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- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
institutions. It explores as well new efforts to understand the micro mechanisms and channels by which host countries can benefit from multinational activity, within and between firm productivity increases. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The New Global Business Manager
senior executives to coordinate their activities. These categories still hold true over ten years later, says Bartlett, but other things have changed. Baker Library’s Cynthia Churchwell interviewed Bartlett... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Committed to a goal of 'zero harm' in the mining industry
As chief executive of Anglo American, one of the world’s largest mining companies, Cynthia Carroll (MBA 1989) worked to improve safety. True to her word, Anglo American’s mine fatalities decreased by nearly... View Details
- June 2005 (Revised September 2008)
- Class Lecture
Strategy: Building and Sustaining Competitive Advantage
By: Bharat N. Anand, Stephen P. Bradley, Pankaj Ghemawat, Tarun Khanna, Cynthia A. Montgomery, Michael E. Porter, Jan W. Rivkin, Michael G. Rukstad, John R. Wells and David B. Yoffie
It's great to have a blockbuster quarter or a revolutionary product or service, but true business excellence demands sustainability. Maintaining your competitive advantage requires a strategy that makes your business unique and carries you forward as the world around... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage
- March 2004 (Revised September 2005)
- Case
Newell Rubbermaid: Strategy in Transition
By: Cynthia A. Montgomery, Rhonda Kaufman and Carole Winkler
Describes the transformation of a company's corporate-level strategy. Begins by laying out the strategy that brought the Newell Co. stunning success for nearly three decades. The highly integrated, internally consistent strategy was tailored for manufacturing and... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Corporate Strategy; Transformation; Problems and Challenges; Acquisition; Product Development; Brands and Branding; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry; United States
Montgomery, Cynthia A., Rhonda Kaufman, and Carole Winkler. "Newell Rubbermaid: Strategy in Transition." Harvard Business School Case 704-491, March 2004. (Revised September 2005.)
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
Psychological Links to Micro and Macro Organizational Behaviour Authors:M. A. Neale, A. E. Tenbrunsel, T. Galvin, and M. H. Bazerman Publication:In The SAGE Handbook of Organization Studies, 2nd ed. Edited by Stewart R. Clegg, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
has been divided by both worldview and practice. Why, in the face of the common challenge of dependence on imported Russian gas, have national reactions to such vulnerability varied so dramatically across the continent? And why have a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- February 2020
- Article
Why Prosocial Referral Incentives Work: The Interplay of Reputational Benefits and Action Costs
By: Rachel Gershon, Cynthia Cryder and Leslie K. John
While selfish incentives typically outperform prosocial incentives, in the context of customer referral rewards, prosocial incentives can be more effective. Companies frequently offer “selfish” (i.e., sender-benefiting) referral incentives, offering customers financial... View Details
Keywords: Incentives; Prosocial Behavior; Judgment And Decision-making; Referral Rewards; Motivation and Incentives; Consumer Behavior; Decision Making
Gershon, Rachel, Cynthia Cryder, and Leslie K. John. "Why Prosocial Referral Incentives Work: The Interplay of Reputational Benefits and Action Costs." Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) 57, no. 1 (February 2020): 156–172.
