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- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
disparity, wealth disparity, gender disparities, racial disparities. When we're in a moment when democracy is in decline, authoritarianism is on the rise around the world and where many people in this country and beyond are fearful and dissatisfied with our national... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
Cablevision, and Tellabs (a maker of telecommunications products) in the late 1960s and 1970s to more recent investments such as Red Hat (a global provider of Linux and open-source technology), Internet Security Systems, online... View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
something that I feel is really important and needs to be done. And there’s just a really deep satisfaction and pride in that.And I think that it spreads, it’s not just feeling proud about what I’m doing, but I end up feeling so proud about the View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
countries whether to participate in the United Nations Global Compact. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47799 Copyright Enforcement: Evidence from Two Field Experiments By: Luo, Hong, and Julie... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
LaSalle (JLL) faced at the turn of the millennium. Until then, JLL sold piecemeal commercial real estate services to its corporate clients, who maintained relationships with a variety of vendors. In 2000, JLL's large corporate clients started View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
$100 million a year, and that he wanted a speedy resolution. “Speedy” turned out to be the better part of a decade. For much of the 1970s, McArthur fielded an all-star team (including future Secretary of State Warren Christopher and... View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
summer of 2010. With tourism on the decline due to the global economic recession, General Manager Giannuzzi must decide how to set prices at the Forte Village Resort, the Group's most well-known property. His management View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
it could replace the electrode in the millions of lithium-ion batteries currently in production. The management team needed to decide whether to pursue the breakthrough self-assembly technology or move resources to commercialize the new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
this second part of our Skydeck conversation with Immelt, we talk about the trials of the financial crisis, the loneliness of life at the top, and what his post-GE career in education and venture capital have taught him about the future of View Details
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
to carry on the tradition of the firm in changed circumstances. Perhaps the competition was more intense than it had been. In some cases the business was really challenged. In other cases the firm had become global and they had to figure... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
technology holds promise after a long development phase, but the packaging is more expensive, and Wright and his team must convince the industry stakeholders of the packaging's value. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 11, 2009
since the Great Depression. That is why Barack Obama and his team have been looking to Franklin Delano Roosevelt for help. The stimulus measure passed by Congress in February that includes money for building infrastructure, strengthening... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 May 2018
- News
How to Win the Kentucky Derby
involved along the way, and did you ever have any doubts that you would get there? I will say from a global perspective that the horse racing business is really based on hopes and dreams. Hanna: Yeah. Finley: And everybody knows that. You... View Details
Keywords: horse racing
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
capitalists bid for the right to invest on those terms by proving that they can add value to BzzAgent, Inc. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807057 Corning: 156 Years of Innovation Harvard Business... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
billboards on district properties. (Both pass.) Motion by motion, the wheels of government turn as the clock ticks later and later into the evening. A motion for a local swim team to rent the high school pool. A motion itemizing salaries... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
football team his first year at Dartmouth, before moving over to rugby, a sport he played with bone-breaking gusto throughout college and into HBS. That intensity has been channeled by mentors throughout Keen's life. One such person is... View Details
- November 2017
- Teaching Note
Reinventing Best Buy
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-455.
On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales.... View Details
Keywords: Best Buy; Hubert Joly; Renew Blue; Showrooming; Webrooming; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Online Retail; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Marketplaces; Turnaround; Consumer Electronics; Consumer Electronics Accessories; Appliances; Stores-within-stores; Store Experience; Store Size; Store Pickup; Store Management; Delivery; Delivery Models; Amazon; Amazon.com; Pricing Strategy; Business Subsidiaries; Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Theater Entertainment; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Cost; Selection and Staffing; Reports; Technological Innovation; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Human Capital; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Media; Distribution; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Distribution Channels; Infrastructure; Product; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Programs; Groups and Teams; Sales; Salesforce Management; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Technology; Hardware; Information Technology; Internet; Mobile Technology; Online Technology; Search Technology; Software; Web; Web Sites; Wireless Technology; Resource Allocation; Computer Industry; Electronics Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Video Game Industry; United States; Minnesota; Minneapolis; Saint Paul; St. Paul
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
Weinberg’s man.” After graduation from HBS, Whitehead would spend 38 years at the firm, rising to become its cochairman (with Sidney’s son, John Weinberg [MBA ’50]). Putting his stamp on the institution that his mentor had saved from ruin, Whitehead advanced Goldman... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
conceived plans for the Fort Sheridan army base in 1889, he meticulously merged military needs with the land’s rolling terrain and ecologically sensitive bluffs and ravines while making breathtaking views of Lake Michigan a priority. A View Details
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
of needed capital. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55334 2018 Handbook of Healthcare Analytics: Theoretical Minimum for Conducting 21st Century Research on Healthcare Operations Competing Interests By: Goh, Joel Abstract—The editors,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman