Corporate Values - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Mar 2014
News

The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain

predict their future purchasing activities in ways never before possible. The information is then sold to corporate marketers. Combining that capability with input from social media, such as a partnership with Facebook that Acxiom... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

21 May 2018
News

Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area

nonprofits a year,” either through direct engagement or in pro-bono brainstorming sessions. “It’s a wonderful way to give back,” says Club President Jan Gullet (MBA 1977). “We’ve done the research. Our members tell us what they value most... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Feb 1997
News

Doing It Your Way

larger corporate setting? Yes, say a number of HBS professors, including Rosabeth Moss Kanter, MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Business Administration, who is currently researching "intrapreneurship." The term, she says, refers both to... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso (profiles by Linda Goodspeed, Elaine Gottlieb, Nancy O. Perry, and Judith A. Ross)

15 Jun 2021
News

Turning Point: Tell Me More

jumped in. One day I was running a company, with an office and employees and a grand strategy, and shortly thereafter, I was sitting alone in my home office, interviewing Americans about how they were voting and why, digging into everything from how they grew up to how... View Details

Keywords: politics; communication; voting; demographics

11 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 11, 2007

Development, edited by Thomas G. Cummings. Sage Publications, Inc., 2007 Abstract When it comes to transforming big corporations, there are two fundamentally different strategies, says Harvard Business School professor Michael Beer. He calls these Theory E and Theory O... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions

for corporate groups in Latin America from working within protected economies and industries to being completely open to the global economy," he said. "We're going to have to be much more entrepreneurial than we were in the... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

01 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 1

Publications August 2013 Delaware Journal of Corporate Law Delaware's Choice By: Subramanian, Guhan Abstract—This article first documents the shift to annual elections of all directors at most U.S. View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Apr 2001
What Do You Think?

Dot.Com Shakeout: Chess or Roulette?

indeed survive—as always. In his words, "Out of every disaster, you can create an opportunity. The shake-up is realignment in the offing, the Internet still provides a window of opportunity. The only problem is that to remain competitive in this cut-throat... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jun 1998
News

HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector

academics, and business leaders, including former Goldman Sachs cochairman and Deputy Secretary of State John C. Whitehead (MBA 11/'47), the driving force behind the Initiative on Social Enterprise at HBS. Also taking part were more than a dozen CEOs and senior View Details

January 2025
Supplement

Negotiating a Legacy at Sustainable Harvest (B)

By: Jillian Jordan, Julian Zlatev, Alicia Dadlani and Martha Hostetter

The specialty coffee importer Sustainable Harvest was the first certified B Corp in the coffee industry due to its investments in building coffee farmers’ capacity and livelihood. But in 2022, after coffee prices plummeted and the company’s bank declined to extend its... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Trust; Ethics; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Volatility; Futures and Commodity Futures; Social Enterprise; Valuation; Business Model; Credit; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Food and Beverage Industry; United States; Europe

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18 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’

and an hourly countdown clock. Trouble was, the launch violated eBay's well-established corporate project-development processes. When the treasure hunt began, 10 million contestants logged on, crashing the local servers. Justus, eBay's... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

02 Oct 2008
What Do You Think?

Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?

mundane topics that were candidates for this month's column. Clearly, an inability to identify and evaluate risk has led to an inability to value assets. What follows is the failure of "fair value... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Sep 2008
News

Building a Better MBA

skills tied to specific disciplinary knowledge that are increasingly vacuous and superfluous.” And HBS professor Rakesh Khurana contends that many business schools have been complicit in creating recent corporate scandals by turning out... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

10 Feb 2022
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs

Why did you choose to attend an HBCU? I come from a strong HBCU family. My grandmother, mother, and many other members of my family have attended HBCUs. I knew from an early age the value of an HBCU education as well as the importance... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

Jane Austen and Anthony Trollope teach us about risk management? How does Mel Brooks’s The Producers illustrate the problem of corporate governance? And what’s the real lesson to be gleaned on value creation... View Details

08 Jan 2001
What Do You Think?

Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?

Summing Up "What we are looking at is a fundamental challenge to our assumptions about which corporate structures work," commented Daniel Hayes in response to the recent piece on the future bounds of the organization. Raman... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 1999
News

The Way You See It

a giant in a way few have and redesigned what a major corporation can be," as one alumnus put it. Added another, "Welch's vision of a nonbureaucratic large organization makes GE the business everyone wants to copy or raid for talent."... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons. Data collection by Ericka Webb.

01 Mar 2013
News

Opening the Door

particularly the unique roles leaders play in developing and implementing strategy; the means organizations use to create value across multiple lines of business; and issues related to corporate boards of... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management

July 1984 (Revised September 1986)
Case

CML Group, Inc.: Going Public (A)

By: William A. Sahlman

Describes a series of decisions confronting Charles Leighton, co-founder and chairman of the CML Group. CML is a successful participant in the leisure time industry with two lines of business: specialty retailing and recreational consumer products. The key issues in... View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Going Public; Strategy; Business or Company Management; Cost vs Benefits; SWOT Analysis; Investment Banking; Financing and Loans; Planning; Corporate Finance; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry

Citation

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March 2021 (Revised November 2022)
Case

Blue Meridian Partners (A): Scaling for Impact

By: V. Kasturi Rangan

In 2018, Edna McConnell Clark Foundation in a bold move transferred all its assets to a fund pooled with other General Partners and Limited Partners, called Blue Meridian Partners, to focus substantial long range investments in a few carefully chosen nonprofits.The... View Details