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    Malcolm S. Salter

    Malcolm Salter has been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1967. His teaching and research focus on issues of corporate strategy, organization, and governance.

    In addition to teaching at HBS, he has held faculty positions at the Harvard... View Details

    Keywords: arts; automobiles; energy; investment banking industry; retailing; venture capital industry
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    Strategy for Health Care Delivery - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    offered in cooperation with the HBS Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC). Key Benefits In this program, you will use a value framework—first introduced by HBS professor Michael E. Porter in his book Redefining Health Care—as a template for View Details
    • 11 Aug 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

    bested its Scandinavian rivals on return on equity, total shareholder return, cost-to-income ratio, and customer satisfaction. The Budget As An Agent Of Strategic Alignment Other experts are not as eager for a complete overhaul. Harvard's Bruns suggests keeping budgets... View Details
    Keywords: by Loren Gary
    • January 2021 (Revised February 2021)
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    Carnival Corporation: Cruising Through COVID-19

    By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah Abbott
    In March 2020, in response to the global pandemic, the cruise industry ceased operations. Carnival was the largest cruise line operator in the world, and CEO Arnold Donald and his management team worked to position the company to survive. They slashed operating... View Details
    Keywords: Debt Issuance; Equity Issuances; Convertible Debt; Cruise Lines; Restructuring; Capital; Crisis Management; Cash Flow; Health Pandemics; Borrowing and Debt; Travel Industry; United States
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    Gilson, Stuart C., and Sarah Abbott. "Carnival Corporation: Cruising Through COVID-19." Harvard Business School Case 221-028, January 2021. (Revised February 2021.)
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    Kristin W. Mugford | About

    previously served as Faculty Chair for field-based learning and co-curricular programs in the MBA program. For the last decade she taught "Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring," a popular advanced finance elective that analyzes how economic stress and View Details
    • 15 Jun 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

    by allowing the government and General Motors to negotiate important deals with GM's unions and a majority of creditors, went a fair distance toward achieving a restructuring that would make it possible for GM to emerge as a viable... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff; Auto
    • 01 Sep 2003
    • News

    Larry Murphy

    development advisor. He believes that sheer size, coupled with some ill-advised mergers, have hurt creativity and bottom-line performance at big-name media and entertainment companies. “I wouldn’t be surprised,” Murphy says, “to see the industry go through a period of... View Details
    Keywords: Garry Emmons; Accommodation; Hospitality
    • 01 Jun 2001
    • News

    Alejandro Ramirez: A Very Good Time for Mexico

    COO and began a major restructuring of the 5,000-employee company. “It was hard,” he admits. “There were people who had been working at the company almost as long as I’d been alive. But I think I was able to gain their support because I... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; World Bank; United Nations; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
    • 30 Oct 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

    School, says that shutting down a startup is almost always a messy affair. When a venture requires a cash infusion to survive, its founders may turn to bottom-fisher investors who force the company to restructure its capitalization,... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost
    • 24 Oct 2019
    • Blog Post

    Harvard’s JD/MBA: Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021) Answers Your Questions

    first summer working for Star Maa and Bigg Boss Telugu 2, a popular reality TV show in India. She spent her second summer as a Restructuring and Special Situations associate at PJT Partners in New York. Viroopa hopes to pursue a career at... View Details
    • 05 May 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors

    blocks for developing customer relationships. Third, because deep metaphors are shared by consumers who may vary considerably on the surface, they become very powerful tools for developing new product concepts, communicating about them, View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products
    • May 1990 (Revised July 1996)
    • Case

    Ingvar Kamprad and IKEA

    By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Ashish Nanda
    Traces the development of a Swedish furniture retailer under the leadership of an innovative and unconventional entrepreneur whose approaches redefine the nature and structure of the industry. Traces IKEA's growth from a tiny mail order business to the world's largest... View Details
    Keywords: Restructuring; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development; Innovation Strategy; Leadership; Management Succession; Distribution; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Expansion; Value; Retail Industry
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    Bartlett, Christopher A., and Ashish Nanda. "Ingvar Kamprad and IKEA." Harvard Business School Case 390-132, May 1990. (Revised July 1996.)
    • October 2023
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    Leading Transformation at IHCL

    By: Krishna G. Palepu, V.G. Narayanan and Malini Sen
    In November 2017, Puneet Chhatwal, took charge as MD and CEO of IHCL, popularly referred to as the Taj Hotels. Despite being India’s largest hospitality company by market capitalization and respected for its values and service, IHCL had made losses for the last seven... View Details
    Keywords: Turn Around Management; Hospitality Industry; Brand Management; Financial Strategy; Business Model; Restructuring; Asset Management; Leadership Style; Crisis Management; Brands and Branding; Product Positioning; Segmentation; Asia; India
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    Palepu, Krishna G., V.G. Narayanan, and Malini Sen. "Leading Transformation at IHCL." Harvard Business School Case 124-041, October 2023.
    • 16 Mar 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

    gone. This is an opportunity to learn Slack and Zoom and have a mentor teach you how to use these tools. The second thing is, working remotely is very effective if you can also restructure the organizational processes for how... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • September 2009 (Revised June 2011)
    • Case

