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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
innovations drive industry transformation and market creation, the authors explain how to unlock disruption’s transformational power. They provide a set of market-proven tools and approaches to innovation that have been honed through fieldwork with innovative companies... View Details
Keywords: Management
- Web
Black History Month | Baker Library
Co. in 1993 and changed hands a few times before being acquired by Proctor & Gamble in 2003. Finally, Proctor & Gamble sold the Johnson Products Company to RCJP Acquisition, an acquisition vehicle formed by... View Details
- Profile
Alex Roth
For four years, Alex Roth studied chemistry at Oxford. But instead of following the traditional path to the PhD, Alex took a position with Procter & Gamble where held positions in Finance and Marketing. "I want to marry science... View Details
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
the company's revenues, high gaming revenue still raised some questions. Between now and when Ben-Gacem had first submitted a bid of 60 million for Moneybookers back in November 2006, the U.S. Congress had enacted the Unlawful Internet View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
Harvard Business School Case 707-519 In response to a huge crisis in 2000, the new CEO of Procter & Gamble has to decide whether to continue with an unusual organizational design or to revert to the old matrix organization. Describes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
consumers. Webvan was perhaps unrealistically imagined to be such a channel. The difference between Dell and Proctor & Gamble is that Dell can supply all your computing needs, but Proctor & Gamble... View Details
- 11 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
E-Commerce Unplugged
behavior. Good examples of such companies are leaders in the consumer packaged-goods industry such as Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble and Kraft Foods—or retail organizations such as Wal-Mart and Best Buy. Consider the following... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria & Marty Leestma
- 26 May 2016
- News
W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
abilities. “I liked the compete-and-cooperate culture at HBS,” says the social chair of Section B. “You help each other and you want to be the best.” McNerney furthered his education through positions at the gold standards in marketing and consulting: Procter & View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Adventure in Reading
Jeff Norton (MBA ’03) credits the old Choose Your Own Adventure book series, where young readers could pick different plot directions, with making a difference in his life. “I was a reluctant reader as a boy,” Norton told Toronto’s Globe and Mail (September 23, 2006).... View Details
- Profile
Doha Tantawy
When her father opened a radiology center in Cairo, Doha Tantawy "found a real inspiration to do something different and get out of my comfort zone. I wanted the know-how of building something from scratch." Her initial post-graduation assignment at Procter... View Details
- January 2009 (Revised January 2010)
- Case
Responding to the Wii?
By: Andrei Hagiu and Hanna Halaburda
After years of gaming console industry leadership, how should Sony respond to the overwhelming success of competitor Nintendo's user-friendly Wii over Sony's high-tech PlayStation 3? It was August 2008 and Kazuo Hirai, chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment... View Details
Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Two-Sided Platforms; Industry Structures; Competitive Strategy; Electronics Industry; Video Game Industry
Hagiu, Andrei, and Hanna Halaburda. "Responding to the Wii?" Harvard Business School Case 709-448, January 2009. (Revised January 2010.)
- Profile
Sebastian Vargas
Why did you choose this path at this point? Before coming to HBS, I worked for five years as an R&D engineer at Procter and Gamble (P&G). I loved my time at P&G because I worked in teams that looked at new-to-the-world... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
Private-equity boards are typically composed of members with substantial wealth at risk. Private-equity boards know how to structure financial incentives that deter reckless gambling and reward profitable growth. Private-equity boards... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
’85) and Daniel Stelter (McGraw-Hill) Examining the decisive actions taken by companies such as General Electric, IBM, and Procter & Gamble to accelerate out of past downturns, the authors show today’s executives how companies can win in... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
The educational power of video games and simulations to teach everyone from fighter pilots to senior managers is well documented. Games, after all, are fun. Our competitive instinct kicks in, and before we know it we’ve lost an hour to launching “angry birds” to... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
(sent in by class-notes secretaries) Games 1972J. Section A started our bingo game in the second term of our first year (1971). Cards had the names of roughly a third of the class (24 of 75) on them (5 each for B, I, G, and O and 4 plus the “free” spot for N). When... View Details
- September 2024 (Revised March 2025)
- Supplement
Wemade: (Re)Establishing Trust in Blockchain Games (B)
By: Jung Koo Kang, Charles C.Y. Wang, David Allen and Kwangmoon So
This supplement reviews Wemade's efforts to rebuild confidence in its business after its WEMIX coin was delisted from the major South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges on December 8, 2022. It outlines Wemade's strategy of transparency, which included partnerships with... View Details
Keywords: Blockchain; Cryptocurrency; Crypto Economy; Accounting; Financial Reporting; Revenue Recognition; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Corporate Disclosure; Information Technology; Financial Markets; Governance; Accounting Industry; Video Game Industry; South Korea
Kang, Jung Koo, Charles C.Y. Wang, David Allen, and Kwangmoon So. "Wemade: (Re)Establishing Trust in Blockchain Games (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 125-018, September 2024. (Revised March 2025.)
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/413126-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 403-127 Procter & Gamble On July 12, 2012, Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management announced publicly that it had purchased about $2... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 05 Aug 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?
In one recent case, Procter & Gamble purchased a company producing a low-cost, mass-produced disposable electric rotary toothbrush to be marketed under its famous Crest brand umbrella. As it turns out, its founders developed the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM
about the legalities and stigma around cannabis consumption in the United States. Chloe Sharp (MBA 2024) Where is your hometown? Detroit, Michigan. What was your pre-MBA industry and role? I was a Gillette Product Supply Engineer at Procter & View Details