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A Network for Change | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

The Social Enterprise Initiative is a focal point for the creativity and energy of our worldwide community. This network includes students and alumni with backgrounds in all sectors who seek to engage in... View Details

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Michael Danzi | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Whitehead About This Collection Contact Us Special Collections Baker Library Search Search Search Entrepreneurs Resources Persons Michael Danzi Michael Danzi, MBA 1987 US Labs Interview conducted in December... View Details

15 Nov 2018
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Algorithms tame ambiguities in use of legal data

November 2013
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GlaxoSmithKline in China (A)

By: John A. Quelch and Margaret L. Rodriguez

Four GlaxoSmithKline employees were accused of bribing Chinese health care workers to prescribe the company's drugs. The accusations brought to light the questionable incentive structures of the Chinese health care system and the pressure on companies to adhere to... View Details

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April 2020 (Revised April 2023)
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TransDigm in 2017: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher

TransDigm was a highly acquisitive company that manufactured a wide range of highly engineered aerospace parts for both military and commercial customers. Over the ten years ending in 2016, its stock price had increase ten times, and both EBITDA and revenues had grown... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Ethics; Private Equity; Financial Strategy; Growth Management; Performance Evaluation; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Horizontal Integration; Value Creation; Competitive Advantage; Aerospace Industry; Air Transportation Industry; United States

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C.D. Spangler | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Whitehead About This Collection Contact Us Special Collections Baker Library Search Search Search Entrepreneurs Resources Persons C.D. Spangler C.D. Spangler, MBA 1956 C.D. Spangler Construction Co. Interview conducted View Details

January 2020 (Revised April 2020)
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Brandless: Disrupting Consumer Packaged Goods

By: Jill Avery

Brandless, an online direct-to-consumer seller of upscale private-label consumer packaged goods (CPG), offered consumers a limited assortment of values-conscious products delivered directly to their homes with the simplicity of one fixed $3.00 price point that promised... View Details

Keywords: Brand; Brand Management; DTC; Private Label; Groceries; Packaged Food; Personal Care; Startups; Retailing; Amazon; Brands and Branding; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Business Startups; Disruption; E-commerce; Consumer Products Industry; Retail Industry; United States

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William Donaldson | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Whitehead About This Collection Contact Us Special Collections Baker Library Search Search Search Entrepreneurs Resources Persons William Donaldson William Donaldson, MBA 1958 Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Interview conducted View Details

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Audit Committees in a New Era of Governance

disclosure Expand your personal and professional network Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe Build relationships with a diverse group... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Ink: Comfort in Discomfort

The Excerpt The past or the future. Personal gain or the greater good. Consistency or change. In their new book, Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems, co-authors... View Details

December 2007
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Ruling the Modern Corporation: The Debate over Limited Liability in Massachusetts

By: David A. Moss and Eugene Kintgen

In 1830, Governor Levi Lincoln, Jr. urged the Massachusetts state legislature to introduce a limited liability regime for manufacturing corporations similar to that adopted in neighboring states. At least since 1809, shareholders in the state's manufacturing... View Details

Keywords: Capital; Debt Securities; Legal Liability; Production; Business and Shareholder Relations; Manufacturing Industry; Massachusetts

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18 Sep 2013
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The 10 most influential women in biotech

06 Sep 2018
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How to Thrive in an Unstructured Environment

get you so far. The best resources are truly other people - the people who have achieved what you’re looking to do before or are currently in the weeds now. Leveraging our personal network and LinkedIn, we... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Race Does Matter in Mentoring

responsibility for a functional department within a business unit—for example, the director of marketing or a plant manager.) And Stage 3 covered upper middle management to the executive level. (A person... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

04 Aug 2008
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How Female Stars Succeed in New Jobs

detailed their results four years ago in the Harvard Business Review article, "The Risky Business of Hiring Stars." Since launching his research into the war for... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

30 Jun 2019
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Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo

Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration, teaches in the MBA and Executive Education programs. According to HBSCB president Bing Sherrill (MBA 1962),... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

July 2005 (Revised September 2016)
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24 Hour Fitness (A): The Rise, 1983–2004

By: John R. Wells, Elizabeth A. Raabe and Gabriel Ellsworth

In October 2004, Mark S. Mastrov, CEO of 24 Hour Fitness, reflected on how far his company had come in just over 20 years. From humble beginnings in 1983 in San Leandro, California, 24 Hour Fitness had grown to become the largest privately-owned health-club chain in... View Details

Keywords: 24 Hour Fitness; Mark Mastrov; Health Clubs; Fitness; Gyms; Chain; Weight Loss; Exercise; Personal Training; Retention; Sales Force Compensation; Incentive Systems; Buildings and Facilities; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Customers; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Private Equity; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Nutrition; Business History; Employees; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Human Capital; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing; Operations; Service Operations; Private Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Sales; Salesforce Management; Sports; Strategy; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Segmentation; Information Technology; Internet; Technology Platform; Web; Web Sites; Capital Structure; Performance; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Health Industry; United States; California; San Francisco

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14 Nov 2023
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Do We Underestimate the Importance of Generosity in Leadership?

To what extent does it come from serving others, either literally (as in the old ServiceMaster Company) or through behaviors that encourage personal development in others? For... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

31 Oct 2023
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Checking Your Ethics: Would You Speak Up in These 3 Sticky Situations?

loyalties among clients, colleagues, and partners can present ethical issues that can be difficult to manage, says David Fubini, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School. “You are an adviser. You are not... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consulting

February 2020
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Leading Change in Talent at L'Oréal

By: Lakshmi Ramarajan, Vincent Dessain and Emer Moloney

Jean-Claude Le Grand just stepped into a new role as Executive Vice-President for Human Resources at the global cosmetics company, L’Oréal. He is now responsible for the hiring, development, promotion, and retention of 83,000 employees worldwide. The highly successful... View Details