Firm Organization - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 1998
News

Beyond the Numbers

one moderately successful product — Stove Top stuffing mix. " Armed with this information, he quickly advised the firm to refocus its efforts on acquiring established but undermarketed concerns, which eventually led to GF's profitable... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

16 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 16, 2007

in India Harvard Business School Case 806-079 Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806079 Procter & Gamble's Organization 2005 (A) Harvard Business School Case 707-401 Purchase this case: View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 1999
News

Big Doings in Big Apple: New York Club Hosts Multiple Events

year, which attracted some five hundred attendees to this year's session in September. Said conference organizer Brian Carlton Byrd (MBA '92), "We want to help foster the same investment climate for New York's Silicon Alley that... View Details

20 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability

emulated. How can organizations ensure that the reports are more than simply separate filings paper-clipped together, but rather that the financial and non-financial data interrelate with each other to tell a unified story? To what degree... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting

07 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence

conflicts of interest. For example, the change in the commission structure in 1974 created a whole new dynamic that influenced the role of research by investment banks. And the growing importance of consulting at public accounting firms... View Details

Keywords: by Harvard Management Update

10 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing

the vendor of outsourced services can improve the efficiency and perhaps the quality of services delivered—particularly in health care, where outsourcing is on the rise. In research recently published in the journal Organization Science,... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health

23 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: October 23, 2007

at least 3 decades. This paper outlines the range of accountability mechanisms currently in place at the World Bank along 4 basic levels: (1) staff, (2) project, (3) policy, and (4) board governance. We argue that civil society View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Nov 2020
Blog Post

WE RISE

private-capital database PitchBook, just 12 percent of check-writing decision-makers at the largest VC firms in the United States are women. A survey by The Information, a tech-sector media outlet, found that just 1 percent were Black;... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Other Financial Services; Venture Capital / Private Equity

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Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Executive Education Courses Executive Education Courses Strategy for Health Care Delivery (Fall) November 16 -18, 2022 Summary Innovative health care organizations worldwide are moving toward better value measurement models to improve... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

Constant Inspiration

partner organizations to work with students in Chile, where she has lived since 1997. In the second module of the required yearlong FIELD course, small teams of students develop or improve a product, service, or experience for their... View Details

13 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 13, 2009

standard measures of patent quality, we find that patents granted to firms involved in private equity transactions are more cited (a proxy for economic importance), show no significant shifts in the fundamental nature of the research, and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy

Of The 'less Glamorous' Among Internet-related businesses, growth was swift within organizations that the report terms the "consumer-facing layer," companies having direct contact with consumers including Facebook, YouTube, and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Publishing

15 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner

companies have been financed during previous downturns in the venture capital market. Entrepreneurs should not necessarily abandon all hope. Venture capitalists still have many, many billions to invest, so well crafted business plans can get funded. Moreover, new View Details

Keywords: by Carol Elsen; Financial Services

19 Mar 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager

your values Stella McCartney Combines High Fashion with Environmental Values Fashion designer Stella McCartney shows that luxury and sustainability need not be mutually exclusive in a case study by Anat Keinan. Demonstrate bottom-line returns 3 Ways View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy

01 Sep 2009
News

Remembering “Mr. Harvard”

he acquired the struggling firm of Kidder, Peabody & Co. Thus began Gordon’s 65-year career at Kidder, which he helped lead to prominence as one of the top underwriting and M&A firms in the world, while also... View Details

29 Apr 2008
Research Event

Venture Capital

strategies? How are opportunities for VC changing with globalization? How should VC firms organize to take advantage of new opportunities in their home counties and abroad? Those attending the Conference... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services

16 Oct 2017
News

Take Time to Serve Others

Rena Clark (MBA 1990) found success by following her heart. A managing partner at Laurel Oak Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in the lower-middle industrial market, Clark forged a nonlinear career path that... View Details

01 Jun 2006
News

Faculty Research Online

video games are all examples of multisided markets, where firms need to get two or more distinct groups of customers on the same platform or place. Assistant Professor Andrei Hagiu discusses this new field of business research and why it... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

28 Jan 2002
Research & Ideas

Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War

enable you to overcome it? Finally, the fact that there are more than 100 U.S. newspapers with average daily print circulation above 100,000 meant that there were a number of large organizations experiencing this issue almost... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

February 2009 (Revised March 2009)
Case

Publicis Groupe 2009: Toward a Digital Transformation

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Matthew Bird

After a series of acquisitions, Maurice Levy, the Chairman and CEO of Publicis Groupe, had created the fourth largest marketing and communications company in the world. His next major challenge was managing the firm's digital transformation. In December 2006, the... View Details