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- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
Create Opportunity, Profits, Growth, and Social Good and the 2009 Harvard Business Review article "Mergers That Stick." Investment bankers and lawyers still hold sway, and the regulators still must... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
intimacy, and community offered by direct-to-consumer marketing will have an impact on every industry and intermediary," Deighton predicted. Supermarkets may have "dodged a bullet" for now, but direct-to-consumer marketing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
Governing Council. A member of a prominent Shia family who fled after the revolution of 1958, Allawi was educated in England and the United States, worked for the World Bank, and later became an investment banker. He watched the fall of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
The crucial point, though, is that the bulk of Chinese investment has been financed from China’s own savings (and from the overseas Chinese diaspora). Cautious after years of instability and unused to the panoply of credit facilities we... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
single-handedly take credit for the resurgence in board games,” jokes Furlong, “but that’s probably a little presumptuous.” He does, however, believe that Cranium’s success has made an impact on the market. “We have developed a solid... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
the Student Association (SA) and began one of the most active tenures of any SA president in recent memory. "I was motivated by the people at HBS and wanted to make a positive impact on the community," explains the friendly and outgoing... View Details
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
mortgages, accumulating twice the holdings of more seasoned managers. Moreover, inexperienced managers who personally experienced severe or recent adverse investment outcomes behaved more like seasoned managers. Training and institutional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
effects of asset-liability mismatches within and across institutions. Risk-adjusted CCA balance sheets facilitate simulations and stress testing to evaluate the potential impact of policies to manage systemic risk. Download paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Harvard Business School
oppression and discrimination were still a reality in many parts of the country." 6 Darden later recounted, "After Dr. King was assassinated, that really had a major impact on me, so much so that I contemplated dropping out of the MBA... View Details
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
discusses the evidence that has been assembled to date in understanding the impact of high-skilled immigration from the perspective of the firm and the open areas that call for more research. Since much of the U.S. immigration process for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- December 2023 (Revised July 2024)
- Case
Boortmalt: The Master Maltster
By: Forest Reinhardt, Jose B Alvarez, Damien McLoughlin, Lena Duchene and Emer Moloney
By May 2023, Boortmalt was the world’s leading producer of malt, with a production capacity of 3 million tonnes, 15% of global market share, and 27 malting plants across five continents. It had recently acquired a major competitor and had sustained an EBITDA growth of... View Details
Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Mergers and Acquisitions; Talent and Talent Management; Customer Focus and Relationships; Values and Beliefs; Financing and Loans; Employee Relationship Management; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Knowledge Sharing; Leadership Style; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Style; Resource Allocation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Strategic Planning; Environmental Sustainability; Organizational Culture; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Belgium; Europe
Reinhardt, Forest, Jose B Alvarez, Damien McLoughlin, Lena Duchene, and Emer Moloney. "Boortmalt: The Master Maltster." Harvard Business School Case 724-021, December 2023. (Revised July 2024.)
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
both in school and the work she’s doing at Xbox is shaping their future worlds. In a recent survey of Gen Z teens, around 30 percent list video games as their preferred entertainment, ahead of social media, television, and movies. And the... View Details
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Commencement 2018 Address | About
extraordinary social inventions. It emerges through the will of an individual who has to mobilize others—employees, customers, and investors--to join. The enterprise grows as it creates value, it adapts and evolves, and, when it stops... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
who's teaching what, I think, would be the first place we'd need to start, and we can look to the example of what's already being done in Europe. JF: That's interesting. I mean, a lot of literature also focuses, of course, on the broad domain of View Details
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
(HOA), for example, who pays for the EV charging installation; where and how will chargers be located; and who will decide how much each homeowner will have to pay each month? These are all issues that impact charger access.” One solution... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
countries. During his visit, Obama hosted an entrepreneurship conference attended by the likes of former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns and Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky. The president announced that American businesses were ready to invest in Cuba and... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
systems. As if he weren’t busy enough, Jain is also involved in expanding the services and facilities at a health center his family started years ago in its ancestral village in the state of Rajasthan, India. “We’ll soon have a dialysis center there,” Jain says... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
proposition? How are they going to make money? How are they going to get an adequate ROI on this? How much investment is it? And how quickly can they recoup that investment? In the same token, I've got to talk to the rights holder, in... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
others feel that the growing attention to the deeper meaning of work is part of a significant change occurring in the way work is being perceived and structured. As Peter Vaill notes, social and economic conditions in recent years have... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
so that you can read it cover to cover or slice and dice it like a playlist. You can read it backwards. You can just read about Wall Street or consumption or the end of the social contract. You can make the book yours as you choose.... View Details