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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
the bill. Moguls have propagated a myth that justifies their poor performance: since they manage creative talent and artistic product, traditional strategic, financial, and operational appraisal metrics do not apply to them. But since... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
especially when I am in transit. Is there a talent that you wish you had? There are many. I’d like to have been a long-distance runner. I wish I could read more quickly and retain every word. What makes you the proudest in your career to... View Details
- 07 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
How One Organization Increased Their Internship Yield
performance is reviewed, what the incentive structures are – will be helpful. Yes, it takes time, but the extra effort is worthwhile.” At Corning, recruiters have turned inward to communicate outward. Kim Mosher, Corning’s Talent View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
RCA's Sarnoff Lab, and the Rockwell Science Center, and as it built its capabilities and ventured into new application areas, it discovered a "killer app" for optical communications which led to its acquisition at the height of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
mansions and grandeur of a former era certainly made an indelible impression." His interest in architecture piqued, the young Jenrette discovered a natural talent for drawing elegant houses and for shaping canals, bridges, and whole... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- June 2024 (Revised August 2024)
- Case
Cementos Argos in the U.S.: Go Big or Go Home?
By: Jorge Tamayo, Ruth Costas, Pedro Levindo and Karina Souza
In April 2011, Colombian group Cementos Argos had to decide on whether to double down its business in the U.S., amidst the U.S. cement industry’s lowest performance in 30 years. Argos— Colombia’s leading cement producer and one of the “jewels” of Grupo GEA, the... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Organization; Business Subsidiaries; Talent and Talent Management; Cost vs Benefits; Financial Crisis; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Business Strategy; Construction Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Latin America; South America; North and Central America; United States; Colombia
Tamayo, Jorge, Ruth Costas, Pedro Levindo, and Karina Souza. "Cementos Argos in the U.S.: Go Big or Go Home?" Harvard Business School Case 724-500, June 2024. (Revised August 2024.)
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Turning Point: Eternal Returns
Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in the middle of Typhoon Gloria in 1957 and spent my early childhood in Kowloon’s Walled City, which at the time was an extremely poor and densely... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Turning a Moment into a Movement
first seat on a public board at Altimeter Growth Corporation, a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC). Since launching in September 2020, the Board Challenge’s singular mission has been to increase the representation of Black... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Aaron…
full-time in a high pressure career), I am helping to build a comprehensive talent acquisition strategy for the Asia Pacific region of a major multi-national company. It’s big and complex, and the hiring... View Details
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
more specialists are needed to stay up to date with functional best practices. The problem that this influx of specialists creates, Cespedes says, is that fewer senior executives are responsible for integrating activities across the multiple activities that determine... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
diversity and inclusion is what one might expect from a consultancy. The organization offers strategies, advises on diversity initiatives, and helps find and retain talent to fill the top seats. Yet experience shows that that isn’t always... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- October 2010
- Teaching Note
From Imitation to Innovation: Zongshen Industrial Group (TN)
By: Willy C. Shih
Teaching Note for 610057. View Details
- 06 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Meet the Black Investment Club
co-founded a Southern-Africa focused VC firm, Zenga Ventures. At HBS, Akapelwa is able to share his experience both as an entrepreneur and as an investor. Over the course of his career to date, Akapelwa has participated in closed leveraged buyout transactions, add-on... View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
three owner-directors must decide whether it is time to stop customer acquisition for a while to "get their house in order." At that moment, though, one of Shuberg Philis perhaps most important business opportunities so far... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
"Is talent management portable?" That's the question asked and answered in a recent Harvard Business Review article discussing issues surrounding how top managers can transfer their skill sets to a new company. The... View Details
- 28 Apr 2025
- Blog Post
How to Onboard Recently Graduated MBAs
Bowdoin College, and a former talent acquisition and management professional. Through her observations from both sides – the hired and the hiring – she’s detected a paradox that can frustrate all parties.... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
doubled its size by acquiring a large European company and was about to do it again by buying an Australian global company. Zambrano viewed clear core values and standards as an important element of success, particularly as Cemex expanded quickly overseas through View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making the Most of Government Upheaval
related businesses in the local market or even in other countries. Stage III: Acquisition of New Capabilities. Becoming increasingly sophisticated as they competed with larger foreign rivals, the firms developed new capabilities in areas... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
employer. It helps screen talent and certifies that it is of high quality. In the United States there is a rich ecosystem of similar business schools that compete and, through the process of competition, need to remain honest. Executive... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect
competitors' scores are increasing faster it should be a cause for alarm. Acquisition rates may be robust, but if old customers are abandoning ship as fast as new ones are coming on board, strong acquisition... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne