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50% in the past few years, Vail’s relatively new CEO (Kirsten Lynch) and the board chairman (Rob Katz, the former CEO), had to decide whether to respond to the letter and, if so, how. What made this decision difficult was that several... View Details

January 2024 (Revised October 2024)
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DO & CO: Crafting Luxury in the Fast Lane (A)

By: Juan Alcácer, Esel Cekin, Michael Lee and Noah Roberson

In July 2023, Attila Dogudan, the chairman of DO & CO, a renowned international catering firm, found himself in a deep conversation with his two sons about a potential new venture: catering for the Las Vegas Grand Prix, a significant step beyond their 31-year history... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Health Pandemics; Opportunities; Corporate Strategy; Luxury; Food and Beverage Industry; Las Vegas

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04 May 2021
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Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer

desperate to get the toy fixed. “At any other store, they would have been directed to the toy aisle to buy a replacement,” says Hubert Joly, Best Buy’s former chairman and CEO, who is now a senior lecturer of business administration at... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

24 Oct 2023
Research & Ideas

When Tech Platforms Identify Black-Owned Businesses, White Customers Buy

elected a fellow by the National Association of Business Economics alongside Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke—stresses that highlighting the race of a business owner has to be handled... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Food & Beverage

12 Feb 2024
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Dale LeFebvre to Receive Horatio Alger Award

Dale LeFebvre (MBA 1998), founder and executive chairman of 3.5.7.11 Investments, was recently named by the nonprofit Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans as a recipient of the 2024 Horatio Alger Award. For more than 75 years, the award has been... View Details

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

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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

fix the company’s damaged reputation. On the day the letter became public, Vail’s stock price jumped 6%, representing an increase in almost $350 million of market value. With the stock price down more than 50% in the past few years, Vail’s relatively new CEO (Kirsten... View Details

March 2025
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Stagwell: AI and the Future of Marketing

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Radhika Kak

In early 2025, Mark Penn, Founder, CEO and Chairman of Stagwell, a global marketing company with a network of over 70+ agencies that served over 4000 blue-chip customers across 40 countries, was looking at ways that marketers should navigate the disruption emanating... View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Innovation Strategy; Change Management; AI and Machine Learning; Digital Transformation; Technology Adoption; Marketing Strategy; Service Delivery; Creativity; Business Model; Advertising Industry; Technology Industry

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Skydeck - Alumni

recipient and finance veteran Naina Lal Kidwai (MBA 1982) on her second act as chairman and founder of the India Sanitation Coalition, an organization focused on improving India’s water quality and health outcomes Home Grown Naveen Tewari... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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3-Minute Briefing: Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966)

ingenious in inventing green alternatives. We may hate to do long-term stuff to protect our grandchildren, but at least we’re inventive. Jeremy Grantham is Cofounder and chairman of GMO, and Founder of Grantham Foundation for the... View Details

Keywords: climate change; finance; sustainability; prediction; Finance

10 Aug 2023
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Kraft’s Foundation to Combat Antisemitism Appoints Alumna as President

The Foundation to Combat Antisemitism (FCAS) recently announced that Tara Levine (MBA 2001) will serve as its first president. Founded in 2019 by Robert Kraft (MBA 1965), chairman and CEO of the Kraft Group, FCAS addresses the rise in... View Details

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Advent International

Accelerating the Careers of Diverse Rising Stars div class="shim15"/> "We believe that having a group of talented executives with diverse backgrounds is going to make us better as an organization." David Mussafer Chairman and Managing... View Details

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Leadership - Faculty & Research

board chairman (Rob Katz, the former CEO), had to decide whether to respond to the letter and, if so, how. What made this decision difficult was that several relatively small and unknown activist investors had won important victories... View Details

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Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship | About

entrepreneurial studies at HBS for many years. In 1981, he and classmate Fayez Sarofim funded the Sarofim-Rock Professorship, the School’s first endowed chair in entrepreneurship. From 1997 to 2002, he served as the founding chairman of... View Details

13 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles

business systems worldwide, including how leadership affects performance. As an example of very capable leadership of a high performing family enterprise, I introduced Nelson Sirotsky, Chairman of RBS, who two years ago successfully... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Davis

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Tata Hall | About

1975), Dean Nitin Nohria & Harvard University President Drew Faust Tata Hall is named in honor of Ratan N. Tata (AMP 71, 1975), who served as chairman of the Tata Sons Ltd., one of India’s largest business conglomerates, from 1991 until... View Details

01 Oct 2007
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Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making

line operations along with a vice chairman of equal power who was responsible for quality, for being alert to any possible problems, and for raising questions about them. You need a team at the top where high contention is demanded and... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

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Shad Hall | About

daughter Leslie and son Rees at Hall dedication Shad Hall is named for the Honorable John S.R. Shad (1923-1994), an extraordinarily active and generous supporter of HBS, a respected investment banker, former chairman of the Securities and... View Details

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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Library, Harvard Business School. BusinessWeek , February 20, 1984, featuring Lehman Bros. Chairman Lewis L. Glucksman. Lehman Brothers Records, Baker Library, Harvard Business School. Used with permission of Bloomberg L.P. Copyright... View Details

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Greenhill House | About

an era that Dean Nitin Nohria has called “a new global century of business.” Robert Greenhill (MBA 1962) is chairman of Greenhill & Co., LLC, an international merchant-banking firm he founded in 1996. Headquartered in New York, the firm... View Details

30 Mar 2012
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