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  • 07 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Quest for Better Layoffs

A few years ago, Sandra J. Sucher received worried emails from two MBA students in her first-year Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA) class at Harvard Business School. Elana Green (now Elana Silver) and David Rosales (both HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing
  • 24 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 24, 2009

distribution services (GDSs)—such as SABRE—to reach travel agents. But GDSs held significant tactical advantages. For example, GDSs had signed long-term exclusive contracts with the corporate customers who were American's best customers.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes

your biggest buckets of cost and rethinking those strategically in ways that give your customers something they value," notes Frei, the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management at Harvard Business School. Morriss (HBS MBA '04),... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Service
  • 17 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 17

knowledge-intensive multinational corporation suggest that reluctance to speak up, even with pro-organizational suggestions, is driven by specific implicit theories about speaking up in hierarchies. Study 2 uses open-ended survey... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

of treating the topic of e-commerce with awe and confusion, we can now discuss the subject more objectively." What follows is an excerpt from his new book, Implementing E-commerce Strategies: A Guide to Corporate Success after the... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
  • June 2007 (Revised April 2008)
  • Case

Say on Pay

By: Jay W. Lorsch, V.G. Narayanan and Alexis Chernak
Briefly describes the trend in 2006 and 2007 in the United States to give shareholders an advisory vote on executive compensation. Highlights a few examples where shareholders have successfully garnered a majority in support of an advisory vote measure on company proxy... View Details
Keywords: Voting; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Business and Government Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; United States
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  • Profile

Juan Pablo Moncayo

Sachs. The perfect transition to a new career path Following the advice of SEO mentors, JP visited HBS in 2007. "I fell in love with the campus," he says. "I thought the case method made sense. Having served on corporate... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
  • 28 Jul 2016
  • Blog Post

Why I’m Not Changing Careers after Business School

Courses (IFC). Good investing and corporate management requires contextual knowledge and an ability to differentiate among opportunities worldwide – I now feel much more prepared to operate with a truly global perspective.  I also feel... View Details
  • 07 Apr 2011
  • What Do You Think?

When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?

meltdown is. As Philippe Gouamba puts it, "Is it a partial collapse or a total collapse? What is at risk in this collapse; is it human lives, corporate capital or national pride?" Having asked these questions, he opts for... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • Blog Post

Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability

that it would meet criterion #1, so I focused on that in my conversations with the firms during the recruiting process. This decision was a challenging pivot because of the full-time consulting recruiting season timing, but I was... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
  • 17 Oct 2019
  • News

Venturing Away from Venture Capital

potential to return their entire fund through acquisition or IPO. In the process, she says, VCs can be “forced to make investment decisions that don’t benefit the company, the entrepreneur, or the entrepreneurial landscape.” For example,... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
  • 01 Jan 2003
  • News

Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969

Lambert sold Centennial One, the building services company she started in her Maryland garage 25 years earlier had twelve hundred employees and annual revenues of $20 million. Although her family and friends had initially been surprised by her View Details
  • 11 Apr 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Services 24/7

transactions of all kinds and with the size of firms growing, the reliability of technology becomes increasingly important. "The increased use of technology offers huge economies of scale," notes Warren McFarlan, coauthor of the fifth edition of View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
  • 26 Jul 2018
  • News

Running the Numbers

Basketball Association was a recently launched, little-known organization, and Gelman had accepted a promising post-college job as a strategy consultant with the Mitchell Madison Group in New York. But her decision to defer the consulting... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 01 Oct 1998
  • News

A Community Investment

socially responsible mission. There is tremendous inefficiency in the environmental community, and one of our goals is to facilitate the formation of strategic alliances between and amongst environmentalists and other sectors of society... View Details
  • 24 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 24

We contribute to institutional theory by identifying selective disclosure as a corporate symbolic strategy and by revealing how scrutiny and norms limit this symbolic behavior. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1836472... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • June 2010
  • Teaching Note

Cisco Business Councils (2007): Unifying a Functional Enterprise with an Internal Governance System (TN)

By: Ranjay Gulati and Marlo Goetting
Teaching Note for 409062. View Details
Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; System; Business Units; Corporate Strategy; Infrastructure; Growth and Development; Decision Making; Restructuring; Resource Allocation; Information Technology Industry
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  • September 1992
  • Case

Vintage Directions, Inc.

By: Howard H. Stevenson
Focuses on the problem of determining whether to continue with a start-up after the first market test. The company has seen product success but is far from break-even and needs additional financing. Focuses on opportunity analysis and the use of market data to assess... View Details
Keywords: Product Launch; Product Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Forecasting and Prediction; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Business or Company Management
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  • June 2024
  • Supplement

Legacy Partners (A)

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Instructors should consider the timing of making videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details.

Stephen Holbrook and Austin Pulsipher (both HBS '19) had been leading Nutrishare since acquiring the company six months earlier in mid-2021.... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Small Business; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Problems and Challenges; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Medical Specialties; Nutrition; Supply Chain Management; Growth Management; Health Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; California
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  • 13 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth

eight months, and quickly established offices in Europe and Asia. Within a year it had announced forty strategic partnerships with companies such as Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, and Citibank. Pandesic executives boldly announced their first... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor