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- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
Jazztel into the fastest growing broadband operator in Spain. The case describes how Fernández Pujals designed and managed the board and led Jazztel toward profitable growth. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
of Maine by Colgate—to ascertain what is distinctive about the merger process and to analyze the elements critical to success. We develop suggestions about how other companies considering similar arrangements might best manage the process... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- January 2024
- Supplement
Frank Cornelissen: The Great Sulfite Debate (B)
By: Tiona Zuzul and Susan Pinckney
In 2018, artisanal Italian vineyard Frank Cornelissen was one of the world’s leading natural wine vineyards. Its founder, Frank Cornelissen, faced weather related conditions that forced him to have to decide between staying true to the tenets of the natural wine... View Details
Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Business Earnings; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Business Startups; Family Business; For-Profit Firms; Small Business; Change Management; Transition; Communication; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Values and Beliefs; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Profit; Revenue; Spending; Global Strategy; Goods and Commodities; Innovation Strategy; Crisis Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth Management; Success; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Cognition and Thinking; Reputation; Adoption; Expansion; Weather; Mission and Purpose; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe; Italy
Zuzul, Tiona, and Susan Pinckney. "Frank Cornelissen: The Great Sulfite Debate (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 724-398, January 2024.
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
disproportionate share of power. In the past few decades, as legislation that put controls on Wall Street was largely undone, the size and profits of the financial sector grew enormously. That increased its influence, particularly its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
processes of production and distribution. This was a massive innovation over the older model of a single owner who tried to oversee everything. Under managerial capitalism, ownership became dispersed, but control remained concentrated in the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
exposure to career opportunities in business than they did in areas such as law and medicine. That insight planted the seed for what would become Management Leadership for Tomorrow, or MLT. After leaving HBS, Rice held senior roles at the... View Details
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
accreditation. Also, the use of the LEED standard increased among private builders in the same local markets. "Our paper describes several different ways in which these policies might stimulate private markets for greener building," says Toffel, an associate professor... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
links between gender and ethnic diversity and profit, finding that “companies in the top quartile for gender diversity on their executive teams were 21 percent more likely to experience above-average profitability than companies in the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
of forced dismissal for both CEOs and CFOs during the period 1993-2004. These results are obtained after controlling for several proxies for earnings and stock return performance suggesting that boards appear to penalize managers for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
something lasting,” said Josh Kraft, who is president of Kraft Family Philanthropies. The fund has raised nearly $30 million to support community groups and coalitions that fight racism and racial inequity in Massachusetts. Among its core leadership are Greg Shell (MBA... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
with one of my coworkers, a manager from a different department. He and I had had a wonderful relationship as I was growing up in the business, but now that I had come back and joined the business and had been promoted to manager, I felt... View Details
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
shareholders' economic interests and low corporate profitability, Japan introduced the JPX-Nikkei400 in 2014. The index highlighted the country's "best-run" companies by annually selecting the 400 most profitable of its large and liquid... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
buyout market: RLBOs performed strongly in the late 1980s, the mid-1990s, and the 2000s. Large RLBOs that are backed by private equity firms with more capital under management perform better. We also find the so-called quick flips—when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies (1986-1999) of large U.S. firms and find that increasing competition leads firms to become flatter, i.e., (i) reduce the number of positions between the CEO and division managers (DM), (ii)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online
Who Will Benefit Senior Managers and Consultants Analysts Aspiring Finance Professionals Use financial tools and metrics to inform strategic decision-making and drive business performance. The program expertly leads you through... View Details
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
biased forecasts for potential future employers are more likely to face favorable career outcomes and bank executives appear to profit from the analysts' bias since the bias is associated with higher levels of insider trading. Our results... View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
Management in Beijing. The Harvard Business School Alumni Bulletin recently caught up with McFarlan and asked him to reflect on his experiences in China, and his thoughts about the future of a country he describes as “a fascinating place... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
help senior leaders achieve their goals. Too often, they’re done for short-term gain, but the cost savings are overshadowed by bad publicity, loss of knowledge, weakened engagement, higher voluntary turnover, and lower innovation, which hurt View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
manufacturing. And thanks to the war, Doriot has gained a lifetime of experience in organizing and managing new ventures in a pressure-cooker environment. It is not surprising, then, that the former head of the New England Council's... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
market setting, the transfer price that maximizes a multinational's profits may also be the same one that maximizes the social welfare of the domestic economy that houses it. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-098.pdf... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace