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HBS - The year in Review

Chair, India Sanitation Coalition Robert L. Ryan MBA 1970 Retired Senior VP and CFO, Medtronic Inc. Robert B. Wilson MBA 1961, DBA 1963 Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus, Stanford University; 2020 Sveriges Riksbank... View Details
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Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

banks and purchasing toxic assets and equity. In 2009, General Motors and the Chrysler Corporation declared bankruptcy. In March of that year, the Dow Jones plummeted its lowest level of 6,594, a decline of more than 50 percent since 2007, and the unemployment rate hit... View Details
  • August 15, 2014
  • Article

Can an Outside CEO Run a Family-Owned Business?

By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
This article explores the intricate dynamics that often characterize family-owned businesses, shedding light on key archetypes that play prominent roles within these organizations. Using a narrative approach, the article illustrates the challenges faced by leaders... View Details
Keywords: Family Ownership; Personal Characteristics; Family and Family Relationships; Management Practices and Processes
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  • 09 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Unilever—A Case Study

the purchase of the toothpaste company Pepsodent in 1944. Expansion into margarine followed with the purchase of a Chicago firm in 1948. The postwar years proved very disappointing for Lever Brothers, for a number of partly related reasons. Countway, on his View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail
  • 21 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 21

Publications Civilization: The Six Ways the West Beat the Rest Author: Niall Ferguson Publication: Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Review the book:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Faculty - Faculty & Research

Professor of Law and Business Ashley V. Whillans Volpert Family Associate Professor of Business Administration Julian J. Zlatev Julie Damgard Frist and Thomas Frist III Associate Professor of Business Administration Unit Affiliates Benjamin Bushong Visiting Scholar... View Details
  • 16 Nov 2021
  • HBS Case

How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

2001, the once-profitable company lost 8.3 billion euros (equal to $15.1 billion today)—the second-biggest loss of any French company ever. A year later, the company’s debts totaled 71 billion euros, three times the value of the firm. Early View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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HBS - The year in Review

David Frieze, Division of Research and Faculty Development, retired John (Jack) J. Gabarro, UPS Foundation Professor of Human Resource Management, Emeritus Patty Haviland, Human Resources, retired Alice... View Details
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Ways to Give Today - Alumni

College, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Learn about establishing a donor-advised fund at Harvard University. From Your IRA If you are at least 70½ years old, you can use your individual retirement account (IRA) to make a gift to... View Details
  • June 2015 (Revised October 2015)
  • Case

High Liner Foods, 2015

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In 2015, Canadian-based High Liner Foods Ltd was one of North America's largest frozen fish processors with extensive shares of both the food service and retail channels in Canada, the USA and Mexico. With over C$1 billion in revenues, the company had grown four fold... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Analysis; Strategic Decision Making; Family Business; Commodities; Strategic Planning; Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; North America; Canada
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Hidden Workers, Untapped Talent - Managing the Future of Work

Your Employees Are Also Caregivers Re: Joseph Fuller 22 May 2025 | Broadcast Retirement Network How AI is reshaping HR Re: Joseph Fuller 21 Apr 2025 | Charter Read the Report Read View Details
  • 27 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

action for executives and boards in America than in Asia. But more common in America are firms that are run by professional managers who are replaced by other professional managers, either as a consequence of retirement or of replacement... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
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Mark Giragosian

College and Northwestern University, including internships in consulting and investment banking. Upon retiring from the Joffrey, Mark worked at Morgan Stanley. “I wanted to have another career, not just another job. I looked for... View Details
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Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Network, developed to create local capacity to understand, teach, and upgrade competitiveness through teaching, developing cases, and conducting research so as to expand the body of knowledge and become leaders on competitiveness in their regions. With Professor... View Details

    Chip Bergh

    Chip Bergh is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School. Prior to joining HBS, Chip served as president and chief executive officer of Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) from September 2011 until January 2024. He also served on the Company’s Board of Directors... View Details

    • 18 Aug 2022
    • Op-Ed

    Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent

    They started their working years with guaranteed pensions, strong union protections, a more competitive minimum wage, and spent multiple decades at a single company. However, by the end of their working years, pensions disappeared in favor of a new instrument, the 401k... View Details
    Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson
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    Community College Report - Managing the Future of Work

    be viewed below. Questionnaire Media Coverage ‘Misfits’ in Power: When a Company Needs a Leader CEO, But Gets a Manager Re: Raffaella Sadun 12 Jun 2025 | HBS Working Knowledge Your Employees Are Also Caregivers Re: Joseph Fuller 22 May 2025 | Broadcast View Details
    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    Thinking Ahead

    As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
    • 31 Aug 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    How Ben Franklin’s ‘Way to Wealth’ Introduced American Capitalism to the World

    before the end of the eighteenth century, but, thanks to the bibliographical research of retired Harvard librarian Kenneth E. Carpenter, we now know there were over 1,100 appearances of Franklin’s The Way to Wealth in at least 26... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • 18 Mar 2013
    • HBS Case

    HBS Cases: LEGO

    found itself needing to turn around its turnaround. Outside The Family Enter Jørgen Knudstorp. He was just 35 years old when Kjeld promoted him from director of strategic development to CEO in 2004. (Kjeld retired that same year.) Like... View Details
    Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Entertainment & Recreation