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- 22 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Why We Started the HBS Black Investment Club
investors are unaware of the biases that create barriers to actually investing in Black founders. It is no surprise that the rest of the investing world also severely lacks racial diversity. According to Kanyi Maqubela, managing partner... View Details
- Web
What Others Are Saying - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
most enduring contributions.” — Peter M Senge Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management “Professor Porter has been, and still is, the most influential global thinker on Strategy. His contributions are numerous and as relevant today as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Crucible: Relocation
no longer manage my anxiety by stacking up wealth or titles, but instead celebrate an active life in nature, my creative and intellectual pursuits, and relationships. In addition to sharing personal stories, I use my platform to... View Details
Keywords: Zhang, Qian
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Great Expectations
changing world. For more than 100 years, HBS has had the courage to develop new ways of providing a trans-formational experience for our students. About a year ago we began conceptualizing a new, required MBA course called FIELD (Field... View Details
- 11 Apr 2023
- News
Companies Need to Normalize Healthy Turnover
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
on his career at HBS and what he sees for the School’s future. Looking back over your forty-year career at HBS, what stands out? I guess what impresses me most is how the School continually adapts to the changing world of business, but at... View Details
Alfred N. Steele
Arriving at Pepsi after defecting from an alienating position at Coca-Cola, Steele immediately began a highly involved rehabilitation process at the battered soft drink maker. Steele installed a more autonomous management structure,... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- Web
Europe’s green transition | Institute for Business in Global Society
managing flood impacts to driving systemic change—amid robust analyses and their sustainability leadership legacy. Northvolt: Building batteries to fight climate change In 2016, Northvolt set out to fight... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
deliverables. We have to inspire. We have to be humble. We have to be able to measure outcomes,” he says. Governing a country is also an exercise in managing multiple stakeholders and, at the grandest possible scale, View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
requirements with life obligations and to persuade managers to adopt these custom-fit work strategies to improve their bottom line. Telling the stories of people at companies like JetBlue, Ernst & Young, and Best Buy, the authors discuss... View Details
- Profile
Erika Sanchez
With back-to-back degrees in engineering, it’s no surprise that Erika Sanchez was attracted to Boeing. “I presented technical solutions to management teams that had the authority to allocate funds,” Erika says. “I quickly learned that to... View Details
- May 2001
- Supplement
Mike Levett, CEO Old Mutual
By: Tarun Khanna
Discusses issues related to the transformation of Old Mutual from a mutual company to a stock corporation, and from a South African insurer to a global financial institution. Emphasis is on understanding effects of South African institutional context. View Details
Keywords: Financial Institutions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Globalized Firms and Management; Financial Services Industry; South Africa
Khanna, Tarun. "Mike Levett, CEO Old Mutual." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 701-807, May 2001.
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ink: The Three-Step Startup
specific professors who helped shape your work. How has your vantage changed from mentee to peer? All my Brown courses follow an HBS format. We use HBS cases. I cold-call and use the Socratic method in class. I’m not sure I could be a... View Details
- 23 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?
Pons discusses what it means for US business leaders in confronting environmental challenges. 4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World In the face of today’s many messy problems,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The New Brand Manager: You
change, the Tropicana packaging change—that initially generated a lot of negative feedback from consumers. But actually, this criticism could be construed as a positive. When consumers rebel against some kind of change in their brands, it... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 May 2019
- Blog Post
2019-2020 Recruiting Calendar Available Now
May 17 will be reviewed and confirmed by Friday, June 7. Requests received after May 17 will be reviewed and confirmed on a rolling basis after June 7. What’s New for 2019-2020? Before you take a look at the dates available for events and interviews, there are three... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- Profile
Maren Quezada
change in the business of home entertainment. Sales of DVDs and Blu-Rays were declining; I learned how to manage change during a stressful time.” Building pipelines – and... View Details
- September – October 2009
- Article
U.S. Energy Policy: Overcoming Barriers to Acting
By: Max Bazerman
Energy policy is on everyone's mind these days. The U.S. presidential campaign focused on energy independence and exploration (drill, baby, drill), climate change, alternative fuels, even nuclear energy. But there is a serious problem endemic to America's energy... View Details
Keywords: Policy; Climate Change; Energy Sources; Government and Politics; Cognition and Thinking; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Problems and Challenges; Non-Renewable Energy; Economics; Natural Environment; Energy Industry; United States
Bazerman, Max. "U.S. Energy Policy: Overcoming Barriers to Acting." Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development (September–October 2009). (This is a adaptation of a paper that originally appeared as "Barriers to Acting in Time on Energy, and Strategies for Overcoming Them" in K. Gallagher (Ed.), Acting in Time on Energy Policy. Washington, DC: Brookings, 2009.)
- July 2024
- Case
Wizards of the Coast and Magic: The Rebounding
By: Boris Groysberg and Tom Quinn
This case traces the history and growth of the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. From its development in 1993 by tiny studio Wizards of the Coast, to Wizards’ acquisition by toy giant Hasbro in 1999, to its evolution into a billion-dollar brand in 2023,... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Change Management; Transformation; Cost vs Benefits; Business Cycles; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Global Strategy; Growth and Development; Selection and Staffing; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Intellectual Property; Job Design and Levels; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Succession; Risk Management; Brands and Branding; Product Positioning; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Expansion; Mergers and Acquisitions; Product Development; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States; Washington (state, US); Seattle; Japan
Groysberg, Boris, and Tom Quinn. "Wizards of the Coast and Magic: The Rebounding." Harvard Business School Case 424-047, July 2024.