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- November 2009
- Case
The HLB Turnaround
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Bhaskar Chakravorti and Laura Winig
Ford Pearson has recently taken over as CEO of HLB, a Chicago-based product design and development firm (and once one of the largest in the business), to help turn it around after a series of crises that had seriously threatened its survival. Pearson has personally... View Details
Keywords: Business Organization; Business or Company Management; Private Equity; Restructuring; Product Design; Corporate Finance
Applegate, Lynda M., Bhaskar Chakravorti, and Laura Winig. "The HLB Turnaround." Harvard Business School Case 810-023, November 2009.
- 13 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 13, 2016
On the way to becoming a global example of financial inclusion, as a result of its original business model, CreditEase also pioneered and became a leader in the wealth management industry in China, serving... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
A History of Women at HBS
for women was viewed as nothing short of radical. “A ‘Daring Experiment’: Harvard and Business Education for Women, 1937–1970,” tells the story of how coeducation at HBS evolved from an eleven-month certificate program in “personnel... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966)
company went bankrupt. I wrote up that experience as an investing principle for a quarterly newsletter: It’s always good to have a mother to buy your bad stocks. After business school, I went into View Details
- 07 Jul 2011
- What Do You Think?
So We Adapt. What’s the Downside?
many things are interconnected, it is harder and harder to explain why things, including success, happen. He asks why success in fact is no insurance against subsequent failure, as all writers about individual companies and their View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 04 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead.
the world at large. Their ideas recently appeared in the article Humanizing Strategy in the journal Long Range Planning. Here, Takeuchi explains how business leaders can use the six practices to guide their own self-improvement efforts in... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 14 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Growing CEOs from the Inside
leadership, to draw on his 40 years of research and teaching experience at Harvard Business School to discuss the issues surrounding CEO succession. Sean Silverthorne: What's wrong with the way most View Details
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
companies might benefit from picking other forms of incentive compensation that arguably do a better job of aligning executive and shareholder interests than conventional stock options do. Indexed or... View Details
- Web
Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online
and how you can effectively manage your performance. Harvard Business School Professor V.G. Narayanan shares why you should learn finance and accounting even if you're in a non-finance role. What You Earn... View Details
- 13 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
Outrage Spreads Faster on Twitter: Evidence from 44 News Outlets
Negativity spreads faster than positivity online, and news organizations at both ends of the political spectrum are leveraging this tendency on Twitter, according to a new study. To test whether the broadcast news adage, “If it bleeds, it leads,” persists in the social... View Details
- December 1999
- Case
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (A): An Enterprise of Change
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Jane Roessner
In 1999, Sun Microsystems, Inc., was claiming a leadership position in the burgeoning world of e-commerce and networking computers. Its goal: "to dot-com the world." What was it about Sun's culture that made it so conducive to innovation and entrepreneurship? And how... View Details
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Your Balance With Customers
From product push to customer pull, technology has vastly reshaped the business transaction—and in turn, the customer's place in the value chain. Today, managing the customer relationship has become the... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- September 1995 (Revised April 1999)
- Case
Exporting American Culture
By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Jerry Useem
A large entertainment company, extensively criticized for producing violent, offensive, and anti-social material, is considering whether to sell its material to a semi-illegal operation that is beaming satellite TV into Turkey. The opportunity raises many questions... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Forecasting and Prediction; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Media; Business and Community Relations; Opportunities; Social Issues; Media and Broadcasting Industry
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr., and Jerry Useem. "Exporting American Culture." Harvard Business School Case 396-055, September 1995. (Revised April 1999.)
- February 2005 (Revised November 2012)
- Case
Chuck's Wagon Inc.
By: Paul W. Marshall and Derek Lewis
This case describes the experiences of an HBS student as he takes on the challege of transitioning from an intern to a president at a small consumer packaged goods firm in Southern Texas. This HBS student is confronted with the opportunity to perform an operational and... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Goods; Operations Strategy; Executive Development; Strategy; Small Business; Production; Transformation; Management Skills; Financial Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Texas
Marshall, Paul W., and Derek Lewis. "Chuck's Wagon Inc." Harvard Business School Case 805-100, February 2005. (Revised November 2012.)
- January 2006
- Case
Jack Strang at SequenceLabs
By: Mukti Khaire, John J. Gabarro and Lynda M. Applegate
How can entrepreneur manage his firm if things go wrong despite having a great idea, a solid team, and financial backing? Jack Strang founded a biotech firm with his friend Peter Evans, to develop molecular pathway-based "cures" for metabolic disorders. The idea was... View Details
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
Publications Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance Author: Gary P. Pisano Publication: Harvard Business Review Press, in press. (due October 2012) Abstract For years-even decades-in response to intensifying... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival
the entrepreneurial journey—which can apply to a manager at a small company or in a large, established organization—we say that entrepreneurs are made, not born, and that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
'78), the former head of real estate for Fidelity Management & Research Company in Boston who now handles special projects for Fidelity. Real estate syndicators essentially sold tax losses to their... View Details
- 12 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career
fulfilled? A: Many managers will express opinions about whether it is possible to hire talent or not, just as many football fans can argue whether signing expensive free agents is likely to improve their... View Details
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
approach he terms "vocal silence." Insights from the research might help leaders instill values or morals in their own organizations. Book Excerpt Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in View Details