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April 2025
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Lisa Su and AMD (A)

By: Joshua D. Margolis, Matthew Preble and Dave Habeeb

This multimedia case study focuses on CEO Lisa Su’s turnaround and subsequent transformation of the technology company Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD). When Su accepted the top position in 2014, AMD was on the verge of collapse. Su focused on the company’s culture,... View Details

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From the Chief Financial Officer | Annual Report 2024

2024 financial results are provided in the Supplemental Financial Information section. The remainder of my letter provides a strategic overview of our fiscal 2024 financial performance, followed by our financial outlook for the coming... View Details

26 Aug 2020
News

What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic

beauty care routines, using fewer plastic items in our own beauty care routines or buying more from farmer's markets or local stores that don't use as much plastic. It's basically for us meant a shift in how we think about helping people... View Details

27 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Learning to Make the Move to CEO

participants understand how to orient their businesses in increasingly dynamic markets and provides strategies to help them recognize and respond to threats in the marketplace. Simons and Professor Michael Tushman share the topic of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

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Online AI Course | HBS Online

operational models and how to implement them ethically to capitalize on new market opportunities and deliver a competitive advantage. Stay active by engaging in a new activity every three to five minutes. Description of silent animated... View Details

07 Sep 2021
News

Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2

of like knowing when and how and who to do it with and all those other things are actually quite hard, right? So I think the data and analysis is always critical, right? And doing good work is always critical. And that helps inform what... View Details

01 Sep 2007
News

Riding It Out

Gisholt gave the go-ahead, the recall came off without a hitch and garnered a warm customer response. “Thank you for your diligence in keeping us informed during this stressful time,” read one e-mail. “It reinforces the wisdom of our... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; dog food; pets; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

05 May 2023
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Fail Better

television. We were a cable television company. So the first thing is we had to create a unique distribution model. Many of them still watched broadcast TV, so first we had to convince Viacom to allow us to acquire broadcast stations in local View Details

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Year in Review | Annual Report 2024

while ensuring HBP’s continuing commitment to DEI. McConvillewas part of the team that launched HBP in 1992, and she has been instrumental in shaping the organization’s transformation and growth over time. She served as Chief Marketing... View Details

05 Dec 2012
What Do You Think?

Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?

information and assumptions went into the process, and to know how susceptible the conclusion is to small changes." Referring to an example of Royal Dutch Shell's early scenario planning efforts, Hugh Quick volunteered that "I... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 May 2009
What Do You Think?

Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?

"boundaries" that form when organizations grow that present the "potential for clashes and struggle." Bob Brown attributed it to "risk aversion combined with lack of vision, drive, and prescience for the market in... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

15 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Health Is Wealth | The Path To Creating A Venture

Rachel Sanders (MBA 2017) started her professional career working in healthcare focused investment banking. After spending four years working at Raymond James focused on middle market transactions, M&A, and the intersection of... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Health Care

05 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Closing the Education Gap with Kei Takatsuka (MBA 2022)

noticed that the students who did have a large number of opportunities available to them sometimes felt overwhelmed with information and options. “I became interested in what is the best way to make the education system fairer, while also... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Technology; Entrepreneurship

09 Jul 2019
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The Road to Impact

need,” Offensend says. EDC partnered with U.S. VETS to create a marketing strategy to reach out to the 19,000 female veterans in the Southern California area, through an online portal. Responding to how vets used the site over the course... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

16 Dec 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Marrying Distance and Classroom Education

discussions to exchange electronic information and high quality content. SS: One other thing underscored during the conference was that people respond differently to different ways of teaching. Someone in an online environment may be much... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions

wonderful businessmen who were very good role models. I loved the idea of marketing and serving customers, and I planned to go to business school right after college. My father talked me into going to law school first, but after I... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

06 Dec 2021
News

New Wave

timescales not just of days and weeks but of decades—something that can’t be done with gusting winds and fickle sunshine. “We know how much power we’re going to get out of this for the next 40 years,” Smith says. The potential market for... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen

14 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

U.K., have adopted a hybrid approach known as the Private Finance Initiative (PFI), also known as "public-private partnerships" (PPP). Under this approach, private firms build and operate the infrastructure while the host government bears many of the residual... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

01 Dec 2001
News

September 11: A Community Reflects

Patrick Doyle (HBS '03), a former rector and adjunct professor of business ethics at Notre Dame. With heightened campus security in place, MBA and Executive Education classes resumed on September 12, but in the days that followed, the focus of formal and View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

2023 Annual Report From The Dean Key Metrics Financials PDF Downloads Financials From the CFO Financial Highlights Statement of Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Financials From the CFO... View Details

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