Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (1,964) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (1,964) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 4 of 1,964 Results →
  • February 2015
  • Case

BlackRock: Diversity as a Driver for Success

By: Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly
In July 2014, the Global Executive Committee (GEC) for BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, held a two-day offsite to discuss the state of talent within the firm. A year prior, in 2013, Chairman and CEO Laurence (Larry) Fink had asked Global Head of HR Jeff... View Details
Keywords: Women And Leadership; Diversity; General Management; Leadership; Change Management; Human Capital; Leading Change; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Financial Services Industry; United States
Related
  • 11 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts

years, the buyout team sells its stakes in these firms. "This exit can be accomplished through a sale to a strategic buyer, such as a corporation, or to another private equity group. But in many of the most successful investments,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services
  • 01 Mar 2003
  • News

A Casual Approach to Success

to Hellman & Friedman, LLC, the well-respected private equity investment firm he cofounded (with Tully Friedman) in 1984. Hellman is one of the Bay Area’s most successful investment bankers, generous philanthropists, and athletic... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

Global Networking Night a Success

The first-ever HBS Global Networking Night on October 21 drew alumni crowds in 28 locations, starting in New Zealand and ending on the U.S. West Coast. The evening provided an informal setting for social, business, and career conversation. Based on the popularity of... View Details
  • 19 May 2003
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts

Harvard Business School MBA '03 students Raj De Datta, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Meghna Modi recently won the Social Enterprise track of the annual HBS Business Plan contest with their plan for brokering... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler; Financial Services
  • 18 Aug 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

the Aldrich classrooms on the Harvard Business School campus where other people's ventures are the usual topic of discussion. Judges—a mix of angel investors, VCs, serial entrepreneurs, and industry executives—score the plans on criteria... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Sometimes Success Begins at Failure

that eventually resulted in a historic windfall for the drug maker soon after it began marketing UK-92,480 under the brand name Viagra. Pfizer was able to develop and launch a wildly successful and profitable new drug because it... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough; Health; Pharmaceutical
  • December 2018
  • Case

CIR Group: Passing Wealth through the Generations

By: Lauren Cohen, Christopher J. Malloy and Elena Corsi
Rodolfo, Marco, and Edoardo De Benedetti had received from their father his controlling shares in COFIDE, a publicly listed holding company that held 45.8% of CIR Group, another publicly listed holding. The latter held majority shares in GEDI, Italy’s largest print... View Details
Keywords: Succession Planning; Transferring Shares; Wealth Management; Holding Structures; Family Ownership; Ownership Stake; Management Succession; Governing and Advisory Boards; Policy; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Health Industry; Italy
Related
  • Web

Strategic Plan | Information Technology

Strategic Plan Our strategic priorities and initiatives. Our North Star The Harvard Business School (HBS) IT three-year strategic plan (FY24–FY26) is organized around HBS IT’s five strategic priorities, as... View Details
  • 2013
  • Working Paper

NBC and the 2012 London Olympics: Unexpected Success

By: Stephen A. Greyser and Vadim Kogan
"The 2010 Vancouver Winter Games lost $223 million, astonishing for a 17-day event. Next year's London Summer Games, which cost a record Olympic rights fee of $1.18 billion, are expected to lose at least as much..." wrote Richard Sandomir in The New York Times. "NBC... View Details
Keywords: Success; Profit; Sports; Failure; Television Entertainment; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Sports Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Vancouver; Beijing; London; Brazil; Russia
Related
  • 12 Jan 2017
  • News

Personalizing Women’s Path to Success

Photos by David Kelly Crow Many women hit a point in their career when they are unsure of which path to take next or even how to move ahead. For some, that inflection point comes mid-career or after a successful run; others are simply... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

How to Write a Great Business Plan

Professor William Sahlman suggests that a great business plan is one that focuses on a series of questions. These questions relate to the four factors critical to the success of every new venture: the... View Details
Keywords: Re: William A. Sahlman
  • 09 Mar 2021
  • Cold Call Podcast

A Family Business at a Crossroads: Scaling and Succession

Keywords: Re: Christina R. Wing; Real Estate
  • 01 Feb 2000
  • News

Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story

ready-to-heat soups, shipping an average of thirty thousand gallons each week. Shafir - himself a study in constant motion - plans to move his operation to a roomier location in nearby Chelsea early this year. Despite adding a $2.5... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 07 Feb 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

emphasized the need to plan for continual upgrading of technology, organizational capabilities, and talent. With these dueling considerations in mind, we distilled our research findings into seven guiding principles for digital... View Details
Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards
  • 16 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders

the paired founders discussed their business challenges and were told to provide advice about management and strategy to their partners. On the final day, the founders completed a list of changes they planned to implement after returning... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

of treating the topic of e-commerce with awe and confusion, we can now discuss the subject more objectively." What follows is an excerpt from his new book, Implementing E-commerce Strategies: A Guide to Corporate Success after the... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
  • 2006
  • Working Paper

Cross-Functional Alignment in Supply Chain Planning: A Case Study of Sales and Operations Planning

In most organizations, supply chain planning is a cross-functional effort. Functional areas such as sales, marketing, finance, and operations traditionally specialize in portions of the planning activities, which results in conflicts over expectations, preferences, and... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Planning
Related
  • 03 Dec 2015
  • Video

Planning Change: Lessons from the World of Retail

  • 05 Nov 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?

needs at any particular moment." She also posed the problem of finding insider "CEO material willing to wait in the sidelines." Andrew Campbell commented that "you often have to reassess your succession View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett