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- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
and the Boston Red Sox continues to this day. Nordstrom, a leading clothing retailer predominantly owned and run by the Nordstrom family and headquartered in Seattle, was an early and major supporter of its local United Way, the seventh... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- Profile
Jeremy Andrus
Golden Ear.” Their no-holds-barred creativity is supported by a corporate culture steeped in youth and rebellion, as expressed in the company’s motto, “Every revolution needs a sound track.” The corridors of the Park City headquarters are... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
flexible workplace at our headquarters in Boston, where people can visit or have small team retreats. Our remote culture has allowed us huge flexibility in hiring and logistics. I did not expect that the investments we made for remote... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
team, and using that to build the marketing plan,” says Flatley. It helps that they are neighbors at the company’s corporate headquarters in Oak Brook, about 10 miles west of Chicago. “We yell over the walls,” says Cunningham. “I probably... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
Photography by King Lawrence Jay Rogers (MBA 2007) is holding a manager’s meeting while driving 70 mph up I-75 in Kentucky. As Rogers pins his phone horizontally against the dashboard, his Local Motors team, gathered around a conference table at the car manufacturer’s... View Details
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
agribusiness companies. Headquartered in White Plains, NY, the company has traditionally possessed a strong presence in Brazil. Describes Bunge's tradeoff between efficiency of global operations and local responsiveness in an uncertain... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
requesting them. Still slated to lose their jobs, the workers built cars so efficiently that they earned the right to a new-car launch. And when the time came to shut the plant down, headquarters had to refuse: The employees at Wilmington... View Details
Keywords: by Theodore Kinni
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
headquarters are uncarpeted concrete, an open invitation for workers to navigate the building on skateboards. When there’s overnight snow on the slopes of the nearby Wasatch Range, morning meetings are rolled back to accommodate the quest... View Details
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
317-074 Medtronic: Making the Big Leap Forward (B) On December 1, 2014, Medtronic announced that it had completed a $17 billion bond sale to finance the Covidien acquisition, officially completed on January 26, 2015. Medtronic’s legal View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55004 Shifting Centers of Gravity: Host Country versus Headquarters Influences on MNC Subsidiary Knowledge Inheritance By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Mike Horia Teodorescu, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
laid out almost four decades ago—and that Hawkins dutifully accepted—has been met. “We’ve discovered that framework,” he says. Hawkins, Dubinsky, and VP of research Ahmad at Numenta headquarters (photo courtesy of Numenta) Hawkins,... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
universities were participating in its two-year teaching fellowships in more than 87 rural Chinese schools. The organization had grown from a founding team of three in a shoebox office to an 80-person operation headquartered in Beijing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah L. AbbottHarvard Business School Case 210-001 Hit with an industry recession and the global financial crisis of 2008, in January 2009 LyondellBasell Industries AF S.C.A., one of the world's largest internationally diversified chemical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
The success of American Home Products reflects a unique path of learning. The company originated with the merger of several companies in related businesses. During the seventy years following its formation in 1926, the company's senior managers at their View Details
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
813-184 Kaiser Permanente: Innovating to Transform Healthcare This case enables discussion of organizational and industry transformation. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/813184-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-001 Formlabs: Selling... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/819038-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-005 BancoSol and Microfinance in Bolivia BancoSol, a microfinance bank headquartered in La Paz, Bolivia, was forced to adjust its lending strategy and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
headquarters in New York, one of the executives charged with growing the league's reach and revenues is Peter O'Reilly (MBA 2002), vice president, fan strategy & marketing. "My focus is on strengthening our year-round calendar for our... View Details
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
client portfolio. The case enables a discussion of different types of clients in a global professional service firm in terms of relative revenues, profitability, and strategic significance. It also highlights the tensions between local subsidiaries and corporate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
is associated with higher employee departure rates in stores where the manager is likely to be more informed than headquarters (stores that serve repeat customers or customers with atypical demographic characteristics relative to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
results of choices we made. GE Healthcare employees assemble magnetic-resonance imaging machines in Beijing. In 2011, the highly global company moved its x-ray unit headquarters staff to China-a major, rapidly growing market. Q: The US... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin