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- August 15, 2014
- Article
Can an Outside CEO Run a Family-Owned Business?
By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
This article explores the intricate dynamics that often characterize family-owned businesses, shedding light on key archetypes that play prominent roles within these organizations. Using a narrative approach, the article illustrates the challenges faced by leaders... View Details
Keywords: Family Ownership; Personal Characteristics; Family and Family Relationships; Management Practices and Processes
Baron, Josh, and Rob Lachenauer. "Can an Outside CEO Run a Family-Owned Business?" Harvard Business Review (website) (August 15, 2014).
- March 2009 (Revised October 2009)
- Case
CalPERS' Emerging Equity Markets Principles
By: Robert G. Eccles and Aldo Sesia
The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CaIPERS)—the largest public pension fund in the U.S.—had adopted a new principles-based approach to investing in emerging market equities in November 2007. Previously, CalPERS internal and external money managers were... View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Investment Return; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Emerging Markets; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Value; Financial Services Industry; Public Administration Industry; China; California
Eccles, Robert G., and Aldo Sesia. "CalPERS' Emerging Equity Markets Principles." Harvard Business School Case 409-054, March 2009. (Revised October 2009.)
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Unilever—A Case Study
the purchase of the toothpaste company Pepsodent in 1944. Expansion into margarine followed with the purchase of a Chicago firm in 1948. The postwar years proved very disappointing for Lever Brothers, for a number of partly related reasons. Countway, on his View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
Publications Civilization: The Six Ways the West Beat the Rest Author: Niall Ferguson Publication: Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Review the book:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2021
- HBS Case
How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves
2001, the once-profitable company lost 8.3 billion euros (equal to $15.1 billion today)—the second-biggest loss of any French company ever. A year later, the company’s debts totaled 71 billion euros, three times the value of the firm. Early View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?
action for executives and boards in America than in Asia. But more common in America are firms that are run by professional managers who are replaced by other professional managers, either as a consequence of retirement or of replacement... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- June 2015 (Revised October 2015)
- Case
High Liner Foods, 2015
By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In 2015, Canadian-based High Liner Foods Ltd was one of North America's largest frozen fish processors with extensive shares of both the food service and retail channels in Canada, the USA and Mexico. With over C$1 billion in revenues, the company had grown four fold... View Details
- 18 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent
They started their working years with guaranteed pensions, strong union protections, a more competitive minimum wage, and spent multiple decades at a single company. However, by the end of their working years, pensions disappeared in favor of a new instrument, the 401k... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 18 Mar 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: LEGO
found itself needing to turn around its turnaround. Outside The Family Enter Jørgen Knudstorp. He was just 35 years old when Kjeld promoted him from director of strategic development to CEO in 2004. (Kjeld retired that same year.) Like... View Details
- 02 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'
be happier, personally, too. As he began to dig into the research, the conclusions were unambiguous: “I needed to retire and dedicate myself to sharing knowledge,” recalls Brooks, who left AEI in 2019. At HBS, he teaches the Leadership... View Details
Keywords: by Dan Morrell
- 19 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023
how Apple's financial model contributes to its success and illustrates a critical lesson about risk management. Mike Wheeler on the Jazz of Negotiation Mike Wheeler, who retired as the MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management Practice,... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 31 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Ben Franklin’s ‘Way to Wealth’ Introduced American Capitalism to the World
before the end of the eighteenth century, but, thanks to the bibliographical research of retired Harvard librarian Kenneth E. Carpenter, we now know there were over 1,100 appearances of Franklin’s The Way to Wealth in at least 26... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 16 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta
taking off. Then COVID hit, and the airline industry went into lockdown, along with the rest of the country. Delta offered early retirement and buyouts to its workforce, and in August 2020, 25 percent—more than 20,000 employees—took the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
may be delayed, or not happen, to the detriment of all parties. Inter-claimholder conflicts played a large role in Navistar International's restructuring. The company had amassed a $2.6 billion liability for the medical expenses of View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Three Components of Family Governance
development policies for family employees. Family compensation. Succession process, including retirement ages. Ownership, including buy-sell agreements. Dividends. Because each of these topics, except ownership, are clearly business... View Details
- 04 Jun 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Can a Continuously-Liquidating Tontine (or Mutual Inheritance Fund) Succeed where Immediate Annuities Have Floundered?
- 2020
- Working Paper
Cutting the Gordian Knot of Employee Health Care Benefits and Costs: A Corporate Model Built on Employee Choice
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Barak D. Richman
The U.S. employer-based health insurance tax exclusion created a system of employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) with limited insurance choices and transparency that may lock employed households into health plans that are costlier or different from those they prefer to... View Details
Keywords: After-tax Income; Consumer-driven Health Care; Health Care Costs; Health Insurance; Income Inequality; Tax Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Insurance; Employees; Income; Taxation; Policy; United States
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Barak D. Richman. "Cutting the Gordian Knot of Employee Health Care Benefits and Costs: A Corporate Model Built on Employee Choice." Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series, No. 2020-4, December 2019. (Revised January 2021.)
- 23 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Strategy-Focused Organization
of dollars of initiatives will be shifted by it. When the changes are integrated into the management system in this way, the change has been institutionalized. The role of the Executive Leadership Team evolved over time. Bob McCool View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 20 Dec 2022
- Op-Ed
Employee Feedback: The Key to Retention During the Great Resignation
well-being of our customers and the people we serve first”—and requires senior teams at every level to foster repeated honest conversations with lower levels about whether their unit is practicing that credo. According to recently retired... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer
- 13 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Case Against Racial Colorblindness
performance Norton says. He cites a recent incident in which several retired high-ranking US military leaders publicly supported a Supreme Court decision in favor of affirmative action in university admissions. "Their point was that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel