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  • June 2013 (Revised September 2015)
  • Case

Procter & Gamble

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Kathleen Durante

On July 12, 2012, Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management announced publicly that it had purchased about $2 billion of Procter and Gamble (P&G) stock. Shares in the company closed up 3.75% the day the disclosure was made public. Ackman told the New York... View Details

Keywords: Ackman; P＆G; Pershing Square Capital Managment; Disruption; Management Succession; Crisis Management; Acquisition; Consumer Products Industry; Financial Services Industry
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  • January 2013
  • Case

Zappos.com 2009: Clothing, Customer Service, and Company Culture (MM)

By: Frances X. Frei and Robin J. Ely
On July 17, 2009, Zappos.com, a privately-held online retailer of shoes, clothing, and other soft-line retail categories, learned that Amazon.com, a $19 billion multinational online retailer, had won its Board of Directors' approval to offer to merge the two companies.... View Details
Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Internet and the Web; Mergers and Acquisitions; Organizational Culture; Growth and Development Strategy; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Retail Industry
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  • March 2012
  • Article

Does America Really Need Manufacturing?

By: Gary P. Pisano and Willy C. Shih
Too many U.S. companies base decisions about where to locate production largely on narrow financial criteria. They don't consider whether keeping manufacturing at home makes more sense strategically or take into account the impact it might have on their ability to... View Details
Keywords: Production; Geographic Location; Innovation and Invention; Competitive Advantage; Product Design; Risk Management; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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  • April 2005
  • Article

Partisan Social Happiness

By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
We use a new approach to study questions in political economy that relies on data on the subjective well-being of a large sample of people living in the OECD over the period 1975-1992. Controlling for the personal characteristics of the respondents, year and country... View Details
Keywords: Political Partisanship; Political Economy; Society; Happiness
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  • 19 Nov 2024
  • HBS Seminar

Christian Terwiesch, Wharton

  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

In My Humble Opinion: Chip Brewer (MBA 1991)

challenge over the next few years,” says Brewer. He describes the mix of business and a sport he loves as “a great and fortunate combination.” Putt-putt: “I don’t remember how old I was when I first picked up a club, which means I was probably 4 or 5. My dad taught me... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 04 Sep 2017
  • Blog Post

HBS Startup Bootcamp and Founders Unfiltered

high-quality face time with VCs. We even had the opportunity to pitch our ventures to Boston VCs on the final day. It was an amazing experience all around. But there was one aspect of the program that particularly stuck with me. And that... View Details
  • 05 Dec 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

time trends and patterns across technology classes and regions. We then introduce measures of patent and citation biases. When aggregated at the firm level, these survive popular methods of adjustment and are correlated with firm-level... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2022
  • Research & Ideas

6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies

A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 01 Apr 2000
  • News

Highly Recommended: Leah Modigliani

On the 41st floor of the Morgan Stanley Dean Witter offices in Times Square, Leah Modigliani (MBA '95) stops at the receptionist's desk. Every window showcases a panoramic view of Manhattan skyscrapers and the Hudson River beyond. It's a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 18 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

nationwide office supplies superstore, she recalled: I'm not a good example of how to manage your career. I've just been willing to raise my hand several times for new opportunities. I've taken a lot of what others would perceive to be... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
  • Web

The Challenge of Color - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

hues from which to choose. The New York Times enthused: “The feeling for line and color has extended to the most common of everyday tools. . . . The enormously useful fountain-pen until recently was content to be merely useful, in its... View Details
  • Web

2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

topics of the survey. 79% answered that they agreed somewhat or completely with the statement: "I have spent a great deal of time thinking about current risks to the economy." Similarly, 77% agreed somewhat or completely with the... View Details
  • 09 Feb 2021
  • News

Investing in Entrepreneurship

SwissAir. While in Zurich, he read a Time magazine interview with Laurance Rockefeller in which the legendary businessman and philanthropist described his investment philosophy. “The article struck a note with me,” said Crisp, who sent a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • Portrait Project

Sylvester Wee

"You’ll never make it." I’ve heard that same line too many times growing up, but never once succumbed to it. I started competitive tennis late at the age of 12 but trained hard to eventually become the top ranked player in Singapore. I... View Details
  • 14 Apr 2022
  • Op-Ed

Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned

innovation. Organizations consistently applied new metrics to measure performance but used activity and time logged into systems to proxy for the actual value. Forging a new, better workplace Businesses are only as good as their people,... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
  • 23 Mar 2022
  • Blog Post

Learning Curve: The Brother-and-Sister Team Behind a New Edtech Nonprofit

them to deliver play-based exercises and quizzes to parents and children several times a week. Parents upload photos and videos of the results, and teachers respond with gamified feedback like smiley face–based report cards. “We work with... View Details
  • 12 May 2020
  • Blog Post

Leaving a Career in Tech for Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship

were Rock Venture Partners. A colleague at Google had even explored a startup idea at the i-Lab. The more I investigated the resources at HBS, the more I knew an MBA there was the perfect fit for me.  I also saw my time at HBS as an... View Details
  • Web

Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

Leader Time Allocation Exercise Transitioning to a New Role Show Hide Details Concepts Capital "L" Leadership Transitioning to a New Role Featured Exercises Learning Path Tool assessment Time allocation... View Details
  • 05 Jun 2009
  • What Do You Think?

What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?

bad . Quantitative metrics serve as best indicators when they are based on qualitative platforms." Along this line, Ken Ackerman reminded us that "Growth is a product of confidence we spend too little time measuring the mood of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate