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- 12 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager
businesses, there's no reason to have a chief marketing officer because there's no single company brand to manage. But in companies that have more related businesses, it makes sense to have these positions toward the top with the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Nov 2008
- Research Event
Social Media Leads the Future of Technology
demographics, they are increasingly comfortable with some of the brand risks of what that might mean. But Internet advertising still doesn't perform very well, and that's a challenge. How do you serve the right ads to the right user and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Energy and Cleantech: Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office
integrate these skills into your personal brand narrative. Are there any other common questions or concerns that you get from students? One common question I get from students is how to navigate a job search when you are interested in a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
for someone from my era, when just one trip to class with your computer could get you branded “section weenie” for life. But here, it all seems part of the routine; most students are using their computers to view a spreadsheet of numbers... View Details
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
result in deterioration of financial performance. Fixed- and sunk-cost conventional wisdom confers an unfair advantage on challengers and shackles incumbent firms that attempt to respond to an attack. Executives in established companies, bemoaning the expense of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
the commercial recording industry because you can play the notes reliably, ultimately you may find that you've lost your brand specialness. In business terms, if you're in a margin business and you want to command high margins, if you're... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
initiative's rapid progress has been aided greatly by the strength of the technology groundwork that has been established at the School over the past few decades. "This is not something brand new," notes Professor F. Warren McFarlan,... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- Career Coach
Erika Osterling
Erika (HBS '09, ITESM '00) brings 20 years of experience as an operating leader and advisor. She has spent most of her career within Energy & Industrial, with additional roles in Consumer and Retail. Erika's 12+ year career at GE progressed from supply chain to... View Details
- Career Coach
Deborah Resnick
Deborah (HBS '06) has deep expertise in consulting (breaking into consulting, navigating a career in consulting, and breaking out!), complemented by a diverse set of operational and managerial experience across Fortune 500 companies and a private-equity backed natural... View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
Cialis's hard-won brand equity with physicians and patients? With the final stages of clinical trials for the new indication, benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), soon to be carried out, the team had to make a decision soon. On its face,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Career Coach
Wendi Zhang
Wendi partners with MBA students and alumni to meet them where they are in their career journey, and 1) if undecided - helps them get clarity, 2) if decided - coaches them in taking the next steps to reach the next goal post(s), and 3) upon reaching the next goal -... View Details
- Career Coach
Ildi Nielsen
Ildi (Dartmouth ’94) offers 20 years of experience as a Career Coach and Executive Search Consultant for MBA and post-MBA professionals. She worked as a Career Coach at Boston Consulting Group where she helped consultants and alumni launch new careers in healthcare,... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Commercial Banking; Financial Services (All); Consumer Finance; Financial Services (All); Corporate Finance; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Retail
- February 2017
- Supplement
JCDecaux, 2016: Global Leader ... Again
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
In 2016, JCDecaux was number one in the world in outdoor advertising. This was a far cry from the situation in 2003; at that time, JCDecaux had been unseated by Clear Channel from the number-one spot that it had held for decades, and it was fighting for second place... View Details
Keywords: JCDecaux; Clear Channel Outdoor; OUTFRONT Media; Lamar Advertising Company; Jean-François Decaux; Jean-Charles Decaux; Outdoor Advertising; Street Furniture; Airports; Billboards; Bicycles; Digital Devices; Digital Marketing; Bidding; Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; Family Business; For-Profit Firms; Joint Ventures; Design; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Location; Geographic Scope; Global Range; Globalization; Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Government Legislation; Business History; Human Resources; Laws and Statutes; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Demand and Consumers; Supply and Industry; Operations; Distribution; Infrastructure; Logistics; Product; Product Design; Production; Organizational Structure; Property; Public Ownership; Renting or Rental; Problems and Challenges; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Family and Family Relationships; Sales; Situation or Environment; Luxury; Strategy; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Consolidation; Corporate Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Expansion; Segmentation; Mobile Technology; Wireless Technology; Air Transportation; Bicycle Transportation; Rail Transportation; Transportation Networks; Advertising Industry; France; Paris
Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "JCDecaux, 2016: Global Leader ... Again." Harvard Business School Supplement 717-441, February 2017.
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
Strollers.com, and Luggage.com. Co-founders Niraj Shah and Steve Conine were considering making a major investment to build brand equity at the corporate level. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/812044-PDF-ENG Col. Joshua... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
know, so I think sometimes people will be a little bit too much in a hurry to say, oh, here's what I want to do long-term, and so I got to jump in and do that right now. But to have the opportunity to work for a really well-established company that's a big View Details
- Career Coach
Peggy Yu
Peggy (Northwestern '02, HBS '07) loves working with students and alumni interested in working at startups as well as those interested in launching their own venture. Formerly the Interim Director and Associate Director at the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, she has... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
CMO tasked with returning a key consumer brand to relevance. Fin Tales is also the rare book about leading business turnarounds not from the top, where most leaders control all the levers of change, but from the middle, where thoughtful... View Details
- Career Coach
Doug Lester
Doug’s approach to career and executive coaching is informed by over ten years in marketing, digital, and general management roles at Johnson & Johnson and other Fortune 500 companies. He offers perspective as a former executive recruiter and often counsels alumni on... View Details
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
began making hiking boots. The cluster later expanded into ski boots and sneakers, and drew investments from major brands like Nordica and Nike. Lead firms started offshoring production to cheaper economies like Romania and China,... View Details
- Web
Demo Day | New Venture Competition
elder care, CareCorgi provides a human-powered, AI-elevated copilot that provides dynamic personalized care plans and connects them with real human geriatric care coordinators Catalog Paul Lachman (MBA 2025), Hamish Gunasekara Catalog is a new-age commerce platform... View Details