Reorganization - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jan 2012
News

Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989

internal reorganization and strategic partnerships have led to greater efficiencies and ongoing growth. In her five-year tenure, Carroll has diversified the mix of commodities the company holds through partnerships and acquisitions.... View Details

01 Jun 2004
News

Massport, Back on Course

framework around which to figure out whether they’re making the right decisions. We’ve also reorganized into three lines of business: aviation, maritime, and the Tobin Bridge (linking the city to its northern suburbs). General managers... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Massport; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation

07 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure

mammoth manuscripts at about the same time. Wolfe's fertile brain, like Schumpeter's, teemed with stream-of-consciousness associations that he scribbled down in the heat of composition. But unlike Schumpeter, Wolfe had a marvelous editor—Maxwell Perkins of Scribner's,... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw

13 Nov 2020
News

Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues

accelerated shift to digital operations.” Among 11 key lessons they identified were: “Be transparent about your challenges” by keeping teams abreast of the state of the organization, priorities, and principles; and “find new ways to collaborate” by View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

The School that Donham Built

government, became his mentor and continued to support his studies through law school. Donham specialized in corporate restructuring as a vice president at Boston’s Old Colony Trust Company and won wide praise from both labor and management as a court-appointed... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

18 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

bankruptcy reorganization on June 1, 2009. What are some of the key issues the company faces? Three Harvard Business School faculty members--Joseph Bower, an authority on general management; Vineet Kumar, a marketing expert; and Dante... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

21 Jul 2006
Op-Ed

Enron Jury Sent the Right Message

reserves to "manage" reported earnings, the recategorization of investments to enable gains to be booked on the company's income statements, the reorganization of business structures to conceal business failures, the use of... View Details

Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter

29 Feb 2016
HBS Case

Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can

Weiss. Providing that service, however, will mean a dramatic reorganization of the company’s sales model. When dealing with slow-moving city governments, perhaps the last thing you want to do is provide a large range of options.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

24 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 24, 2007

CEO must decide where to cut costs and how to convince creditors to give the company the time it needs to turn around. A bankruptcy reorganization is one option open to the company. Describes the audit recovery industry, the company's... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 2000
News

Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti

opportunity for improvement. The average taxpayer has one interaction per year with us, but a small businessperson with a few employees may have to deal with us fifty times a year. If you fall behind, you can get in all sorts of tangles. This is a good example of how... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 1999
News

South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency

those of Mandela and the African National Congress coincide," she notes, "but he has his own way of doing things. Reorganizing the structure of the presidency is just one example of that." Meyer credits her academic training with... View Details

Keywords: Morgan Baker

05 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 5, 2007

for evaluating the different sources of uncertainty and their implications for various stakeholders of the firm when attempting a reorganization with creditors or considering opening a court-supervised View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Aug 2022
News

Labs Enable Large-scale Research

multiyear agenda, and as labs complete their work, they will have the opportunity for renewal as well as reorganizing into new labs. The research conducted by HBS faculty and their colleagues from Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences,... View Details

Profile

Marcela Sapone

sending gifts, booking appointments and reorganizing closets. By assuming the time-draining task of finding high quality service providers, Alfred secures the best professionals on a subscriber’s behalf. Sapone tips her cap to Angie’s... View Details

01 Aug 1998
News

Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories

the heritage my father left us," says Bertarelli, who has led the Ares-Serono Group, already strong, to even greater heights. During the last five years he has formed a management executive committee and reorganized the firm "to prepare... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

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Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Health Care explores the best practices for reorganizing and coordinating care, improving process efficiencies, implementing new reimbursement approaches, and integrating care delivery across practices. You will return with the frameworks... View Details

01 Jan 2003
News

Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964

financial management system held together by baling wire." Along with bringing the IRS's financial management system into the 21st century, Rossotti reorganized the agency into four units, each responsible for a specific group of... View Details

03 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?

Every year, just as Hercules cleansed the Augean Stables, some NFL teams undergo a thorough reorganization of their coaching staffs. This annual exercise in bloodletting, known as Black Monday, takes place on the first Monday after the... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

04 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 4

reorganization of the bureaucracy, and (c) an increase in monitoring by both the government and the general public. Correspondingly, we advance managerial implications that stem from these recent changes, illustrated by recent MNC and... View Details