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  • 21 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them

Reserve University, Duke University, Peking University, University of Alabama at Birmingham, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Pennsylvania, Vanderbilt Law School and Virginia... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health; Education
  • Web

Labor Practices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

engineering to sales. 32 Labor Practices: Slider United States Steel Corporation. Paths of Opportunity in U.S. Steel. [New York?]: United States Steel Corporation, c. 1947. Courtesy of University of North View Details
  • March 2024
  • Case

Teamworks: Tackling a Forecasting Fumble (A)

By: N. Louis Shipley and Stacy Straaberg
In late March 2018, Teamworks CEO Zach Maurides learned Q1 2018 sales were at risk for a large forecasting miss. Founded in 2004, Teamworks’s software application assisted support staff in messaging, scheduling, and sharing documents with collegiate and professional... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Communication Strategy; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Cycles; Technological Innovation; Sports; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Marketing; Sales; Business Strategy; Expansion; Sports Industry; Technology Industry; United States; North Carolina
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  • 10 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 10

Charlotte region's economic development "energy capital USA" initiative that was announced by North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue, city, and business leaders in April 2009. Five years later, on... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

offering an exemplar of participatory development. CFK's affiliation with University of North Carolina offers a new model of social enterprise. After eight years of success under the founding leadership of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society

by a small start-up either in North Carolina or eastern Tennessee (the drink has two origin myths, he said with a smile), the high-sugar, high-caffeine, low-carbonation beverage battled very competitively... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • May 2024 (Revised February 2025)
  • Case

Lowe's: Improving the Total Home Strategy

By: Elie Ofek, K. Shelette Stewart and Alicia Dadlani
In 2023, Marvin Ellison, CEO of Lowe’s, contemplated enhancements to the company’s Total Home Strategy to accelerate performance and grow market share. In the last five years since becoming CEO, Ellison had championed a turnaround of the company, completing a... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; E-commerce; Competition; Brands and Branding; Business Strategy; Retail Industry; United States; North Carolina
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  • September 2023 (Revised December 2023)
  • Case

Twiddy & Company: Trust in a Chaotic Environment

By: Sandra J. Sucher, Shalene Gupta and Tom Quinn
Twiddy & Company, known for Southern hospitality rooted in personal interactions, needed to adjust to contactless remote customer service as fear of the contagious virus prevented person-to-person contact. Local elected officials, in a bid to stop tourists from... View Details
Keywords: Trust; Health Pandemics; Organizational Culture; Disruption; Government Legislation; Transportation; Tourism Industry; North Carolina; United States
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  • June 2013
  • Supplement

Union Corrugating Co. (A) (Spreadsheet Supplement)

This is the spreadsheet supplement for HBS Case 803065, containing Exhibit 3 as an Excel document. View Details
Keywords: Family-owned Business; Entrepreneurial Organizations; Entrepreneurs; Sales Force Management; Salesforce Management; Operations Management; COST Control; Gender; Careers; Turnaround; Turnarounds; Supply Chain Management; Restructuring; Entrepreneurship; Customer Focus and Relationships; Supply Chain; Steel Industry; Construction Industry; North Carolina; United States
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  • 27 Sep 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

Airlines' daily operations meetings and multiple voicemail updates, or the North Carolina women's soccer team. With many facts on the table and many communication channels open, denial is difficult if not... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • March 2024
  • Supplement

Teamworks: Tackling a Forecasting Fumble (B)

By: N. Louis Shipley, Stacy Straaberg and Tom Quinn
In late March 2018, Teamworks CEO Zach Maurides learned Q1 2018 sales were at risk for a large forecasting miss. Founded in 2004, Teamworks’s software application assisted support staff in messaging, scheduling, and sharing documents with collegiate and professional... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Communication Strategy; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Cycles; Technological Innovation; Sports; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Marketing; Sales; Business Strategy; Expansion; Valuation; Sports Industry; Technology Industry; United States; North Carolina
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  • 05 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 5

supplement:http://hbr.org/search/710023-PDF-ENG Home Nursing of North Carolina Richard S. Ruback and Royce YudkoffHarvard Business School Case 212-120 Ari Medoff's (HBS '11) goal was to control his own... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

When North Carolina governor Pat McCrory recently signed into law the Public Facilities Privacy & Securities Act, in response to a Charlotte city ordinance that, among other things, would have prohibited... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing
  • October 2024
  • Teaching Plan

Teamworks: Tackling a Forecasting Fumble

By: Lou Shipley and Stacy Straaberg
In late March 2018, Teamworks CEO Zach Maurides learned Q1 2018 sales were at risk for a large forecasting miss. Founded in 2004, Teamworks’s software application assisted support staff in messaging, scheduling, and sharing documents with collegiate and professional... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Communication Strategy; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Cycles; Technological Innovation; Sports; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Marketing; Sales; Business Strategy; Expansion; Sports Industry; Technology Industry; United States; North Carolina
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  • December 2006 (Revised June 2013)
  • Teaching Note

Union Corrugating Company (A) and (B)

By: Paul W. Marshall
Teaching Note to 803065 and 804003. View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Competition; Work-Life Balance; Success; Change Management; Management; Construction Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Steel Industry; Boston; North Carolina
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  • 03 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 3

and fast, reliable, and friendly customer service. In November 2010, the CEO Chet Cadieux, had to decide how many new locations to open when QuikTrip entered a new market in North Carolina in 2011.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Videos - Advancing Racial Equity

Candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, presents "What's Race Got to Do... 2018 G&WS: Courtney McCluney presents "Embodied Marginality: Learning through Black Clergywomen's Leadership"... View Details
  • 30 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

and growing difficulties for environmentalists in gaining control of ecosystems through land purchases led these organizations to reassess their opposing strategies. Their 1994 landmark agreement to jointly manage unique forested wetlands in View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
  • November 2003 (Revised August 2006)
  • Case

Union Corrugating Company (B)

By: Paul W. Marshall and Julia Stevens
Lauri Union, president of Union Corrugating Co., has successfully transformed her family's corrugated steel roofing and siding manufacturer into a successful enterprise. Reviews how Union turned the struggling company around and also considers the management structure... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Competition; Work-Life Balance; Success; Change Management; Management Systems; Construction Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Steel Industry; Boston; North Carolina
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  • 24 Jul 2013
  • Op-Ed

Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In

Research Triangle in North Carolina think very hard about focus in order to create a virtuous cycle of complementary successful ventures. The results have been extraordinary. A generation ago, it would have... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber, Robert C. Pozen, Eric D. Werker & Benjamin Kennedy; Auto