consumer (DTC) company Pattern Brands needed to decide how to allocate resources across its different brands. Pattern Co-Founders Nick Ling and Emmett Shine hoped to avoid the pitfalls faced by some DTC companies—such as inability to scale and... View Details
Keywords: Direct-to-consumer; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Business Model; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Demand and Consumers; Business Strategy; Diversification; Competitive Advantage; Consumer Products Industry; Retail Industry; North and Central America; United States; New York (city, NY); New York (state, US)
Gupta, Sunil, Elie Ofek, and Julia Kelley. "Pattern Brands." Harvard Business School Case 521-009, July 2020. (Revised January 2021.)
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
Pincus Ventures. The buyout would rid the division of a "bad" parent and place the division's destiny in its own hands. A recently instituted restructuring plan seemed likely to improve profitability, but the turnaround was in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
From P.T. Barnum to Mary Kay: Lessons From 5 Leaders Who Changed the World
backroom of a Vermont saloon in 1898, Wilson was drawn to drinking after his parents divorced, leaving him with grandparents and a deep insecurity that he didn’t belong. Driven and charismatic, but falling down drunk much of the time, the... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 17 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
With Subscription Fatigue Setting In, Companies Need to Think Hard About Fees
over the past decade, according to coauthor Amy Konary, senior vice president of the Subscribed Institute & Marketing Strategy at Zuora. Consider companies like the cloud storage provider Dropbox; Apple, which charges monthly for cloud storage, music, and more; and... View Details
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
5,760 persons voluntarily opted for hypertension screening and received a single blood pressure measurement. In all, 1,783 (33.6%) screened positive, of whom 1,580 were previously unaware of their diagnosis. Of the 303 that previously had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
that these are the most difficult times in memory for many, if not most people. Parents struggle to balance the demands of remote work and homeschooling. Employees who live alone strain to stay focused while isolated from loved ones and... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
- 18 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Not Nagging: Why Persistent, Redundant Communication Works
It's the rare child who follows a parent's order to do an unpleasant task the first time she's asked. Upon second request, she might listen, but again ignore the prod. It's often the third time, a more urgent "Brush your teeth, now," that does the trick. Most... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
because parents are trapped if their children are at home. And in inner cities, for example, a lot of parents rely on the schools to feed their children: breakfast, lunch, and often snack after school. So we... View Details
- 24 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit
olfactory system is a powerful sensory source of both memory and pleasure and thus easily embedded into the habit loop,” the researchers explain in the paper. The experiment included 3,763 young children and their parents in 2,943... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team
offices, kitchen tables, and bedrooms. Parents suddenly needed to juggle homeschooling while learning how to be effective remote workers. Working from home during a global pandemic has introduced new formats, patterns, challenges, and... View Details
Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
able to spend that kind of money. So, every single one of those potential barriers was eliminated in the design. Kanter: You're talking about doing radical change in a fairly conservative way. That's one of my principles of making change.... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
investment in Duck Creek Technologies, a technology provider for property & casualty insurance companies. The deal required a complex carve-out from Accenture, Duck Creek’s parent organization, and several operational improvements to... View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
businesses. The strategy literature uses real option theory to explain the transition to scale, but does not consider the complex relationships between corporate ventures and their parent organizations. By comparing six longitudinal cases... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
Michael Roberto: My parents are Italian immigrants, and my family back in Tuscany and the Campania region of Italy continue to make their own wine. Therefore, I've always had an interest in the wine-making process. A few years ago, when... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-012.pdf Doing What the Parents Want? The Effect of the Local Information Environment on the Investment Decisions of Multinational Corporations Authors:Nemit O. Shroff, Rodrigo S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
a book about immigrant entrepreneurs from the 1790s to the present day, and planned to begin with Alexander Hamilton. It turns out that he was more of a policymaker than an entrepreneur, but if I had to single out one person as the most... View Details