    Mercury Athletic: Valuing the Opportunity

    By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Joel L. Heilprin
    In January 2007, West Coast Fashions, Inc., a large designer and marketer of branded apparel, announced a strategic reorganization that would result in the divestiture of their wholly owned footwear subsidiary, Mercury Athletic. John Liedtke, the head of business... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers & Acquisitions; Sensitivity Analysis; Cost of Capital; Restructuring; Valuation; Cash Flow; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Finance; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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    Luehrman, Timothy A., and Joel L. Heilprin. "Mercury Athletic: Valuing the Opportunity." Harvard Business School Brief Case 094-050, September 2009. (Revised June 2011.)
    • April 2019 (Revised December 2021)
    • Case

    Sears: The Demise of an American Icon

    By: Kristin Mugford and Sarah L. Abbott
    In 2019, ESL Investments’ $5.2 billion offer to purchase Sears Holdings out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy, was accepted, despite opposition from the company's unsecured creditors and other parties. ESL, which was led by Eddie Lampert, had acquired a stake in Sears following... View Details
    Keywords: Bankruptcy; Reorganization; Bonds; Restructuring; Business Divisions; Transformation; Fairness; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Corporate Governance; Motivation and Incentives; Retail Industry; United States
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    Mugford, Kristin, and Sarah L. Abbott. "Sears: The Demise of an American Icon." Harvard Business School Case 219-106, April 2019. (Revised December 2021.)
    • December 2011 (Revised April 2012)
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    Pierre Frankel in Moscow (A): Unfreezing Change

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Matthew Bird
    A young and upcoming French executive in a global technology company is sent to Moscow as deputy managing director to turn around the Russia subsidiary. He must report to the subsidiary's managing director (a large reason for the organization's underperformance) and to... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Selection and Staffing; Change Management; Restructuring; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Moscow
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    Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Matthew Bird. "Pierre Frankel in Moscow (A): Unfreezing Change." Harvard Business School Case 312-070, December 2011. (Revised April 2012.)
    • January 2017
    • Case

    The Six CEOs of Tyco International Ltd.

    By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
    In September 2016, Johnson Controls, Inc. completed the acquisition of Tyco International PLC, a $9.9 billion business with operating profits of $884 million. The purchase consideration was $14.4 billion. Although the deal was billed as a merger, Ireland-based Tyco... View Details
    Keywords: Tyco; Dennis Kozlowski; Edward Breen; Fire Safety; Fire Protection; Security; Packaging; Securities And Exchange Commission; Fraud; Accounting; Accounting Audits; Earnings Management; Financial Statements; Goodwill Accounting; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Business Divisions; Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Headquarters; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Restructuring; Crime and Corruption; Engineering; Applied Optics; Chemicals; Construction; Metals and Minerals; Ethics; Finance; Cash Flow; Public Equity; Stock Options; Financing and Loans; Initial Public Offering; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Location; Geographic Scope; Global Range; Globalized Firms and Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Health Care and Treatment; Business History; Executive Compensation; Selection and Staffing; Courts and Trials; Lawfulness; Lawsuits and Litigation; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Strategy; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Consolidation; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Horizontal Integration; Value; Chemical Industry; Construction Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Electronics Industry; Energy Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Mining Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Utilities Industry; Republic of Ireland; Switzerland; Bermuda; United States; New Hampshire
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    Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "The Six CEOs of Tyco International Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 717-459, January 2017.
    • 14 Mar 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need

    the health of their patients, their colleagues, and themselves, physicians had to implement new methods for providing treatment, whether in-person or over Zoom. Finally, they had to manage challenges related to securing scarce equipment and View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
    • April 1999 (Revised December 2003)
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    Al Dunlap at Sunbeam

    By: Brian J. Hall, Rakesh Khurana and Carleen Madigan
    Al Dunlap was one of the best-known corporate turnaround artists of the 1990s. In 1996, he was hired at Sunbeam to effect a restructuring, but was fired almost two years later when the company's financial performance and stock price began to decline. Many of the... View Details
    Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Restructuring; Stock Shares; Performance Evaluation; Leadership Style; Resignation and Termination; Motivation and Incentives; Executive Compensation; Outcome or Result; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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    Hall, Brian J., Rakesh Khurana, and Carleen Madigan. "Al Dunlap at Sunbeam." Harvard Business School Case 899-218, April 1999. (Revised December 2003.)
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