Turnarounds - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 1998
News

A Career to Smile About

advantage." Speed has also characterized Juliber's ascent up the corporate ladder. After helping to double sales and triple profits for CP's Asian operations in only three years, she was named chief technological officer for worldwide operations. She was then asked to... View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.

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

06 Dec 2021
News

Ink: Talking Shop

specializes in retail turnarounds and transformation. Here, Bines shares a few words about his new book and two other indispensable texts about the trade. The Metail Economy 6 Strategies for Transforming Your Business to Thrive in the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

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

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

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

01 Jun 2013
News

Lesson Plans

site who has lived that turnaround experience and done it with confidence would be extremely powerful." —Carl Christopher ON- AND OFF-LINE LEARNING "The US education system is doing the same thing over and over, yet expecting different... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2003
News

Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

the changes included moving machines closer together so that parts wouldn’t have to travel from department to department. ET also worked with an outside service provider that was cleaning their aluminum parts to reduce turnaround time... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

05 Nov 2024
Book

Building the Road to 'Small Business Utopia' with AI and Fintech

evidence suggests the opposite. If new intelligence is developed that will help them succeed, small businesses will find a way to adopt it. Small businesses are hungry for new solutions. They responded so positively to the early fintechs’ quick View Details

Keywords: by Karen G. Mills; Financial Services

16 Jun 2015
Blog Post

Military Alumna Reflects on Time at HBS

Washington, I am encouraged to see friends and fellow MBA’s who are serving as well—in various cabinet agencies, on the Hill, and right here at the Department of Veterans Affairs. I have no doubt you will be reading about their work in future HBS cases and LEAD and... View Details

01 Dec 1997
News

The World's Banker

for his public service, including an Honorary Knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II. He is currently chairman of the board of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. Today, over two years into his tenure at the Bank, Wolfensohn is deeply absorbed in his... View Details

01 Oct 1998
News

Tech Trekker

Symbolics, the supermom helped lift the firm's revenues from $1 million to $120 million. From there, Lang led a string of turnarounds and product launches with software companies. In 1993 she signed on with Lotus Development Corporation.... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

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

03 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 3, 2007

and continued thought the successful turnaround under her successor, Mark Hurd. As such, special focus is given to the individual board personalities and their conflicts over this time in order to fully explore the environment in which... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

turnaround of the Anaheim Mighty Ducks in the 2002-2003 season? Was it Paul Pressler as head of Disney Sports, because he got investment funds from Disney CEO Michael Eisner and then hired Bryan Murray? Was it Bryan Murray as the general... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

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

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