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- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
case:http://hbr.org/search/113099-PDF-ENG Entrepreneurial Management in a Turnaround Environment (EMTE) Fall 2012: Course Overview and Syllabus Sharpe, JimHarvard Business School Case 813-127 Course Overview and Syllabus in the Fall Term... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Rohan Gopaldas
completing his MBA in May, Rohan will pursue a management role with a famous fast-food franchise that's in a turnaround situation. Long-term, Rohan wants "to run a restaurant, hotel, or travel company that provides an unforgettable... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Managing a Master
Luther King, Jr. The music is superb and the evening unforgettable. It is another in a series of triumphs for an artist who seems destined to become a legend. Edward C. Arrendell (MBA '80), a Boston-based consultant at the time, was in Seattle, Washington, working on... View Details
Keywords: Jeff Lazar
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Passion & Purpose
curveballs life throws.” After successfully leading turnarounds at Converse and Keds, Jacobson launched Strategic Grant Partners, a foundation and pro bono consulting firm that collaborates with social entrepreneurs to improve the lives... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Courtesy Red Lobster Dan Morrell: Kim Lopdrup (MBA 1984) is a turnaround expert. Early in his career, he helped revive Dunkin Donuts’ American coffee business and then... View Details
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
on the Brink (B): Transformation Year 1 Results Analyzes the results of the Thomas Cook turnaround plan after the first year under Harriet Green's leadership (November 2013). Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: W. Mitt Romney
right set of experiences." One such item on Romney's résumé was his successful turnaround of the Boston-based consulting firm Bain & Company. Romney joined Bain in 1977, then left in 1984 to become CEO of its venture capital spin-off,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
How DC is Taxing the Country
in three years, with firms less able to compete in the global marketplace, pay employees higher wages and benefits, or both. A turnaround would require a national economic strategy—and that would require a functional political system, the... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
the risk associated with investing the potentially significant time and money necessary for the R&D, equipment, and talent that could eliminate these bottlenecks, or focus on growing the business with its current industry-leading View Details
Keywords: April White
- 21 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google
internet-related services that helped one of the largest technology companies in the world make the turnaround of the century. How did Wladawsky-Berger get there in the first place? In the late 1950s, at the age of 15, he emigrated with... View Details
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Private Equity Finance - Course Catalog
turnarounds to mature businesses, from “home-run” deals to troubled investments. (The course does not cover venture capital or real estate segments of PE.) Through these case studies, the goal of the class is to understand when and how... View Details
- Profile
Paul Wang
distributing mosquito nets to the needy, and we’re evaluating the effectiveness of different evaluation approaches. TAMTAM evaluations are practical, not theoretical; we promise to deliver research results in just a few months. The quick View Details
- Profile
Tafadzwa Samushonga
toward ‘doing’.” Through a project management role at Life Healthcare, she drove strategic initiatives while working closely with the teams responsible for execution. And at ThoughtWorks, she provided technical assistance to the Operations Team, most notably, leading... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 01 Jun 2016
- What Do You Think?
When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?
Organization for Sustained Advantage (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2009), pp. 295-325. Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance?: Inside IBM’s Historic Turnaround (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), pp. 181-182. Jay W. Lorsch... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
turnaround value and potential for wealth creation: Societies find it easier to return to high levels they once held than to achieve them for the first time. And after Milosevic, everyone is open to change.” With democracy currently... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Playing to Win
headlong charge that has industry-leader Nike looking over its shoulder. "I'm a gambler, and I like the challenges that turnarounds present," explains the tall, curly-haired Louis-Dreyfus. "And with a turnaround, you're only expected to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Cutting Edge
irrelevance. The company's signature wild cherry–flavored product all but disappeared from retailers' shelves; by 2012, annual revenues had sunk to about $1 million. Enter Steve Silk (MBA 1978), turnaround maestro and patron saint of lost... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Andrew H. Tisch
successful turnaround management is to try to make the least bad decision based on imperfect and incomplete information,” Tisch says. “The case method helped prepare me to do that.” Tisch's leadership qualities were very much in evidence... View Details
- 06 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela
Professor of Business Administration: Don't just mourn Nelson Mandela. Learn to be Nelson Mandela. He was the consummate turnaround leader. As the first democratically-elected president of post-apartheid South Africa, he took on and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO
Gary T. DiCamillo (MBA '75) was second in command at Black & Decker Corporation and leading a turnaround of that company's power tools division when Polaroid snapped him up in late 1995. The world-famous instant-imaging company made him... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry