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  • 04 May 2021
  • Book

Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer

shareholders and is a money-making machine,” he says. “But no, a company is a human organization made up of individuals working together in pursuit of a goal.” Leading with purpose and humanity Based on his own track record in transforming Best Buy, Joly wrote this... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail
  • Web

Leadership - Faculty & Research

is attracting increasing attention, and when business leaders are increasingly expected to contribute not only to financial value creation, but also to social value creation. In this context, it is important... View Details
  • Web

Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

the financial state and strategy of a business 8.5 hrs Module 7 Accounting for the Future Use financial forecasting to predict future revenue, expenses, and cash flow and understand key concepts and metrics in valuation, including time View Details
  • Web

HBS - The year in Review

brought together doctoral and postdoctoral students from across the country who had the opportunity to present their work and interact with faculty at HBS and other academic institutions. Alumni Return to Campus Honoring the School’s... View Details
  • 14 Mar 2023
  • In Practice

What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?

of assets represents a loss of $7.50 per $20 of equity, or around -38 percent. One unique feature of SVB was their large uninsured deposit base. It is often argued that the present value of the ongoing... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking
  • October 2009
  • Case

A Big (Double) Deal: Anadarko's Acquisition of Kerr-McGee and Western Gas Resources

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Curtis Rising
On June 23, 2006, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation announced that it was simultaneously acquiring two public companies, Kerr-McGee and Western Gas Resources, in all-cash deals. The total price was about $24 billion, a figure close to Anadarko's market cap at the time.... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Business Model; Transformation; Negotiation; Organizational Culture; Public Ownership; Business and Shareholder Relations; Alignment; Valuation; Energy Industry; United States
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  • 01 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

kindness does not. The value and rewards of kindness have been touted by leaders as legendary as King Solomon and Desmond Tutu to latter-day executives like General Motors CEO Mary Barra, known for her inclusive, employee-centric style.... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
  • 07 Dec 2021
  • Op-Ed

Want to Build Better Leaders? Focus on Mindset, Skills, Knowledge

who show initiative. The old saying “people don’t leave organizations; people leave people” has never been truer. Companies that don’t tangibly show that they value their best people—by developing their skills and helping them reach their... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Shawnette Rochelle
  • 12 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 12

  PublicationsPricing to Create Shared Value Authors:Marco Bertini and John T. Gourville Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 6 (June 2012) Abstract Many companies are in competition with their customers to extract as much View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Academics - Health Care

organizational models and measurement approaches to drive value improvement in health care delivery. The program includes three days of intensive Harvard Business School–style case discussions, guest protagonists, and concept View Details
  • Web

Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Value-Based Health Care Value-Based Health Care Cases & Teaching Notes Key Concepts Key Stakeholders Publications Team Work With Us Presentations... View Details
  • Web

HBR Classics - Alumni

Landscape Cause Your Firms Decline CSR or Share Holder Value How to Uncover Hidden Shareholder Value , Brian Hagen, Raymond L. Manganelli Shareholder Value Must Top CEOs Agenda... View Details
  • January 2011
  • Case

The Risk-Reward Framework at Morgan Stanley Research

By: Suraj Srinivasan and David Lane
The case describes the Risk-Reward framework that Morgan Stanley analysts use as a systematic approach to communicate a broader range of fundamental insights about a company rather than the traditional single point estimates. The goal of the framework is to focus the... View Details
Keywords: Financial Statements; Forecasting and Prediction; Equity; Framework; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Risk Management; Business Processes; Research; Valuation
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  • 09 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times

with them we were able to create a very different organization—less top down, more participative, one that offered more challenging jobs and informed people about results of the business on a regular basis. That began my intellectual journey. For this View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • January 2016 (Revised January 2019)
  • Supplement

The Allergan Board Under Fire (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine, Suraj Srinivasan, John C. Coates and David Lane
In 2014, the Allergan Inc. board of directors received a surprise takeover offer from Valeant Pharmaceuticals in alliance with hedge fund activist Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management. In the unprecedented arrangement between an acquirer and a hedge fund... View Details
Keywords: Allergan, Inc.; Valeant; Ackman; Pershing Square; Tender Offer; Activist Investors; Business Models; R＆D; Board Of Directors; Securities Litigation; Acquisition Strategy; Takeover Defenses; Hedge Funds; Shareholder Rights; Proxy Contest; Shareholder Special Meetings; Legal Issues In Contested Takeovers; Corporate Governance; Investment Activism; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business Model; Business and Shareholder Relations; Valuation; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 14 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 14

O'Toole Abstract—In this chapter, we present the two primary functions of corporate reporting (information and transformation) and why currently isolated financial and sustainability reporting are not likely to effectively perform these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management - Recruiting

supported us with financial modeling and producing presentation material.” This internship structure allowed her to have direct support along with exciting opportunities to dig into live projects. “We look to understand the intern’s... View Details
  • Profile

Merve Ciplak

way society operates, it creates responsibilities that weren’t present before.” After completing her first year with Harvard Law School, Merve is fulfilling her RC year with HBS. “The fundamental thing about the HBS experience,” she says,... View Details
  • 14 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

  PublicationsRecent Advances in the Empirics of Organizational Economics Authors:Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Publication:,em>Annual Review of Economics Vol. 2 (2010) Abstract We present a survey of recent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Nov 2021
  • In Practice

What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman