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- 23 Feb 2018
- Blog Post
How to thrive as an Introvert at HBS
crucial life skill. 3. Remain grateful. One day, I overheard that a classmate of mine had asked someone else about how “happy” I was at HBS because she did not see me at many of the parties. For some reason, I was pretty down about... View Details
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Shaping the Corporate Image | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Sweifet-Roleff Studio. Chemical control laboratory, Oliver Iron Mining Company, Duluth, Minnesota. Producing flat stitching wire, Newburgh Wire Works, Cleveland, Ohio. Russell Aikins. “Venting” zinc furnace condenser, Zinc Works, Donora,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
was software that could mine huge databases and organize information that was both usable and affordable for small businesses. But when it didn’t take off with its target customers, Slayton and his team were quick to adapt. Sensing a new... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
A Hollywood Backstory
an abrupt halt: Ellen will not be involved in anything that even remotely suggests cruelty to animals. Similarly, a friend of mine who's an Oscar-nominated cinematographer will not even consider working on films that show children getting... View Details
- 19 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech
fiasco is not going to be an isolated incident—it’s the canary in the coal mine for the financial services industry and regulators playing catch up to the implications of the fintech revolution. For all the promise that comes with the... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?
about by abnormal genes, such as Alzheimer's disease or cancer. Clearly, genomics could be a gold mine for drug makers. Today, drug development is an expensive and long process—it can take up to ten years and $600 million to develop a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA
Edited by April White A US military convoy was halted on a road north of Fallujah, among the most dangerous cities in Iraq. There was a possible IED in its path. They needed orders: Should they reroute? At the same moment, another Marine convoy discovered a possible... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)
enough to make me say yes to the offer. I joined the company as assistant to the president. But when the president lost his job, mine disappeared, too. Back in Michigan, my father had passed away, and my older brother became CEO of the... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- August 2012 (Revised March 2013)
- Supplement
Preem (B)
Preem's creditors and owners made a deal with an 18 month extension of debt maturities and a minor equity injection in 2009. Now, in 2010, the new maturity is approaching, and refinancing is again unlikely. This time, all the firm's debt is coming due. What went wrong... View Details
Becker, Bo. "Preem (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 213-014, August 2012. (Revised March 2013.)
- April 2003
- Case
Sunk Costs: The Plan to Dump the Brent Spar (A)
This case explores the conflict between Shell Oil and Greenpeace over Shell's plans to sink the aging Brent Spar oil platform in the North Atlantic. It details the tactics Greenpeace employed and examines Shell's responses. View Details
Keywords: Alliances; Crisis Management; Environmental Sustainability; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; North America
Watkins, Michael D., and Samuel Passow. "Sunk Costs: The Plan to Dump the Brent Spar (A)." Harvard Business School Case 903-010, April 2003.
- February 1999
- Case
PDVSA & Citgo (A): Seeking Stability in an Uncertain World
By: Ashish Nanda
In order to secure demand for its heavy oil, PDVSA buys 50% of the U.S. refining and retail company Citgo. In 1990, it buys the remaining 50% ownership of Citgo. The case describes the challenges faced by PDVSA and Citgo managements as they try to make their... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Business Subsidiaries; Mergers and Acquisitions; Energy Sources; Mining Industry; Mining Industry
Nanda, Ashish, and Leopoldo E. Lopez Mendoza. "PDVSA & Citgo (A): Seeking Stability in an Uncertain World." Harvard Business School Case 899-220, February 1999.
- March 1988 (Revised September 1988)
- Case
Friendly Competitors: The Amalgamated Aluminum Succession
Shapiro, Benson P. "Friendly Competitors: The Amalgamated Aluminum Succession." Harvard Business School Case 588-064, March 1988. (Revised September 1988.)
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
1979), Minnick is pressing for a simple solution to curb emissions by putting a tax on carbon that would be assessed where the carbon enters the market, at the mine mouth or oil refinery, and then passed on to the consumer. “You want it... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
On a chilly November afternoon in Harlan County, a struggling former mining hub on the edge of the Eastern Kentucky Coalfield, Geoff Marietta (MBA 2007) surveys the bustling village he has helped build. Marietta is executive director of... View Details
- January 2017 (Revised March 2017)
- Case
Royal DSM: From Continuous Transformation to Organic Growth
By: William W. George, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Amram Migdal
Royal DSM CEO Feike Sijbesma was pondering the challenges of shifting DSM’s global organization from the constant transformations of the past 100 years to creating organic growth. When Sijbesma took the helm as CEO in 2007, he further pushed and completed the company’s... View Details
Keywords: Organic Growth; Organizational Change; M＆A; Mergers And Acquisitions; Divestment; Business Ventures; Business Divisions; Business Growth and Maturation; Restructuring; Change; Change Management; Transformation; Transition; Engineering; Chemicals; Mining; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Capital Markets; Financial Markets; Food; Globalization; Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Health; Nutrition; History; Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Management; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Practices and Processes; Management Style; Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Ownership; Public Ownership; Performance; Strategy; Adaptation; Consolidation; Corporate Strategy; Value; Value Creation; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; Europe; Netherlands
George, William W., Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Amram Migdal. "Royal DSM: From Continuous Transformation to Organic Growth." Harvard Business School Case 317-063, January 2017. (Revised March 2017.)
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence
data mining to coding. Eventually, there will be industries that are fully automated and certain jobs will go away, but new ones will be created in that process. From Baker Library: Not surprisingly, high tech and telecom firms are the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
a pioneer - in the process of capturing customer information, mining that information for value, and converting the information into shareable knowledge, which is then communicated among workers through robust electronic networks. For... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
expected to work for a big company like Kodak for my entire career." Arthur D. Little, 1968-76 Becton, Dickinson and Co., 1976-94 Why HBS? "I learned that an engineer whose desk was close to mine at Kodak had been accepted by the School.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
pioneers have moved out there, claimed the loot, and put a stake in the ground, then they want property rights," Spar observed. "They don't want to be sitting out there with shotguns; they want to be running their business or mining their... View Details