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- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
create value for shareholders. This month, for example, when Trian Partners, under the leadership of cofounder and CEO Nelson Peltz, wanted to tell investors why GE was an undervalued company, it posted an 81-page analysis online for... View Details
- 21 Nov 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms
twentieth century was a learning century, then the twenty-first century is a performance century." In considering whether job performance is a matter of each person's innate natural ability or a matter of how well a company trains its new employees, View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
50 employees) but was poised for significant growth. For founder and CEO Michael Lebowitz, the central challenge was to figure out whether and how the agency could retain its boutique culture while transcending its boutique size. The case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Jorge Redmond, CEO of Chocolates El Rey, called a meeting with senior management to discuss the company's growth strategy. A relatively small firm with sales of around $14 million, El Rey produced top quality chocolate made with single... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
experts in the health care field, to provide their views on various facets of one of this country's most important and complex problems. Bill George Professor of Management Practice, former chair and CEO of Medtronic, and author of 7... View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
and significant progress in gaining market acceptance of its tools for analyzing public opinion, Crimson Hexagon's CEO prepares to address the company's investors on the question of exit strategy. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
practices which encourage managers to use accounting information to improve performance. In contrast, government organizations are publicly governed and are constrained in their compensation practices because hospital CEOs are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
Harvard Business School Case 707-519 In response to a huge crisis in 2000, the new CEO of Procter & Gamble has to decide whether to continue with an unusual organizational design or to revert to the old matrix organization. Describes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
Chuck Knight [former chairman and CEO of Emerson Electric Co.] made conflict a fundamental element of his firm's strategic planning process, and while he has now retired, the process retains the same atmosphere of vigorous debate that it... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
investment. "Now, obviously, the company is doing much better since Jobs returned to the CEO job; but having said that, it has not yet reached the value that it was in the early 1990s," Yoffie points out. Yoffie, whose book Judo... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
majority owner, and Life Technologies (Life), a major manufacturer of sequencing equipment and services, was a minority owner. By the end of the year the CEO of Claritas Genomics, Dr. Patrice Milos, had to put Claritas in a position to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
but impressive digital empire, riding waves of viral content. CEO Ben Huh prided himself on his ability to go from idea to implementation in just a few days, but this just-in-time method made strategic planning difficult. Profitable from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
history of innovation, by the late 1990s Muzak had anemic financials and low employee morale. When new CEO Bill Boyd took the helm in 1997, he assembled a new management team. The new VP of Marketing, Kenny Kahn, worked with design firm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
Community training helps fight Ebola A new case study about Last Mile Health by HBS Senior Lecturer Brian L. Trelstad and V. Kasturi Rangan, the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing, outlines how CEO Raj Panjabi’s determination to... View Details
- 07 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing
S&P 500 by 40 percent on a risk-adjusted basis. (There have been challenges, too. CEO Adam Nash stepped down in October, replaced by founder Andy Rachleff returning as CEO. Nash retained his seat on the board of directors.) But... View Details
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
contractors with no employees may call themselves self-employed, while the CEO of a rapidly growing startup might not. Research shows that the immigrant percentage of entrepreneurship in America has grown over time, from 17 percent in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
On September 4, the US Energy Information Agency (EIA) published its 2014 International Energy Outlook. Earlier this year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its latest World Energy Investment Outlook. Both watchdogs tell us the same story. Energy... View Details
- 16 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology
the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), a joint project of HBS and Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is also founder and CEO of the District Management Council, an organization that works with school districts to improve... View Details
- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
investors seemed to lie in the decisions that followed the investment. In addition to granting cash, venture capitalists are heavily involved in hiring or firing the CEO of the portfolio company, choosing a board of directors, devising an... View Details
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
leaders of our largest financial institutions worldwide struggling to justify decisions that have placed their organizations in jeopardy. I was reminded, too, of the CEO of a well-known retail organization who, I believe, would be... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett