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balancing value creation for investors with accountability to other constituencies. Highlights What Can We Learn Briefing on Wilder's Plan Show Hide Details Concepts Theranos: Where Does the Responsibility Lie? Power and Money at TXU... View Details

04 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

The Right Way to Restructure Conglomerates in Emerging Markets

handle. It also poses practical problems. For instance, how easy is it to estimate a reliable breakup value for a business group in the middle of a fire sale and in the absence of a well-developed market for asset sales? But if dismantling business groups is not a... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna & Krishna Palepu

September 2008 (Revised March 2009)
Supplement

Traversing a Career Path: Pat Fili-Krushel (B)

By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Deborah M. Kolb and Cailin B. Hammer

Pat Fili-Krushel has agreed to take on the job of first executive vice president of administration for AOL Time Warner, leading corporate human resources, internal communications, real estate and facilities, and other administrative roles for the combined company. She... View Details

Keywords: Conflict Management; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Negotiation Tactics; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Power and Influence; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States

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02 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Role of Government When All Else Fails

money wages. Although many workers were now living better than before, many were also less secure, since they could no longer rely on extended family support networks, which were a common feature of farm life. Any interruption in an View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

30 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

2019 HarperBusiness The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power By: Cusumano, Michael A., Annabelle Gawer, and David B. Yoffie Abstract—The Business of Platforms explores the strategic,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2025
News

Keeping the Faith

of Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the program included early-morning spiritual reflections and sessions with guest speakers, including Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan and former Harvard University President Larry Bacow. The SIP was wildly popular; many... View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace; Illustrations by Victo ngai

03 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

powerful insights and practical guidelines that allow managers to bridge professional divides and organizational boundaries in order to work together effectively, this is a new exploration of the challenges involved in today's global... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

16 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025)

preventive interventions in Burkina Faso Efforts to better understand and address out-of-pocket costs in Benin Development of a costing tool to estimate resource needs for digitizing campaigns in Africa Why did you choose this internship... View Details

01 Dec 2008
News

Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals

basis. We want that to change. That sounds like a big undertaking. Where did you begin? There was not even commonality in the definition of what a leader is and what leadership behaviors are, so we started by developing a conversation around those questions. It’s... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS

Much like how disruptive technologies can threaten established businesses, the growing epidemic of AIDS has the power to blindside and possibly topple companies who choose to ignore the threat, participants concluded at a Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

10 Reasons Customers Might Resist Windows 8

will compete against Apple iPad. And industry observers have noted similarities between Apple's tightly-controlled marketing tactics and Microsoft's marketing campaign for the upcoming OS—Microsoft is even using indie rock music in its... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Computer; Consumer Products

01 Dec 2011
News

Reimagining the MBA

Ask The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track Related Links Watch Professor Joshua Margolis on teaching business ethics to MBA students Watch Dean Nohria's TED Talk on practicing moral humility The sense of excitement... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; FIELD program; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2007
News

The Wise Men

MBA degrees handed out nationally. But more importantly, HBS was cementing its identity, centered on the powerful pedagogy of the case method and on the entire MBA experience as a unique and transformational event. Indeed, the School had... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna

25 Aug 2014
News

The First Five Years: Raymond Hwang (MBA 2010)

evolving field that can have a large positive impact for many people while using power tools and a microscope? Sign me up!” What’s the life of a surgeon like? “One way to look at life as a surgeon is as an... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

23 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 23, 2015

system, and, second, an understanding of the industry architecture in which the technical system is embedded. Although these tools involve disparate bodies of knowledge, they must be used in tandem to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

service industry such as commercial banking. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707485 Shahla Nawabi: Reconstructing Afghanistan Harvard Business School Case 807-023 Explores the strategies... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

M. Viceira, the George E. Bates Professor and senior associate dean for International Development at Harvard Business School. “That raises the question, who is exercising control in these corporations?” In traditional mutual funds, View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

11 Aug 2014
HBS Case

The Business of Behavioral Economics

couple it with loss aversion, and you put people in a position where they're more likely to go out and exercise." StickK has incorporated another economic principle—the power of social norms—to keep people on track. Users create an online... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Health

15 Nov 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives

the industry you compete in, the market segments where you do (and do not) choose to play, and the nature of the customers that you sell and service. These factors help to determine required sales tasks—that is, what your go-to-market... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

18 Feb 2021
Blog Post

SIPs in 2021

to turn around Uber’s toxic culture in 2017. Gino thought Saint John’s powerful presence and resonant messages, on the value of courageous authenticity and the urgency of living life fiercely, aligned with themes in Gino’s 2018 book,... View Details

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