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    David J. Collis

    For the past thirty years David J. Collis has been a professor at the Harvard Business School, where he was only the second ever full-time Adjunct Professor appointed. Previously, he was the Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Adjunct Professor, the MBA Class... View Details

    • 2013
    • Case

    Travelers Insurance: Focusing on Climate Change and Natural Catastrophe Risk

    By: Andrew J. Hoffman
    The dilemma Evan Blue faces stems from a report by sustainability advocacy group Ceres that calls on companies to take climate change into consideration in their risk models and develop response strategies. The fictional vice president of Traveler's Insurance is tasked... View Details
    Keywords: Climate Change; Business Strategy; Risk and Uncertainty; Insurance Industry
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    • March 2020 (Revised July 2022)
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    Levi Strauss (A): A Pioneer Lost in the Wilderness

    By: Joshua Margolis, Ashish Nanda, Margaret Cross, Imran Manji and Bismah Rahmat
    In 2011, newly appointed CEO Chip Bergh needed to urgently turn around the iconic but floundering denim apparel firm, Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) Famous for its blue jeans, LS&Co. had suffered a decline in revenue of 29% from $6.8 billion in 1997 to $4.8 billion in... View Details
    Keywords: Turnarounds; Transformation; Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decision Making; Strategic Planning; Brands and Branding; Product Positioning; Product Marketing; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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    • January 2008 (Revised January 2008)
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    Two Brattle Center: A Mental-Health Clinic in Search of a Viable Operating Model

    By: Robert G. Eccles
    Two Brattle Center (TBC) is a struggling for-profit private mental health clinic based in Harvard Square. Its founder, Dr. Joan Wheelis, is a nationally recognized practicing psychiatrist who has developed outpatient treatment programs based on Dialectical Behavior... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Medical Specialties; Nonprofit Organizations; Emotions; Health Industry; United States
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      Jill J. Avery

      Dr. Jill Avery is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator in the marketing unit at Harvard Business School. She is a respected authority on branding and brand management, customer relationship... View Details

      Keywords: consumer products; arts; advertising; automobiles; retailing; fashion; hotels ＆ motels; food; beverage
      • March 2018
      • Case

      Chaudhary Group: Rebuilding Nepal

      By: Christopher J. Malloy, Lauren H. Cohen and Inakshi Sobti
      After the 2015 Nepal earthquake, the Chaudhary Group, a billion-dollar conglomerate in Nepal, decides to play a pivotal role in rebuilding the country. The Group's philanthropic arm (Chaudhary Foundation) works with stakeholders and develops a blue print for short- and... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership; Family Business; Decision Choices and Conditions; Developing Countries and Economies; Social Entrepreneurship; Values and Beliefs; Venture Capital; Microfinance; Geographic Location; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Management; Crisis Management; Management Teams; Resource Allocation; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Natural Disasters; Social and Collaborative Networks; Social Issues; Business Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Banking Industry; Auto Industry; Real Estate Industry; Travel Industry; Nepal
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      field of negotiation, shows you how to negotiate successfully today by adapting proven negotiation principles and strategies to the challenging new contexts you face—from negotiating across cultural and political differences to trying to... View Details

        Joseph B. Lassiter

        Joe is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management, Retired. He focuses on one of the world’s most pressing problems: developing clean, secure and carbon-neutral supplies of reliable, low-cost energy all around the world. He... View Details

        Keywords: green technology; high technology; internet; oil ＆ gas; private equity (LBO funds); utilities; software; energy
        • 21 May 2020
        • Research & Ideas

        Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

        We asked Harvard Business School experts who study well-being to share strategies for coping with this unsettling period to prevent the coronavirus blues from taking a huge toll, both personally and... View Details
        Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
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        Benchstrength Berkeley Research Group LLC Berkshire Partners BHP Biogen BJ's Wholesale Club Blackhorn Ventures BlackRock Blackstone Blank Street Blitzy AI Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative View Details
        • 08 May 2012
        • First Look

        First Look: May 8

        Business Speaks English: Why You Need a Language Strategy Now Author:Tsedal Neeley Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 5 (May 2012) Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Book:... View Details
        Keywords: Carmen Nobel
        • 02 Jan 2024
        • Research & Ideas

        10 Trends to Watch in 2024

        The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
        Keywords: by Rachel Layne
        • 15 May 2018
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        New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

        They often functioned, as a result, as part of the problem, rather than part of the solution. In the more recent globalization era, the strategies of Western corporations have moved beyond the practices of the colonial past, but linkages... View Details
        Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
        • 14 Dec 2016
        • HBS Seminar

        Siobhan O'Mahony and Rebecca Karp, Boston University

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        Students on the Job Market - Doctoral

        can customize promotions to enhance profitability across different customer segments. Faculty Advisor(s): Eva Ascarza (Chair), Sunil Gupta , Jeremy Yang , and José R. Zubizarreta Curriculum Vitae | Website | Email Strategy Aticus Peterson... View Details
        • 2011
        • Book

        Detour: My Unexpected, Amazing, Life Changing Journey With OnStar

        By: Chet Huber
        Detour is the story behind the launch of OnStar’s now well known blue button, as told through the eyes of its founder and CEO of over fourteen years, Chet Huber. It’s a personal narrative that describes the events that led up to General Motors’ unexpected choice... View Details
        Keywords: General Motors; OnStar; Technological Innovation; Business Startups; Transportation; Safety; Personal Development and Career; Creativity; Success; Business History; Auto Industry
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        Podcast - Business & Environment

        strategies are helping scale recycling, reuse, and circular supply chains.Lauren also explores the critical role of policy—especially extended producer responsibility(EPR) laws—in driving investment and highlights emerging technologies... View Details
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        Faculty & Research - Business & Environment

        environmental governance. The chapter explores two different historical paths in such private regulation and how they came about. The first path involved... April 2025 Teaching Material Blue Frontier: Disrupting Air Conditioning By:... View Details
        • 06 Jul 2016
        • Research & Ideas

        The Truth About Authentic Leaders

        Critiques of authenticity But recently three leading scholars at Insead, Stanford, and Wharton challenged the concept of authentic leadership. Like all movements—Harvard University Professor Michael Porter’s famous five forces of strategy... View Details
        Keywords: by Bill George
        • 19 Feb 2013
        • First Look

        First Look: Feb. 19

          PublicationsLabor Regulations and European Venture Capital Authors:Bozkaya, Ant, and William R. Kerr Publication:Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Abstract European nations substitute between employment protection... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne