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Learn about the difference between leadership and management, and how you can be a more effective leader. Download for Free Strategy E-Book Strengthen your abilities in strategic planning, strategy... View Details
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
product development team is the right exit strategy for their start-up. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/yahoo-both-sides-of-the-stamped-deal/an/814051-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 214-084 School Specialty, Inc. Set in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Cultural Revolution at GE
Jeffrey Immelt (MBA ’82) had a tough act to follow when he took over as GE chairman and CEO in September 2001 from the legendary Jack Welch. Ever since, Immelt has been on a mission to transform the $152 billion industrial and finance... View Details
- April 2025
- Supplement
#FutureFresenius: 'Committed to Life' in 2024 and Beyond (B)
By: David J. Collis, Benjamin C. Esty and Haisley Wert
From February 2024 onward, Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA continued to make progress on the #FutureFresenius transformation that CEO Michael Sen had initiated in October 2022. The company had completed the initial "reset" phase and moved into the "revitalize" portion of the... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Finance; Transformation; Leading Change; Health Industry; United States; Germany
Collis, David J., Benjamin C. Esty, and Haisley Wert. "#FutureFresenius: 'Committed to Life' in 2024 and Beyond (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 725-415, April 2025.
- Profile
Chris Wilson-Byrne
the course cases and in his relationships with section mates, is how the way one presents an idea can be as important as the idea itself. "In order to make things work," he says, "you have to consciously come up with a View Details
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
We propose that firms' corporate governance and firms' strategic business activities within an industry are interlinked. By conducting a simultaneous economic analysis of business strategy and corporate governance, scholars can better... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- August 2024 (Revised October 2024)
- Case
Discerene Group: Long-Term Public-Markets Investing
By: Luis M. Viceira and Brent Schwarz
This case discusses active investing based on fundamental valuations and price distortions created by market events, and whether contractual terms between investment managers and their investors can help align incentives between long-term investors and active managers.... View Details
Keywords: Financial Strategy; Investment Funds; Valuation; Financial Markets; Financial Services Industry; Connecticut
Viceira, Luis M., and Brent Schwarz. "Discerene Group: Long-Term Public-Markets Investing." Harvard Business School Case 225-023, August 2024. (Revised October 2024.)
- October 2010 (Revised January 2012)
- Case
Hony, CIFA, and Zoomlion: Creating Value and Strategic Choices in a Dynamic Market
By: Josh Lerner and Yiwen Jin
The private equity group Hony Capital considers what to do with their investment in Zoomlion, which has been successful to date. The question is whether to take their money off the table or to invest in their acquisition of a large Italian competitor. View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Financial Strategy; Investment; Emerging Markets; Financial Services Industry; China
Lerner, Josh, and Yiwen Jin. "Hony, CIFA, and Zoomlion: Creating Value and Strategic Choices in a Dynamic Market." Harvard Business School Case 811-032, October 2010. (Revised January 2012.)
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures
How does the overconfidence bias (in which entrepreneurs overestimate their own abilities) work in cross-border settings?" As for resources, Kuemmerle also wonders about the interaction between product-market strategy and View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
finance and restructuring, explains the ins and outs of Chapter 11, while Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter focuses on the human element—the need for the new company's leadership to pay attention to its people and corporate culture. A Second... View Details
- December 2005 (Revised November 2006)
- Case
Corning, 2002
By: Malcolm P. Baker and James Quinn
Corning, with large investments in fiber optic technology, was hit particularly hard by the collapse of the telecommunications industry in 2001. With over $4 billion in debt, the firm's survival appears to rest on raising additional equity capital. The protagonist is... View Details
Keywords: Financial Strategy; Financial Condition; Financial Instruments; Valuation; Capital; Public Equity; Stock Shares; Business or Company Management; Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Industrial Products Industry
Baker, Malcolm P., and James Quinn. "Corning, 2002." Harvard Business School Case 206-018, December 2005. (Revised November 2006.)
- 30 May 2018
- News
HBS Fellowship Program Puts an MBA Within Reach
job within Allstate’s leadership development program in Chicago. She later pivoted to personal finance startup NerdWallet in San Francisco, where she realized that colleagues who had the internal strategy... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Perspectives on Success
From finance to flea markets, Class of '73 alums have made their mark in a wide range of endeavors over the past 25 years. For some, a series of random events crystallized into an unexpected opportunity or a new professional direction.... View Details
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Erika Sanchez
Boeing’s Enterprise Auditor Program “gave me broad exposure to different functions, from finance and program management to quality control and investor relations.” “A whole new level you can’t even imagine.” At Boeing, a mentor encouraged... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Prima Datarina
and more experimental pieces, Boston Ballet has to sell tickets, which is easier to do for a Saturday showing of Cinderella, for example, than a Wednesday evening performance of contemporary works. To address that challenge—and engage a broader audience—Hodges turned... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 1989
- Article
Strategic Capital Budgeting: A Financial Approach to Investing for the Long Run
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Strategic Capital Budgeting: A Financial Approach to Investing for the Long Run." Cuadernos económicos de I.C.E. 42, no. 2 (1989).
- 09 Jun 2021
- News
Private Equity’s Mid-Life Crisis
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
have observed. Almost to a person, they treat profit as a by-product of other things to which they devote most of their attention, things such as a focused strategy that delivers results to carefully-selected customers while pursuing... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 17 Nov 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design
managers still need to seek other drivers of creativity. I Want My Functional Experts To Influence High-level Strategy Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer New research by HBS professor Anette Mikes and colleagues looks into how... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun