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- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
average American consuming 3.1 servings of meat daily, Muir (MBA 2004) realized that food was a place he could make a difference. In 2008 he started Clover Food Lab with the goal of making vegetables irresistible for people who love to eat meat. Now a View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
competitive landscape, Cineplanet, the leading movie cinema chain in Peru, hired a team of IDEO designers to reinvent the movie-going experience for Peruvians. Cineplanet’s management team wishes to better align the company’s operating... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Q3Q4 3.0 Strategy for Entrepreneurs Strategy, Entrepreneurial Management Rembrand Koning Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Supply Chain Management Technology & Operations Management Kris Ferreira Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/819004-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 217-053 Ethiopia's Industrial Parks Strategy No abstract available. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/217053-PDF-ENG Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
MBA course, in which he would combine then-emerging thinking at HBS about entrepreneurship with some new kinds of financial strategies he had been roughing out. Entrepreneurial Finance seemed like a logical name for the course. Almost nobody up the food View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
They came from as far away as Nigeria and as close as Harvard Square, from industries ranging from banking to television. They were entrepreneurs who headed their own companies, senior executives at major corporations, and leaders of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
Business School Case 813-045 Eric Weston is struggling to keep his garden supply business alive. Revenues are up slightly from last year, but profits are down in a poor economy as he attempts to integrate an expensive recent acquisition.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
supply chains, installing ERP (enterprise resource planning systems, as exemplified by SAP), and worrying about Y2K. The threat posed to our economy by Japan and Germany had eased, the stock market was going crazy, and everybody was... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
have higher management quality, more MBA trained managers, and lower mortality rates. This is true compared to the distance to universities that offer only business or medical education (or neither). We argue that supplying joint... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
The choices available to consumers in the postwar boom transformed societal norms and expectations. With the advent of fast food, for example, millions of men, women, and children began to break bread — or hamburgers, chicken wings, and pizza slices — at View Details
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
changes that have revolutionized their use in practice. He contends that both serve the US economy by helping troubled companies stay viable by giving them time to find new financing, renegotiate unfavorable leases and supply contracts,... View Details
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
advantages, great employee and customer loyalty, and a smoother on-ramp in leadership succession. A book excerpt from The Ownership Quotient: Putting the Service Profit Chain to Work for Unbeatable Competitive Advantage by HBS professor... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
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HBS - Financials | From the CFO
informing their teaching in all the School's educational programs, their knowledge educates the next generation of leaders and influences the practice of management on a global scale. As I write, the world continues to face uncertainty. Container ships bottleneck the... View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” he says. “He could have bought the script for $30,000, but I wasn’t much more expensive, so he hired me.” Singer wrote or cowrote six episodes of the show over the course of the last three seasons, working his way up the food View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
more activist, informed patient, particularly around choice when buying health insurance, and in asserting that the health-care industry must be more innovative. She has long advocated for “focused factories,” health-care providers that... View Details
- April 2025
- Case
Thrivent: From Insurance Agents to Financial Advisors
By: Hubert Joly, Leonard A. Schlesinger and Tom Quinn
Thrivent, a midwestern financial services company with a centuries-long history rooted in Lutheranism, had reached $10 billion in revenue mostly by selling life insurance. In the 2020s, however, CEO Terry Rasmussen began a transformation process centered around the... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Talent and Talent Management; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Value and Value Chain; Forecasting and Prediction; Employee Relationship Management; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Job Design and Levels; Human Capital; Leading Change; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry; United States; Minneapolis
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
come up with changes. Could we get together to brainstorm constructive ways to improve our industry faster?” Within 48 hours, nearly everyone on the email chain agreed to participate. “Founders are the... View Details
- August 2001 (Revised March 2008)
- Supplement
Kirk Arnold
By: Nitin Nohria and Alan Price
Supplements NerveWire, Inc. View Details
Keywords: Recruitment; Value; Mission and Purpose; Partners and Partnerships; Business Model; Customer Value and Value Chain; Investment Return; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Problems and Challenges; Consulting Industry; Newton
Nohria, Nitin, and Alan Price. "Kirk Arnold." Harvard Business School Supplement 402-020, August 2001. (Revised March 2008.)
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
other sources of entrepreneurial influence: we find that peer influences are strongest for those who have less exposure to entrepreneurship in other aspects of their lives. Family Control of Firms and Industries Authors: Belén Villalonga... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
cases themselves, exist or may be supplied for teaching business." Business-school faculty therefore needed to develop cases of their own. But Donham recognized that these cases would have to be different from legal cases. For... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin