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  • November 2008
  • Article

Winning the Race for Talent in Emerging Markets

By: Douglas A. Ready, Linda A. Hill and Jay A. Conger
"This war for talent is like nothing we've ever seen before," write the authors, who have spent decades studying talent management and leadership development. Recently they interviewed executives at more than 20 global companies to identify strategies for attracting... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Development; Selection and Staffing; Talent and Talent Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Organizational Culture; Recruitment; Diversity; Developing Countries and Economies
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    Benjamin C. Esty

    Benjamin Esty is the Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Over the years, he has taught a variety of courses ranging from advanced corporate finance and project finance to competitive strategy and leadership. He... View Details

    Keywords: banking; asset management; investment banking industry; consumer products; shipping; wine; financial services

      Edward B. Berk

      Ted Berk is the Barry and Teri Volpert Fellow and a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Private Equity Finance in the elective curriculum and Finance I & II in the required curriculum.

      Ted... View Details

      • 01 Sep 2023
      • News

      Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees

      subscription-based website would quickly become the world’s largest genealogy company, allowing users to build and share their family trees, digitizing and indexing vast troves of genealogical data, ever increasing through the acquisition... View Details
      Keywords: April White; Illustrations by Fabio Consoli; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
      • January 2025
      • Case

      GE Appliances 2025: Energizing Change

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
      At the turn of 2025, Kevin Nolan, CEO of GE Appliances following its acquisition by Chinese appliance giant Haier in 2016, is reviewing progress toward his net zero carbon vision for homes, which would otherwise exacerbate the global warming climate crisis. An... View Details
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Transformation; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Technological Innovation
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      • 28 Nov 2005
      • Research & Ideas

      Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

      changing aspirations. Secondly, Unilever developed strengths in the acquisition of other firms, and their subsequent "Unileverization." After the failed merger attempts of the late 1960s, Unilever professionalized its... View Details
      Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products
      • August 2016 (Revised August 2016)
      • Teaching Note

      Intrapreneurship at DaVita Healthcare Partners

      By: Joseph B. Fuller and Matthew Preble
      DaVita Healthcare Partners Inc. (DaVita) is one of the U.S.'s leading dialysis providers, a process whereby persons with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) are connected to a machine that performs the functions of a healthy kidney. Kent Thiry, DaVita's CEO, has expanded... View Details
      Keywords: Intrapreneurship; Entrepreneurial Organizations; Startup Management; Startup; Strategic Positioning; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Corporate Strategy; Business Startups; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Health Industry; United States
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      • 2013
      • Teaching Note

      The COFCO Group (TN)

      By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming and Ziqian Zhao
      COFCO was China's sole legitimate window for agricultural foreign trade before 1987. The reform of China's foreign trade system beginning in 1987 cost COFCO its monopoly position. Subsequently, the SOE giant capitalized on its foreign trade expertise to strategically... View Details
      Keywords: China; Food; China
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        Stuart C. Gilson

        Professor Stuart Gilson is the Steven R. Fenster Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and former chairman of the Finance Unit.  His research, teaching, and consulting focuses on the financial, business, and legal strategies that companies... View Details

        Keywords: investment banking industry; legal services

          Archie L. Jones

          Archie Jones is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School, where he currently teaches Venture Capital and Private Equity, Field... View Details

            David J. Collis

            For the past thirty years David J. Collis has been a professor at the Harvard Business School, where he was only the second ever full-time Adjunct Professor appointed. Previously, he was the Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Adjunct Professor, the MBA Class... View Details

            • 09 Jul 2014
            • Working Paper Summaries

            Activist Directors: Determinants and Consequences

            Keywords: by Ian D. Gow, Sa-Pyung Sean Shin & Suraj Srinivasan
            • 2009
            • Other Unpublished Work

            When Does Industrial Policy Work? Evidence from the Brazilian Ethanol Fuel Industry

            By: Santiago Mingo and Tarun Khanna
            What is the impact of a state-led industrial policy program on entrepreneurial activity, industry evolution, and firm competitiveness? How and when is industrial policy an effective tool to spur the development of an emerging industry? To address these questions, we... View Details
            Keywords: Economic Growth; Entrepreneurship; Policy; Industry Growth; Business and Government Relations; Competition; Energy Industry; Brazil
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            • December 2020 (Revised February 2021)
            • Case

            Kerry Group: Inspiring Food, Nourishing Life

            By: Forest L. Reinhardt, José B. Alvarez, Damien McLoughlin, Tonia Labruyere and Tonia Junker
            The Irish company Kerry Group, one of the leading global players in the taste and nutrition industry, wants to ensure its future growth in developing and developed markets. Founded in 1972 as a dairy cooperative, it had grown into a provider of taste and nutrition... View Details
            Keywords: Agribusiness; Environmental Sustainability; Food; Nutrition; Growth and Development Strategy; Global Range; Market Entry and Exit; Customer Relationship Management; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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            • 10 Sep 2013
            • First Look

            First Look: September 10

            blotting paper in 2009 using a grassroots marketing campaign. Identifying a 200-year-old book employed by Japanese geisha, Tsai started to diversify her product line into skin and other cosmetic products. The case ends in December 2010 with Tsai receiving an View Details
            Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
            • 19 Dec 2023
            • Research & Ideas

            15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023

            valuable commodity. Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover: Lessons in Strategic Change In October 2022, Elon Musk officially took Twitter private and became the company’s majority shareholder, finally ending a months-long acquisition saga. He... View Details
            Keywords: by Danielle Kost

              Cynthia A. Montgomery

              Professor Montgomery's research centers on strategy and corporate governance. Of particular interest are the unique roles leaders play in developing and implementing strategy; the means organizations use to create value across multiple lines of business; and issues... View Details

                Erik Stafford

                Erik Stafford joined the faculty at HBS in July 1999, where he has taught finance in the required and elective curricula of the MBA Program and in the CFA Investment Management Workshop.

                Erik's research efforts focus on investment management, capital... View Details

                Keywords: financial services
                • 13 Dec 2021
                • Research & Ideas

                The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams

                workers. Specifically, M&A deals can help women and people of color who are stuck in lower-level positions move up the ladder, according to research by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Letian Zhang. In analyzing more than 37,000 mergers and View Details
                Keywords: by Lane Lambert
                • December 2017 (Revised November 2018)
                • Case

                Tesla Motors (B): Merging with SolarCity

                By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah L. Abbott
                In 2016, electric car manufacturer Tesla announced that it was making an offer to acquire solar panel manufacturer SolarCity in an all-stock offer worth $2.6 billion in Tesla stock. Tesla’s co-founder and CEO, Elon Musk, believed that the merger would generate... View Details
                Keywords: M＆A; M＆A Valuation; Investing; Equities; Equity; Valuation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Auto Industry; Energy Industry; United States
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