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  • 06 Aug 2021
  • News

Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO

  • May 2017 (Revised February 2024)
  • Case

Battle for the Soul of Capitalism: Unilever and the Kraft Heinz Takeover Bid (A)

By: William W. George and Amram Migdal
This case describes Kraft Heinz Company’s (KHC) February 2017 unsolicited $143 billion takeover offer to acquire Unilever. The offer was made to Unilever CEO Paul Polman by KHC chairman Alexandre Behring, who was also co-founder and CEO of Brazilian-based 3G Capital... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Value Creation; Decision Choices and Conditions
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PRIDE

Keywords: Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
  • Article

Timing is Everything: The Importance of Finding the Right Moment in Leading Teams

Great team leaders have superb timing. We explore in this article two different types of timing that leaders need to help their teams. First, they understand when teams are naturally open to help, and what kinds of help to give teams at predictable times in... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Groups and Teams; Leadership Style
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  • March 2010 (Revised June 2010)
  • Case

Malden Mills (A) (Abridged)

By: Nitin Nohria and Thomas R. Piper
CEO Aaron Feuerstein of Malden Mills decided to pay idled workers after a massive fire at his mill in 1995. Focuses on the decisions made post-fire and the rebuilding process and eventual bankruptcy of the company. Also outlines creditors' struggle to decide whether to... View Details
Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financing and Loans; Employees; Leadership; Crisis Management; Social Issues; Manufacturing Industry; Massachusetts
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Harvard Business Analytics Program

By: Michael L. Tushman

The Harvard Business Analytics Program is offered through a collaboration between Harvard Business School (HBS), the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS).

Designed for... View Details

  • Apr 25 2012
  • Testimonial

OPM: Learning That Transforms

  • Oct 30 2018
  • Tout

Build a Competitive Advantage With HBS in India

    Entrepreneurs, Managers, and Leaders

    Entrepreneurs, Managers and Leaders examines the role that business leaders play in shaping industries and how evolving industries shape leaders.  This co-evolutionary process of leadership and industry development is told through the dynamic story of the... View Details

    • 27 Jun 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

    cash for electronic value and vice versa, forming the backbone of an emerging electronic currency ecosystem that has potential to connect millions of poor and “unbanked" people to the formal financial system. Unfortunately, low service... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Research Summary

    Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)

    By: Sandra J. Sucher

    In this research I develop cases and articles that provide thought-provoking, real-world examples of the ways in which social identity differences emerge and are managed in the workplace, and the skills needed to constructively engage with differences to create and... View Details

    Keywords: Diversity; Equity; Social Issues
    • 02 Mar 2020
    • What Do You Think?

    Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?

    studied. They were the ones who “look out the window to apportion credit to factors outside themselves when things go well [and] look in the mirror to apportion responsibility when things go poorly.” These are research-based ideas that are being taught today in View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 03 Aug 2016
    • What Do You Think?

    How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?

    example, Pilgrim commented that the need for leadership is highly overrated. “We build structures with a slot at the top and the result is an implied need for leadership.” If our organizations were more fashioned like a networks,... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
    • August 2018
    • Case

    Enfoca: Private Equity in Peru

    By: Victoria Ivashina and Jeffrey Boyar
    This case follows Enfoca, Peru’s largest local private equity firm and its portfolio company Maestro, a leading player in Peru’s hardware retail market. Peru’s GDP growth between 2008 and 2014 was the highest of any Latin American country. Growth of the Peruvian middle... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Emerging Markets; Capital Markets; Transition; Strategy; Peru
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      Rawi E. Abdelal

      Rawi Abdelal is the Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management at Harvard Business School, the Emma Bloomberg Co-Chair of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, and the European Faculty Chair of Harvard Business School’s Global... View Details

        Shikhar Ghosh

        Shikhar Ghosh is a Professor of Management Practice in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. He currently teaches in the elective curriculum and is the course head for 3 Technologies that will Change the World. Shikhar received the Apgar Award for innovation in... View Details

        • 12 Apr 2004
        • Research & Ideas

        What Great American Leaders Teach Us

        What is the history of the Great American Business Leaders database? A: The Leadership Initiative rests on three avenues of research—legacy leadership, emerging leadership, and global leadership. The Great... View Details
        Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
        • 23 Dec 2014
        • Research & Ideas

        The Founder of Modern Venture Capital

        Georges F. Doriot, an educator and a founder of the modern venture capital industry, is the subject of a new exhibition and website at Harvard Business School, where he spent 40 years. The charismatic professor taught business and View Details
        Keywords: Education; Financial Services

          Trevor Fetter

          Trevor Fetter is a Senior Lecturer and the Henry B. Arthur Fellow on the faculty of Harvard Business School. He teaches two MBA required courses: Leadership and Corporate Accountability, and Financial Reporting and Control. At HBS he has also taught a Short... View Details

            Andy Zelleke

            Andy Zelleke is the MBA Class of 1962 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. A member of the General Management unit, he is the Faculty Chair of HBS’ Middle East & North Africa Research Center.

            Since Spring 2021, Dr. Zelleke has taught “Unpacking... View Details

            Keywords: federal government; professional services; defense; financial services