- June 2021
- Article
From Predictions to Prescriptions: A Data-driven Response to COVID-19
By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Léonard Boussioux, Ryan Cory-Wright, Arthur Delarue, Vassilis Digalakis Jr, Alexander Jacquillat, Driss Lahlou Kitane, Galit Lukin, Michael Lingzhi Li, Luca Mingardi, Omid Nohadani, Agni Orfanoudaki, Theodore Papalexopoulos, Ivan Paskov, Jean Pauphilet, Omar Skali Lami, Bartolomeo Stellato, Hamza Tazi Bouardi, Kimberly Villalobos Carballo, Holly Wiberg and Cynthia Zeng
The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented challenges worldwide. Strained healthcare providers make difficult decisions on patient triage, treatment and care management on a daily basis. Policy makers have imposed social distancing measures to slow the disease, at... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Health Pandemics; AI and Machine Learning; Forecasting and Prediction; Analytics and Data Science
Bertsimas, Dimitris, Léonard Boussioux, Ryan Cory-Wright, Arthur Delarue, Vassilis Digalakis Jr, Alexander Jacquillat, Driss Lahlou Kitane, Galit Lukin, Michael Lingzhi Li, Luca Mingardi, Omid Nohadani, Agni Orfanoudaki, Theodore Papalexopoulos, Ivan Paskov, Jean Pauphilet, Omar Skali Lami, Bartolomeo Stellato, Hamza Tazi Bouardi, Kimberly Villalobos Carballo, Holly Wiberg, and Cynthia Zeng. "From Predictions to Prescriptions: A Data-driven Response to COVID-19." Health Care Management Science 24, no. 2 (June 2021): 253–272.
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
W50 Next Steps
A NEW CASE SERIES, "Cynthia Carroll at Anglo American," written by Assistant Professor Gautam Mukunda, was used for the first time in November in the first-year LEAD course. Part of a larger effort to focus on the experiences of female... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leaders must be strategists first
Cynthia Montgomery believes strategy should be a habit of mind, not a document; a continuous process, not a destination. Leaders need to use strategy as a dynamic tool for guiding the development of a business over time. “It takes courage... View Details
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
these models, the demand curve alone can be used to make welfare statements, a fact relied on by much empirical work. There is ample evidence, though, that people misuse care for a different reason: mistakes or "behavioral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- March 2024 (Revised July 2024)
- Case
WeightWatchers: Promoting Weight Health
In December 2023, the 60-year-old weight management industry stalwart WeightWatchers announced the launch of WeightWatchers Clinic, which incorporated GLP-1s , a new class of prescription weight-loss medications, into the company’s portfolio of products and mobile app... View Details
Keywords: Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Resource Allocation; Diversification; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Technology Industry; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; New York (city, NY)
Gulati, Ranjay, Cynthia A. Montgomery, Ashley Whillans, Allison Ciechanover, and Emily Grandjean. "WeightWatchers: Promoting Weight Health." Harvard Business School Case 424-029, March 2024. (Revised July 2024.)
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Bringing Out the Best
Cynthia Foster Curry (MBA 1990) Cynthia Foster Curry (MBA 1990) ruefully admits that she didn’t appreciate her first-year Organizational Behavior course at HBS. “I remember the professor saying, ‘People take... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
Profiles & photographs by Susan Young Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989 CARROLL: Discussing safety awards in her London office. Photographs by Susan Young This year's recipients join a... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Adoption
Houston real estate investment firm Rowland Taylor. Pathway’s perpetual trust, set up by Taylor, has already funded more than 250 family loans. With the support of fellow OPM alumni and a few key HBS staff and faculty members, including... View Details
- 20 Sep 2013
- News
Connections Add Up
by the stories she sees at the grassroots level. At a recent visit to Ariel Community Academy, a magnet school in Chicago, she watched kindergarteners learn principles of trading and fifth graders doing analyses of companies. "They were... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
“If I look back at my career, I’ve focused on liquid assets: blood, water, and beer.” That is the wry encapsulation Cynthia Fisher (MBA 1990) uses to describe her professional activities. Like Fisher herself, it is smart, efficient, and... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
HBS Grads Are the Most
Marion Sandler (HRPBA '53), General Motors' Cynthia Trudell (62nd PMD), and eBay's Meg Whitman (MBA '79). Whitman also figured in Business Week's "e.biz 25: The Most Influential People in Electronic Business" (September 27, 1999), where... View Details
- 02 Mar 2011
- News
Last Look - March 2011
class is being taught by General Mills.” David Krieger (MBA ’00) and Beth Ferguson (MBA ’01) agreed. Beth provided details: “These chorus women were the troops to General Mills (Andrew Vogel)Â as he sang ‘I am the very model of a modern... View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson