Publications

06 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 6

demonstrates the mutual interconnectivity among the three key facets of management: strategic positioning, organizational design, and individual leadership. The authors highlight both the manner in which strategy informs leadership and... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

01 Feb 1999
News

Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office

information and financial and other intermediaries. How will the Asia-Pacific region benefit from the presence of the HBS research office? The intellectual capital created by the exchange of ideas and the study of Asian business practices... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Jun 2014
News

Faculty Q&A: The Cup Runneth Over

smooth experience, Brazil's brand will take a hit. To claim success, Brazil must put on a great party, demonstrate efficient economic management of the Cup, keep financial corruption to a minimum, and re-purpose Cup investment and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

11 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

Jane Gilbert: What inspired you to develop the concept of time-driven activity-based costing? Robert Kaplan: When Robin Cooper and I introduced ABC in the mid-1980s, we were strongly influenced by the approach taken by strategy... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

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Charles Ellis | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Transcript (PDF) Charles “Charley” Ellis, HBS 1963, founded Greenwich Associates, a strategy consulting firm focusing on financial institutions, in 1972. The firm’s clients include commercial banks,... View Details

October 2000 (Revised November 2000)
Case

Harmonized Savings Plan at BP Amoco, The

By: Luis M. Viceira

On August 11, 1998, United States' Amoco Corp. (NYSE: AR) and the British Petroleum Co. (BP) p.l.c. (NYSE: BP) announced the BPC merger with Amoco. This deal was the largest industrial merger to date, and created the world's third-largest oil company, BP (NYSE: BP).... View Details

Keywords: Financial Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Compensation and Benefits; Energy Industry; North and Central America

26 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

to financial results, to behave according to the organization’s long term values and goals. Surprisingly, we find that the intervention drove even higher effort on performance associated with pre-existing monetary incentives but, on... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

February 2006
Case

Bumble and bumble: Building a Successful Business in Beauty and Fashion

By: Nancy F. Koehn and Erica Helms

Explores the creation and subsequent rise of Bumble and bumble, a trend-setting hair-care company. Analyzes the vision and achievements of the founding entrepreneur, Michael Gordon, and charts the evolution of the company within the $230 billion global beauty industry.... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Brands and Branding; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Strategy; Financial Condition; Business Growth and Maturation; Success; Distribution; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Fashion Industry

28 Jul 2015
First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

of the business model as decisions enforced by the authority of the firm; this definition enables the analysis of business models through the analysis of individual firm choices. We situate negotiation outcomes within the strategy... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

11 Apr 2016
Blog Post

What You Need to Know about Recruiting at HBS

times their online databases contain company and industry profiles and access to financial reports. Consult your network Look at your network and see if there are people from your undergrad institution, previous professional experience,... View Details

10 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?

School. We asked Vietor to discuss some of the findings in this e-mail interview. Manda Salls: What inspired you and your colleagues to write this book? Richard Vietor: Rob had some financial support for looking at CSR, and we got more... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

01 Dec 2015
News

Giving Advice

Record-keeping? Control?) —S.B. Master (MBA 1980) DITKOFF: Your first stop is probably a lawyer or tax advisor to analyze the financial impact on your specific portfolio. Your next goal is to find high-impact organizations that you care... View Details

13 Jun 2014
News

The Art of Effecting Change

the last 10 to 15 years educating myself on art history and contemporary artists." Evans's philanthropic work also extends to HBS, where she and Bruce, both financial aid recipients, paid forward the assistance they received in the form... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Arts, Entertainment

22 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

and Galanz, which has brought microwave ovens to millions of Chinese consumers previously considered too poor to buy such an appliance. What’s more, the essentials of development can be “pulled in” by market-creating innovators—and over time, governments and View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’

Editor's note: The credit crisis and subsequent recession has thrown many financial and business institutions into, if not chaos, then at least a sense that the landscape underneath has shifted significantly. One institution undergoing... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Lorsch

December 1998 (Revised December 1999)
Case

Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Private Client Services

By: Thomas J. DeLong, David M. Darst, Ann K Rusher and Catherine M. Conneely

The 1997 merger of retail giant Dean Witter and investment bank Morgan Stanley was a year old when Bob Sculthorpe was appointed director of Private Client Services (PCS) at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter (MSDW). The firm was still operating under two separate broker-dealer... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Divisions; Investment Banking; Brands and Branding; Salesforce Management; Competitive Strategy; Retail Industry

22 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 22, 2008

Financial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality? Authors:Shawn A. Cole Abstract In 1980, India nationalized its large private banks. This induced different bank ownership patterns across different towns,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

style, and thus set prices that limit market penetration. The winning strategy diverges from this approach in almost every respect. When innovators develop products that people want to pull into their lives, they create markets that serve... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

August 1994
Case

Intuit, Inc.

By: William E. Fruhan Jr.

The merger of two computer software firms with very rapidly growing non-overlapping products makes great strategic sense, but presents difficult valuation and accounting problems. How can a firm pay $225 million to acquire another firm with negligible current earnings,... View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Applications and Software; Accounting; Financial Strategy; Goodwill Accounting; Corporate Finance; Information Technology Industry; United States