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  • July 2010
  • Case

Fidelity Retires in Canada

By: Robert C. Pozen and Edward Warren Scott
The head of Fidelity Canada was faced with a decision about what to do with its retirement business there. Although Fidelity as a fund manager has made some headway in Canada, the competition has been very tough for the administration of retirement plans—a separate... View Details
Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Investment Funds; Globalized Firms and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Retirement; Competition; Financial Services Industry; Canada; United States
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  • 28 Mar 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

Between 1990 and 2008, the US economy added 27 million jobs. Ninety-eight percent of them were in nontradable activities. This is another way of saying that most American job growth has come in sectors where US workers don't compete... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing
  • 12 May 2023
  • News

Alabama's Yella Fella

Photo credit: Auburn University Photo credit: Auburn University In 1970, Jimmy Rane (OPM 11, 1986) took over a tiny treated-lumber business in Abbeville, Alabama, that was hovering near bankruptcy. Its owners, Rane's in-laws, had died... View Details
Keywords: Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods; Wholesale Trade
  • 22 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading

says Harvard Business School’s Frank V. Cespedes, the MBA Class of 1973 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. “Every company has examples of people who persist in their behaviors as salespeople, and as... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • October 2021
  • Case

Esquel Group: Turning Crises into Transformation

By: William C. Kirby, Adina Wong, Noah B. Truwit and John McHugh
Focuses on a Hong Kong-based, globally-established textile and apparel manufacturer and its experience in navigating turbulent geopolitical environments. Identifies ways the company has pursued business priorities while upholding its sustainability values. View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Manufacturing Industry; China; Hong Kong
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  • 11 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

  PublicationsBeing the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader Authors:Linda A. Hill and Kent Lineback Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2011 Abstract You never dreamed being the boss would be so hard. You're caught in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Article

Strategic Networks and Entrepreneurial Ventures

Much research suggests that social networks shape the emergence and development of nascent ventures. Scholars have argued that founders' and firms' networks influence innovation and the identification of entrepreneurial opportunities, as well as facilitate the... View Details
Keywords: Social and Collaborative Networks; Innovation and Invention; Opportunities; Value; Body of Literature; Research; Outcome or Result; Business Ventures; Entrepreneurship; Relationships; Management Practices and Processes; Power and Influence
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  • 02 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Salary Negotiations: A Catch-22 for Women

much as possible while still allowing many of the benefits of negotiation to come through.” About the Author Kristen Senz is the growth editor of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image:... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 10 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

can we deleverage our government and still foster growth in the economy? This downgrade is unlikely to have a material negative impact on Treasury rates, at least in the short run. The real danger is to the psychology of View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 15 Nov 2022
  • Op-Ed

Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)

the internet. We wrote a series of Harvard Business School case studies between 2009 and 2011 exploring viral videos—United Breaks Guitars, the JK Wedding Dance, and how Ford used influencers to launch the Fiesta car. What struck us right... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
  • 2005
  • Other Unpublished Work

Corporate Financing Decisions When Investors Take the Path of Least Resistance

By: Malcolm Baker, Joshua Coval and Jeremy Stein
We explore the consequences for corporate financial policy that arise when investors exhibit inertial behavior. One implication of investor inertia is that, all else equal, a firm pursuing a strategy of equity-financed growth will prefer a stock-for-stock merger to... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Behavior; Stocks; Mergers and Acquisitions; Policy; Investment; Financial Institutions; Equity; Corporate Finance
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  • 22 Oct 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate

Setting the right sales targets for employees is a difficult balancing act, with long-term consequences on growth and morale. Setting a target too low, making it easily achievable, might cause an an employee to not put in the effort.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 14 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Andy Grove on the Confident Leader

through the confusion to identify the next peak that the company should be moving toward? When they're not sure where they're going, how can they guide and inspire others? Grove, author most recently of Swimming Across (Warner Books, 2001), sat down with Harvard View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kiechel; Technology
  • 15 Feb 2024
  • News

Startup Shepherds

By their count, Catalina Daniels and Jim Sherman (both MBA 1991) listened to approximately 300 startup pitches in 2016, the first year the HBS classmates worked side by side as angel investors in New York. “You meet a lot of very smart people, with what sound like good... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • October 2023
  • Case

Vida Health: Transforming Chronic Disease Treatment

By: William Sahlman and Nicole Tempest Keller
San Francisco based Vida Health, founded by Stephanie Tilenius, former vice president of Commerce and Payments at Google, was a B2B digital health startup focused on the treatment of cardiometabolic conditions, such as diabetes and obesity. Its innovative digital... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Demand and Consumers; Health Care and Treatment; Product Marketing; Risk and Uncertainty; Technological Innovation; Health Industry; Technology Industry; United States; California; San Francisco
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  • 11 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

A Day in the Life: Ben Hsieh

and International Economy (BGIE) – and we are discussing Korea’s growth story. Our discussion centers around whether government intervention helps economic growth and on the impact of the Chaebols, or large... View Details
  • April 2016 (Revised June 2017)
  • Teaching Note

Dollar General Bids for Family Dollar

By: Jonas Heese, Paula A. Price and Suraj Srinivasan
In spring 2015, Dollar General CEO Rick Dreiling was looking ahead to retiring at year's end but worried about ensuring continued growth for the company he had built since 2008 into a market leader in the U.S. discount retail world. Dollar General operated over 11,500... View Details
Keywords: Dollar General; Family Dollar; Dollar Tree; Antitrust; Board Of Directors; Activist Investors; Federal Trade Commission; Acquisition; Valuation; Corporate Strategy; Retail Industry
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  • 28 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Meeting China’s Need for Management Education

definitely growing more intense as companies and government agencies strive to become truly "global" players. While much of the past growth and business success might have been based on national... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education
  • October 1979 (Revised March 1986)
  • Case

PC&D, Inc.

By: Evelyn T. Christiansen and Richard G. Hamermesh
Covers history of PC&D from 1960 to 1975 as it grows from a single business firm to a diversified firm. Emphasizes the use of subsidiaries for product development and fast growth. Other issues include problems of a new CEO in keeping control of fast growing divisions. View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Business Subsidiaries; Diversification; Growth Management; Product Development
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  • 12 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?

Internet pioneers looked at everything from Wi-Fi "hot spots" to the future of broadband at a recent telecommunications conference at Harvard Business School. The issues were debated at the Bandwidth Explosion colloquium held... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne & Martha Lagace; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications