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  • 27 Oct 2021
  • News

If Money Is Tight, That’s Nothing to Be Ashamed Of

  • 17 Oct 2024
  • Video

John Coates: Most Americans aren’t aware of how concentrated the financial sector has gotten

  • June 2008 (Revised September 2019)
  • Case

Yataro Iwasaki: Founding Mitsubishi (A)

By: Geoffrey Jones, Masako Egawa and Mayuka Yamazaki
Considers the entrepreneurial career of the founder of Mitsubishi, Yataro Iwasaki, who built a large shipping company against the opposition of powerful Western incumbents. Although sometimes supported by the Japanese government, and often times opposed, the case... View Details
Keywords: History; Leadership; Business History; Organizational Structure; Entrepreneurship; Business and Government Relations; Japan
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  • 2019
  • White Paper

Impact-Weighted Financial Accounts: The Missing Piece for an Impact Economy

By: George Serafeim, T. Robert Zochowski and Jennifer Downing
Reimagining capitalism is an imperative. We need to create a more inclusive and sustainable form of capitalism that works for every person and the planet. Massive environmental damage, growing income and wealth disparity, stress, and depression within developed... View Details
Keywords: Impact-Weighted Accounts; IWAI; Background; Economic Systems; Economy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Measurement and Metrics; Financial Statements
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  • 07 Jul 2022
  • HBS Case

How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)

frosting, and lemon-ginger ice cream. When the Brooklyn-based screenwriter first met his future wife and business partner, he wooed her by hosting ice cream socials with... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

    Ranjay Gulati

    Ranjay Gulati is the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration and the former Unit Head of the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. His pathbreaking research, which focuses on unlocking organizational and unleashing... View Details

    Keywords: biotechnology; computer; financial services; industrial goods; information technology industry; pharmaceuticals; professional services; retailing

      Ryan W. Buell

      Ryan W. Buell is a Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches View Details

      Keywords: banking; e-commerce industry; fast food; financial services; high technology; hotels ＆ motels; insurance industry; restaurant; retailing; service industry; transportation
      • 02 Dec 2019
      • Video

      Fadi Ghandour

      Fadi Ghandour, Founder of Dubai-based courier company Aramex and a leading entrepreneur in the Gulf, speaks about the "youth bulge" in the Arab world, his decision to prioritize educational provision... View Details
      • 26 Apr 2024
      • HBS Case

      Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory

      subordinates accountable, but they have no clue how to do that,” says Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer Hise Gibson in explaining what drew him to study Sanders’ sometimes-controversial leadership style. Gibson, who played football... View Details
      Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports
      • January 2016 (Revised January 2019)
      • Supplement

      The Allergan Board Under Fire (B)

      By: Lynn S. Paine, Suraj Srinivasan, John C. Coates and David Lane
      In 2014, the Allergan Inc. board of directors received a surprise takeover offer from Valeant Pharmaceuticals in alliance with hedge fund activist Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management. In the unprecedented arrangement between an acquirer and a hedge fund... View Details
      Keywords: Allergan, Inc.; Valeant; Ackman; Pershing Square; Tender Offer; Activist Investors; Business Models; R＆D; Board Of Directors; Securities Litigation; Acquisition Strategy; Takeover Defenses; Hedge Funds; Shareholder Rights; Proxy Contest; Shareholder Special Meetings; Legal Issues In Contested Takeovers; Corporate Governance; Investment Activism; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business Model; Business and Shareholder Relations; Valuation; Pharmaceutical Industry
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        Mitchell B. Weiss

        Mitch Weiss is the Richard L. Menschel Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. He created and teaches the school's course on Public Entrepreneurship—on public leaders and private entrepreneurs who invent a difference in the... View Details

        • 26 Apr 2023
        • In Practice

        Is AI Coming for Your Job?

        percent believe the technology will affect them personally. Harvard Business School faculty members share their thoughts below about how AI will reshape the workforce and the skills necessary to succeed in... View Details
        Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology

          Amy C. Edmondson

          Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, a chair established to support the study of human interactions that lead to the creation of successful enterprises that contribute to the betterment of... View Details

          Keywords: health care; nonprofit industry; professional services; consulting
          • 09 Dec 2002
          • Research & Ideas

          Unilever—A Case Study

          Brothers was transferred to N.V. in 1937, and until 1987 (when PLC was given a 25 percent shareholding) Unilever's business in the United States was wholly owned by N.V. Unilever's business, and, as a... View Details
          Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail
          • December 2003 (Revised March 2005)
          • Background Note

          Who is a Professional?

          By: Ashish Nanda
          Many occupations lay claim to professional status. Business executives, social workers, musicians, sportsmen, and academics describe their occupations as "professions". Office assistants call themselves "administrative professionals". Obviously, not all occupations... View Details
          Keywords: Status and Position; Jobs and Positions; Service Industry
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            Ramon Casadesus-Masanell

            Ramon Casadesus-Masanell is the Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He joined HBS in 2000 where he has taught the required MBA Strategy course, an elective course on Competing Business Models, and Ph.D. courses on... View Details

            Keywords: apparel; energy; paper; semiconductor; software
            • Book Review

            In margine a un bilancio sui lumi europei." A review of The Case for the Enlightenment: Scotland and Naples, 1680–1760, by John Robertson

            By: Sophus A. Reinert
            Keywords: Society; Information; History; Scotland; Italy
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              Josh Baron

              Dr. Josh Baron is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a part of the Strategy Unit. In the MBA program, he teaches in the Required Core Strategy course as well as elective courses on Ownership and Leading a Family Business. He... View Details

                V. Kasturi Rangan

                Kash Rangan is the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing at the Harvard Business School. Formerly the chairman of the Marketing Department (1998-2002), he is now the co-chairman of the school's Social Enterprise Initiative. He has taught in a wide variety of MBA... View Details

                Keywords: advertising; agribusiness; apparel; automobiles; computer; consumer products; e-commerce industry; high technology; industrial goods; marketing industry; pharmaceuticals
                • December 2014 (Revised March 2018)
                • Case

                John D. Rockefeller: The Richest Man in the World

                By: Tom Nicholas and Vasiliki Fouka
                By the late nineteenth century scale and managerial hierarchies had extended to several major industrial sectors of the U.S. economy. Although the precise mechanisms often varied, this process mainly involved horizontal integration, some form of legal or administrative... View Details
                Keywords: Horizontal Integration; Wealth; Business History; Vertical Integration; Consolidation; Personal Development and Career; Energy Industry; United States
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