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Richard Lou

larger role was to manage the developments themselves. A property in midtown Manhattan became the 20-story Wyndham-branded hotel with 92 rooms; a second property in SoHo became a 120-room Courtyard by Marriott. In between, Richard took on... View Details

March 2020
Article

Do Managers Matter? A Natural Experiment from 42 R&D Labs in India

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Tarun Khanna and Christos A. Makridis

We exploit plausibly exogenous variation in the staggered entry of new managers into India’s 42 public R&D labs between 1994 and 2006 to study how alignment between the CEO and middle-level managers affect research productivity. We show that the introduction of new lab... View Details

Keywords: Incentives; Innovation; Productivity; Management; Alignment; Research and Development; Innovation and Invention; Performance Productivity; India

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November 1994 (Revised March 2001)
Case

Security Plus, Inc.

By: David F. Hawkins and Norman Bartczak

A company acquires an alarm system company and converts its customers from operating to sale-type leases. View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Leasing; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Industry

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2011
Working Paper

The Three Foundations of a Great Life, Great Leadership, and a Great Organization

By: Michael C. Jensen

I argue here that the three factors my co-authors and I identify as constituting the foundation for being a leader and the effective exercise of leadership can also be seen as the foundations not only for great leadership, but also for a high quality personal life and... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Organizations; Performance Effectiveness; Work-Life Balance; Strategy; Value

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February 2011 (Revised April 2012)
Case

PepsiCo Peru Foods: More than Small Potatoes

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Rakesh Khurana, Rajiv Lal and Matthew Bird

The regional head of supply chain for PepsiCo South America Foods and his team had worked for 10 years to realize their dream of creating an agricultural research center in Peru that could provide more productive and healthier varieties of potatoes for the Frito-Lay... View Details

Keywords: Food; Supply Chain; Planning; Growth and Development Strategy; Leading Change; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Peru

September 2010 (Revised May 2012)
Case

Windward Investment Management

By: Luis M. Viceira and Ricardo Alberto De Armas

Windward Investment Management has experienced rapid growth in assets under management in just ten years, from under $30 million at year-end 1999 to $3.6 billion in 2010. Windward is one of the leading firms in the Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) industry that... View Details

Keywords: Asset Management; Valuation; Investment; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry

13 May 2013
Blog Post

3 Projects, 1 Priceless Picture

the company. The 100,000 Foot View: My first project with the Corporate Strategy & Development group was in support of the annual corporate strategic planning meeting for Nike’s CEO and executive team.... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

Profile

Lindsay Hyde

Lindsay comes with a unique perspective. As the spouse of a previous HBS student, Blair Baldwin, MBA 2009, she can appreciate new developments at the school. “What interests me is how much has changed in just three years,” Lindsay says.... View Details

20 Mar 2019
News

Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire

assets and support the development of fossil fuel–free infrastructure globally, especially in Africa, Latin America, and China. Even approaching the 12th hour, alumni participants seemed ready to address climate change now, versus... View Details

Keywords: Allison Webster; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation

05 Dec 2023
Blog Post

Taking Learning Beyond the Classroom

Continuing Conversations are an academic offering developed by the Sustainability Club to fulfill a desire by MBA students to dig deeper into the environmental themes presented in cases taught during their first year. These faculty... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence

Students partnered with Colgate-Palmolive in Mexico City Students partnered with Colgate-Palmolive in Mexico City Brian Franklin (MBA 2018) admits the prospect of partnering with Colgate-Palmolive to identify a strategy for marketing... View Details

March 2018
Teaching Note

Mavi: Fashioning a Path to Brand Growth

By: Jill Avery and Gamze Yucaoglu

Mavi, a leading Turkish apparel retailer, had sales of $419 million in 2015, up 20%. Growth rates like these were becoming routine at Mavi. But, its path to growth was getting more challenging, and Turkven, Mavi’s private equity partner, was planning its exit options... View Details

Keywords: Retailing; Fashion; Brand; Brand Management; Brand Extension; Brand Equity; Private Equity; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Brands and Branding; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry; Turkey; Europe

June 2009
Teaching Note

Curled Metal Inc. - Engineered Products Division (TN)

By: Frank V. Cespedes

Teaching Note for [709434]. View Details

Keywords: Sales; Product Development; Customers; Business Divisions; Price; Business Strategy; Cost; Production; Mining Industry

November 2008 (Revised April 2010)
Case

Youth Villages

By: Allen S. Grossman, Cathy Ross and William Foster

Tennessee-based nonprofit Youth Villages had an impressive record of serving emotionally and behaviorally troubled youth and their families, with higher success rates and lower costs than most child services providers. Yet expanding to offer its services on a broader... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Service Operations; Business and Government Relations; Nonprofit Organizations; Expansion; Tennessee

24 Apr 2014
News

From observers to active participants in the global economy

reduce poverty through economic growth, and it’s been very effective,” says Bloom. The US agency, now with an annual budget of about $900 million, has committed more than $10 billion to projects in developing countries that meet a variety... View Details

January 1992
Teaching Note

MCI Communications Corporation (1983) TN

By: Richard S. Ruback

Teaching Note for (9-284-057). View Details

Keywords: Financing and Loans; Growth and Development Strategy; Debt Securities; Risk and Uncertainty; Monopoly; Communications Industry

October 2010 (Revised November 2012)
Case

Shenzhen Capital Group

By: Paul A. Gompers, Shaohui Chen, Jessie Lin and Shelley Ling

Haitao Jin, chairman of Shenzhen Capital Group Co., Ltd. (SCGC), and Wanshou Li, president of SCGC, must decide how to continue to grow their venture capital/private equity firm in China. SCGC is a premier VC/PE fund in China and a pioneer of the Government Sponsored... View Details

Keywords: Government And Business; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Investment Funds; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry; China

May 1994
Background Note

Managing Market Complexity: A Three-Ring Circus

By: V. Kasturi Rangan

Proposes models of organization that address the various product-market environments posed by the product life cycle. Frames these changes along the two dimensions of uncertainty and diversity. Offers three sets of organizational characteristics to reflect the three... View Details

Keywords: Business Processes; Growth and Development Strategy; Complexity; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Product Marketing; Markets; Product