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  • May 2010 (Revised January 2012)
  • Case

Lincoln Financial Meets the Financial Crisis

By: Robert C. Pozen and Peter Goodspeed Spring
In March of 2009, Lincoln Financial Group's CEO Dennis Glass was facing a difficult decision as to how he would replenish his company's capital, which could quickly fall to dangerously low levels as a result of the financial crisis. Though the cost of raising capital... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Financial Crisis; Capital; Private Equity; Crisis Management; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Insurance Industry
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  • 24 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society

Customers value some of the most powerful brands in the world primarily for their "cultural value": They provide imaginative resources that people use to build their identities. These are what Harvard Business School professor... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 11 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Building a Better Board

real money," Kaufman says. "So who's going to tell Bill that we really like his ideas, but that his management style pisses people off? It can feel very risky for board members to think, 'If I pick on Bill, will he pick on... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 1998
  • News

Short Takes

managers' time to educate them, communicate with them, and develop informal relationships with them so those owners will have a better understanding of what the company is trying to do." Who Gets the Credit for Bankruptcy? The number of... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

Corruption 101

that underlie corruption everywhere. As an emerging professional he must also carefully weigh the trust value of the personal relationships he is forming; his own comfort zone for ethical trade-offs; and the inherent uncertainties of... View Details
Keywords: Crop Production; Agriculture; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance
  • August 2010 (Revised March 2012)
  • Case

The Dow Acquisition of Rohm and Haas (A)

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Melissa Barton
The Rohm and Haas Board decided how to move forward after its largest shareholder chose to sell all of its shares in the company. View Details
Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Leadership; Management Teams; Ownership Stake; Business and Shareholder Relations; Chemical Industry
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  • 04 Dec 2020
  • News

Hour by Hour

issues that contribute to turnover. The company has also recently started applying relationship management to former applicants and current employees. Morris has long understood the ways shift changes,... View Details
  • Web

Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

care with health care partners Increase operational efficiencies: Match clinical resources to clinical processes and improve resource utilization Optimize costs over the full cycle of care Manage reimbursement and payment challenges... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

Well Matched

Serena Ventures, a fund backed by Williams with an emphasis on startups that make diverse leadership and inclusivity a priority. Rapaport manages a portfolio of close to 60 early-stage investments focused on companies in the health,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; venture capital; diversity; inclusion; tennis; leadership; women; Finance
  • September 2000
  • Teaching Note

MarketSoft TN

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and John T. Gourville
Teaching Note for (9-800-069). View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Internet and the Web; Product Launch; Distribution Channels; Partners and Partnerships; Growth and Development; Management Practices and Processes
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  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

In Memoriam

approachable—even humble—exemplifying in everything he did the true sense of what it means to be a teacher.” An authority on the management of technology and innovation and an HBS faculty member for 41 years, Richard Rosenbloom (MBA 1956,... View Details
Keywords: obituraries; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • Profile

Andrew Boudreau

Enterprise Manager. By the time he had graduated, staff doubled to ten students, and the agency had researched approximately 26 technologies. Among them were flexible circuit boards and a wafer-thin semiconductor manufacturing process. Muddy ventures and clearly... View Details
  • November 2009 (Revised June 2012)
  • Case

Crisis and Reform in Japan's Banking System (A)

By: Thierry Porte, Rawi E. Abdelal, Laura Alfaro and Jonathan Schlefer
In 1997, amidst Japan's ongoing financial problems, Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto sought to restructure the financial sector to make it more transparent and globally competitive. He hoped that this effort, dubbed the "Big Bang" after the British financial... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Capital; Banks and Banking; Crisis Management; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; Japan
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  • 24 Sep 2021
  • News

A Labor Movement for the Platform Economy

Keywords: Gig economy; gig workers
  • November 2016
  • Case

Pete & Gerry's

By: Jose Alvarez and Natalie Kindred
Keywords: ＂Pete ＆ Gerry's; ＂ Eggs; Egg Industry; Avian Flu; Cage Free; Free Range; Agribusiness; Agriculture; Industry Structure; Industry Evolution; Price Volatility; Small Business; Strategy Formulation; Branding; Marketing; Premium Brand; Growth; Consumer; Consumer Behavior; Animal Welfare; Retail; Grocery; Food Labeling; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Advertising Campaigns; Business Model; Change; Change Management; Disruption; Transition; Trends; Volatility; Customer Value and Value Chain; Entrepreneurship; Food; Ethics; Health; Problems and Challenges; Operations; Sales; Risk and Uncertainty; Quality; Public Opinion; Value; Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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    Christina Melas-Kyriazi

    Christina joined Bain Capital Ventures in 2021, where she focuses on early-stage investments in fintech and commerce. Christina was previously Head of Product for Consumer Foundations at Affirm, where she led a team of product managers to... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital
    • Blog

    Inside the Learning: How Faculty Prepare for Class

    Managing Sales Teams and Distribution Channel, Leading in the Digital Era): I always make sure to stay in touch with practitioners and leaders, read trade magazines, news, and journals, and continue to be informed of what's going on in... View Details
    • 08 Jun 2018
    • News

    My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses

    with one of my coworkers, a manager from a different department. He and I had had a wonderful relationship as I was growing up in the business, but now that I had come back and joined the business and had... View Details
    • Profile

    Oliver Bladek

    timeline." After a few years at McKinsey, Oliver became restless. "Consulting is good for thinking, but I wanted to learn about doing," he says. Oliver moved to Bell Canada, where he led teams tackling projects, such as eliminating View Details
    • 01 Mar 2019
    • News

    The One That Got Away

    capital management company and the first software-as-a-service application for enterprises to manage contract workers. It had $2 million in revenues at the time of investment. After a few fits and starts... View Details