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- 21 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google
internet-related services that helped one of the largest technology companies in the world make the turnaround of the century. How did Wladawsky-Berger get there in the first place? In the late 1950s, at the age of 15, he emigrated with... View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Selling Luxury to Everyone
lifespan in the fashion industry. "What used to be a six-month turnaround in fashion is now six weeks," she said. Morse said his company is competing with an ever-more crowded market in cosmetics, a high-margin business that has... View Details
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
firm boundary. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-104.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsThe HLB Turnaround Lynda M. Applegate, Bhaskar Chakravorti, and Laura WinigHarvard Business School Case 810-023 Ford Pearson has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
dashboard, "indirect goals" that help predict and explain financial performance beyond the "direct goal" of profit. These might include the speed of aircraft turnaround in the airline industry, the conversion rate of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
case:http://hbr.org/search/113099-PDF-ENG Entrepreneurial Management in a Turnaround Environment (EMTE) Fall 2012: Course Overview and Syllabus Sharpe, JimHarvard Business School Case 813-127 Course Overview and Syllabus in the Fall Term... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
on the Brink (B): Transformation Year 1 Results Analyzes the results of the Thomas Cook turnaround plan after the first year under Harriet Green's leadership (November 2013). Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2016
- What Do You Think?
When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?
Organization for Sustained Advantage (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2009), pp. 295-325. Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance?: Inside IBM’s Historic Turnaround (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), pp. 181-182. Jay W. Lorsch... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
Marissa Mayer became the CEO of Yahoo!, a tech giant with a tumultuous past. When Mayer tries to reinvigorate the company, she hires Jacqueline Reses, who has a private equity background, to head both human resources and mergers and acquisitions (M&A). As part of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Fast Start on Your New Job
technology) to get a new business, product or project off the ground. In a turnaround, the new leader takes on a unit or group that is recognized to be in trouble and works to get it back on track. Both startups and turnarounds involve... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making the Most of Government Upheaval
the organizations they studied responded to their post-reform competitive environments in roughly four stages: Stage I: Turnaround and Catch-up. Recognizing that their efficiency and quality levels were far below those of world-class... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
keep their eyes on the work to be done. Silverthorne: For new CEOs, what should their initial steps be in assuming power and laying out an agenda for action? Kanter: New CEOs need to be adequately informed. One thing that makes View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?
rich portfolios. Many pre-Black Monday discussions focus on whether coaches really matter and how much. Coaching ability is crucial in leading and managing the team that results in ascendancy over competitors. But they matter more in View Details
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
315-060 The Basic LCA Framework No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315060-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 214-055 Restructuring JAL Hideo Seto, the recently appointed chairman of the investment committee of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
several months into his turnaround of a global technology company's Russia subsidiary, a young and upcoming French executive reflected on how to institutionalize the subsidiary's transformation by further driving cultural change and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
Knowing where and how much the target is currently losing with unprofitable products and customers, the acquirer can develop a profit plan based on transforming unprofitable relationships into profitable ones. The increased cash flow forecasted from the rapid profit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807175 Turnaround at the Veterans Health Administration (A) Harvard Business School Case 608-061 Investigates the challenges that Dr. Kenneth W. Kizer confronted in seeking to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
doesn't mean the US can follow this model." Yadeed Lobo was more optimistic. As he put it, "The United States is good at achieving turnarounds " But he warned that "the biggest obstacle will be organizational and... View Details
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
operates on a strategy of low costs, low fares, full planes, and rapid turnarounds to keep those planes in the air, thus reducing the cost of an airline’s most costly asset. It fills (often secondary) airports so successfully that there... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
contemporary leaders, he selects transparency as his tool. He is, however, unique in adopting a highly nuanced approach to implementing transparency. In the process, he not only leads a fantastic organizational turnaround but also helps... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
company's, and his, legacy will be after declaring bankruptcy despite a cultural turnaround and successful operations. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/610061-PDF-ENG The Last DVD Format War? Andrei... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace