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  • June 2005 (Revised January 2007)
  • Case

The Board of Directors at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter (A)

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Ashley Robertson
Examines the resignation of Philip Purcell as 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. View Details
Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Corporate Governance; Resignation and Termination; Performance; Rank and Position
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    Lew R. Wasserman

    When Wasserman joined MCA, it was a talent agency, and he rose to the rank of president by attracting and being a strong advocate for a growing list of clients. Seeing the potential of the television industry, however, Wasserman set MCA... View Details
    Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
    • Portrait Project

    Kyle Caven

    stem not from losing, but rather from a lack of effort. To fail was acceptable, but to give it less than my all was not. Working hard - win or lose - meant I could go home with my head held high. I attended an urban high school ranked... View Details
    • 09 Jun 2015
    • News

    Building change from the ground up

    as the Taliban-influenced south, operating under a firm policy of cultural sensitivity and ethical transparency in a country ranked as one of the most corrupt in the world. When Roshan launched, police were called in to control the crowds... View Details
    • 01 Sep 2003
    • News

    New Editor Takes Helm at HBS Bulletin

    Bulletin, including 19 as editor. From 1986 to 1998, Thompson was an editor at Nation’s Business, the monthly small-business magazine of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He specialized in employee benefits and personal finance and rose to the View Details
    Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
    • 28 Feb 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: Feb. 28

    J. Dandrea, Gregg Gordon, and Carl T. Bergstrom Abstract In this paper, we show how the Eigenfactor® score, originally designed for ranking scholarly journals, can be adapted to rank the scholarly output of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 21 Feb 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: Feb. 21

    the low achievement levels of these four countries and the incredible amount of heterogeneity within each of them. Salience in Quality Disclosure: Evidence from the U.S. News College Rankings Authors:Michael Luca and Jonathan Smith... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2011
    • Other Unpublished Work

    Deference from Low-status Firms: Maintaining Status without Resources

    By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski and Bharat N. Anand
    This paper proposes a set of conditions under which high-status firms retain their positions, even if they lose resources. Firms are considered high status if they obtain ties from other high-status firms. Within the class of high-status firms, we distinguish between... View Details
    Keywords: Business Ventures; Venture Capital; Financial Condition; Alliances; Rank and Position; Status and Position; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • September 2006 (Revised April 2007)
    • Supplement

    Tim Keller at Katzenbach Partners LLC (C)

    By: Boris Groysberg, Christopher Marquis and Ayesha Kanji
    Supplements the (A) case. The (C) case includes Keller's actual 2006 mid-year and self evaluations. View Details
    Keywords: Projects; Management; Leadership; Organizations; Situation or Environment; Competition; Rank and Position; Attitudes; Motivation and Incentives; Performance Evaluation; Consulting Industry
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    • 25 Apr 2014
    • News

    Keeping an iron grip on Nigeria's financial markets

    education, leveraging "Nollywood"—Nigeria's film industry, ranked third largest in the world—to promote a culture of saving and investing among Nigerians. (Published April 2014) View Details
    • 24 Apr 2014
    • News

    Improving the lives of underprivileged children in rural India

    groups, has interests in telecom, agribusiness, retail, and financial services. The group’s flagship company, Bharti Airtel, ranks as the world’s fourth-largest mobile operator in terms of subscribers. In 2006, the Bharti Foundation... View Details
    • 24 Apr 2014
    • News

    Expanding the reach of business from Silicon Valley to the global arena

    which developing countries faced major liquidity problems. Draper later served as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations—the second-highest ranking person in the UN—and CEO of the UN’s Development Program, overseeing nearly 10,000... View Details
    • September 2010
    • Article

    How Firms Respond to Being Rated

    By: Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel
    While many rating systems seek to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making purchasing decisions, we investigate how these ratings also influence the companies being rated. We hypothesize that ratings are particularly likely to spur responses from firms... View Details
    Keywords: System; Information; Decisions; Cost; Opportunities; Performance; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Economics; Theory; System Shocks; Rank and Position
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    • 28 Feb 2022
    • News

    Equal Partner

    Aditya was acutely aware of the inequalities that plague the venture capital world, including the less than 3 percent of VC money that goes to all-women founding teams (a number that is even smaller for women of color) and the dearth of women and all people of color in... View Details
    • March 2023
    • Teaching Plan

    Into the Raging Sea: Final Voyage of the SS El Faro

    By: Joseph B. Fuller and Mel Martin
    Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 321-014. View Details
    Keywords: Management; Leadership Style; Crisis Management; Failure; Groups and Teams; Rank and Position; Shipping Industry; United States; Puerto Rico
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    • October 1988 (Revised December 1994)
    • Case

    Maytag in 1984

    By: David J. Collis and Nancy Donohue
    Highlights Maytag's unique position in the industry in 1984. Maytag, a much smaller player than its competitors has prior to 1984 been successful in producing high quality merchandise and charging a premium for it. By 1984 Maytag is also attempting expansion.... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Business or Company Management; Production; Quality; Rank and Position; Competition; Expansion; Electronics Industry
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    • 04 Sep 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable

    solid data to answer the question of who mattered. So he made lists of US presidents and British prime ministers that dated back to George Washington in 1789 and Britain's Charles Grey in 1830. He noted how historians ranked them on... View Details
    Keywords: by Kim Girard
    • 20 Mar 2023
    • News

    Taking His Shot

    Before Matija Pecotić (MBA 2019) beat Jack Sock—a tennis star once ranked 8th in the world—at a Florida tournament in February, he had to ask his boss for time off to compete. "I had to send an email to the whole team. [My boss] let me... View Details
    • 19 Jun 2013
    • News

    Ann Moore, MBA 1978

    Fresh out of HBS in 1978, Ann Moore did the unexpected and accepted the lowest-paying of 13 job offers, as a Time financial analyst, because she loved magazines. The unexpected turned into the unprecedented when she rose through the ranks... View Details
    • 05 Apr 2018
    • News

    50 Years After King

    of the top women business leaders in America. With the kind of clarity that crystalizes over a lifetime of reflection, Fudge says that moment “was a driver for me personally to make a difference and to do something different.” In time, the article notes, she rose... View Details