Publications

01 Apr 1998
News

Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO

imaging with $2.2 billion in sales, is now in the early stages of an eighteen-month streamlining and consolidation strategy that was announced in December. He expects that within the next year an exciting line of Polaroid products -... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

Profile

John Smith-Ricco

seven or eight coffee cooperatives. "It started as a marketing issue," says John, "but it became clear there were business-management issues they really needed to address. We recommended ways to consolidate debt that would... View Details

Profile

Ben Steiner

greenhouse-gas emissions by fifty percent,” Ben says. Some of the proposal’s ideas have already been implemented, such as installing no-flush urinals in all new construction. Two college internships consolidated Ben’s attraction to... View Details

Web

Annual Report 2024 | Harvard Business School

compared with $6.3 billion as of June 30, 2023. From the Chief Financial Officer Statement of Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Key Metrics More Key Metrics MBA 8,150 Applications 14 %... View Details

24 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Can Obamacare Be Saved?

stability for insurers? Consolidation in the health insurance industry is not the answer. While Aetna’s bargaining power with ever-more consolidated provider organizations would have improved if it were... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch and Emily Boudreau; Insurance; Health

28 May 2019
News

Cure All

of competition and the quality of management practices adopted in hospitals. LD: There’s also quite a lot of research demonstrating that hospital consolidation causally leads to higher prices without any evidence of quality... View Details

Keywords: Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

April 2016
Teaching Note

Whither the Weather (Company): Forecasting 2016

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen

This Note was created for the purpose of aiding classroom instructors in the use of the Harvard Business School case, "Whither the Weather (Company): Forecasting 2016." As chairman and CEO, David Kenny guided the Weather Company's transformation from a cable television... View Details

Keywords: Weather Company; IBM; Digital; Technology; David Kenny; Television; Weather Channel; Legacy Business; Mainstream; Newstream; Reorganization; Acquisitions; Transformation; Information Technology; Television Entertainment; Acquisition; Consolidation; Change; Leadership

January 2016 (Revised March 2016)
Case

Whither the Weather (Company): Forecasting 2016

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen

CEO David Kenny led the transformation of the Weather Company from a television business to a Big Data technology company from 2012 until 2016, when IBM acquired its digital assets. This case discusses major decisions taken by Kenny starting in 2014 as he sought to... View Details

Keywords: Weather Company; IBM; Digital; Technology; David Kenny; Television; Weather Channel; Legacy Business; Mainstream; Newstream; Reorganization; Acquisitions; Transformation; Information Technology; Television Entertainment; Acquisition; Consolidation; Change; Leadership

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Presentation Round-Up

self-proclaimed "infrastructure guy," panelist Steve Papa (HBS MBA '99) of Optigrab.com speculated that the future of e-business services will be marked by the same pull toward uniformity that took place in industry consolidations a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Kenneth Liss; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

February 1996 (Revised April 1997)
Case

Partners HealthCare System, Inc. (A)

By: Gary P. Pisano and Maryam Golnaraghi

Focuses on the decision confronting senior administrators at the Brigham and Women's Hospital: whether to enter into an affiliation with the Massachusetts General Hospital. Requires students to analyze the complex institutional changes in the health environment and to... View Details

Keywords: Consolidation; Health Care and Treatment; Mergers and Acquisitions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Management Teams; Health Industry; Massachusetts

Web

Statement of Activity & Cash Flows | Annual Report 2024

comparability across the Harvard schools, the University has asked all schools to report their net results in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) in the United States. Financial Statements: Statement of Activity & Cash Flows & View Details

Career Coach

Annette Rodriguez-Ferrer

I Corp (NASDAQ: SDAC). Notable board roles during her tenure at Warburg Pincus include Gabe’s, TriMark, Outset Medical (NASDAQ: OM), Silk Road Medical (NASDAQ: SILK), Glansaol and Wencor Group. She was also actively engaged in portfolio companies Neiman Marcus,... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products; Entrepreneurship; Impact Investing; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Health Care; Retail; Startup - Founder; Entrepreneurship; Startup - Joiner; Entrepreneurship

01 Dec 1999
News

The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World

On the regulatory front, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and a relaxation of restrictions on multiple ownership of media outlets are realigning and consolidating the power of media ownership. Lastly, in the economic arena, a wave of... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

20 Jun 2012
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Leadership: What We Know

handbook with the following three goals in mind: Take Stock and Consolidate Progress. Our primary goal is to share what we have learned after almost three decades of accumulated experience teaching leadership. To do this, we cast a wide... View Details

Keywords: by Scott A. Snook, Rakesh Khurana & Nitin Nohria; Education

23 May 2019
News

Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998

Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1970 Born, Oakland, California 1993 Earns BA, Political Economy, UC Berkeley 1993 Joins McKinsey, Business Analyst 1998 Earns MBA/MPA 1998 Joins Consolidation Capital Corp., VP... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

October 2013 (Revised December 2015)
Case

Alcoa's Bid for Alcan (A)

By: Paul Healy and Penelope Rossano

In spring 2007, Alcoa CEO Alain Belda was concerned about the company's market position in light of increased competition from developing markets. China's recent entry into the aluminum market was affecting both supply and demand. Furthermore, downstream and upstream... View Details

Keywords: Acquisitions; Strategy; Aluminum; Accounting; Financials; Alcoa; Rio Tinto; Alcan; Metals and Minerals; Competition; Consolidation; Emerging Markets; Acquisition; Financial Statements; Manufacturing Industry; Canada; China; Russia