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Industry Information - Alumni

the global personal care and household product market. Recently, it has added features on a variety of subjects, and expanded coverage in fast-growing markets in Asia and Latin America. CPG Matters A twice-monthly e-zine directed to the View Details

15 Dec 2023
News

Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

27 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

century and today. It tells the story of the extraordinary and often eccentric men and women who defied convention and imagined that business could help save the planet rather than consume it. The social and religious beliefs that drove... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 May 2004
Research & Ideas

How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not

in companies from a few different industries, in order to generalize our results as much as possible. Thus, we studied nine teams from two chemicals firms, nine teams from three high tech firms, and eight teams from two consumer products... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2022
News

The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips

taking a less transparent route by selling less product in the same package and perhaps hoping the consumer doesn’t notice. Here, HBS faculty members John Gourville and Alex MacKay discuss the ups and downs of the practice of... View Details

Keywords: Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

28 Mar 2012
What Do You Think?

Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

Summing Up: What Next, If Manufacturing Proves Not To Be A Creator Of Those Good "factory Jobs" Of The Past? Manufacturing is essential to the health of an economy. It both fuels and results from innovation. It is natural in the course of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

20 Apr 2020
Blog Post

Introducing LivelyHood, A Volunteer Nonprofit Founded in Response to COVID-19

thereafter, the world started to change quickly and dramatically. The impending health crisis and mass stockpiling consumed the collective psyche. And a tweet from the UK went viral: a nurse who had worked... View Details

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Why HBS? - Doctoral

Harvard faculty in departments including economics , psychology , and sociology , as well as other graduate professional schools, like the Harvard Kennedy School of Government , Harvard Chan School of Public Health , Harvard Law School... View Details

December 2020 (Revised April 2021)
Case

Arcos Dorados: A QSR Recovery Plan

By: Forest Reinhardt, José B. Alvarez, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago and Mariana Cal

Arcos Dorados—McDonald’s largest independent franchisee, covering Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)—faced a pandemic that was disrupting the entire consumer foodservice business in 2020. With the exclusive right to own, operate, and sub-franchise McDonald’s... View Details

29 Aug 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?

Harley demographic aging out of the sport the new concepts are a step in the right direction most of all, the product must be right.” Kevin O’Meara agreed, saying that, “the tariffs and the ‘Twitter war’ are masking the true issues (1) Aging View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto

27 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 27

consumers make complementary choices in purchase decisions (e.g., chips and salsa), product inter-operabilities (smartphones and networks), and dynamic decisions (current exercise and future healthcare consumption). Multiple View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Consumers for Health Care Choices. Lynn S. Paine : Recipient of the 2007 HBS Global Research Fellowship. 2006 Leemore S. Dafny : Received the Chairs' Core Course Teaching Award, Best Instructor for... View Details

06 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism - Discovering the Business of Storytelling

messages in Hindi cinema are universal, and often more uplifting than other stories I consume — they remind me that anything is possible.” Media was an escape: it introduced me to worlds that weren’t my own. Stories create spaces for... View Details

21 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Hands-on Learning About Global Markets

economy and consumer behaviors until they were in country. “They were surprised by the extent to which the cultural and economic differences there had an impact on business,” she explains. Maxwell Nii Laryea and his fellow Class of 2024... View Details

April 1989 (Revised October 2005)
Case

James Burke: A Career in American Business (A)

By: Richard S. Tedlow and Wendy Smith

Presents an historical overview of the professional career of James E. Burke, chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson. Examines the corporation's handling of three major occurrences--the Tylenol poisonings in 1982 and 1986 and the acquisition and subsequent sale of... View Details

Keywords: Business History; Marketing Strategy; Ethics; Personal Development and Career; Crisis Management; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States

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