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- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
equipment available to other Japanese computer makers. With the acquisition of Amdahl's technology, Japan's industry quickly captured its own rapidly growing domestic market for computers. Then in the early 1980s, the four European... View Details
- Career Coach
Mandy Xu
serving the client – and is happy to share her takeaways. She welcomes conversations with students looking for the right career fit post-MBA and enjoys dialogue around personal values and fulfillment. To book an appointment, please send... View Details
Steve Cagnetta
of focus include entity structuring, founder issues, equity and debt financings, licensing agreements, commercial contracts, employment matters, mergers and acquisitions and other matters that inevitably come up during the life cycle of a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
shareholders as well as the clients." A second big deal followed two years later with the acquisition of another industry icon, The Ogilvy Group, for $864 million. A pattern had been set that continues to this day. The owner of some 100... View Details
- 24 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
Working to Keep Pirates At-Bay: My Summer in Cyber Security
ten weeks in the company, I was able to design an online marketing strategy and create acquisition funnel metrics to test different campaigns and selling pitches to brokers. I was also able to work closely with the product team to review... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
sure everyone understands that the business exists to deliver solutions using this “hands-on, engineering- heavy” approach. Repeat it over and over and over. (4) Get the model right in New Jersey—number of people, skill mix, client View Details
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
or more agencies (or "networks" of specialized service agencies) under common ownership as quasi-independent entities. But since the mid-1980s, waves of mergers and acquisitions have created potential conflicts of interest as independent... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
approach to evaluating job candidates is virtually bias-free when compared with traditional methods: Men and women perform almost identically on the game-based assessments, with only minute variations occurring across racial and ethnic groups. As a result, enterprise... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
relative to the world at large. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2498737 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 814-123 Making Progress at IDEO This case focuses on different types of client... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
startup than an asset management firm. BlackRock, she said, was about “performance and collaboration in a real way.” Bill Gluck (MBA 1970), managing director of the Farmington Group, countered, saying BlackRock could use the acquisition... View Details
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
psychological experience of power enhances moral awareness among those with a strong moral identity, yet decreases the moral awareness among those with a weak moral identity. In turn, individuals' moral awareness affects how they behave in relation to their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
describes Chicago's approach to MBA education and the challenges it faced. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308014 Weber Shandwick: The Client Relationship Leader Program Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Your Employees and Customers Drive a New Value Profit Chain
same. Allocating resources to retain the most profitable and to induce customer behaviors that lead to greater profitability is the key to survival. Typically, 20 percent of the customers or clients are producing 80 percent of the... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
PublicationsThe New M&A Playbook Authors:Clayton M. Christensen, Richard Alton, Curtis Rising, and Andrew Waldeck Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 3 (March 2011) Abstract Companies spend more than $2 trillion on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
Four Companies that Conquered America
built up a strong retail market share in the U.S., not under the RBS brand, but through a series of acquisitions of regional (not national) banks. RBS is adding value for its shareholders by letting these banks retain their individual... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
knew that owning the mops was a lot different from pushing them. Over the years, she built a roster of clients that included ABC News, Dulles Airport, Hewlett-Packard, NationsBank, and Northrop Grumman. The first African-American woman to... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
years ago that the approach to inclusion in business was flawed. As a former marketing expert and growth strategist who helped clients find new business opportunities—largely in nonwhite, affluent markets—she was called in to create... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
on the team. Although she had been the key decision-maker in the early weeks of the project, Julia Narino now finds that her team increasingly discounts her deep client expertise while deferring to the senior partner's more generalized... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
Gujarati-speaking Indians are 108 times more likely to manage motels. We develop a model of social interactions where non-work relationships facilitate the acquisition of sector-specific skills. The resulting scale economies generate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
business by focusing on the small- and mid-sized market across all industries. The question is how to get there. Slang.ai is currently serving clients in three verticals (restaurants and hospitality, ecommerce, and brick-and-mortar retail... View Details