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    Chip Bergh

    Chip Bergh is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School. Prior to joining HBS, Chip served as president and chief executive officer of Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) from September 2011 until January 2024. He also served on the Company’s Board of Directors... View Details

    • 18 Jul 2023
    • News

    The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)

    social needs in a profitable way. While corporate social responsibility is often written off as a cost center, shared value instead creates new business opportunities by improving View Details
    Keywords: Robert Bochnak
    • 20 Oct 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: October 20

    illustrates that in a gray market setting, the transfer price that maximizes a multinational's profits may also be the same one that maximizes the social welfare of the domestic economy that houses it. Download the paper:... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 04 Apr 2023
    • Book

    Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues

    While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Consumer Products; Fashion; Retail; Green Technology
    • 19 Aug 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: August 19, 2008

    examined the relationships between inventory, gross profit dollars, and gross margin return on inventory. We find that inventory is positively correlated to gross profit dollars but negatively correlated to... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    “Porter Hypothesis” in the early 1990s, which put forward the novel theory that strict environmental standards were not in conflict with company profitability or national competitiveness, but could enhance both. The Porter Hypothesis has... View Details
    • Web

    Business Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    HBS ISC Strategy Strategy Strategy Explained Business Strategy Creating a Successful Strategy Corporate Strategy The Role of Leaders Related Topics Business Strategy Business Strategy The Five Forces Strategic Positioning The Value Chain... View Details
    • 15 May 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

    They often functioned, as a result, as part of the problem, rather than part of the solution. In the more recent globalization era, the strategies of Western corporations have moved beyond the practices of the colonial past, but linkages... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 28 Jul 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: July 28, 2015

    by the interaction of partner firms that does not necessarily accrue to any of them. The extent of "ambivalent value" is unclear, but its persistence, despite changing structural market features, promises to help sustain superior View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • Web

    Leadership - Faculty & Research

    of caring for not only the corporation and shareholders but also the patients and medical professionals. How should leaders of health-related businesses weigh the demand for efficiency and profit alongside... View Details
    • Web

    Finance - Faculty & Research

    debt held by the domestic banking sectors of Eurozone countries was more than twice its 2007 level. We show that this type of increasing reliance on the domestic banking sector for absorbing government bonds generates a crowding out of View Details
    • 27 Jun 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

    executives in the West? There are important differences. Are differences attributable to different cultures or to different stages of corporate development? But first, what are we talking about? Roles in organizations involve more than... View Details
    Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
    • 15 Sep 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: September 15

    than 350 interviews in 20 countries to identify the leadership practices and operating methods of major companies seeking profitable growth through innovation that benefits society. For example, when the tsunami and earthquake struck... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • June 1997 (Revised May 1998)
    • Case

    Mobil USM&R (A1)

    By: Robert S. Kaplan
    First of a two-part case on the development and use of a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) at Mobil's US Marketing and Refining Division. Split from the original (A) case to give students an opportunity to suggest objectives and measures for the division's initial BSC, without... View Details
    Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Measurement and Metrics; Restructuring; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Marketing Strategy; Motivation and Incentives; Mining Industry; Energy Industry; United States
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    • January 2024 (Revised May 2024)
    • Case

    Pioneer Natural Resources: Enhancing the Capital Return Strategy with Variable Dividends

    By: Benjamin C. Esty, Elisabeth Kempf and E. Scott Mayfield
    In February 2021, Scott Sheffield, the CEO of Pioneer Natural Resources (an independent oil and gas company based in Texas), was considering the possibility of enhancing the firm’s capital return strategy by introducing a variable dividend tied to cash flows in... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Finance; Cash Flow; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Value Creation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment Return; Profit; Policy; Business and Shareholder Relations; Energy Industry; United States; North America; Texas
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    • Web

    Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

    Financial Strategy ; Microfinance ; International Finance ; Currency Exchange Rate ; Profit Sharing ; Revenue ; Developing Countries and Economies ; Economic Growth ; Banking Industry ; Financial Services Industry ; Information Technology... View Details
    • Web

    Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

    Conditions ; Information Technology ; Digital Strategy ; Digital Transformation ; Internet and the Web ; Mobile and Wireless Technology ; Innovation and Management ; Innovation Strategy ; Growth and Development Strategy ; Strategy ; Business Strategy ; View Details
    • September 2023 (Revised September 2024)
    • Case

    IBJ, Inc. (A): Seeking Matrimony in Japan

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Akiko Saito
    In March 2020, Shigeru Ishizaka, founder and CEO of IBJ, Inc., Japan's largest marriage matching service provider, faced a critical decision regarding the company’s planned ¥3.5 billion (US$32.8 million) acquisition of competitor ZWEI Co., Ltd. IBJ, founded in 2006,... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Model; Corporate Strategy; Value
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    • 18 Feb 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: February 18, 2009

    and probabilistic delayed observation of agents' types. I derive conditions in which an advertising principal can set its payment delay to deter rogue agents and to attract solely or primarily good-type agents. Through the savings from excluding rogue agents, the... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 16 Oct 2023
    • HBS Case

    Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta

    company. In December 2020, Bastian announced that Delta would become a charter member of the newly formed OneTen corporate coalition, a group of business leaders from more than 30 large companies who aimed to collectively hire and advance... View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Air Transportation