Strategic Corporate Decisions - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Dec 2021
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December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books

rescue a leading energy corporation from ever-increasing debt and a lack of executive accountability, he faced an uphill battle. Not only had he never before stepped into the role of CEO, he also had no experience in the rapidly evolving... View Details

15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015

large food brands have earned accolades for recent decisions to eliminate GMOs from their supply chain. It was into this market that Haven Baker (MBA 2009), Simplot’s VP of plant sciences, launched the first direct-to-consumer produce... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White

15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

whole approach to decision making. It made me want to get the smartest people I could find who disagreed with me so I could stress test my opinions. I used to think there was making money and there was philanthropy. Then I realized... View Details

29 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 29

provide indirect evidence as to why firm managers may cater to the demand for dividends from local seniors. Overall, these results suggest that the composition of a firm's investor base affects corporate policy choices. Download the paper... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2017
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Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award

if they gave me $19. It was a bit of a hard sell.” A self-described shy and quiet kid, Angie Hicks (MBA 2000) went on to become the namesake of the company she cofounded, Angie’s List. (The naming decision was “made when I was 22, and we... View Details

01 Sep 2024
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Next Level

In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details

Keywords: Maggie Mertens; photos by Cameron Karsten; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

banks—a mortgage delivery system that was populated by brokers, mortgage banks, and investors. "This opened the door to new sources of capital from around the world. Holding that door wide open were Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. By that time those government View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

01 Sep 2022
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Your Family, Your Work, Your Way

ultimately interviewing hundreds of parents in the corporate sector, as well as in medicine, the military, nonprofits, education, performing arts, academia, and in frontline service jobs. In 2016, Dowling used her findings to launch... View Details

14 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

mainstream (i.e., not SRI funds) investment organizations, we provide insights into why and how investors use reported environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. The primary reason survey respondents consider ESG information in investment View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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policies. Harvard Business School Online may offer a credential or other acknowledgment for participants who have satisfactorily demonstrated mastery of the Program material. The decision to award any such credential or other... View Details

21 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

the failure of many other large institutions. Most of the 600 institutions recapitalized by the federal government over the last year do not satisfy either criterion. A lot of bailout decisions were made ad hoc without a clear rationale.... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

27 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

dynamics include the founding team in an entrepreneurial venture, a research group comprising physicians and scientists, a financial services team evaluating a possible deal, a governing board for a nonprofit organization, and a corporate... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

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acknowledgment for participants who have satisfactorily demonstrated mastery of the Program material. The decision to award any such credential or other acknowledgment to a given participant will be solely within the discretion of Harvard... View Details

May 2022
Supplement

Maestro Pizza (B): The Competition Awakens

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Fares Khrais

Maestro pizza opened its first store in 2013 after its founder, Khalid Al Omran, recognized an opportunity in Saudi Arabia to offer high quality pizza at affordable prices. The business grew rapidly and under the radar at first, but soon enough caught the attention of... View Details

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18 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

months of the external financing activity. It may be that in an attempt to garner investment banking business, analysts have strategically become overly optimistic as they sense that firms are considering capital issuances." Can you... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

01 Dec 2013
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Your Own Medicine

fibrosis treatment. Williams got into pharma by chance. After working in investment banking before and after HBS, he took a job at the consulting firm Corporate Decisions (now Oliver Wyman). One of his first... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; biomedicine; biopharmaceutical company; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2001
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September 11: A Community Reflects

façade that we build around our lives," Clark observed. "I think there will be a sense of real meaning during the year." In the same Harbus issue, Rick Leimsider (HBS '03), a new arrival on campus who had "never written to a newspaper before," challenged his fellow... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives

environment, be that infrastructure, bureaucracy, or lack of established benchmarks in India’s corporate environment.” Less regulation clearly has unleashed market potential. Bharti, for example, has aggressively pursued the estimated 250... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

29 Aug 2018
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The Value of Valleys

discovered a company that I thought was amazing. Sodexo is a French company, Global French Company. I just fell in love with their mission and their values and their lens of the world, and their role in it as a corporate citizen. So, I... View Details

01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care

professional network for physicians.) Each year, Rock Health selects about 20 companies from thousands of applications to receive backing in the form of funding (grants up to $20,000 or convertible notes of $100,000) and services (office space, operational support, and... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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