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- 23 Mar 2016
- News
Tim Cook's gay rights advocacy good for Apple's bottom line
- 01 Jun 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting
reporting of financial and nonfinancial performance in order to improve sustainable strategy. HBS senior lecturer Robert G. Eccles and coauthor Michael P. Krzus explain the benefits and value of the One Report method. Plus: book excerpt.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 28 May 2019
- News
Rise in Unruly Behavior on Planes Is Tied to Stress of Flying
- 19 May 2017
- News
Minimum wage increases can kill businesses — if they already stink
- 05 Aug 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?
however, as interesting as the phenomenon described by Annabelle Gawer and Michael Cusumano in their book, Platform Leadership. They include: Did platform leaders set out to create vehicles View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Dec 2011
- News
Harvard Business School tackles U.S. competitiveness
- August 2004 (Revised July 2005)
- Case
Allianz (D1): The Turnaround
By: Joseph L. Bower, Anders Sjoman and Sonja Ellingson Hout
Examines the acquisition of Dresdner Bank by Allianz--the deal of the year in 2002. Examines some of the challenges posed by the turnaround of Dresdner as seen by Michael Diekmann, the new CEO of Allianz. In working with Dresdner, Allianz needed to figure out what it... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Financial Institutions; Investment Banking; Brands and Branding; Product Development; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges
Bower, Joseph L., Anders Sjoman, and Sonja Ellingson Hout. "Allianz (D1): The Turnaround." Harvard Business School Case 305-016, August 2004. (Revised July 2005.)
- 24 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Brexit is a Big Deal
The consequences of yesterday's vote by the British people to leave the European Union will be far-reaching, but there is no reason for global markets to panic. Brexit is a vote against the European Union. Once heralded as the engine of... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Plan a Careful Budget, Then Get Ready to Splurge
- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
Business; and Monica Higgins, Career Imprints: Creating Leaders across an Industry; and Michael Porter coauthored Redefining Health Care. By virtually any standard, it's an underperforming industry. —Richard... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Fast Start on Your New Job
What are the first things you should do in your new post? In this e-mail Q&A, Michael Watkins offers strategies that he researched while preparing his new book, The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
requirement for operating in the country—sometimes requires creativity. A recent umbrella order took about three months to fill (“I guess there are no umbrellas in Cuba”), and even something as common as room upgrades requires oversight View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 04 Apr 2016
- News
Businesses Pledge Millions to Boost Baltimore Economy
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
lay-out of supermarkets is more or less the same no matter where you go. Various web sites today may try to differentiate themselves by offering a different experience to the consumer, Papa said, "but we find that people want all TVs to... View Details
- 4 PM – 5 PM EDT, 25 Mar 2021
- Virtual Programming
Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Companys Capabilities Are the Key to a Winning Strategy
During this session, HBS professor Michael Beer will examine why the lack of honest conversations about barriers to corporate transformations results in slow and failed corporate transformations and identifies six silent, undiscussable barriers to strategic change,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2004
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?
or not on my watch anyhow." (Jamal Barghouti). A dominant theme concerned the bias in the market toward addressing short-term challenges, caused in large part by what Robin Chacko described as the "impatient" investor. As... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
Gaurav Goel: "Analytics is a powerful weapon but we need prudent processes for data capture that ensure a consistent quality of data." The tone of responses suggested that there was little question that the analytics of "deep indicators" would be... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding the Design of Livable Cities
four primary trends driving the development of innovative solutions: The first is the world's population growth, forecast by the United Nations to reach roughly 9 billion by 2050, and the mass migration from... View Details