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- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
challenges like reworking an outdated strategy or business model. The culture evolves as you do that important work. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50894 April 2016 Harvard Business Review Making Exit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
increasing lifespans—and why companies needed a more thoughtful strategy for addressing these consumers. Today, Golden is an expert on innovation and entrepreneurial opportunities created by the new longevity and teaches this at the... View Details
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
A. Desai, and C. Fritz Foley Abstract This paper examines how costly financial contracting and weak investor protection influence the cross-border operational, financing and investment decisions of firms. We develop a model in which... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
Internasional Harvard Business School Case 207-021 In late 2004, Hilmi Panigoro, CEO of the publicly traded Indonesian oil company Medco Energi Internasional, is striving to regain majority control of the company his brother Arifin founded in 1980. The Asian View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 8, 2008
Working PapersNone this week Cases & Course MaterialsAT&T v. Microsoft (A): IP Litigation Strategy Harvard Business School Case 608-080 This case examines a hard fought litigation over a patent that originated at Bell Labs. It... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
experience has been a mixed blessing. In Argentina, liberalization and opening to the world in the 1990s first produced growth, and then instability as the Asian financial crisis impacted the country. At the turn of the century a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
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Negotiation Strategy: Pattern Recognition Game Harvard Business School Note 908-015 In negotiation, correctly identifying your counterpart's strategy is vital. Only then can you constructively influence their behavior—or adapt... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
The Natural World
TERCEK: A tight strategic focus. Courtesy The Nature Conservancy Two years ago, Mark Tercek (MBA ’84) left his job at Goldman Sachs to become head of The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the habitat-preserving organization that has some 3,700 employees worldwide (as well as... View Details
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Field Course: Investing for Impact - Course Catalog
small, Boston-based business to perform thorough due diligence (financial, operational, commercial) and ultimately present their findings and a fundraising strategy and/or an investment recommendation (for $25,000 to $50,000) to an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits
strategy, offered advice on strategic planning. The summit took place against the backdrop of a mounting financial crisis on Wall Street and a deteriorating economy, both of which heightened concern about expected declines in giving,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business
course-development project in 1997. Writing cases on firms in China, Japan, Thailand, Argentina, Nigeria, and Russia, she focused on businesses indigenous to each culture as well as multinationals moving between cultures. She chose companies that aspire to excellence... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?
illneses take a financial and emotional toll on businesses operating in Africa. "This is not just a disease we're talking about. This is a disease that has the power to destroy economies," said Harvard Business School Professor... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
How They Can Do it Better (29,119) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6665.html Published: April 25, 2011 A CEO's schedule is especially important to a firm's financial success, which raises a few questions: What do they do all day? Can they be... View Details
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- December 2008
- Case
JBS Swift & Co.
By: David E. Bell and Cathy Ross
Brazilian meat packer JBS surprised many in the U.S. beef industry when it acquired Swift & Co.—a company more than five times its size—in 2007, then moved to acquire the U.S.'s fourth and fifth largest beef producers in 2008. The new JBS Swift slashed costs and... View Details
Keywords: Animal-Based Agribusiness; Mergers and Acquisitions; Restructuring; Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Global Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States; Brazil
Bell, David E., and Cathy Ross. "JBS Swift & Co." Harvard Business School Case 509-021, December 2008.
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
January 2017 Review of Financial Studies Being Surprised by the Unsurprising: Earnings Seasonality and Stock Returns By: Chang, Tom Y., Samuel M. Hartzmark, David H. Solomon, and Eugene F. Soltes Abstract—We present evidence consistent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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3 Technologies that Will Change the World in the Next Decade - Course Catalog
growing explosively the Web 3 and crypto markets, that had been seen as the big disruptive force for society a year earlier, were limping through a crypto winter. Companies that had been slated to restructure financial market declared... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
After ten years of working at McKinsey & Co., where she had become the first female African-American partner, Pamela Thomas-Graham (MBA '88/JD '89) was ready for a change. "Consulting is an excellent way to learn management and strategy... View Details
- 02 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity
There is next to no evidence that CSR positively adds to a company's bottom line, according to Felix Oberholzer-Gee, the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. "You cannot find a robust direct link between CSR and View Details
- 09 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer
and consumer lending. The researchers chose to study risk-management experts because their role has risen in importance with demands for improved corporate governance and the need for better forecasting and modeling. After the financial... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
D.C.-based firm, Barbara Franklin Enterprises, helps American companies navigate trade and investment issues, especially in China and other Asian countries. Franklin assists corporations with everything from strategy and etiquette to... View Details