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- 08 May 2019
- Blog Post
Top-Notch Talent Begets Top-Notch Talent
Corporation status—a third-party certification driving a movement to use business as a force for good. Certified B Corporations are legally required to consider the impact of their View Details
- July 2022
- Case
General Mills: Responding to the Killing of George Floyd (A)
By: Debora L. Spar and Alicia Dadlani
Jeff Harmening, CEO of General Mills, one of the world's largest manufacturers of breakfast cereals and packaged foods, was deeply disturbed and instantly aware that he and General Mills would need to respond. George Floyd, an African-American man who had been accused... View Details
Keywords: Race; Decisions; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Minneapolis; Minnesota; United States
Spar, Debora L., and Alicia Dadlani. "General Mills: Responding to the Killing of George Floyd (A)." Harvard Business School Case 323-019, July 2022.
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
Most managers today understand the strategic implications of the information-based, knowledge-driven, service-intensive economy. They know what the new game requires: speed, flexibility and continuous self-renewal. They even are... View Details
- 30 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Preparing to Sell
the family business. The portrait of the business would also typically represent more than 90 percent of the owners' wealth. “If this transition is not managed well, the family has a higher risk of losing its wealth through bad investment View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
national governments and international institutions would prove too weak to deal with these forces. On the positive side, many of the leaders we spoke with viewed business as part of the solution: Companies could help ameliorate the forces if they approached them as a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Harvard Business School
the corporate and public sectors. The individuals profiled here—Andrew F. Brimmer, James I. Cash Jr., Linda A. Hill, and David A. Thomas—have demonstrated their dedication to the School's ideals and core mission through their active... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- News
Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
Everyone had to open up shop again," he says. He soon became an entrepreneur-in-residence at Idea Village, a nonprofit organization dedicated to keeping entrepreneurs in New Orleans by supplying them with strategic consulting and... View Details
- 08 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Entrepreneurship Immersion - Four Highlights
revenue by 6x and tripled our headcount to 150 over the past two years! Prior to that, I helped Dropbox scale from a Series B startup to a post-IPO public company, going from 200 employees to 2,000 employees. I served as VP of Corporate... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Faculty Books
logic of interest representation. Based on empirical case studies, Trumbull develops an alternative model of interest representation involving "legitimacy coalitions" forming around narratives that tie their agenda to a broader public interest. View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A Modern-Day Classic
focuses on interfirm strategic alliances, organized “Organization Design: Current Debates and Future Opportunities” with HBS professor Michael Tushman. “The area of organization design was booming when this book was published,” says... View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
prior to and following Corzine's arrival, and the strategic and managerial decisions taken by Corzine to reorient the firm. In addition, the sovereign debt trade, created to boost earnings, is described in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- February 1979
- Case
Systems Engineering Laboratories, Inc.
Choosing an equity offering or an offering of straight subordinated debt with a CCC credit rating and a 12.5% coupon. View Details
Fruhan, William E., Jr. "Systems Engineering Laboratories, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 279-074, February 1979.
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power
conferences, held in a different U.S. city each year, have provided access to an impressive roster of corporate executives and public-sector officials, often drawn from the host city's leading industries and institutions. Observed HBSAAA... View Details
- September 2018 (Revised June 2019)
- Case
THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS: Selecting Impact Funds
By: Vikram Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers Brumme and Nathaniel Schwalb
After much internal debate, THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS of Denmark have decided to allocate a small percentage of their investment portfolio to impact investments. Cambridge Associates, one of the leading investment advisory firms in the world, has been engaged to assist... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Mission-Related Investing; Foundations; Investment; Venture Capital; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Strategy; Investment Funds; Decision Making; Consulting Industry; Financial Services Industry; Denmark; Europe
Gandhi, Vikram, Caitlin Reimers Brumme, and Nathaniel Schwalb. "THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS: Selecting Impact Funds." Harvard Business School Case 819-021, September 2018. (Revised June 2019.)
- December 1995
- Supplement
EnClean: Malcolm Waddell, CEO, Video
By: David J. Collis
Presents Malcolm Waddell in a question-and-answer session (the actual questions do not appear on the tape) with HBS MBA students following a class in which the case is discussed. View Details
Keywords: Diversification; Restructuring; Corporate Strategy; Going Public; Decision Making; Acquisition; Interactive Communication
Collis, David J. "EnClean: Malcolm Waddell, CEO, Video." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 796-508, December 1995.
- 01 Feb 2013
- News
Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line
thing for our investors, our conservation partners, and our employees. One has to make tough judgment calls and strategic decisions and figure out how aggressive to be in negotiations. But the principle of... View Details
- Career Coach
Phil Wong
cross-sector and cross-asset class team focused on data-driven decision making, and launching an internal portfolio analytics platform. Phil’s journey to becoming a HBS career coach included work with Professor Perlow’s Crafting Your Life... View Details
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Black History Month | Baker Library
Black Enterprise Magazine Baker's microfilm collection contains the founding issues of Black Enterprise Magazine , a journal that provides "essential business information and advice to professionals, corporate executives, entrepreneurs,... View Details
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
client portfolio. The case enables a discussion of different types of clients in a global professional service firm in terms of relative revenues, profitability, and strategic significance. It also highlights the tensions between local... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
GlaxoSmithKline: Sourcing Complex Professional Services Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) uses an innovative new approach to procuring outside legal counsel: it replaces relationship-based selection and law firms' traditional time-based billing with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne