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  • May 2024 (Revised July 2024)
  • Case

Lowe’s: Improving the Total Home Strategy

By: Elie Ofek, K. Shelette Stewart and Alicia Dadlani
In 2023, Marvin Ellison, CEO of Lowe’s, contemplated enhancements to the company’s Total Home Strategy to accelerate performance and grow market share. In the last five years since becoming CEO, Ellison had championed a turnaround of the company, completing a... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; E-commerce; Competition; Brands and Branding; Business Strategy; Retail Industry
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  • April 2004
  • Article

Do CEOs in Mergers Trade Power for Premium? Evidence from 'Mergers of Equals'

By: Julie Wulf
I analyze chief executive officer (CEO) incentives to negotiate shared control in the postmerger governance of the surviving firm. In order to do this, I study abnormal returns in a sample of "mergers of equals" (MOEs) transactions in which the two firms are... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Negotiation; Governance Controls; Power and Influence; Value Creation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Governing and Advisory Boards; Motivation and Incentives; Market Transactions
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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

Baker Library / Bloomberg Center Harvard Business School’s first benefactor, George F. Baker & Michael R. Bloomberg (MBA 1966) Baker Library is named after Harvard Business School’s first benefactor, George... View Details
  • 24 Jun 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

“An Unfair Advantage”? Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing

Keywords: by Lily Fang, Victoria Ivashina & Josh Lerner; Banking
  • 17 Feb 2022
  • Book

When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

book, Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies, I explore how some leaders embrace “deep purpose” as a generative force that can be a catalyst to achieve both impressive economic results and positive social impact.... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
  • 30 May 2000
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride

During the last 15 years, entrepreneurship has developed from a marginal, struggling field of inquiry to a dynamic centerpiece of many business schools. As the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business... View Details
Keywords: by William Mahoney
  • May 2011
  • Article

Consequences and Institutional Determinants of Unregulated Corporate Financial Statements: Evidence from Embedded Value Reporting

By: George Serafeim
I analyze Embedded Value (EV) reporting by firms with life insurance operations to assess the impact of unregulated financial reporting on transparency and to examine the institutional characteristics that promote unregulated reporting. Under EV accounting the present... View Details
Keywords: Financial Statements; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financial Reporting; Cash Flow; Contracts; Equity; Profit; Value; Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business Earnings
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  • 22 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 22, 2006

scope. The general narrative about cartels may not be a story of rise and fall, but rise, boom, collapse, revitalization, gradual decline, and then criminalization. Yet, until the 1980s, the global story of big View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

1.14 Academic Review/Academic Withdrawal - MBA

Learning/Independent Projects 1.18 FIELD Global Capstone 1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) 1.20 Joint Degree Programs 1.21 Use of Course Work & Materials 1.22 Disability Access 1.23 Pregnancy, Childbirth & Adoption during Business School... View Details
  • March 1996 (Revised February 1999)
  • Case

Vistakon: 1 Day Acuvue Disposable Contact Lenses

By: Alvin J. Silk, Bruce Issacson and Marie Bell
Vistakon, an independent and entrepreneurial subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, pioneered the production and marketing of disposable contact lenses with the 1987 launch of Acuvue, the first disposable extended-wear lens--a soft contact lens that patients wear for a... View Details
Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Business Subsidiaries; Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Price; Risk Management; Marketing; Product Positioning; Production; Performance Effectiveness; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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  • 23 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 23

gap discourages research effort directed towards clean technologies. Carbon taxes and research subsidies may nonetheless encourage production and innovation in clean technologies, though the transition will typically be slow. We characterize certain View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Where Will You Be in 30 Years: Behind the Scenes of the 5 Big Life Decisions Documentary

suggestions, four topic areas emerged reflecting changes in the workforce and society. Namely, the Class of 1992 wanted to learn about the experience of women in the workforce as the numbers of women in business was steadily growing. They... View Details
  • Web

Aaron Sabin (MS/MBA 2023): Engineering a Climate Change Solution by Cutting the Cost of Carbon Capture - MBA

Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID... View Details
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Overview

21st Century Energy — Dr Crawford teaches this EC course, which exposes students to business models and management diilemmas, all along the energy value chain — from oil sands and pipelines, to coal and natural gas, hydro and nuclear, wind and solar, to biofuels. The... View Details
Keywords: Energy; Energy Efficiency; Energy Storage; Governance; Energy Generation; Renewable Energy; Energy Sources; Resource Allocation; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Ethics; Competitive Strategy; Energy Industry; Chemical Industry; Mining Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Technology Industry; Europe; Asia; United States
  • 16 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.

competing in current or new markets (i.e., new customers and/or new geographies). [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/ugHI2ETiABnZVxAuNYu9][/div] First Quadrant: Firms stay in the status quo or pre-COVID situation. As discussed earlier, times have changed, and View Details
Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim; Retail; Service
  • 27 Feb 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The Hidden Cost of a Product Recall

American emissions tests. Volkswagen estimated that fines, repairs, and legal costs would total more than $30 billion. And worse, the company ceded its command of America’s diesel car market—producing more than one-third of the models available in 2015—to companies... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Auto; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 28 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

negotiation of safe paths through the complexities of official regulations and government. The easiest way to understand the Unilever organization, observed an article in the U.S. business magazine Fortune in 1947, was "to think of... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products
  • Web

Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni

Careers Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA Careers Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA Supporting recent HBS graduates who want to make a difference working in Africa Thanks to generous alumni support, the Global Opportunity... View Details
  • 04 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating

those facts and find a solution, a team of Boston researchers reports. "When it comes to solving problems, connectedness is a double-edged sword," says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Ethan Bernstein, co-author of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Video Game; Web Services
  • Web

About Us - Alumni

Alumni Bulletin About Us The HBS Alumni Bulletin (ISSN 1553-1546) is published four times a year (March, June, September, and December) by Harvard Business School. We welcome your letters and story ideas. Send them to bulletin@hbs.edu ,... View Details