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  • 20 Jun 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono

other influential politicians. Bono and Bobby Shriver helped form the political advocacy organizations DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa) and ONE, and the fundraising group (RED) to fight disease, poverty, and hunger in Africa. He also used his fame and understanding of... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 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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  • 19 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers

In Journalists and the Stock Market, published in the 2012 the Review of Financial Studies, Parsons analyzed the effects of these different perspectives along with colleagues Casey Dougal of Drexel University, Diego García of the University of View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Information; Publishing
  • 18 Aug 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Courageous Leader Triggers a Moral Revolt of CEOs Against Trump

of America’s leading CEOs, Merck’s Ken Frazier, who grew up in inner-city Philadelphia and whose grandfather was a South Carolina slave born before the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. Frazier was deeply troubled last Saturday after the... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 26 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities

Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Maryland, and Michigan, were all established between 2005 and 2015 to allow time for the researchers to study how the firms fared in getting to market. The researchers focused explicitly on... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Biotechnology; Health
  • January 2010
  • Teaching Note

Real Property Negotiation Game (TN)

By: Arthur I Segel, John Vogel and Justin Seth Ginsburgh
Teaching Note for [209031], [209032], [209034], [209036], [209037], [209038], and [209039]. View Details
Keywords: Real Estate Industry; Raleigh; Las Vegas
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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
  • 19 Apr 2016
  • Blog Post

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

Business School and Bradley R. Staats (HBS MBA '02, DBA '09) of the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School. "It was interesting for us to think about how part of your identity seems... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 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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  • 01 Jun 2018
  • News

Up by the Roots

be crippling. As Walt Frye (MBA 2000), an angel investor and fintech startup mentor in Charlotte, North Carolina—itself a burgeoning fintech hub—puts it: “Density breeds success.” Consequently, the fintech startup community in New York... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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  • April 2025
  • Case

Campbell's Recipe for Advancing School Nutrition

By: Hise O. Gibson, F. Christopher Eaglin and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
In 2021, The Campbell’s Company launched Full Futures, a collective impact initiative aimed at advancing school nutrition environments in underserved communities. The program started in Camden, NJ—home to Campbell’s headquarters—and later expanded to Charlotte, NC, and... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Education; Nutrition; Social Enterprise; Business and Community Relations; Decision Making; Operations; Partners and Partnerships; Food and Beverage Industry; New Jersey; North Carolina; Pennsylvania
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  • 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
  • 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