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  • 01 Jun 2025
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Barbie: Reviving a Cultural Icon at Mattel

both a cultural phenomenon and a fascinating case study of a struggling 66-year-old brand’s stunning turnaround effort, using the film to help modernize and reframe the doll for a new generation. In his case, “Barbie: Reviving a Cultural... View Details
Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune; Illustrations by Miguel Porlan; Educational Services
  • 01 Jan 2008
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James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959

decades in the investment world, service on nonprofit boards and think tanks, and management of the financial turnaround of both Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, not to mention a midlife decision to study the... View Details
  • 06 Dec 2021
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Ink: Talking Shop

specializes in retail turnarounds and transformation. Here, Bines shares a few words about his new book and two other indispensable texts about the trade. The Metail Economy 6 Strategies for Transforming Your Business to Thrive in the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade
  • 01 Dec 2003
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Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

the changes included moving machines closer together so that parts wouldn’t have to travel from department to department. ET also worked with an outside service provider that was cleaning their aluminum parts to reduce turnaround time... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing
  • 01 Sep 2024
  • News

Next Level

particular attraction, as she was applying to business school, to the idea of becoming a specific type of leader. “I became convinced that I would be a turnaround CEO. I got very specific that what I wanted to do was take something that... View Details
Keywords: Maggie Mertens; photos by Cameron Karsten; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 01 Dec 2011
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At Your Service

what’s fueling the greens. Southwest Airlines would be red on food service. But Southwest doesn’t pay much attention to that, because getting better at food service would slow its turnaround time, which is a big green for the airline when... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; customer service; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Air Transportation; Transportation
  • 01 Mar 2004
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Gibson Hits a High Note

33ffea43b3115eba957356db0b41a6e4 It’s a turnaround story almost too good to be true. Gibson Guitar was down, and nearly out, in 1986 when Henry Juszkiewicz (MBA ’79) and David Berryman (MBA ’79) bought the legendary Nashville maker of... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 01 Jun 2007
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Delta’s Flight from Bankruptcy

on Tuesday and did not go home until Friday, September 14,” said Whitehurst, who is now Delta’s COO. Invited to HBS in March by the Hospitality and Travel Industry Club, Whitehurst discussed lessons learned from what he sees as the biggest View Details
Keywords: Air Transportation; Transportation
  • 01 Dec 2017
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In My Humble Opinion: Truth Teller

photo by Clara Molden / Camera Press / Redux Corporate turnarounds aren’t known for being a walk in the park. “Anybody who does what I do has to be incredibly resolute, to the point of bloody-minded, about the need to fracture an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 01 Sep 2018
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Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out

Raffaella Sadun (photo by Russ Campbell) Raffaella Sadun (photo by Russ Campbell) In the face of economic challenges, hospitals in the English National Health Service have turned to a strategy that has proven effective for small private and public organizations: hiring... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

Drive-In Nation

employers to provide essential benefits, including health care after retirement. That meant we didn’t have to face much public responsibility to do that. The American Dream may have to be reinvented, perhaps with a bit more public responsibility.” But Kanter says work... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade
  • 01 Mar 2005
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Venture Capital’s Comeback

the venture-capital turnaround that took root in 2004, venture firms returned to the fundamentals of dealmaking, with primary focus on the entrepreneur’s ability to build a good company, says Clint Harris (MBA 1977), a cofounder and... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 01 Dec 2005
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One-on-One with Peter Cuneo

comic books. In a career that spans more than thirty years, Cuneo has completed seven successful turnarounds at consumer-product companies such as Clairol, Black & Decker, and Remington. He joined Marvel in 1999, just after it emerged... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; comic books; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 01 Sep 2008
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Balanced Equation

process, managing turnarounds of Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, and three decades of leadership in international finance. He and two of his children recently launched Wolfensohn & Company, LLC, a private investment firm and adviser... View Details
Keywords: James Aisner;Deborah Blagg;Julia Hanna;Susan Young; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Dec 2006
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MBA vs. MBA

Exxon Mobil stock. After working for McKinsey & Company and Trammell Crow, he started a real estate investment firm and now runs Waco-based Vananne LLC, focused on commercial real estate turnarounds and reinvestments. Taylor moved from... View Details
Keywords: Kathryn Jones; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • 08 Jun 2018
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My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses

that for projects that I have. The rest of it, we're doing a turnaround of an 8,000-person company, and I need people who can add value. So I had this amazing job for two years where I had to figure out my own job inside this company. I... View Details
  • 24 Apr 2014
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A bold experiment in education

ensure under-resourced children have the opportunity to succeed in college and beyond. Four years ago, NOCP embarked upon a turnaround of Walter L. Cohen High School, once coined “America’s Most Dangerous High School” and the lowest... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2018
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3-Minute Briefing: Jeffrey Dunn (MBA 1981)

discusses how Dunn helped lead a turnaround at Sesame Street in this episode of the Cold Call podcast. HEAR MORE Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses how Dunn helped lead a turnaround at Sesame Street in... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka

from hospital turnarounds to policy implementation and consumer product development. And its international unit has been busy exporting services to countries such as China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia. Mediva and Platanus apply the... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Mar 2004
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New Horizons for Iraq

are grateful for all we are doing to reconstruct their country,” Senor says. “This is critical not only for the freedom of the Iraqi people, but also for our overall success in the war on terror.” Also serving on the CPA is Thomas C. Foley (MBA ’79), a former McKinsey... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; James E. Aisner; Julia Hanna; National Security and International Affairs; Government
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