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  • 01 Jan 2013
  • News

Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987

Jon accepted a position at Harvard Management Company in Boston, the pair commuted for nine months until Joanna relocated, eventually accepting a position as SVP of marketing for Converse, which was in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • March 2009 (Revised December 2009)
  • Case

Relational Investors and Home Depot (A)

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Kaitlyn Simpson
In 2006, amidst shareholder upset over CEO Robert Nardelli's compensation and Home Depot's declining stock price, Relational Investors decided to further investigate the situation. As experts in turning around underperforming and undervalued companies, Relational's... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Financial Management; Investment; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Ownership Stake; Business and Shareholder Relations; Corporate Strategy
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  • April 2020
  • Supplement

Cisco Systems and OpenDNS: Strategic Integration (B)

By: Andy Wu and David Wang
With more than 72,000 employees and revenues approaching the $50B mark, Cisco Systems is one of the largest information technology and networking firms globally. As the company grew and expanded into different lines of businesses, Cisco consistently looked outwards for... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Integration; Corporate Strategy; Change Management; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Culture; Information Technology Industry
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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Wellsprings of Creation: How Perturbation Sustains Exploration in Mature Organizations

By: David James Brunner, Bradley R. Staats, Michael L. Tushman and David M. Upton
Organizations struggle to balance simultaneous imperatives to exploit and explore, yet theorists differ as to whether exploitation undermines or enhances exploration. The debate reflects a gap: the missing mechanism by which organizations break free of old routines and... View Details
Keywords: Disruption; Innovation and Management; Business Processes; Opportunities; Creativity
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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

of Arts and Sciences in 2000. 1991 Kathleen L. McGinn : Recipient of a 1991 Dissertation Grant from the Media Management Center, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University. Kathleen L. McGinn : Winner of the 1991 State Farm... View Details
  • 06 Feb 2023
  • Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs

Before HBS, I worked in tech as a Product Marketing Manager on the YouTube Ads Marketing and Google for Startup teams. I also interned as a summer Investment Analyst at Obvious Ventures, an early-stage venture firm, where I focused on... View Details
  • Web

Selected Digital Historical Resources – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

they were extensively interviewed. After seventy years, restrictions regarding access to these interviews have been lifted. The Management and the worker , Chicago, New York [etc.] A.W. Shaw Company [c1920].... View Details
  • Profile

Erin Kaivan

military intelligence officer, serving two tours in Afghanistan culminating in a captain's rank as a Company Commander with responsibility for nearly 120 men and women in the 101st Airborne Division. On her first tour, she witnessed... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
  • 23 Jun 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Role of Institutional Development in the Prevalence and Value of Family Firms

Keywords: by Raphael Amit, Yuan Ding, Belén Villalonga & Hua Zhang

    The Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound Selling to go from $0 to $100 Million

    The Sales Acceleration Formula provides a scalable, predictable approach to growing revenue and building a winning sales team. Everyone wants to build the next $100 million business and author Mark Roberge has actually done it using a unique methodology... View Details

    • 25 Sep 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: September 25, 2007

    copper-mining company, widely considered to be one of the most professionally managed firms in South America in spite of the fact that it was 100% government-owned. A $10.5 billion company in 2005, Codelco... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 10 Nov 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Globalization: The Strategy of Differences

    usually much less profitable than domestic business. Why is globalization proving so hard to get right? The answer is related in part to how companies frame their globalization strategies. In many if not most cases, View Details
    Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
    • 13 Sep 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

    Entrepreneurial Management Unit. “I hope it opens some eyes to the value of hard, risky, in-the-weeds science for commercial innovation, as opposed to ‘let’s just go build the thing and make it work on the fly.’” What does basing an... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 09 Feb 2016
    • First Look

    February 9, 2016

    could a small brand compete against a company that had captured the hearts and minds of consumers? Which brand-positioning concept should Paez choose to best capture consumers' attention and interest and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 05 Oct 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: October 5, 2010

    case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211014-PDF-ENG MindTree: A Community of Communities David A. Garvin and Rachna TahilyaniHarvard Business School Case 311-049 MindTree is a mid-sized Indian IT services company known for its... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 16 Sep 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: September 16

      Publications September 2014 The Oxford Handbook of Innovation Management Mergers and Acquisitions and Innovation By: Ahuja, Gautam, and Elena Novelli Abstract—This article (a) identifies the different theoretical perspectives and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 18 Jun 2024
    • Cold Call Podcast

    How Natural Winemaker Frank Cornelissen Innovated While Staying True to His Brand

    Keywords: Re: Tiona W. Zuzul; Food & Beverage; Agriculture & Agribusiness
    • March 2016
    • Teaching Note

    Catalina in the Digital Age

    By: Uma R. Karmarkar and Robert J. Dolan
    "Catalina in the Digital Age" considers how a company with a dominant market position should evolve its established product lines given the rise of novel digital technologies. Since its founding in 1983, Catalina had enjoyed a distinct position in the world of consumer... View Details
    Keywords: Coupons; Information Technology; Customer Relationship Management; Consumer Behavior; Product Marketing; Retail Industry
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    • 24 Jun 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: June 24

    effective leader of innovation. The truth is, leading innovation takes a distinctive kind of leadership, one that unleashes and harnesses the "collective genius" of the people in the organization. Using vivid stories of individual leaders at View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Oct 2014
    • What Do You Think?

    Is Too Much Focus a Problem?

    he continued, businesses can be 'raced' by drivers whose peripheral vision has failed. "They could see the clear track ahead of them as they initially led their markets but failed to notice the competitor coming up on the inside until it was too late." Seena... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett