Publications

January 2000
Case

Talbots - A Classic

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Bell

This case traces why the $1 billion women's clothing retailer decided to attract younger customers, what went wrong, and the actions taken to recover. By the end of 1999, the company has reestablished itself and faces several growth opportunities and must decide on the... View Details

Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Decisions; Crisis Management; Product Positioning; Problems and Challenges; Segmentation; Fashion Industry

October 1998 (Revised November 1999)
Case

Chantal Cookware Corp.

By: H. Kent Bowen, Paul W. Marshall and Stephanie Dodson

Chantal Cookware is a small, private company with a 15-year record of success in the design, assembly, and sale of high-end cookware. It experiences serious setbacks when consumers' tastes shift from colorful enamel-on-steel products to commercial-style cookware.... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Strategic Planning; Market Entry and Exit; Product Positioning; Trends; Manufacturing Industry

18 Feb 2021
News

Jumping In, Fighting Bias

to leadership roles at Quidsi, Jet.com, and Walmart. “My gender, ethnicity and faith compelled me to be ambitious in a way that I don’t know if I otherwise would have been,” Balbale told the Wall Street Journal. Last June, Balbale left her View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

@Soldiers Field

pitching. Organizers suggested drinking water rather than Red Bull, but noted "Medieval armor is permitted." Bert Twaalfhoven (MBA 1954) offered guests of the HBS Entrepreneurship Club a personal perspective on the positive power of... View Details

Keywords: FIELD program; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2005
News

S.F.’s New Museum

International, is excited about her new position and the chance to offer “a unique, world-class museum experience for everyone.” (Among MoAD’s largest individual donors are Arthur Rock MBA ’51 and his wife, Toni Rembe.) Through... View Details

Keywords: Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment

Career Coach

Sasha Grinshpun

Sasha (HBS '02) combines her gift for quickly gauging life passions of HBSers with her experience in formulating effective job searches for them to score their dream jobs. Her eclectic background spanning consulting, design thinking, and entrepreneurial ventures puts... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Startup - Founder; Entrepreneurship; Startup - Joiner; Entrepreneurship; Technology

Profile

Sara Roedner

the ways you can connect with consumers," Sara says. "It's so much more compelling to have Joe Torre talk about teamwork than the usual CEO." After completing her BA, Sara accepted a position at The Boston Consulting Group... View Details

01 Jun 1998
News

Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership

Graham retraced the unusual path that brought her to the top position at the Washington Post in 1963. It is a story that she chronicled in Personal History, her best-selling memoir that, one week after her HBS visit, was awarded the... View Details

09 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?

positive endorsement by the FDA had a huge effect on USDA approval, increasing the likelihood by 157 percent. Hiatt hypothesizes that in addition to receiving nutritional information on the GMOs, getting the green light from another... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Biotechnology; Agriculture & Agribusiness

09 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 9

has a positive effect on current hours. As we show, the model also has reasonable implications for stock prices. We estimate our model for data post-1984 and show that the innovations shock accounts for nearly a third of the variation in... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Web

Working at Harvard Business School | Employment

professionally and academically. More information on University offerings can be found here. Compensation & Salary Grades Harvard offers competitive salaries that are designed to attract, retain, and reward the performance of talented employees. Open View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

MBAs mobilize to assist small business owners

by getting the best resources to entrepreneurs who are poised for growth and making positive social impacts in their communities,” Baker says. The team traveled to Detroit, New Orleans, Albuquerque, and other cities that have been... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

An investment of time to advance education

a director at Facebook, as well as at Dell and Walmart, to free up time for this new position and other activities. “I want to make as much of a contribution as I can to Harvard, to higher education, and, hopefully, to education around... View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

Haven for the Homeless

his cell phone industry product development position in 2002 to become the shelter’s executive director. During the winter months, the shelter houses an average of one hundred people a night, and demand has grown in recent years. “When... View Details

Keywords: homeless shelters; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

Article

Social Dimension of Consumer Distinctiveness: The Influence of Social Status on Group Identity and Advertising Persuasion

By: Sonya Grier and Rohit Deshpandé

Keywords: Society; Customers; Groups and Teams; Identity; Advertising; Status and Position

Find at Harvard

April 2005 (Revised February 2007)
Case

American Outsourcing

By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Alexander Veytsman

Covers the phenomenon of outsourcing jobs from the United States. Reviews the evolution of Mexico's Maquiladoras, manufacturing special economic areas in China, and information technology and service-sourcing in India. Also reviews exports/imports, exchange rates,... View Details

Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Employment; Emerging Markets; Wages; Trade; United States; Mexico; China; India

13 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet

a bet that the global economy will be in a better position in 20 or 30 years than it is today” The other possibility for increased market correlation is not because national economies have become more intrinsically similar, but because... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

02 Dec 2015
What Do You Think?

What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?

he said, “The very act of trying to attain gender equality portends to assume that is a positive goal. My concern is not equality but quality. Man or woman, we as individuals and organizations need to rip away all the barriers that lie... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

February 2018 (Revised September 2018)
Case

Huawei: How Can We Lead the Way?

By: Elie Ofek, Tian Tao, Eden Yin and Nancy Hua Dai

On September 12, 2017, just as Apple’s Tim Cook was unveiling the iPhone X, Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei’s Consumer Business Group (CBG), and Glory Cheung, his Chief Marketing Officer, were discussing some key strategic issues regarding Huawei’s smartphone business.... View Details

Keywords: Product Launch; Product Positioning; Marketing Communications; Price; Competitive Strategy; Global Strategy