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  • June 2015 (Revised October 2015)
  • Case

High Liner Foods, 2015

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In 2015, Canadian-based High Liner Foods Ltd was one of North America's largest frozen fish processors with extensive shares of both the food service and retail channels in Canada, the USA and Mexico. With over C$1 billion in revenues, the company had grown four fold... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Analysis; Strategic Decision Making; Family Business; Commodities; Strategic Planning; Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; North America; Canada
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    The Heart of Business—Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism

    How to unleash “human magic" and achieve improbable results.

    Having recently stepped down as Chairman and CEO of Best Buy, Joly shares the leadership principles – illustrated by multiple vivid and concrete stories -- that underpinned... View Details

      Teaching by Heart: One Professor's Journey to Inspire

      The best teachers are leaders, and the best leaders are teachers. Teaching by Heart summarizes the author's key insights gained from more than 40 years of teaching and managing. It illustrates how teachers can both lift people up and let them down. It proposes... View Details
      • 26 Jul 2013
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Accountability of Independent Directors-Evidence from Firms Subject to Securities Litigation

      Keywords: by Francois Brochet & Suraj Srinivasan
      • 04 Oct 2011
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Reviews, Reputation, and Revenue: The Case of Yelp.com

      Keywords: by Michael Luca; Food & Beverage
      • 13 Jan 2012
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Intermediaries for the IP Market

      Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & David Yoffie
      • Research Summary

      Corporate Governance

      By: Charles C.Y. Wang

      The characteristics and structure of boards of directors have important implications for firm performance. Professor Wang has found that firms with well-connected boards whose members have strong network connections provide economic benefits that are not immediately... View Details

      • October 2014
      • Case

      McKinsey & Company, 2012

      By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
      In 2012, McKinsey & Company (McKinsey) was the world's premier management consultancy, providing advice to CEO's and top executives of leading companies around the globe. Many consulting firms were bigger but few could match the reputation McKinsey had built over more... View Details
      Keywords: Consulting Firms; McKinsey; Strategy; Consulting Industry; North America
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      • 2014
      • Working Paper

      The Nobel Prize: A 'Heritage-based' Brand-oriented Network

      By: Mats Urde and Stephen A. Greyser
      Purpose — Understanding the Nobel Prize as a 'true' heritage brand in a networked situation and its management challenges, especially regarding identity and reputation.

      Methodology — The Nobel Prize serves as an in-depth case study and is analysed within... View Details
      Keywords: Nobel Prize; Heritage Brand; Brand Network; Networked Brand; Brand Within A Network; Brand Orientation; Brand Stewardship; Corporate Brand Identity; Reputation; Networks; Organizations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Brands and Branding
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      • Research Summary

      Current Research

      By: Leslie K. John

      Professor John is a behavioral scientist who uses both laboratory and field experiments to investigate questions that are at the intersection of marketing, organizational behavior, and public policy.

      Professor John’s work has been published in leading... View Details

      • 2022
      • Book

      The Heart of Business (ハート・オブ・ビジネス)――「人とパーパス」を本気で大切にする新時代のリーダーシップ

      By: Hubert Joly and Caroline Lambert
      A remarkable turnaround by a leader with a remarkable philosophy: Find your noble purpose. Put people at the center. Unleash human magic.
      "It was fall in Minnesota. It was getting cold and we were supposed to die." This is how Hubert Joly describes the early,... View Details
      Keywords: Capitalism; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Business and Stakeholder Relations
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      • August 2019
      • Article

      When and How to Diversify—A Multicategory Utility Model for Personalized Content Recommendation

      By: Yicheng Song, Nachiketa Sahoo and Elie Ofek
      Sometimes we desire change, a break from the same or an opportunity to fulfill different aspects of our needs. Noting that consumers seek variety, several approaches have been developed to diversify items recommended by personalized recommender systems. However,... View Details
      Keywords: Recommender Systems; Personalization; Recommendation Diversity; Variety Seeking; Collaborative Filtering; Consumer Utility Models; Digital Media; Clickstream Analysis; Learning-to-rank; Consumer Behavior; Media; Customization and Personalization; Strategy; Mathematical Methods
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      • September 2012 (Revised December 2012)
      • Case

      Addleshaw Goddard LLP (Abridged)

      By: Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson and James Weber
      Addleshaw-Goddard (AG), the 15th largest law firm in the UK, is seeking ways to serve larger clients on more important legal matters. Part of this strategy involves its "Client Development Centre (CDC)," an innovative idea and set of services launched by Dr. Jim Hever... View Details
      Keywords: Price; Innovation and Invention; Service Operations; Partners and Partnerships; Competitive Advantage; Diversification; Legal Services Industry; United Kingdom
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      • 16 May 2013
      • HBS Seminar

      Robert Gierkink, Chairman, Datalogix

      • Research Summary

      Automotive Product Development

      At present, my primary research focus is studying product development in the auto industry. I am working with Stefan Thomke (HBS) and Takahiro Fujimoto (University of Tokyo) on the 4th Round of the Global Automotive Development Study. The first round of this... View Details

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      The New Social Contract: Contractors, Firms, and Agencies

      The emergence of a 'new social contract' linking employees and organizations - perhaps most notable for the absence of a promise of lifelong job security - has been widely remarked. A related trend, less noted but potentially important, has been the emergence of a... View Details
      • 2021
      • Chapter

      Multinationals' Need for State Protection: The Creation of the Swiss Investment Risk Guarantee in the 1960s

      By: Sabine Pitteloud
      This chapter focuses on the role of Industrie-Holding, the Federation of Swiss Industrial Multinational Companies, in the introduction of an investment risk guarantee during the 1960s. The chapter therefore contributes to a) the growing body of literature on how... View Details
      Keywords: Investments; Multinational Companies; Political Risk; Business ＆ Government Relations; Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Business and Government Relations; Switzerland
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      • 2024
      • Case

      Christiana Figueres and the Paris Climate Negotiations (B)

      By: James K. Sebenius, Laurence A. Green, Hannah Riley-Bowles, Lara SanPietro and Mina Subramanian
      This three-part, stop action case study, structured for classroom discussion, centers on Harvard’s Program on Negotiation 2022 Great Negotiator, Christiana Figueres, and her efforts as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change... View Details
      Keywords: Climate Change; Negotiation; Environmental Regulation; International Relations; Leadership
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      • Research Summary

      Political Economy and Effects of Gun Policy

      In two projects with Mike Luca and Deepak Malhotra, I examine the causes and consequences of gun policy.

       

      The Impact of Mass Shootings on Gun Policy

      There have been dozens of high-profile mass shootings in... View Details

      Keywords: Gun Policy; Firearms; Political Economy; United States
      • 2004
      • Working Paper

      Regulation and Reaction: The Other Side of Free Banking in Antebellum New York

      By: David A. Moss and Sarah Brennan
      Free banking, which first appeared in the United States in the late 1830s, comprised two essential features: general incorporation for banks and rigorous security requirements for note issue. Because the general incorporation feature is what allowed free entry, it has... View Details
      Keywords: History; Law; Competition; Financial Liquidity; Money; Market Entry and Exit; Financing and Loans; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry
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