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Best-selling and New Cases by Ben Esty
Best-Selling Cases:
1) Eaton: Portfolio Transformation & Cost of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
High Brow
Flock (MBA ’00) decided to have a go at. The two Yanks have purchased the North American rights to Truefitt & Hill, a venerable British purveyor of grooming products and the operator of what’s believed to be the world’s oldest barbershop,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
New Career Wanted
moving to part time for family or lifestyle reasons. In late career, we often see people who are downshifting or exploring the nonprofit sector. There’s also a spike two or three years after graduation, when young managers often realize they have gotten into something... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Action Plan: Finding Fluency
trying to be disciplined about a marketing calendar with 16-week lead times,” Dunaway recalls. Plans for April Fool’s Day and Olympics-related campaigns went out the window. “We had to ask: What are the needs that consumers have View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
eyeglasses and for software for cardiologists, says she expects to see fewer Internet-related plans this year. Myra Hart observes that while some students may not be as willing to take the risk of implementing their View Details
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Negotiation and All That Jazz
into your strategy right from the start. "There are certain things you won't know until you engage with the other side. In other words, negotiation is a dynamic, interactive process," Wheeler says. Whatever questions, offers, or threats... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy
company headed in the right direction. "It should be as much a part of an organization's agenda as annual employee evaluations and financial plans," says Beer. "That's the next step in our work." View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
local artisans and the timber trade without degrading the land. Are there similarities between your work in Costa Rica and the Massachusetts Audubon project you tackled after returning to Boston? The plan in Boston was a high-profile,... View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
which was facing numerous challenges: a rapidly decreasing market share, falling revenues, and cratering investor faith. Heins went about cutting costs—including the layoff of more than 5,000 workers in May 2012—scrapped plans to make the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
succession” is just waiting to happen. — HBS professor Joseph L. Bower is author of The CEO Within: Why Inside Outsiders Are the Key to Succession Planning (HBS Press, 2007). Reprinted from The Wall Street Journal © 2007 Dow Jones &... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions
integrity in planning the next chapter of their lives," she said. "They want to do something that's right for them and the people they care about, and they are approaching these issues with great... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
their respective world-class companies—but not a start-up. The team members hadn’t been to the right school to create and drive a new-growth project. That relegated Pandesic to a footnote in Intel’s and SAP’s histories. View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Faculty Books
he seeks counsel from a panel of advisers, resulting in a wealth of teaching moments. Judgment Calls: Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams That Got Them Right by Thomas H. Davenport and Brook Manville (Harvard Business Review... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
expectations with promises of same-day delivery, the logistics industry is looking to completely new models, like crowdsourcing, autonomous technology, and on-demand delivery. Robert Reisner (MBA 1971), who led the Postal Service’s technology and strategic View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
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About Us | Information Technology
to meet their needs. Collaborative We can accomplish anything when we work together. We make sure the right people participate in the right conversations at the right time.... View Details
- Portrait Project
Jayon Wang
you are?” Welcome to the real world, boy. Big Oil brought me in, showed me who’s boss, and spit me right back out. With only strike-outs to my name, I started a company and set out to defy the real world’s View Details
- 17 Aug 2020
- News
Democratizing Medicine
right? A primary care clinician, if they see a patient, they have a question, they are trying to figure out what the right diagnosis or care plan is for their patients, they can access our platform. “They... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit
The baby-boom generation of leaders grew up in the 1960s, when “there was no sense of common sacrifice,” he explained. “I think the group has become too self-indulgent. They became more takers than givers.” Rising to her own defense, Kanter remarked: “I don’t think we... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 07 Apr 2017
- News
Transforming the “Misery Towns” of Buenos Aires
is sliced in two by a dual carriageway that is the main route into the city centre from the north. “It’s madness, you cannot have a neighbourhood with a motorway running right through,” he says. He whips out his smartphone to use Google... View Details
- 03 Feb 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Business Schools Teach the Craft of Getting Things Done?
development of theory regarding strategic planning coupled with the proliferation of courses on the subject, are we sending the right signals to managers in training? Or should we just admit that formal... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett