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09 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Unilever—A Case Study

Africa. 3 Unilever's total employment was over 350,000 in the mid-1970s, or around seven times larger than that of Procter & Gamble (hereafter P&G), its main rival in the U.S. detergent and toothpaste markets. A World-wide Investor An View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail

13 Mar 2023
Op-Ed

How Leaders Should Leave

Even the most loyal, long-serving employee may consider resigning from a job once or twice in a career in order to reboot or get ahead. Large organizations can offer more lateral opportunities to further your development, but the higher... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

17 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107060 International Capital Markets and Sovereign Debt: Crisis Avoidance and Resolution Harvard Business School Note 707-018 Successive economic crises of the 1990s and early... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 10, 2007

of directors of Medtronic, Inc., a company known for its commitment to effective corporate governance, must prepare for the departure of Chairman & CEO Bill George and the retirement of four long-time directors. The company had experienced rapid growth in the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

December 13, 2022
Article

6 Ways Companies Fail to Help Workers Grow

By: Joseph Fuller, Matthew Sigelman and Nik Dawson

The authors recently studied Fortune 250 companies and ranked them based on the lived experience of three million of their U.S. workers. One of their key findings was that even top-ranked firms fail to deliver consistently on worker advancement. To understand why this... View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Training; Business Model; Outcome or Result; Performance Evaluation; Opportunities

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15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

built her career on increasingly large line leadership positions, such as the president of ABC Network, and has no experience in getting things done without line authority. The case lays out the steps she... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

April 2022
Teaching Note

Banorte Móvil: Data-Driven Mobile Growth

By: Ayelet Israeli and Carla Larangeira

In mid-2019, Carlos Hank was deliberating over the results for Banorte Móvil—the mobile application for Banorte, Mexico’s most profitable and second-largest financial institution. Hank, who had been appointed as Banorte´s Chairman of the Board in January 2015, had... View Details

Keywords: Data Analytics; Customer Lifetime Value; Financial Institutions; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Growth and Development Strategy; Customers; Technology Adoption; Communication Strategy; Banking Industry; Mexico; Latin America

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04 Mar 2024
Research & Ideas

Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness

conducted experiments online, telling participants the makeup of a board of directors, as well as the identity of a departing board member, and asking them to recommend a replacement from a list of available candidates of different races... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Apr 2024
In Practice

Navigating the Mood of Customers Weary of Price Hikes

price hikes than others. What does this mean in practice? Even if inflation is slowing down, depending on where you live and what you buy, you may not experience this slowing down to the same degree as the official measures suggest. Let’s... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Retail; Consumer Products

10 May 2021
Research & Ideas

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

people—other white men. Meanwhile, white women and people of color who were recruited from the same competitive MBA pool received more mundane work, including tasks they had already mastered. This disparity in development had long-term View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

22 Nov 2016
Working Paper Summaries

Explaining the Persistence of Gender Inequality: The Work-Family Narrative as a Social Defense against the 24/7 Work Culture

Keywords: by Irene Padavic, Robin J. Ely, and Erin M. Reid

19 May 2015
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First Look: May 19

Joanne, George Serafeim, and Shan Wu Abstract—We study how career concerns influence banking analysts' forecasts and how their forecasting behavior benefits both them and bank managers. We show that banking analysts issue View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2023
Chapter

Manage Your Work, Manage Your Life

By: Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

Work/life balance is at best an elusive ideal and at worst a complete myth, today's senior executives will tell you. But by making deliberate choices about which opportunities they'll pursue and which they'll decline, rather than simply reacting to emergencies, leaders... View Details

Keywords: Work-Life Balance; Management Teams

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03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008

Implementing Patient-Focused Care (A) (Abridged) Harvard Business School Case 608-070 Reading Rehab Hospital has experimented with a popular concept in health care—patient-focused care—intended to increase quality and reduce costs by... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely

examiners also benefited financially by bringing their Greater Washington, DC, salaries to less costly regions, effectively increasing their real incomes. Early- and mid-career workers tended to choose locations based on future career... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

16 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management

of capitalism. Slave owners were able to collect data on their workforce in ways that other business owners couldn't because they had complete control over their workers. They didn't have to worry about turnover or recruiting new workers, and they could View Details

Keywords: by Katie Johnston

19 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

premiums. However, what really interested me is the time it took to make this market take off. As early as the 1950s, entrepreneurs like Jacques Courtin-Clarins and Yves Rocher began to experiment making... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics

06 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

What makes a successful entrepreneurial leader? Is it the technical brilliance of Bill Gates? The obsessive focus on user experience of Steve Jobs? The vision, passion, and strong execution of Care.com’s Sheila Lirio Marcelo? Or maybe... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge

December 2004 (Revised July 2005)
Case

Extend Fertility

By: Myra M. Hart and Sylvia Sensiper

Focuses on the search for opportunity, the generation and evaluation of business concepts, creation of a business plan, and the start-up process. Follows experienced entrepreneur Christy Jones as she combines her business skills and personal experience to generate new... View Details

Keywords: Opportunities; Business Plan; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Social Issues; Gender; Business Startups; Biotechnology Industry

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November–December 2024
Article

Retire Without Regrets

By: Teresa M. Amabile, Lotte Bailyn, Marcy Crary, Douglas T. "Tim" Hall and Kathy E. Kram

This article explores the significant transition of retirement and offers insights into creating a satisfying postcareer life. It highlights the contrasting experiences of Irene and Lawrence, two retirees who navigated this change differently. Irene embraced retirement... View Details

Keywords: Retirement; Satisfaction; Transition; Identity

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