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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
reforms.” In a freewheeling Q&A session with some 400 students in Burden Hall on September 30, Thain advocated action on three fronts: consolidating the six federal agencies that regulate financial institutions to eliminate overlapping... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Joel Bines
another area unfamiliar to him - consolidation and relocation. "Story of my life," the affable Bines laughs. Bines decided to head for HBS to improve his business skills and evaluate his career plans. While at the School, he embraced a... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- Blog
Reinventing the GMP Experience
modules included two on-campus sessions for a total of seven weeks on campus over the four-month program. Now, participants come to campus just one time, for four weeks—but still benefit from the same rigorous curriculum. Consolidated... View Details
- 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
Pisano, Gary P., and Maryam Golnaraghi. "Partners HealthCare System, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 696-062, February 1996. (Revised April 1997.)
- 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
- 2008
- Working Paper
The Future of Social Enterprise
By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Herman B. Leonard and Susan McDonald
The Future of Social Enterprise considers the confluence of forces that is shaping the field of social enterprise, changing the way that funders, practitioners, scholars, and organizations measure performance. We trace a growing pool of potential funding sources to... View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Investment; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Performance Effectiveness; Social Enterprise; Consolidation; Value
Rangan, V. Kasturi, Herman B. Leonard, and Susan McDonald. "The Future of Social Enterprise." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-103, June 2008.
- 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
- Profile
Andrew Holmberg
restructure human resources, consolidate facilities, and improve intelligence collection from the general public, he was able to “use business skills in a public-sector kind of way.” Making issues personal After a few years with the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
of Consolidated Container Company (CCC). Headquartered in Atlanta, CCC has some 4,500 employees and manufactures its plastic containers at 68 different plants. Of these, 24 are on-site with customers and 5 are located in Canada, Mexico,... View Details
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
competition and management practices, and they found a strong relationship between the level of competition and the quality of management practices adopted in hospitals. Dafny: There’s also quite a lot of research demonstrating that hospital View Details
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
years: unbundling of agency services, the problem of competing clients sharing a common agency, and concern over consolidation with the growth of holding companies. To understand them, it's first important to appreciate how advertising... View Details
- Profile
Vivian Scalfi
challenges Vivian liked what she found at Diageo and decided to pursue an MBA to help her consolidation in the industry and her transition into leadership: "I wanted more management skills – how to lead, how to inspire people,"... View Details
Keywords: CPG
- February 1998 (Revised August 2006)
- Case
House of Tata, 1995: The Next Generation (A)
By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu and Danielle Melito Wu
The Tata Group began the 1990s as a confederation of loosely coupled firms. This case considers the rise to prominence of the new CEO of Tata Group, Ratan Tata, and his attempts to strengthen the inter-relationships among the group companies at a time when critics... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Business Conglomerates; Organizations; Corporate Strategy; Consolidation; Business Strategy; Alignment; Consumer Products Industry; Service Industry
Khanna, Tarun, Krishna G. Palepu, and Danielle Melito Wu. "House of Tata, 1995: The Next Generation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 798-037, February 1998. (Revised August 2006.)
- 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
- 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
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
The World at a Click
two-year-old, name-your-price discount site gaining fame of late with humorous ads featuring pitchman William Shatner. Both companies have grown rapidly since entering the online market, and with consolidation already under way... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelly
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Take Responsibility for Rising Stars
Many executives believe that leadership development is a job for the HR department. This may be the single biggest misconception they can have. As corporations have broken down work into manageable activities and then consolidated... View Details
- 19 Jan 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing the Economic Crisis
across the board, but rather weed out less effective initiatives and consolidate good ones. Effective programs that serve the community in a compelling way, and that also demonstrate a strong potential to influence the business, must be... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Initiatives in MBA Recruiting
students to reach these 'nontraditional' firms, and vice versa." For example, where students once had to visit several different campus locations to piece together the information needed for a particular job search, they will have an HBS Web site at their disposal this... View Details