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- 01 Oct 2014
- What Do You Think?
Is Too Much Focus a Problem?
challenge as one of employing focus appropriately or in proper proportion to more broadly "noticing." Cedric Roossel said: "To put it simply, you don't want to be focused during a strategy definition phase but you have to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online
This course is part of the Strategy track. Introduction to Economics for Managers ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! Economics for Managers $1,850 Next 8-week session starts August 6th... View Details
- November 2019 (Revised February 2020)
- Case
Constellation Brands' Investment in Canopy Growth: Aiming High
By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah L. Abbott
In 2017, Constellation Brands, the U.S.-based beverage company, acquired a 9.9% equity interest in the Canadian marijuana company, Canopy Growth. In 2018, Constellation announced a subsequent investment in Canopy—taking its ownership interest to 37%. However, Canopy’s... View Details
Keywords: Equity Investment; Marijuana; Growth Investing; New Market Development; Beverage Industry; Equity; Investment; Strategy; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry; Canada; United States
Gilson, Stuart C., and Sarah L. Abbott. "Constellation Brands' Investment in Canopy Growth: Aiming High." Harvard Business School Case 220-044, November 2019. (Revised February 2020.)
- 24 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach
requirements and other rules, and boards and managers comply. Economies with good governance structures perform better than those lacking such systems. · A board's key functions are overseeing a company's strategy and leadership,... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
been against this particular risk—safely through HBS, her son had received lucrative job offers from Wall Street and consulting firms. Six months in, the group had grown to 10, but they were served with an eviction notice when the... View Details
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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
subsidiaries around the country that reported back to the New York office. 18 Personnel working in public relations could consult a wealth of literature by nationally known experts. They included Ivy Lee, considered the father of modern... View Details
- Teaching Interest
MBA Elective Curriculum-- Competing Through Business Models
The words “business model” are inescapable in our daily fare of business news. These two ubiquitous words seemed to effortlessly rise up to prominence during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. When businesspeople, journalists, academics, and other... View Details
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
Cases & Course Materials"Growing Pains at Stroz Friedberg (Abridged) Garvin and Michael NorrisHarvard Business School Case 313-023 In late spring 2009, Stroz Friedberg co-presidents Edward Stroz and Eric Friedberg had to set growth targets for 2010. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War
Today, 25 years later, Hoa is still living in Hanoi and doing her part to help her impoverished country establish a modern, productive economy. As managing director of Galaxy Company, a successful consulting firm, her advice on doing... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)
- 21 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Hands-on Learning About Global Markets
its primarily word-of-mouth marketing strategies and develop more scalable channels to reach new customers. By increasing Ellie Care’s client base, it would also help the company raise capital. Working as a team on the project was part of... View Details
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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement
been a totally unexpected, but very welcome surprise. Through HCI connections, I have been able to share patient engagement strategies with executives at several NPOs and meet with multiple biotech VCs, which has resulted in a promising... View Details
- 28 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
Latina Women in Leadership: Shirley Verónica Cardona (MBA 2012)
program for youth living in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. This work was deeply gratifying, and it also helped me realize that in order to be most effective and drive scalable impact, I needed to build strategic, analytical, and leadership skills. This need motivated a... View Details
- 11 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Meet the MBA Class of 2020
BETTER IF I UNDERSTOOD THE FUNDAMENTALS BETTER.” HOME REGION Mumbai, India UNDERGRAD EDUCATION University of Pune, Biology, 2012 PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Cipla, Universal Consulting (L.E.K. Consulting India) HBS... View Details
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?
strategy in particular, you are talking in his language, and it makes you look smart." Successes can get people energized really quickly had nothing to do with the failure to expense options.—Cheryl Andrus, FranklinCovey Many... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details
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John H. McArthur | About
committee memberships, and consulting posts in business, government, education, and health care organizations around the world. For many years, he served as chair of Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), which sparked a lifelong... View Details
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
the key risk factors have developed from a pressure to enhance productivity, eliminate waste, remove supply chain duplication, and drive for cost improvement," says William L. Michels, CEO of consulting firm ADR North America, Ann... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 01 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
What is the HBS FIELD Program?
for FIELD 2 & 3. What is FIELD 2? In FIELD 2, first year students travel to an emerging market to work on a short term consulting project for ten days in January. Students rank the 13 to 14 locations, and then are put into groups of... View Details
- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
teaching, and consulting over the past ten years, I have come to understand more deeply than ever that the best managers are those who have an appetite for learning and are willing to work on themselves. Management is very hard; even the... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
neighborhood-development strategy of mixed-income housing, a cradle-to-college education pipeline, and community wellness programs that have helped to revitalize Atlanta’s troubled East Lake neighborhood. Funded by philanthropists,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg