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Ildi Nielsen
almost 1000 people and offers this real world perspective to help job seekers appreciate their strengths and present themselves effectively and authentically. She helps students and alumni create job search strategies that aim towards... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Commercial Banking; Financial Services (All); Consumer Finance; Financial Services (All); Corporate Finance; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Retail
- February 2003 (Revised May 2003)
- Case
Mobile Energy Services Company
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Aldo Sesia
When Al "Chainsaw" Dunlap became CEO of the Scott Paper Co., the company owned a large, vertically integrated production facility in Mobile, Alabama. Dunlap sold part of the production facility, a cogeneration power plant (later known as Mobile Energy Services Co.), to... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Risk and Uncertainty; Contracts; Agreements and Arrangements; Investment; Projects; Vertical Integration; Energy Sources; Bonds; Ownership; Restructuring; Energy Industry; Alabama
Esty, Benjamin C., and Aldo Sesia. "Mobile Energy Services Company." Harvard Business School Case 203-061, February 2003. (Revised May 2003.)
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Harness Auction Fever
Want to create a high-profit auction? One strategy is to create "auction fever" around your sale by generating lots of hype, having strict rather than flexible deadlines at the end of auctions, and making sure winners and losers... View Details
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
evolution of multinational banks over time and suggest a conceptual framework in which this development can be understood. In-depth analyses of the multinational banking strategies of selected countries and institutions extend from the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Career Coach
Annette Rodriguez-Ferrer
Founder and Managing Partner of MKH Capital Partners, Annette has built the firm and spearheads MKH’s investment strategy and firm management. Prior to MKH, Annette was a Partner at Warburg Pincus, a leading global private equity firm,... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products; Entrepreneurship; Impact Investing; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Health Care; Retail; Startup - Founder; Entrepreneurship; Startup - Joiner; Entrepreneurship
- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 29
PublicationsEthical Breakdowns: Good People often Let Bad Things Happen. Why? Authors:Max H. Bazerman and Ann E. Tenbrunsel Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 4 (April 2011) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
skill in managing startups and established organizations alike. “You need to be laser-focused on what is most important and not get distracted by the chaos and noise.” Kennealey’s most recent priority has been negotiating a public/private... View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/arcos-dorados-how-to-lead-and-from-where/an/114059-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-475 Social Strategy at Cisco Systems In April 2013, Jeanne Beliveau-Dunn, vice president and general... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008
Schoar, Jialan Wang Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-024.pdf The Contingent Nature of Public Policy and Growth Strategies in the Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Banking Industry Authors:Christopher Marquis, Zhi Huang... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107052 BBC Worldwide: Global Strategy Harvard Business School Case 507-034 In January 2007, John Smith, chief executive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
clear-cut business strategy for its research laboratory, and, in turn, many of PARC's technologies did not fit into Xerox's strategic objectives. For instance, the Alto's ability to adapt to large customers' computer systems was... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
from the core business who has demonstrated a record of success? An outsider who has started and grown a successful company? The school-of-experience view suggests that both of these managers might be risky hires. The internal candidate would have learned how to meet... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
he has known during his career. He elucidates the extraordinary lessons that can be learned from everyday experiences and shows how, by altering our perceptions, we can better overcome the challenges we face at work and in family matters. The Three-Box Solution: A... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
part, Chinese reformers who negotiated the terms of the WTO agreement made a calculated gamble that it would provide the necessary leverage to force policy changes necessary for homegrown businesses — including SOEs and TVEs — to adapt... View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007
demand for auditing by the licensor. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice by the licensee, and audit strategy choice by the licensor. We show when the owner prefers to license the property in exchange for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
School of Business at Duke University. She is also an Affiliate of the Samuel Dubois Cook Center on Social Equity. Professor Rosette studies diversity and negotiations in organizational settings. In her primary area of research, she... View Details
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
the recipient of the 2014 Great Negotiator Award, presented by the Program on Negotiation, an interuniversity consortium of Harvard, MIT, and Tufts that is based at the Harvard Law School. Summaries of several of Koh's View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Career Coach
Carole Carlson
Carole (HBS '98) has a wide ranging business background, with particular expertise coaching MBAs and executives. She has a passion for helping individuals develop their career vision and implement it via practical job search skills, including View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Education; Entrepreneurship; Government; Health Care; Hospitality; Real Estate; Social Enterprise
- 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18
capabilities. Forecasts are generally associated with many of the factors that money managers rate as important in their assessments of analyst contributions, including industry growth and competitiveness, low-price strategy, strategy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
but Disney’s new CEO, Robert Iger, raised more than a few eyebrows last year when he conceded that it might be an inevitable strategy if studios are to avoid the mounting costs of marketing a film twice — first for its theatrical release... View Details