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- January 2021 (Revised April 2022)
- Case
Best Buy's Corie Barry: Confronting the COVID-19 Pandemic
By: William W. George and Amram Migdal
This case examines the leadership of Corie Barry, the new CEO of Best Buy, with a focus on actions the company took in 2020 to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic. The case includes a history of Best Buy’s strategy and leadership, including the transitions between the... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Change; Disruption; Volatility; Communication; Competency and Skills; Customers; Decision Making; Ethics; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Cash Flow; Financial Condition; Financial Liquidity; Goods and Commodities; Corporate Governance; Health Pandemics; Human Resources; Executive Compensation; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Resignation and Termination; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Innovation and Invention; Jobs and Positions; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Job Design and Levels; Job Interviews; Job Offer; Labor; Employment; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Law; Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Management; Business or Company Management; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Management Style; Management Succession; Management Systems; Management Teams; Risk Management; Operations; Distribution; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Logistics; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Supply Chain; Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Outcome or Result; Personal Development and Career; Retirement; Work-Life Balance; Planning; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Relationships; Business and Community Relations; Labor and Management Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Safety; Science; Strategy; Retail Industry; North and Central America; United States; Minnesota
George, William W., and Amram Migdal. "Best Buy's Corie Barry: Confronting the COVID-19 Pandemic." Harvard Business School Case 321-073, January 2021. (Revised April 2022.)
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
individual. Of course it does. But it also depends on creative thinking as a skill that involves qualities such as the propensity to take risks and to turn a problem on its head to get a new perspective.... View Details
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
transfer in security markets. We focus on connections between mutual fund managers and corporate board members via shared education networks. We find that portfolio managers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
company. The company specialized in providing its clients with software used for transaction processing and risk management in various commodity markets. Triple Point... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
analysis of tort laws. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54284 forthcoming Management Science Market Reaction to Mandatory Nonfinancial Disclosure By: Grewal, Jody, Edward J. Riedl, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?
rules and thus on capital markets, observes Karthik Ramanna, an associate professor and Henry B. Arthur Fellow in the Accounting and View Details
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
had built specialized in managing digital risk and uncovering digital evidence and had grown very rapidly. With the firm's CFO, they believed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?
they can’t make an overall risk assessment. Gazette: This week, a panel of banking regulators and treasury officials from the G20 countries said it will put forward “robust”... View Details
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
management. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806203 Strategic Outsourcing at Bharti Airtel Ltd. Harvard Business School Case 107-003 Faced with exponential growth and a competitive telecom... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
basic idea is that if the central bank manages to keep inflation within the target range (again, around 2 percent), then everything else will tend to fall into place: low unemployment, relatively stable GDP... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
co-sponsoring research into a new vaccine for Dengue fever with the Brazilian government. GSK's management must consider whether the PPP provides strategic advantage to its consumer healthcare businesses in Brazil View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
Operations Management unit at Harvard Business School. “They didn’t know it would turn out to be a multibillion dollar industry.” “By definition, when an investor makes an investment, it changes the probability of success” In a new... View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
directed, allow significant numbers of businesses to avoid bankruptcy. There are also massive amounts of private sector capital potentially available to support businesses in need. Bank balance sheets are... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
behavior, distorted risk preferences, corrosion of organizational culture, and reduced intrinsic motivation. Rather than dispensing goal setting as a benign, over-the-counter treatment for motivation, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2022
- Book
How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray
figure is even higher, at 22 percent. And managers are responsible for 60 percent of all misconduct, with nearly a quarter of it coming from senior managers. Avoiding ’the ethical slide’ Nelson points to the... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
to are probability forecasts, outlining the likelihood of the storm going in one direction versus another. In economics, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia coordinates probability and point forecasts... View Details
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
bring a gentler capitalism to post-apartheid South Africa. Like her other colleagues on the Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Commission, Charnley believed that each black business executive had a responsibility to effect positive change... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
the period from 1996 to 2005 to test the hypothesized relationships. How Managers Use Multiple Media: Discrepant Events, Power and Timing in Redundant Communication Authors:P.M. Leonardi, T.B. Neeley, View Details
- March 2021 (Revised August 2024)
- Case
Hotwire.com: Navigating Through Turbulence
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Manny de Zarraga and Eric Levine
On September 10, 2001, after speaking at an industry conference at New York’s World Trade Center, Hotwire co-founder Spencer Rascoff boarded a flight from Newark to San Francisco. After returning home, Rascoff awoke the next morning to a phone call informing him that... View Details
Keywords: September 11; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business Growth and Maturation; Disruption; Decisions; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Growth Management; Digital Platforms; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Expansion; Internet and the Web; Leading Change; Leadership Style; Air Transportation Industry; Tourism Industry; San Francisco
Rayport, Jeffrey F., Manny de Zarraga, and Eric Levine. "Hotwire.com: Navigating Through Turbulence." Harvard Business School Case 821-084, March 2021. (Revised August 2024.)
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
tightly: performance evaluation and risk management. Everything else is managed loosely, and local leaders get an enormous amount of discretion... View Details
Keywords: by Nick Morgan