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- September 2004 (Revised October 2004)
- Case
Pat Anderson
By: Leslie A. Perlow and Daisy Wademan
Patten Bank's pending sale jeopardizes Pat Anderson's prospect of receiving an expected year-end bonus. What to do now? This problem follows several earlier conflicts that Anderson has confronted during the past four-and-one-half years spent working as an analyst and... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Conflict Management; Power and Influence; Executive Compensation; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
Perlow, Leslie A., and Daisy Wademan. "Pat Anderson." Harvard Business School Case 405-033, September 2004. (Revised October 2004.)
- February 2001 (Revised April 2001)
- Case
CDC Capital Partners
By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
In 2001, CDC Capital Partners is facing the greatest challenge in its 53-year history. Founded as part of the U.K. government's post-war colonial reconstruction, it had operated as a developmental finance institution, largely issuing debt to the world's poorest... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Private Equity; Emerging Markets; Cost vs Benefits; Mergers and Acquisitions; Partners and Partnerships; Financial Institutions; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom
Hardymon, G. Felda, Josh Lerner, and Ann Leamon. "CDC Capital Partners." Harvard Business School Case 801-333, February 2001. (Revised April 2001.)
- August 2014 (Revised March 2016)
- Case
Thomas Cook Group on the Brink (A)
By: Benjamin C. Esty, Stuart C. Gilson and Aldo Sesia
Harriett Green, the newly appointed CEO of Thomas Cook Group, faces a daunting set of business and financial challenges at the 171-year old UK travel services company. The company has lost almost £600 million in the last three quarters; has seen its stock price fall... View Details
Keywords: Turnaround; Corporate Restructuring; Change Leadership; Female Ceo; Change Management; Communication Strategy; Borrowing and Debt; Cash Flow; Cost Management; Financial Liquidity; Financial Management; Executive Compensation; Leading Change; Crisis Management; Value Creation; Travel Industry; United Kingdom
Esty, Benjamin C., Stuart C. Gilson, and Aldo Sesia. "Thomas Cook Group on the Brink (A)." Harvard Business School Case 215-008, August 2014. (Revised March 2016.)
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
countries generally lack a solid technology base of trained scientists and world-class research universities. 2. Companies in developing countries must manage to eke out a profit while serving customers with low disposable income; per... View Details
- Profile
Frank Spencer
present value on a financial analysis? Absolutely," he says. "But I think one way that HBS has shaped me as a leader is by showing that the right technical answer might not do you much good at all if you can't also manage the... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
Mediva (for Medical Innovation and Value-Added). The medical branch remains a legally separate nonprofit, according to Japanese regulation, but in practice the two entities operate as one: Mediva handles management across both companies,... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
China. “I have no regrets,” he adds, “because I learned so much from that experience.” Now working in strategic planning for Philip Morris International’s China operations, Klump is part of a small management team whose eleven members... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
SEAS Complex Reaches for a New Frontier
the Charles River. The development of the new complex was made possible in part by a $400 million SEAS endowment established in 2015 by John A. Paulson (MBA 1980), founder and president of the investment management firm Paulson & Co.... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries
they'd never hired a Harvard MBA before." Initially denied an on-campus interview with Apple due to her lack of experience, Dubinsky persevered and succeeded in meeting informally with the company's recruiter. Soon afterward, she became the Apple View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
David M. Hughes
HBS administrative committees and on the Harvard Graduate Council, helping to plan University-wide events such as a "Fun Run" to benefit inner-city youth. Explaining how he managed to do it all while... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Less Risk, More Reward
Your research explores entrepreneurship and the social safety net. What is the connection between those two things? I look at whether stronger social safety net benefits make it more likely for people to start a business. For instance,... View Details
Keywords: April White; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training
- Web
1.6 Degree Requirements | MBA
achievement implies the following three conditions for the award of the MBA degree: The candidate must possess the basic intellectual capacity to have benefited from the academic work of the MBA Program, and to continue to grow in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting
reporting of financial and nonfinancial performance in order to improve sustainable strategy. HBS senior lecturer Robert G. Eccles and coauthor Michael P. Krzus explain the benefits and value of the One Report method. Plus: book excerpt.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 11 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Venture Capital
Director and Career Coach Katja Frey – Recruiting Relations Manager Together, Jonathan and Katja make up the Career & Professional Development team that manages relationships with venture capital firms... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
African nations, as in the United States, a key role of government is the funding, construction, and maintenance of the public infrastructure that benefits everyone. This obviously is not being accomplished to an adequate degree by... View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bringing the Environment Down to Earth
well as better bottom-line results. Environmental questions are cause for pessimism. In most arenas, successful managers search for opportunity in adversity and find in complex problems a chance to separate their companies from... View Details
Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt
- Web
Employer Reimbursement Options | HBS Online
Course Catalog Acceptance Letter* Letter of Enrollment* Letter Confirming Course Completion* *Can be provided on request from our Support Portal . Step 3: Talk to Your Manager Get your manager on-board with... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Monaco's Digital Transformation
Genta manages 5 percent of the state budget and a staff of 270. His ministry oversees the telecom industry and digital improvements in smart city initiatives, education, and health care, as well as programs and partnerships View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
critical to enable brands to manage this risk.” Toffel’s second study, Monitoring Global Supply Chains with Short and Georgetown University McDonough School of Business Professor (and former HBS doctoral student) Andrea R. Hugill, looks... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
information-driven model by gaining a better understanding of product and customer relationships." Dean Vella cited Walmart's innovation in supply chain management and sustainability as ways in which it is reducing the friction... View Details