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  • Profile

Kendall Brinker

"But it's amazing how quickly you get to know 90 people. They make the campus a comfortable environment – there's always someone I can approach with my questions." Outside of classes, Kendall has attracted speakers and organized panels for the annual View Details
  • 17 Mar 2011
  • News

Make or Break for the USA?

Can U.S. manufacturing ever regain its once robust and thriving condition? The current issue of the Bulletin, which focuses on U.S. manufacturing and competitiveness, finds some optimistic signs amid intensified competition. But it’s clear there’s still a long way to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Manufacturing
  • 26 Jun 2025
  • News

The Vinyl Revival

24 hours a day, but left capacity for people who had a willingness to pay and a need for product in a timely manner?" The model I had drawn up was to do only turnaround times of four to six weeks and under 1,000 units, because typically... View Details
  • 18 May 2015
  • News

The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)

enjoy team management for the teaching aspect. It’s personally very rewarding to see someone take my advice or general direction and produce useful results. I enjoy turnarounds because they are very difficult and no one expects the... View Details
Keywords: Google; Yahoo; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 13 Jun 2013
  • News

Learning Curve

Marshall Tuck with kids Photo courtesy of Marshall Tuck Marshall Tuck's exciting new job had a rough start. Selected in late 2006 to head a turnaround of the Los Angeles Unified School District, Tuck (MBA 2000) saw his position evaporate... View Details
Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 30 Nov 2017
  • News

Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

transactions—the metrics Karavites tracks most closely—are up at all his locations. Formulating a turnaround strategy required Kempczinski and his team—which included Kristy Cunningham—to get to the heart of what exactly had happened to... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia
  • 07 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 7

and the concentration of the certification industry. We also analyze the possibility that certifiers opt for a quick turnaround time at the expense of a lower accuracy. Finally, we investigate the opportunity of regulating transparency.  ... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Jun 2013
  • News

Brick by Brick

Case Study Illustration by Corbis/Matthias Kulka Sometimes, a company's history contains more drama than a Russian novel. A recent case, "LEGO," explores how the toy maker grew to global dominance from humble beginnings, the mistakes that led it near bankruptcy, and... View Details
Keywords: toys; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade
  • 01 Jun 1999
  • News

Short Takes

companies, turnaround companies, and low-performing companies. But in order to focus on how compensation decisions are made, he garnered most of his data from interviews with the compensation committee chairs from fifty of the sample's... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 13 Dec 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Leaders Create Winning Streaks

turn, winning breeds greater confidence and raises the company to an even higher level. Building organizational confidence, especially in turnaround situations where organizations have been on losing streaks, is the work of leaders.... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
  • 01 Apr 2001
  • News

Beyond Accommodation

that reduced government procurement costs and streamlined distribution channels. “This was a turnaround situation,” Gibbons explains. “NIB had a declining top line and was operating in the red. We needed to shift from a monopolistic... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; AT&T; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

Avoiding a Succession Crisis

years is the reported average tenure for turnaround artists), profits may be better but the company is strategically weaker. And their turnaround has not involved investment in leaders for the future. As a... View Details
Keywords: Joseph L. Bower; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 01 Jun 2025
  • News

Barbie: Reviving a Cultural Icon at Mattel

Like countless others in the summer of 2023, HBS professor Elie Ofek went to the theater to see the blockbuster film Barbie and found himself enveloped by the pink-drenched marketing blitz that had all but taken over the world. To Ofek, who teaches in the Marketing... View Details
Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune; Illustrations by Miguel Porlan; Educational Services
  • 18 Apr 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Selling Luxury to Everyone

lifespan in the fashion industry. "What used to be a six-month turnaround in fashion is now six weeks," she said. Morse said his company is competing with an ever-more crowded market in cosmetics, a high-margin business that has... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette; Consumer Products
  • 25 May 2011
  • News

Race to the Finish?

multicultural, turnaround artist and shake-things-up executive, born in Brazil, raised in Lebanon, educated in France, and revered in Japan (One poll there had Japanese women selecting the happily married Ghosn as their top choice for an... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 13 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 13

firm boundary. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-104.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsThe HLB Turnaround Lynda M. Applegate, Bhaskar Chakravorti, and Laura WinigHarvard Business School Case 810-023 Ford Pearson has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Leading a Family Business - Course Catalog

module will emphasize specific opportunities and challenges that leaders will likely encounter, such as how to navigate the career progression or turnaround a family business that has fallen on challenging circumstances. Each session will... View Details
  • 02 Dec 2014
  • Blog Post

Building a Consumer-Centric Strategy: Highlights from the Marketing & CPG Club’s Conference

featured 3 keynotes, 6 panels, a networking lunch and cocktail hour. As thought leaders in marketing, our keynotes delivered powerful presentations about how their company’s execute a consumer-centric strategy: Michael Moynihan of LEGO shared the story of LEGO’s View Details
  • Profile

Behrad Mahdi

"the turnaround was done, and it was time for me to leave. That's when I began to think about going to business school. I had learned so much — unpacking my experiences would be very rewarding. I had strengths in political and... View Details
  • 01 May 2006
  • Research & Ideas

What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure

payoff than the firm. In our model, the horizon mismatch occurs because managers take actions based on longer-term consequences than the firm cares about. That is, the firm's preferred actions are myopic relative to the manager's career. For example, a troubled firm... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
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