Financial Strategy - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 2000
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Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences

I've ever done." A series of afternoon panels were organized around "hot topics," such as cultivating a mentor and building a career, strategies for personal and professional success, women as negotiators, and the power of women in the... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

01 Oct 2001
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Helping Hands for HBS

that their HBS degree could not save them from the vicissitudes of the marketplace." (In Transition: From the HBS Club of New York's Career Management Seminar, a 1991 book written by Burton and Wedemeyer, is still a favorite among job changers.) Burton, who is... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2006
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One-on-One with Carter Roberts

countries and annual revenues in excess of $126 million. The privately financed organization has nearly 5 million members. Under his leadership, the WWF has launched an ambitious new strategy to focus its efforts on protecting nineteen of... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715412-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 515-059 Rebranding Godiva: The Yildiz Strategy This case concerns Yildiz Holding's acquisition of Godiva Chocolatier from its... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2014
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My HBS Eureka Moment

1965) Have a Long-Term Strategy — Jose M. Faustino (MBA 1963) Beware of Bias — Donald J. Chiofaro (MBA 1972) Exceed Expectations — Bill Bogardus (MBA 1972) See Every Side — Jacqueline Beato (MBA 2009) Take a Chance — Michael Kubin (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Walter Frese; Martin V. Marshall; C. Roland Christensen; Lawrence Fouraker; Educational Services

May 2022
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Maestro Pizza (C): Taking the Fight Outside

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Fares Khrais

Maestro pizza opened its first store in 2013 after its founder, Khalid Al Omran, recognized an opportunity in Saudi Arabia to offer high quality pizza at affordable prices. The business grew rapidly and under the radar at first, but soon enough caught the attention of... View Details

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13 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

experimentally dissociable, little is known about ambiguity sensitivity in individuals who engage in chronic antisocial behavior. We used a financial decision-making task in a high-risk community-based sample to test for associations... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28

decline in sales and profits in the wake of the 2008-2009 financial market crisis and economic recession and is now overburdened with debt. To regain its competitiveness, the company has to significantly reduce its debt by billions of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2016
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How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

the threat, with analysts predicting it will grow to $170 billion by 2020. (In his proposed fiscal 2017 budget, President Obama requested a $5 billion increase in federal cybersecurity spending, up to $19 billion annually.) Money is one thing, View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

01 Mar 2009
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Model Patient

serious illness and its attendant financial insecurity could one day focus instead on a brighter, healthier future. A Cornell graduate who holds an MBA from Boston College, Rhenisch was for years well employed and enjoyed excellent... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance

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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

MBAs; Avoiding Startup Failure; and Managing Networked Business _,_ which surveyed strategies for platform-based businesses that leverage network effects. He twice co-led a Harvard Innovation Lab course, Cultural Entrepreneurship in New... View Details

19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

steps toward rapprochement in June 2016. The central dilemma is this: whether in light of the existing uncertainties companies operating in both countries can resume their investments and commercial activities, or should decisions be put on hold? What is the best View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

16 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

scholars (such as “p-hacking” and confounding local effects with global effects) pertinent to the norms of empirical research in the fields of strategy and management. We provide a step-by-step roadmap that illustrates how to use four ML... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand

my goals. The financial services industry was just opening up to women, and I was on a mission to be one of the first to participate. I loved being a pioneer. I had my goals and was determined to achieve them. They were, and still are, to... View Details

13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

Case 708-479 This case on the globalization of East Asian pop music is useful for teaching concepts of regional business strategy and also of cultural arbitrage. Music companies in the case must examine why certain markets are clearly... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Ideas, April 18

Scale Global This case tracks Jerome Chouchan’s strategies and execution for a successful turnaround of Godiva Japan’s operations, which were experiencing a decline in sales when he became the managing director of the company in 2010.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care

start-up approach applicable to the health care sector? For heavily regulated drugs, diagnostics, and devices, a 'launch early and often' strategy simply isn't possible, although entrepreneurs can still run lean tests to gauge the level... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

May 2024 (Revised September 2024)
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Hakluyt: From Corporate Intelligence to Trusted Advisors

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Lena Duchene

Established in 1995 by a group of ex-British intelligence officers, Hakluyt & Company (Hakluyt) was a corporate advisory firm that generated insights by leveraging a unique blend of internal expertise and a global network of well-connected individuals. Since 2019, the... View Details

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17 Dec 2013
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increasingly tied to the sway of private financial interests, and how postwar administrations finally extricated the U.S. from economic interventionism, even though the government had the will and power to continue. Maurer examines the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 Apr 2010
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the largest financial services providers in the U.S., indicate that customer sensitivity to service time varies widely and predictably with observable market characteristics. In turn, we find evidence that local operating managers account... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences

Helping Hands for HBS

One-on-One with Carter Roberts

First Look: April 21

My HBS Eureka Moment

Maestro Pizza (C): Taking the Fight Outside

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

First Look: Feb. 28

How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

Model Patient

Faculty & Advisors | MBA

New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

From Where We Stand

First Look: January 13, 2009

First Look at New Ideas, April 18

Curing Health Care

Hakluyt: From Corporate Intelligence to Trusted Advisors

First Look: December 17

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