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01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Stuart Gilson

Harvard Business School professor Stuart Gilson fielded some questions regarding his new book in an email interview with HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean SilverthorneSilverthorne: When should a company consider a major restructuring? Are there tell-tale signs? Gilson:... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

26 Nov 2019
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Predicting Financial Market Bubbles and Crises in Real-time

reflects information from 42 countries spanning the years 1947 to 2017. What he found was a “killer predictor”—the coincidence of price and quantity growth in which either housing prices are high and there is great housing credit growth, or View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Apr 1999
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HBS Collaboration Helps Management Education for Minority Students

Five years ago, HBS professor Francis J. Aguilar (now emeritus) and Walter Y. Elisha (MBA '65), then chairman and CEO of Springs Industries, Inc., brought together a dynamic coalition of corporations and business schools to address the... View Details

Keywords: Anne Kavanagh

16 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 16

& Private Equity: A Casebook, 5th edition provides an understanding of the ways in which private equity groups work. The casebook builds an understanding of the key distinctions in the industry and reviews and applies key ideas of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Banking industry: overviews & statistics

Where do I find information on banks and banking? Banking Information and Regulation (Federal Reserve) provides information on U.S. proposed and actual banking regulations. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation features statistics and... View Details

Arnold O. Beckman

measurement. In 1982, Beckman Instruments was sold to SmithKline Corporation for $1 billion, and in 1987, Beckman was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

Raymond V. Gilmartin

Company’s corporate culture. Recognizing Gilmartin’s leadership in creating a positive working environment, Fortune ranked Merck & Company as one of the top 10 best companies to work for. View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

Max De Pree

diversity and open leadership policies, De Pree created a compelling corporate culture that produced stellar financial results – increasing revenues from $230 million to $743 million. View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

Charles G. Bluhdorn

Corporation. By 1970, the company had become the 64th largest industrial corporation in America with annual sales of $1.6 billion, assets of over $4 billion and some 85,000 employees. View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

Stanley P. Goldstein

In 1969, Goldstein’s drug store chain, CVS, was acquired by Melville Corporation and soon became the conglomerate’s dominant retail establishment. Goldstein took the reins of Melville in 1987 and began a total restructuring program... View Details

Keywords: Retail

Charles S. Davis

In 1928, fifteen auto parts manufacturers merged to form Borg-Warner Corporation with Davis as president. Davis expanded Borg-Warner’s reach until the firm included 27 subsidiaries and operated 30 manufacturing plants in eight states,... View Details

Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

John H. Bryan, Jr.

company into a $9 billion dollar corporation and a $20 billion dollar global enterprise by 2000 with leading brands including Sara Lee, Hillshire Farm, Hanes, Coach and Playtex. View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

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Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

especially effective for wartime reconnaissance. Mahler made the first Vectograph for Land in January 1938. Thousands of Vectographs with accompanying records from the corporate archives reveal that the development and refinement of the... View Details

30 Apr 2021
News

Revealing the Rules

less likely to be promoted to management than men. And Hispanic, Latino, and Black employees make up 11 and 12 percent of entry-level hires but only three to five percent of corporate vice presidents. View Details

08 Aug 2018
News

Getting Life Back in Balance

future. “At the time, I was struggling with where my career was heading and in particular where corporate thinking and leadership were heading on a global scale,” he recalls. “I was becoming more and more disillusioned with working for a... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Sep 2003
News

Globalization Revisited

“The world’s needs and desires have been irrevocably homogenized. This makes the multinational corporation obsolete and the global corporation absolute.” —Theodore Levitt (1983) They were bold, even... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

June 1982
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Polaroid in South Africa (A), Supplement

By: Christopher A. Bartlett

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; South Africa

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March 1989 (Revised August 1994)
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Avon Products

Avon Products announced both a change in its business focus and a reduction of its dividend in June 1988. To offset the likely stock price effect of the dividend reduction, Avon announced at the same time an unusual exchange offer, under which it would take up to 25%... View Details

Keywords: Diversification; Capital Markets; Corporate Finance; Consumer Products Industry

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March 2024
Teaching Note

SolarWinds Confronts SUNBURST

By: Frank Nagle and David Lane

Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 723-357 & 723-368. View Details

Keywords: Cybersecurity; Corporate Disclosure; Crisis Management; Information Technology Industry; United States

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January 2023 (Revised December 2024)
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LCA Action Planning: Responsibility and Accountability

By: Sandra J. Sucher, Nien-he Hsieh and Marilyn Morgan Westner

LCA action plans integrate responsibility and accountability into decision-making and planning. This module note was designed for the LCA course and reviews six steps leaders can follow to develop a practical LCA action plan for their business. It shows how integrating... View Details

Keywords: Responsibility; Accountability; Management Challenges; Corporate Accountability; Leadership; Planning; Decisions; Strategy

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