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  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Step Change

use a smartphone better than we do,” Shousha says. The announcement that Enan would lead 500 Global’s first office on the African continent came in tandem with news the firm would partner with the IT... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
  • 22 May 2017
  • Lessons from the Classroom

A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders

former MTV VJ) Sian-Pierre Regis, founder of the online publication Swagger and a frequent pop culture contributor to CNN Headline News and Men’s Journal; Michelle Goldman, a partner at the venture capital View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Beauty & Cosmetics; Apparel & Accessories; Auto; Tourism
  • September 1994
  • Case

Marks & Spencer: Sir Richard Greenbury's Quiet Revolution

By: Joseph L. Bower and John B. Matthews Jr.
Marks & Spencer (M&S) is one of the world's greatest companies. In 1994, its management was chosen the most admired in Europe by 637 peers. The case explores how Sir Richard Greenbury, appointed the new chairman of the company in 1991, transformed his inheritance into... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Business or Company Management; Business Strategy; Management Teams; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Europe; United States
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  • 11 Jul 2023
  • Blog Post

Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career

formed a boutique, “CFO for hire” firm called “C-Street” that built a book of small business clients eager for seasoned financial expertise. Word spread and soon, Kloeblen was leading a small network of freelance CFOs. Then he got a call... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2005
  • News

Gifts Create Frist Financial Aid Fund

TOMMY, JULIE, AND BILLY FRIST: New fund supports fellowships and innovation in financial aid. Photo Courtesy Frist family Financial aid at HBS has received a $10 million boost, thanks to a $9 million gift from the Thomas F. Frist Jr.... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 14 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors

Citizens, industrial polluters, and scholars do not usually see eye to eye—but that may change with a new Web site that monitors corporate environmental performance in the United States. According to the university professors who created... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing; Chemical
  • 26 Mar 2020
  • Blog Post

The Road Untraveled: VC Perspectives on COVID-19

African-American investors across the country. After school, he plans to continue working in the VC industry, partnering with incredible founders to build leading technology platforms of the future. We caught up with Brian to learn about his View Details
  • 01 Dec 2004
  • News

Marquis Jet Takes Off

Allard: a three-year ascent to $240 million in revenues. Photo Courtesy Marquis Jet Marquis Jet may be flying high today, but just three years ago it was far from clear that the New York–based company’s innovative approach to private-jet... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Air Transportation; Transportation
  • 14 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization across industries and countries. There appears to be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 13

of the most successful and insightful leaders of our time, the CEOs from companies as diverse as Standard Chartered Bank, Infosys, Nokia, Cummins, IKEA, Tata, and Campbell's Soup. The authors reveal how these leaders from around the world are converging on a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jul 2001
  • What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?

Summing Up Future Corporate Governance: Different, But More Effective? Shann Turnbull suggests that the world of corporate governance will benefit from the establishment of "a new type of corporate information and control... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 05 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 5, 2006

significantly more on upfront marketing than non-pioneers. Contrary to expectations, however, firms in markets that exhibited increasing returns did not spend more on their early customer acquisition efforts than other sample companies.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jan 2022
  • News

Nohria’s Next Move

In a message to the HBS community this week, former Dean Nitin Nohria shared his next chapter. “I am pursuing a new adventure as the Executive Chairman of Thrive Capital, a firm that invests in and builds... View Details
  • March 2019
  • Case

Dabur India: Growing Professional Management from Family Roots

By: Suraj Srinivasan, Namrata Arora and Jonah Goldberg
The case opens in December of 2018, with Sunil Duggal, the CEO of Dabur India (a multinational consumer goods conglomerate with a focus in Ayurvedic products) contemplating who should succeed him at the head of the company. The new CEO will have been the first since... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Management Succession; Multinational Firms and Management; Business Growth and Maturation
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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online

and firms compete to craft successful business strategies. 8 weeks 6-8 hours per week 5 modules Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online. What you earn . Overview Syllabus... View Details
  • 24 Jan 2020
  • News

Clayton M. Christensen Dies at 67

Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. It became a New York Times bestseller and received the Global Business Book Award for the best business book published... View Details
  • 14 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

on intangible capabilities, such as the ability to assess the value of the knowledge and skills that are already present within the firm and in some instances within its broader ecosystem; to rapidly understand how to redeploy them in... View Details
Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa
  • July 1996 (Revised August 2024)
  • Case

Innovative Opportunities to Manage Health Care Delivery

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and D. Scott Lurding
The purpose of this case is: To familiarize the students with the changing landscape of health care delivery, through chains of retail medical centers and those offering value-based care (VBC).

To discuss fundamental managerial decisions about their... View Details
Keywords: Managed Care; Capitation; Strategy
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  • May 2007 (Revised August 2012)
  • Case

Warburg Pincus and emgs: The IPO Decision (A)

By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
Two partners of Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm, are trying to decide whether to take a portfolio company public, and on what exchange. The company, Norway-based ElectroMagnetic GeoServices (emgs), has developed a market-leading technology that determines... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Private Equity; Initial Public Offering; Investment; Globalized Firms and Management; Norway; England; United States
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  • 14 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?

Meet Cheryl Andrus: Manager. Survivor. A vice president responsible for corporate and product marketing at FranklinCovey in Salt Lake City, Andrus was asked in August 2002 to also take charge of one of the company's business lines. Along with these View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman