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    Laura Alfaro

    Laura Alfaro is the Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration. At Harvard since 1999, she served as Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy in Costa Rica from 2010-2012, taking a leave from HBS. She is Co-Editor of the Journal of International... View Details

    • January 2014 (Revised January 2014)
    • Case

    Showdown at Cracker Barrel

    By: Suraj Srinivasan and Tim Gray
    In the fall of 2011, activist investor, Sardar Biglari, has acquired nearly 10% ownership in the Cracker Barrel restaurant chain. He believes that the board and senior management have failed and the company has underperformed relative to its peers. When he is denied a... View Details
    Keywords: Boards; Activist Investors; Proxy Battles; Shareholder Activism; Peer Firm; Ratio Analysis; Financial Accounting; Financial Analysis; Board Of Directors; Boards Of Directors; Financial Intermediaries; Financial Analysts; CEO Turnover; New CEO; Peer Groups; Hedge Fund; Hedge Funds; Proxy Contest; Proxy Fight; Proxy Advisor; Proxy Battle; Financial Statement Analysis; Financial Strategy; Corporate Governance; Corporate Disclosure; Governing and Advisory Boards; Competition; Valuation; Business Strategy; Value Creation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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      Rohit Deshpande

      Rohit Deshpandé is a Baker Foundation Professor and Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing, Emeritus at Harvard Business School, where he has been teaching in the Advanced Management Program,... View Details

      Keywords: advertising; agribusiness; airline; banking; beauty products; beverage; financial services; home video games; marketing industry; pharmaceuticals; telecommunications; tourism; video games

        Sandra J. Sucher

        Sandra Sucher, professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, is an internationally recognized trust researcher. The Power of Trust, her third book, is based on two decades of global research on how companies build stakeholder trust and how,... View Details

        Keywords: apparel; banking; brokerage; clothing; fashion; financial services; furniture; hotels ＆ motels; retail financial services; retailing; service industry
        • 03 Jan 2023
        • Cold Call Podcast

        Wordle: Can a Pandemic Phenomenon Sustain in the Long Term?

        Keywords: Re: Christina M. Wallace; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting
        • April 2013
        • Case

        Managing with Analytics at Procter & Gamble

        By: Thomas H. Davenport, Marco Iansiti and Alain Serels
        Senior management at P&G has put a strong emphasis on using data to make "better, smarter, real-time business decisions." The Global Business Services (GBS) organization has developed tools, systems and processes to provide managers throughout P&G with direct access to... View Details
        Keywords: Analytics; Data Management; Forecasting; Shared Services; Procter ＆ Gamble; Laundry Detergent; Information Management; Forecasting and Prediction; Information Technology; Mathematical Methods; Consumer Products Industry; North America
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        • 10 Mar 2020
        • News

        'They're getting pummeled': Travel industry reeling from coronavirus concerns, anxiety

          Hubert Joly

          Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Best Buy
          Author of The Heart of Business– Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism

          Hubert Joly is a senior lecturer in the General Management unit and... View Details

          • 09 Dec 2002
          • Research & Ideas

          Unilever—A Case Study

          animal feeds. In Europe, its food business spanned all stages of the industry, from fishing fleets to retail shops. Among its range of ancillary... View Details
          Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Food & Beverage; Food & Beverage; Food & Beverage; Food & Beverage; Food & Beverage

            Tiona W. Zuzul

            Tiona Zuzul is an Assistant Professor in the Strategy Unit. She teaches the MBA elective Making Difficult Decisions and contributes to various executive education programs. Professor Zuzul studies how leaders’ cognition and communication shape the decisions... View Details

            • September 2018
            • Case

            Granite Equity Partners

            By: Victoria Ivashina and Jeffrey Boyar
            This case follows Rick Bauerly, CEO of Minnesota-based Granite Equity Partners, a private equity firm that specialized in buying out retiring business owners in the Minnesota community. In 2007, Granite Equity was considering an investment in Tyrell Corp. (name... View Details
            Keywords: Private Equity Exit; Investing; Fund Exit; Fund Management; Wealth Management; Liquidity; Buyout; Exit Strategy; Preferred Shares; Convertible Notes; Finance; Private Equity; Investment; Asset Management; Wealth; Management; Financial Liquidity
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              Michael Y. Yoshino

              Professor Yoshino holds the Herman C. Krannert Chair in Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and is a Director of Research. He specializes in global strategy and management, competitive strategy, and general management. A founding member of the... View Details

              • 29 Sep 2021
              • News

              Regulators Put Cryptocurrency in Crosshairs

              • February 1992 (Revised September 2003)
              • Case

              Beech-Nut Nutrition Corporation (A-1)

              By: Lynn S. Paine
              The CEO of Beech-Nut Nutrition Corp. must decide what to do when he receives information that the company's supply of apple juice concentrate may be adulterated. The concentrate is used in many of the company's juice products. It appears that others in the company may... View Details
              Keywords: Quality; Law; Ethics; Nutrition; Management Teams; Decisions; Business or Company Management; Communication; Governance Compliance; Information Management; Corporate Finance; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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              Environmental Management

              By: Forest L. Reinhardt
              Forest L. Reinhardt is exploring the strategic and operational problems of firms in environmentally significant industries. His book, Down to Earth: Applying Business Principles to Environmental Management (published in 2000 by Harvard Business School Press),... View Details

                Malcolm P. Baker

                Malcolm Baker is the Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches the required course in finance and a short immersive program on investing in life sciences.

                His research is in the... View Details

                Keywords: asset management; biotechnology; financial services; high technology; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; private equity (LBO funds); shipping; transportation

                  Leonard A. Schlesinger

                  Leonard A. Schlesinger is Baker Foundation Professor at the Harvard Business School where he serves as Chair of the School’s Practice based faculty and faculty Chair of the MBA Field Global Immersion program. He has served as a member of the HBS faculty from 1978 to... View Details

                  • 12 Feb 2014
                  • News

                  A decidedly mixed bag

                    Myra M. Hart

                    Myra Hart's research focus is high potential entrepreneurship.  She has taught MBA and executive programs, co-chaired the entrepreneurship unit, and led several HBS initiatives. As a founding memberView Details

                    Keywords: consumer products; e-commerce industry; education industry; real estate; retailing
                    • 30 May 2024
                    • Video

                    BiGS Voices from Latin America: An Interview with Gaston Bottazzini