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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
things,” Benihana ads promised). Illustration by PJ Loughran After reading in a trade publication about Benihana’s innovative and efficient use of labor and layout to lower costs and facilitate customer turnaround times, Professor Earl... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Bradley’s personal involvement in its digital strategy and the recruitment of key positions is clear. But that success has been like the man himself—dramatic yet understated. The turnaround deployed two key tactics central to any... View Details
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
is of serious concern to the manager(s) at OppenheimerFunds as well as to other investors. This leads a media turnaround firm to contact OppenheimerFunds and other large Take-Two shareholders with the intention of ousting the company's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
Biver stay on and gave him responsibility to revive the once venerable, but ailing, watch company Omega. Between 1995 and 1999, Biver led another turnaround effort that increased Omega's revenues from $350 million to $900 million. While... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
deliver, they go. I think that is pretty clear to everybody,” says Natarajan. Natarajan led the company’s turnaround by instituting an annual Vision Community exercise, which invites selected employees at all levels to join in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
Scale Global This case tracks Jerome Chouchan’s strategies and execution for a successful turnaround of Godiva Japan’s operations, which were experiencing a decline in sales when he became the managing director of the company in 2010.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
turnaround distressed companies. But as CD&R entered into its fifth decade and its largest fund to date (nearly $10 billion AUM), competition, AUMs, industry "dry powder," and buyout valuations were all on the rise. Within... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/413107-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 313-026 The Levees Repaired, a System Still Broken: Post Katrina Turnaround at the Orleans Public Defenders (A) Law Professor Ronald Sullivan was asked... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
contracts. The Big 3 were gaining market share-Ford was now handily outselling Toyota Motor Corp. in the U.S. after falling behind in 2007. Many saw the Big 3 turnaround as proof that a unionized manufacturing industry could be revived... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Research in Black and White | Baker Library
black-and-white and color labs used high-efficiency, rapid turnaround techniques to make evaluations in minutes or hours, rather than weeks or months. The teams included chemists, artists, and those with other interests. Their task in... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
its competition and into financial trouble. The case ends with a pivotal vote by shareholders on whether to sell this family company. Clarks (B) summarizes the results of the shareholders vote described in the (A) case. And, Clarks (C) describes the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
development of a public school turnaround initiative in Boston, Teach Plus showed that teacher-driven policy initiatives filled an important gap in the education reform landscape. By mid-2011, Teach Plus had grown to a network of more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
Contractors often change their orders at the last minute, but CEMEX found that, on average, it took three hours between the time when a change order was received and when the order could be delivered. To decrease turnaround time in its... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
Hilfiger is taken private by Apax Partners after years of disappointing performance and strategic impasse. Students are asked to evaluate alternative strategic options for the company and to propose a concrete turnaround plan for the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
into an $8 billion behemoth 10 years later, and most recently leading a massive turnaround at Hewlett-Packard—Whitman has left her beloved Bay Area for a stand-up desk in Hollywood’s media district. There she finds her phone and hotfoots... View Details
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
Scorecard to accomplish a turnaround and cultural change after eight consecutive years of financial losses and market share declines. The team uses the strategy map to align financial and project resources to the strategy and to motivate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
international perspective has broadened the course, cases specific to challenges in the inner city - such as Austin's Cleveland turnaround case and Kanter's case on Marriott's welfare-to-work program (read more about these cases) - are... View Details
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
risk-return trade-off. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/molycorp-morgan-brother-s-reverse-convertible-notes-c/an/215002-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 314-068 Starbucks Coffee Company: Transformation and Renewal This case analyzes the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
the venture-capital turnaround that took root in 2004, venture firms returned to the fundamentals of dealmaking, with primary focus on the entrepreneur’s ability to build a good company, says Clint Harris (MBA 1977), a cofounder and... View Details
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
certifiers opt for a quick turnaround time at the expense of a lower accuracy. Finally, we investigate the opportunity of regulating transparency. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-062.pdf Cases & Course... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace