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- 01 Apr 2014
- News
Is The Invisible Hand Of The Market Choking Democracy?
- 25 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Alliances
Timberland's sponsorship of City Year events and City Year–organized projects for Timberland employees—that made clear their mutual interest in making a positive impact on society. By the third, or integrative, stage of a relationship...
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by Nancy O. Perry
- 19 Jun 2012
- News
A Brief History of Doing Well by Doing Good
- 23 Aug 2019
- News
Can Capitalism Be Made Better By Corporate Social Responsibility?
- February 2019
- Case
Volvo Cars: Acquisition by Geely
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Willy Shih and Nancy Dai
Zheijiang Geely Holding Company's acquisition of Volvo Cars was widely viewed with skepticism because of the poor track record of cross-border auto industry acquisitions. This case looks at the acquisition and post-acquisition integration from the point of view of...
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Merger Integration;
Organization Culture;
Organization Behavior;
Organizational Alignment;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Integration;
Alignment;
Organizational Culture;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Auto Industry;
China;
Sweden
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, Willy Shih, and Nancy Dai. "Volvo Cars: Acquisition by Geely." Harvard Business School Case 619-042, February 2019.
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center
Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot: "Let us do something while we have the chance. It is not every day that we are needed." Together with his wife, Meredith Riggs Spangler, and two daughters, Anna Spangler Nelson (MBA '88) and Abigail Riggs Spangler, Dick Spangler...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
Four 1971 classmates — three who serve on the front lines of corporate leadership in the 1990s and one learned observer of the changing role of the senior executive — comment on the complex task of running a successful company in an economy transformed View Details
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
enter the Kingdom of Heaven." "Just a minute," says the minister. "The stockbroker gets a silken robe and a golden staff but I, a minister, only get a cotton robe and a wooden staff? How can this be?" "Up here, we go by results," St....
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Class of 1949 Gift Supports HBS Faculty Development
cohort, the Foundations course for incoming MBA students, and a greater emphasis on group projects requiring intensive faculty involvement. Concurrently, the overall MBA class size has increased by 10 percent, while section size has...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO
photography business, DiCamillo observes, is on the threshold of change. "This industry is moving to digital," he explains. "Its evolution is being affected by the Internet, personal computers and peripherals, and the information...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Short Takes
program. The second, or transactional, stage begins when the organizations start to regard each other as partners. For City Year and Timberland, this transition occurred when leaders of both groups realized they had similar visions of how to make a positive impact on...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
New Releases
John P. Kotter on What Leaders Really Do by John P. Kotter (Harvard Business School Press) The need for strong leadership in business, government, and society has never been greater than in today's ever-changing and fast-paced world. But...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
few interviews. I consulted many experts, including a speech coach who worked with me to fine-tune my questions. Fortunately, I also learned a lot on the job. By the time I got to my last interview, with Lady Margaret Thatcher, I'd had a...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Scott C. Bolick
twice the 67 days usually needed to complete the arduous battery of simulated combat missions. The ordeal left Bolick 36 pounds lighter than when he started and further weakened by viral infections that required two overnight...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Kicking Off a Startup: Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96)
- a strategy, marketing, and athlete representation firm she founded - has been selected by the league's seed investors to create and manage the new league. The league's marketing strategy is "a hybrid of the ABL and WNBA women's...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Patricia ("Tosh") Rapoport Barron
whose lives would become inextricably linked with her own: HBS classmate Thomas C. Barron, whom she would later marry, and a Tanzanian woman named Rukia Hamisi, who would become an important friend. Hired by McKinsey after graduation from...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Before launching Funding Societies, a crowdfunding platform for small businesses in Singapore and Indonesia, Kelvin Teo and Reynold Wijaya...
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Nancy Miller
- 02 Aug 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Discrimination, Disenfranchisement and African American WWII Military Enlistment
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by Nancy Qian and Marco Tabellini
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Graduate's Gift Honors HBS Friend
business, community development, and philanthropic activities, recalled their early days as students at HBS. Initially leery of the gregarious Anderson, de Rothschild said that he soon became fascinated by his stories about starting...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Global Leadership Initiative's Director Focuses on Technology
As the first director of the HBS Global Leadership Initiative, Alan Price is working to extend the School's reach in the teaching of leadership. Launched in 1999 by Dean Kim B. Clark and headed by leadership...
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