Deal - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Sep 2024
HBS Case

McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

appointment if the consultant was removed from the McDonald’s account, and the deal was sealed. Easterbrook restructured the organization, increased the number of franchises, boosted pay for employees, and introduced all-day breakfast,... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage

13 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 13

constructive suggestions for how to teach about the BSC in MBA and executive programs. Accelerate! Author:John P. Kotter Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 11 (November 2012) Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the article:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Feb 2015
First Look

First Look: February 18

takes the ideal of status egalitarianism to be central to human rights. Status egalitarianism holds that all members of society stand as moral equals in relation to one another and that the state has a duty to recognize and protect that equal standing both in its View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

New Challenges in Leading Professional Services

professionals attracted to these firms want to practice their expertise, not necessarily to become managers and deal with human challenges. They have different goals and motives. Q: What is the integrated leadership model you have... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Consulting; Accounting; Legal Services

08 Jan 2020
Blog Post

Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Private Equity

determine which format, large or intimate, is the best fit for your goals. Making the Investment in Recruiting An emerging trend in Private Equity recruiting is the use of the summer internship as a feeder for full-time hiring. The private equity View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

16 May 2017
Blog Post

Making the Move into Digital Health and Software Engineering

at Instacart, a same-day grocery delivery service. My team’s job was to handle everything that related to the ordering process: we worked with Stripe, our payments API, built the discounts infrastructure, and created an infrastructure to View Details

Keywords: Technology; Health Care

Student-Profile

Yueran Ma

Business Economics program, a joint program between HBS and the Harvard Economics Department. It is an intellectually stimulating environment. Faculty members are extremely supportive, and offer diverse, critical, and insightful views. They have taught me a lot about... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

The Potential of Business to Improve Lives

the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration and senior associate dean for Business and Global Society, who leads the Institute. “We want to get their ideas out into the world and to make HBS the center of an ecosystem that is focused on... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 1999
News

Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building

industry. Joined in 1979 by Douglas M. Schair (MBA '71) and another partner, Hawes followed an ambitious agenda. By 1988, the firm had completed more than one hundred deals and outdistanced even the leading Wall Street investment banks in... View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

Take 2: From Ad Copy to Cuneiform

68de8c2ce3ee202dde70bc45957e0ca6 Since retiring from the advertising business in 1994, Joan O. Rothberg (MBA ’63) has spent a good deal of time crawling around in the dirt. But she’s not just puttering in her Summit, New Jersey, garden... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; archaeology; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment

03 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 3

supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/912015-PDF-ENG What's the Deal with LivingSocial? Michael I. Norton, Luc Wathieu, Betsy Page Sigman, and Marco BertiniHarvard Business School Case 512-065 Tim O'Shaughnessy, the 29-year-old... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707030 Lion Capital and the Blackstone Group: The Orangina Deal Harvard Business School Case 807-005 The managing partners of two private equity firms are... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table

Kofi Annan in his description of dealing with Iraq: "You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done."3 Great negotiators make skilled use of explicit and implicit threats. They... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

07 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends

of: how do these groups work, what deals do they look at, and ultimately do they make a difference for the companies they fund? Q: Is crowdfunding a threat to more traditional notions of venture capital? A: There have been a lot of... View Details

Keywords: Re: Josh Lerner; Financial Services; Banking

27 Apr 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Leadership Lessons From Outer Space

Equipped with rubber bands, the bags un-fussily but effectively deal with garbage in a weightless environment. "It sounds silly, but trash in space is a big deal," he said. "Sometimes the best technology is the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Aerospace

09 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools

wield a great deal of influence in policy—especially local policy—and local policy is where all the action is in education." In Denver, for example, business leaders partnered with educators to lobby for an increase in taxes to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

02 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Spending on Happiness

our siblings or in-laws any less difficult to deal with over the course of the following year. ) Although people believe that having money leads to happiness, our research suggests that this is only the case if at least some of that money... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

11 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts

since a few studies examining the earliest offerings in the 1980s," says Lerner. "Instead, broad claims are being based on a few highly visible failures, such as Refco, or else analyses of a handful of recent offerings." Details Of A View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services

02 Feb 2004
What Do You Think?

Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?

useful change effort? What are the risks for the subordinate in dealing with a leader not always able to separate judgements regarding the quality of contrary ideas from those concerning personality traits of the person advancing them?... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Oct 2000
What Do You Think?

What Lies Beyond NAFTA?

century." And respondents seemed largely in agreement that Vicente Fox is well equipped to help foster a serious discussion of ways of dealing with the labor migration that will take place one way or another between the two... View Details