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  • 12 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 12

514-112 Johnson & Johnson: The Pursuit of Wellness To create the world's healthiest workforce, diversified health care giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J) mandated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 14

Cash coupons and circulars advertising the week's specials, were slow to embrace the new pricing format and began leaving the retailer in droves. Under enormous pressure to turn things around as the all-important back-to-school and holiday shopping seasons were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 1996
  • Case

Del Webb Corporation (A), The

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Samanta Graff
Begins with a company history, tracing the tenures of founder Del E. Webb and his successor as chairman and CEO, Robert H. Johnson. Johnson inherited a diversified company that was involved in construction, real estate development (including the famous Sun City), and... View Details
Keywords: Management Style; Conflict Management; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Succession; Crisis Management
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  • 19 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 19

receiving JCP Cash coupons and circulars advertising the week's specials, were slow to embrace the new pricing format and began leaving the retailer in droves. Under enormous pressure to turn things around as the all-important back-to-school and holiday shopping... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2018
  • Video

HBX Live Case Discussion w/ Professor Steven Rogers

  • 23 Jun 2016
  • News

Good Health is Good for Business

  • October 2012 (Revised February 2013)
  • Case

Jim Johnson's Re-election to the Goldman Sachs Board

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Kelly Baker
The case presents the opposition by a leading institutional investor in Goldman Sachs to the re-election of Jim Johnson to the board of directors of the company. The investor, Sequoia Fund, opposes the re-election citing Jim Johnson's prior track record as the CEO of... View Details
Keywords: Board Of Directors; Corporate Governance; Director Elections; Goldman Sachs; Reputation; Institutional Investing; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Accountability; Banking Industry; New York (city, NY)
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  • April 1980 (Revised September 1985)
  • Background Note

The Disposable Diaper Industry in 1974

By: Michael E. Porter
Describes the rapidly growing disposable diaper industry in 1974, a period in which Procter and Gamble's industry leadership faced strong challenges from Kimberly Clark, Johnson and Johnson, and Union Carbide. The latter two firms were in the process of entry into the... View Details
Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Competition; Consumer Products Industry
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  • April 2006 (Revised May 2009)
  • Case

Inverness Medical Innovations - Born Global (A)

Ron Zwanziger has just started his third company, having just sold the last one for $1.3 billion to Johnson & Johnson. As part of the deal with J&J, certain assets were transferred to the new company, Inverness Medical Innovations, which, at the time of its creation,... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Corporate Finance; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Health Industry; Waltham
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  • June 2023
  • Teaching Note

Connecting Students in Chattanooga (A) and (B)

By: Jan W. Rivkin
Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 722-449 and 722-451. As this case opens, it is the spring of 2020 in Chattanooga. COVID-19 has hit, public schools have closed their buildings, remote learning has begun, and more than 28,000 schoolkids lack the high-quality Internet... View Details
Keywords: K-12 Education; Pandemic; COVID-19; Accessibility; Education; Urban Development; Wealth and Poverty; Internet and the Web; Information Infrastructure; Education Industry; Tennessee
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    Denial: Why Business Leaders Fail to Look Facts in the Face--And What to Do About It (March 2010)

    Denial -- the unconscious belief that a certain fact is too terrible to face and therefore cannot be true -- has torpedoed many good businesses and more than a few great ones. It turns challenges into crises, and dilemmas into catastrophes. It is one of the greatest... View Details

    • May 1986 (Revised February 1989)
    • Case

    Gillette Co.: Dry Idea Advertising (B), The Bake-Off

    Presents the second of two cases describing the struggle to find "the right advertising" for the Dry Idea antiperspirant brand introduced in 1978 by the Gillette Co. and its advertising agency, Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne (BBDO). The case begins with Gillette's... View Details
    Keywords: Advertising; Product Marketing; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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    • May 2010 (Revised September 2013)
    • Case

    Friend Bank: The Time for Hope

    By: Clayton S. Rose and Aldo Sesia
    In 2010, Friend Bank was entering the fifth year of Hope Harris Johnson's ambitious 20-year growth plan to transform her family's one branch community bank into an institution with a substantial presence in southeastern Alabama. Harris Johnson was pleased, so far, with... View Details
    Keywords: Family Business; Financial Crisis; Banks and Banking; Growth and Development Strategy; Risk Management; Family Ownership; Competitive Advantage; Banking Industry; Alabama
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      Louis T. Wells

      Professor Louis T. Wells is the Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management at the Harvard Business School. He has served as consultant to governments of a number of developing countries, as well as to international organizations and private firms. His... View Details

      Keywords: mining; telecommunications; utilities

        Roy D. Shapiro

        Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

        • 18 Aug 2008
        • Research & Ideas

        How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education

        innovation, which is our field of specialty, proved a great way to help us do just that." Christensen, Horn, and Johnson recently teamed up via e-mail to answer a few questions from HBS Working Knowledge on the best paths to better... View Details
        Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
        • April 2014
        • Supplement

        Ingrid Johnson: Reflections on Leading Change

        By: Michael Tushman
        This case discusses the issue of leading change at the business banking division of Nedbank, a prominent South African bank, between 2005 and 2009. (This timeframe, beginning just 11 years after Apartheid's end, covers Ingrid Johnson's leadership of this division... View Details
        Keywords: Leading Change; Restructuring; Personal Development and Career; Commercial Banking; Banking Industry; South Africa
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        • May 2013 (Revised April 2015)
        • Case

        Ron Johnson: Retail at Target, Apple, and J.C. Penney

        By: Das Narayandas, Kerry Herman and Lisa Mazzanti
        In April 2013, Ron Johnson (HBS '84) stepped down after just 18 months as CEO of J.C. Penney. In his brief tenure, Johnson, an acclaimed retailer respected for his innovation and success in shaping the retail image at Target and Apple, introduced dramatic departures... View Details
        Keywords: Change Management; Innovation Leadership; Situation or Environment; Failure; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Retail Industry; United States
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        • July 2012 (Revised August 2012)
        • Case

        Friend Bank: The Time for Hope (Abridged)

        By: Clayton Rose and Aldo Sesia
        In 2010, Friend Bank was entering the fifth year of Hope Harris Johnson's ambitious 20-year growth plan to transform her family's one-branch community bank into an institution with a substantial presence in southeastern Alabama. Harris Johnson was pleased, so far, with... View Details
        Keywords: Banking; Family Business; Strategy And Execution; Banks and Banking; Family Ownership; Financial Institutions; Strategy; Banking Industry; United States; Alabama
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        • July 2018
        • Teaching Note

        Ron Johnson: A Career in Retail

        By: Ryan Raffaelli
        In April 2013, Ron Johnson (HBS '84) stepped down after just 18 months as CEO of J.C. Penney. In his brief tenure, Johnson, an acclaimed retailer respected for his innovation and success in shaping the retail image at Target and Apple, introduced dramatic departures... View Details
        Keywords: Leadership; Leadership Development; Legal Industry; Procurement; Professional Service Firms; Pricing; Competition; Organizational Behavior; Change Management; Innovation Leadership; Situation or Environment; Failure; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Retail Industry; United States
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