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- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
postpone the vote with the intention of reintroducing the proposal at some point in the future, or cancel the proposal for good? And what should they do with Mason, which management viewed as an "empty voter" in this matter?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
publicly announced their intention to sell their 76.7% stake in Ducati Motor Holding S.p.A., an iconic Italian producer of sport performance motorcycles. The decision followed a six-year turnaround during which Ducati returned to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)
This realization led her to pursue inclusion program manager roles at Netflix and later at Amazon. “Each transition has been about a question that needed to be answered or a problem that needed to be solved,” Ramirez explained. With that in mind, she has been View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 11 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy
strategy in consumer brands, then moving from a corporate strategy role into a GM role, and athletic apparel into accessories and then beauty. Making small, connected steps along the way has allowed me to grow and evolve my career in both View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
Chuck Porter and the type of work he wanted to do, I think this may have been an intentional and very smart strategy. Advertising campaigns for products with strong points of differentiation are much more fun and easier to develop in a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
reality TV, the first show to put real people on air and allow them to humiliate themselves. Rather than have it be mean-spirited, however, my intent is to make it celebratory of its crazy, deranged sensibility. Last month we debuted it... View Details
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
adapt, despite the intentions of senior management. The structures, processes, and behaviors defined in the book are designed to break inertia, and maintain strategic alignment in times of change. Q: To plan or not to plan? Your own... View Details
- 30 Apr 2025
- News
A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado
don’t just aim to impress—aim to connect. The relationships you build at HBS will shape your life in ways you can’t yet imagine. Who or what gives you energy every day? Professor Arthur Brooks’ framework of faith, family, friends, and meaningful work deeply resonates... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
(co-benefits) model that Dr. Allen and his team have developed, which makes the inclusion of health benefits intentional – quantifying the health benefits enables the capture of “immediate and local benefits to influence decision-making... View Details
- 16 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity
intent on trimming expenses. So is the investment worth it? Baik and Srinivasan explore this tension in their working paper, “Private Equity and Digital Transformation,” cowritten with Wilbur Chen of the Hong Kong University of Science... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
their industry and not be seduced in the short term by the extreme competitiveness of the investment banking and securities marketplace. I've seen firsthand how that competitiveness can undermine the best intentions of high-ranking... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
obligations should be as important to those at the organization's highest levels as it is to middle managers. We often find that work obligations overwhelm our best intentions when it comes to spending time with family. How do you juggle... View Details
Keywords: Time management
- 16 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘The Strategist’
earnest. In all my classes, I pose one fundamental question: "Are you a strategist?" Sometimes it's spoken, often it's only implicit, but it's always there. We talk about the questions strategists ask, about how strategists think, about what strategists do. My View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Watsons: IBM’s Troubled Legacy
entered his mind. For years he had been telling his troops, "The IBM is not merely an organization of men; it is an institution that will go on forever." He planned to accompany IBM on its journey—if not forever, then at least for a good many more years. And... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 21 Nov 2024
- Blog Post
Thoughts on the JD/MBA From a Recent Grad
that is closed off to JD/MBAs. Rather, the challenge is having an abundance of choices. Each school is designed to be a full experience in itself, so being at two schools necessitates making trade-offs. However, I appreciated that having all these options available... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
someone. On the other hand, a strategy that calls for broad but shallow market penetration is likely to produce an inconsequential valuation. If the intention is to hold the company for a long time, and the tolerance for risk is high,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
evaluating—and helping to redesign—the posting of restaurant hygiene scores on Yelp.com. Implementing a difference-in-differences strategy, we find that posting restaurant hygiene scores on Yelp leads to a 12% decrease in purchase View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
experiment, we find that CEO activism can sway public opinion and increase consumers’ intentions to purchase products from the CEO’s company. However, we find that these two effects of CEO activism depend on the alignment between the CEO... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
the practices that characterize entrepreneurial individuals, families, and organizations and offer pragmatic advice. The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class by Edward Conard (MBA 1982) (Portfolio) Conard... View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) grew up in Rego Park, Queens, the son of Spanish immigrants. As a boy in the 1940s, he would watch the airplanes fly over his backyard and into LaGuardia Airport,... View Details