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HBR Classics - Alumni

Gabarro, Robert J. Lees Wild West of Executive Coaching , Stratford Sherman, Alyssa Freas Motivating Others Employee Motivation Moving Mountains One More Time Negotiating with and Persuading Others Necessary Art of Persuasion Negotiating... View Details
  • 04 May 2021
  • Book

Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer

practical architecture of what, in my view, we need to move the world forward.” Of course, pulling off such an ambitious effort is easier said than done. At Best Buy, Joly didn’t start with the traditional turnaround playbook of laying... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Solving for Z

With nearly 20 years of experience as a senior human resources executive, Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) has seen a lot of change in the corporate talent space. But what’s happening now looks like a tectonic generational shift. From his perch as global head of human... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Doug Chayka; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government
  • November 2006
  • Case

Organics: Coming Center Stage?

By: James E. Austin and Reed Martin
The organics movement has certainly come a long way. From hippie farming communes and a scattering of natural food stores in the 1960s, organics outgrew its origins as a counterculture curiosity of the 1970s to become the fastest growing segment of the food industry in... View Details
Keywords: Food; Supply and Industry; Consumer Behavior; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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Austin, James E., and Reed Martin. "Organics: Coming Center Stage?" Harvard Business School Case 907-405, November 2006.
  • 05 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures

that comes with envy and move people toward admiration instead,” she says. “One way to do that is to acknowledge your struggles or shortcomings.” Brooks co-wrote the February 2018 working paper, Mitigating Malicious Envy: Why Successful... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Jun 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'

2008 book, Gross National Happiness: Why Happiness Matters for America—and How We Can Get More of It. And while his next move was to run the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) think tank, he couldn’t shake the topic. It wasn’t just a... View Details
Keywords: by Dan Morrell
  • 10 May 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Who Has Potential? For Many White Men, It’s Often Other White Men

the partners worried the high turnover was damaging the firm’s competitive edge, according to research by Robin Ely, the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who studies race and gender... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Why Do Outlet Stores Exist?

usually located in rural areas near the factory and selling damaged or irregular clothing, often to employees themselves. Even though most apparel manufacturing has long ago moved overseas, outlet stores have continued to exist—despite... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Retail
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Skydeck - Alumni

—on how to make sure your next career move is the right one Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff Former Continental Airlines CEO Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) recounts the radical ideas and relentless negotiations that transformed the airline... View Details
  • 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008

overview of property and casualty insurance, the Chinese insurance market and the challenges that foreign-based insurers have in entering an emerging market. Students are asked to decide what Chubb's China strategy should be moving... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 26, 2006

the improved ability of firms to replicate business innovations has affected not only productivity, but also the nature of business competition itself. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-016.pdf   Cases &... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Deconstructing LEGO’s Decarbonization

working with startups and chemical companies. But they also acknowledge that, while the company is a trailblazer in the space, this problem is a global one and requires a solution involving all relevant stakeholders. Finally, we were impressed by the company’s View Details
  • November 2002 (Revised May 2006)
  • Case

Forest Stewardship Council

By: James E. Austin and Ezequiel Reficco
In just a few years the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) made impressive progress toward its mission of promoting "environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests." By 2001, 25.5 million hectares of forests in... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Corporate Governance; Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Competitive Strategy
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Austin, James E., and Ezequiel Reficco. "Forest Stewardship Council." Harvard Business School Case 303-047, November 2002. (Revised May 2006.)
  • January 2017
  • Case

Bayer AG: Bidding to Win Merck's OTC Business

By: Benjamin C. Esty, Marc Baaij and Arjen Mulder
Shortly after submitting their best and final offer to acquire Merck's Consumer Care Division (a collection of "over-the-counter" (OTC) products with sales totaling $2 billion), the Bayer M&A team was given a chance to revise their bid because another potential... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Bidding Strategy; Valuing Synergies; Negotiations; Corporate Strategy; Business Unit Strategy; Bidding Process; Discounted Cash Flow; Cross-border M&A; Tax Shields; Valuation; Competitive Strategy; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Germany; United States; United Kingdom
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Esty, Benjamin C., Marc Baaij, and Arjen Mulder. "Bayer AG: Bidding to Win Merck's OTC Business." Harvard Business School Case 217-021, January 2017.
  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made

decision making. These barriers are: Do no harm. Their gain is our loss. Competition is always good. Support our group. Live for the moment. No pain for us, no gain for them. The antidote? An approach used in the business schools, whereby... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, Jonathan Baron & Katherine Shonk
  • 25 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 25, 2008

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14483 The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization Authors: Maria Guadalupe and Julie M. Wulf Abstract This paper establishes a causal effect of competition from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jun 2018
  • Research & Ideas

In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done

helps drive innovation and growth—and could even become more vital to global competitiveness in the future. “The debate is red-hot right now, but in the background, the workforces are rapidly aging in most advanced countries, and public... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Technology; Service
  • 20 Aug 2021
  • Blog Post

Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Say

company as well as the specifics of entrepreneurship. While in school, I met my co-founder and we ran the early experiments of what would become AllSpice through many of the HBS programs-- we built our first pitch deck for The New Venture View Details
  • 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26

acquisitions that occurred after the end of the industrial policy program had an important effect on the performance of the plants founded when the program was in place. Industrial policy, especially in conjunction with a competitive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2010 (Revised October 2010)
  • Case

Vale: Global Expansion in the Challenging World of Mining

By: Tarun Khanna, Aldo Musacchio and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
In 2009 the management of Vale, a Brazilian diversified mining company and the largest iron ore producer in the world, was under pressure from at least two fronts. First, the emergence of China as the most important consumer of iron ore in the last few years had... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Investment; Global Strategy; Risk Management; Market Entry and Exit; Business and Government Relations; Competitive Strategy; Mining Industry; Brazil
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Khanna, Tarun, Aldo Musacchio, and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho. "Vale: Global Expansion in the Challenging World of Mining." Harvard Business School Case 710-054, April 2010. (Revised October 2010.)
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