Board - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

and the Board was anachronistic, and contributed to the fragmentation of Unilever's post-war organization between Britain and the Continent. By securing that Board, and ultimately Special Committee, meetings were held in both Rotterdam... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

17 Jun 2011
HBS Case

KFC’s Explosive Growth in China

brought on board were also close in a way Shelman found surprising when she spent time with them when researching the case. "There was huge camaraderie evident in the way that the top management team interacted with each other they... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Food & Beverage

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Loeb House | About

substantial gift from his company in 1966 to create the John L. Loeb Fellowship Fund, awarded annually to the top students in finance, as well as the funds needed to renovate the building that now bears the family’s name. Loeb participated in Harvard’s governance as a... View Details

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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership

circuit boards replace transistor technology First ATM installed Influence: Medium 70 1970 s 19 Beginning of biotech industry Fiber-optic wire Pong (first video game) UPC bar code Supercomputer Influence: Medium-Low 80 1980 s 19 Software... View Details

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Online Management Course | HBS Online

Networking Group and gain exclusive access to events and other networking opportunities. Description of silent animated video above: Learner types an answer in the discussion board in response to a peer's question Immerse yourself in... View Details

01 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: Nov. 1

Chancery Court was considering a suit claiming that Del Monte board members had breached their fiduciary duty to shareholders by not pursuing the best transaction for Del Monte. In the course of the discovery phase of the trial, the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2021
News

Fueling the Faculty Pipeline

distinction as a Baker Scholar. He has served on the Board of Dean’s Advisors and various class committees, kept in touch with classmates, and was the subject of an HBS case study about Blackstone’s investment in the footwear company... View Details

Steven C. Wheelwright

Steve Wheelwright is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School.

Following his retirement from HBS in 2006, he served with former Dean Kim B. Clark at BYU-Idaho and then from 2007-2015 he served as... View Details

December 2007
Article

Bankers, Industrialists, and Their Cliques: Elite Networks in Mexico and Brazil during Early Industrialization

By: Aldo Musacchio and Ian Read

The historiographies of Mexico and Brazil have implicitly stated that business networks were crucial for the initial industrialization of these two countries. Recently, differing visions on the importance of business networks have arisen. In the case of Mexico, the... View Details

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Networks; Business History; Market Entry and Exit; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Financial Markets; Supply and Industry; Banks and Banking; Brazil; Mexico

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31 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’

a broader pool, researchers used machine learning, and turned to data firm Burning Glass Technologies, which sifts through tens of thousands of online job boards and company websites. The authors examined some 15 million job postings from... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

02 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

your agent may not be enough. For example, top executive pay attorney Joe Bachelder once took his client aside after the first negotiating session. The board had selected his client to be its next CEO and was working out his compensation... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 May 2017
News

Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA 1979

Petroleum. Ogunlesi arrived at Oxford having graduated at the top of his class at Kings College, the prestigious boarding school in his native Nigeria. “At Oxford, we were assigned an essay and then spent two hours discussing it with our... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

02 Feb 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the Private Sector

Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter; Financial Services

Graphic Packaging: Project Cowboy

In July 2019, Graphic Packaging CEO Michael Doss was proposing a $600 million investment in a new machine to produce coated recycled board (CRB), a type of paper packaging used for consumer products (cups, cereal boxes, beverage boxes, etc.) that utilized recycled... View Details

09 Feb 2021
News

Investing in Entrepreneurship

the rest of the world saw their value. At the same time, he avoided the spotlight, doing deals behind the scenes and helping entrepreneurs achieve their goals. While he is proud of Venrock’s success stories—including a $300,000 investment in Apple (where he served on... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Jan 2012
News

E. Roe Stamps IV, MBA 1974

most of his days with a 40-mile bike ride with a group of friends, and among the boards on which he sits are the University of Miami and the Knight Foundation. In addition, their son and daughter live nearby, making for regular family... View Details

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General Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Entrepreneurial Management) Michael S. Kaufman , Andy Pforzheimer Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders (also listed under Accounting & Management) Robert Simons Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Corporate Governance and View Details

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Matthew C. Weinzierl | About

Commission, the board of the National Tax Association, and on the editorial boards of Social Choice and Welfare and National Tax Journal . Prior to completing his PhD in economics at Harvard University in... View Details

28 Jan 2020
Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

doing it to have something to talk about at cocktail parties? There was paranoia about her role in going to schools to sign up principals. Was she a spy? (She understood that a recent appointment to the state board of education might... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 Dec 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

How to Design a Better Customer Experience

everything (rebooking flights, notifying the airline, checking on our luggage). Forty-five minutes later, we were boarding the next flight.” Trust your customers, take immediate action, and do not blame them. “After a long trip to India,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Entertainment & Recreation

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