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- 24 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach
by Robert Kaplan and David Norton. She is also a former Contributing Editor to Harvard Business Review. Previously, Heimbouch was Director of Editorial Development at Wired Ventures in San Francisco. View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
- 19 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?
stores,” which now outnumber all of the Starbucks and McDonald’s in the United States combined. They will account for 40 percent of all new store openings this year, according to a Coresight Research report. Willy Shih, the Robert and... View Details
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building a Powerful Prestige Brand
store buyers. She was a determined, talented saleswoman, whose methods and commercial imagination can be illustrated by the case of Saks Fifth Avenue. That store's buyer for cosmetics in the late 1940s, View Details
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
In a recently published book on current international research in business history, edited by Harvard Business School professor Geoffrey Jones, HBS professor emeritus Alfred D. Chandler Jr. contributed an essay on the opportunities... View Details
- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
It is commonly accepted in economic circles that a country can grow faster by making key investments in sectors such as technology and in R&D and human or physical capital. But can a country also grow by... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
average winds, Cape Wind will provide three quarters of the Cape's and Islands' electricity needs." As the case details, however, before Cape Wind could realize its ambitions it first had to weather multiple regulatory, legal, and public relations hurdles, including... View Details
- 15 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?
Aage Sorensen Memorial Award for sociological research. With his coauthor, Rock Center Entrepreneur-in-Residence Henry McCance of Greylock Partners, professor Wasserman recently completed a case study about founder-CEO succession at Wily Technology. New Business... View Details
- 02 Nov 2021
- News
Harvard Business School Announces 2021-2022 Kaplan Fellows
- September 2018 (Revised November 2018)
- Case
From Beirut With Love (A)
By: Christina R. Wing, Esel Y. Cekin and Samer Al-Rachedy
This case describes how Robert Fadel, CEO and chairman of ABC, one of Lebanon’s leading retail and real estate groups, professionalized the family business. Robert was the second son of the company’s founder, Maurice Fadel, who had run it single-handedly. Concerned... View Details
Keywords: Family Conflicts; Sibling Rivalry; Second-generation; Foundation; Trust; Work-life Balance; Succession Planning; Corporate Culture; Shareholders; Board Of Directors; Retail; Department Store; Shopping Mall; Real Estate; Growth; Non-executive Chairman; Sustainability; Family Business; Conflict Management; Management Succession; Governance; Leadership; Transformation; Leading Change; Organizational Structure; Management; Growth and Development; Retail Industry; Real Estate Industry; Lebanon; Middle East
Wing, Christina R., Esel Y. Cekin, and Samer Al-Rachedy. "From Beirut With Love (A)." Harvard Business School Case 619-024, September 2018. (Revised November 2018.)
- 05 Oct 2016
- What Do You Think?
Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?
scenario is. The fact is that the US appears to have settled into a 2 percent growth rate at most, even in a recovery where higher rates of growth might be expected. An important examination of long-term US growth rates by a respected... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
businesses. In reorganizing to capitalize on its technology, Xerox created a new entity in 1989, headed by Robert Adams, that effectively established a third phase for managing spin-offs. Adams had created a... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
program, I had the opportunity to write a new case about Robert Mondavi. As I conducted the research for the case, I became more fascinated with the changes taking place in the industry globally, as well as the marked differences between... View Details
- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
says. Sundance Institute. Founder Robert Redford's contribution in legitimizing indie films is akin to what James Beard did for American food. Sundance made indies and the different stories depicted in the genre more acceptable View Details
- 20 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018
written by Harvard Business School faculty—along with links to the full text of those papers. Here are the five most downloaded working papers of 2018: Corporate Tax Cuts Increase Income Inequality While corporate tax cuts increase... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?
inhabited by academics and consultants ...personal advancement may be better served by being provocative than by being right." Others question the importance of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
Even before the recent earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown in Japan, many parts of Asia had already begun investing in "green" energy. But the disaster has certainly upped the urgency of the discussions. “It's driven a lot of people to have a bit of a... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should More Transparency Extend to Education for Management?
[master's and doctoral work] is when we focus our passion, and this work should reflect our abilities in a chosen field." As Robert Downing put it, "I suspect that most employers do not use grades as their sole hiring criteria.... View Details