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- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
before it turned profitable." The HBS Class of 1979 produced a raft of high-profile executives, including Meg Whitman, president and CEO of Hewlett-Packard; Dan Bricklin, co-creator of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program; John Thain, View Details
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
Services Division to support over 8,000 agricultural producers. CEO and Chairman Aldo Navilli, who had run the company since 1986 and had developed its management system, wanted to ensure that as the company grew and expanded, it would... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
synergies as well as potential conflicts. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/816075-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-030 SIN Capital and the Fullerton Health IPO In early 2016, David Sin, founder of the Singapore-based private equity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
817-068 Swagbucks In early 2016, Chuck Davis, chairman and CEO of Prodege LLC, parent company of the brand promotion business Swagbucks, and Josef Gorowitz, Prodege’s founder and president, must decide whether to acquire MyPoints, a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
Chuck Knight [former chairman and CEO of Emerson Electric Co.] made conflict a fundamental element of his firm's strategic planning process, and while he has now retired, the process retains the same atmosphere of vigorous debate that it... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
Doriot could not take the job, as he was still employed by the Army. So in the interim, the directors named him chairman of the board of directors.[ ] The group of men who founded ARD believed it could crack the conundrum of the risk-less... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
Tang Harvard Business School Case 410-018 Shanghai Tang is a luxury brand that focuses on Chinese-inspired fashion, accessories, and home decoration products. In fall 2008, amidst a growing global economic crisis, Raphael Ie Masne, executive View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley as a result of poor performance and cultural problems, as well as his relationship to the board of directors. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=405105... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
714-510 Health City Cayman Islands Narayana Health (NH) had been successfully delivering affordable high quality tertiary care to the masses in India through its chain of hospitals for over a decade. To encourage the adoption of the NH affordable care delivery model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
910-418 The world's leading Thai agribusiness corporation and largest agribusiness investor in China, CP Group, is facing another crossroads in China as the country starts to undergo rural reform. The issues at hand for Chairman Dhanin... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
Most books about the nation's financial crisis tell us what happened. In his new book, HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen tells us how to fix the system. A financial industry veteran and chairman of MFS Investment Management, a Boston firm... View Details
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
of directors of Medtronic, Inc., a company known for its commitment to effective corporate governance, must prepare for the departure of Chairman & CEO Bill George and the retirement of four long-time directors. The company had... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 20, 2007
wondered if the regulatory events might affect Goodyear's ability to maintain its world leadership in the tire industry. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707494 J.R.D. Tata Harvard Business School Case 407-061 J.R.D... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
they merely added a new layer of legal obligations for governance without improving the quality of people serving on the boards or changing their behavioral dynamics. The author—formerly the president or chairman of two global financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
professor Robert S. Kaplan and Acorn Systems founder and chairman Steven R. Anderson (HBS MBA '95) introduce a system that calculates product, customer, and regional or branch P&Ls quickly and inexpensively. The work marries the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
Chizen) and out (a former supervisor from her days at Hewlett-Packard). And Chizen himself taps Intuit chairman Bill Campbell for advice and support.2 All along the ladder of experience, people can coach those who are less experienced. So... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
general manager was granted autonomy, capital, and freedom to recruit star engineers from other divisions. D'Arbeloff presided as chairman of Aurora's board of directors, believing that, "with things customers aren't asking for, in... View Details
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809012 Groupe Eurotunnel S.A. (A) Harvard Business School Case 209-062 In the summer of 2006, the chairman and CEO of Eurotunnel Group is faced with the decision whether to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
increases from the arrangement, but critics claim Google would be the ultimate winner by consolidating more power in the market. Edelman prepared the remarks for a June 27, 2008, hearing, which was later rescheduled. Here is the prepared testimony: View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
controlling the flow of the investment. For an example of what we mean, let's look at Teradyne, the maker of semiconductor test equipment. In 1997, the company was confronted with an important innovation: the application of CMOS chip technology in testers. View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower