wrestling - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

63-year-old CEO of Southwest Airlines had come to arm wrestle his company's latest nemesis: Kurt Herwald, the 38-year-old weightlifting CEO of Stevens Aviation, an aircraft maintenance company based in South Carolina. Herwald had recently... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation

09 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 9, 2008

Harvard Business School Case 509-031 Having bought Shaklee Corporation from Yamanouchi, Roger Barnett, its owner and CEO, wrestled with the question of how to grow the company and its reputation for environmental sustainability. In... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Mar 2019
News

The Merchant of Osaka

She questioned patients. She wrestled with the genesis of the country’s predicament and the political obstacles in the way of reform—information that served her clients but also readied her for her own launch. Then she left. Satoshi... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

07 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

children who are victims of abuse, disability, illness, and poverty. As one of the 50 largest fundraising charities in the United Kingdom, the organization's trustees wrestle with how to meet the needs of this vast and most vulnerable... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

wrestle with for 15 years. There's also the sheer energy in emerging markets, the excitement and enthusiasm that people there and now thankfully people everywhere feel about emerging markets. This too makes it possible to take a long... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

wrestled with for years. German firms needed more scale and centralization—and looked to American examples in the great "rationalization" mania of the 1920s. Americanization and the bureaucratization of German corporations went... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

21 May 2019
Blog Post

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS

Brazil) added to the feeling that my Asian look was incompatible with my personality, and often made me question where I belong. While wrestling to find my “Brazilian-Japanese” sweet spot made me more flexible and more sensitive to other... View Details

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and frameworks. Session Type I : HBS Case Study classes – spanning sectors, industries, and organization size. In each, GMs face one or more important decisions, and wrestle with multiple challenges. These cases include traditional paper... View Details

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