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- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Sound Bites: A Degree of Hope
Stephen Moret (MBA 2001) President and CEO, the Strada Education Foundation Illustration by John S. Dykes I grew up as the son of a single mother in rural Mississippi. And while we were never legally poor, there was that sense of economic insecurity the whole way. And... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
price. Included is a summary of US newspapers' diminished circulation and advertising revenues over the past decade, as readers turned from print to more immediate sources of news. Coupled with rising printing, paper, and labor costs, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Up by the Roots
division and in time, had a revelation: “Seeing some of the trends in organic foods, I could see a lot of interest in the return to slow food and family farming,” he recalls. “I had a feeling the ginseng market had to turn around.” + ONLINE web-only content The Hard... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Real Estate: A Local Business Goes Global
Real estate has traditionally been a local business, but more and more, it’s becoming global, the same way so many other businesses have. On a year-to-year basis, we’ve been seeing global cross-border flows into real estate increase by 10 percent. In 2017, we continued... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
Francisco A. Lorenzo
Lorenzo took over the fledgling Texas International Airways in 1972 and through major acquisitions including Continental Airlines, he built it into one of the country’s largest airline carriers. Lorenzo was skillful at managing government... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
Issue Focus: The Global Manager Fields Photo courtesy FORD Motor Company Issue Focus: The Global Manager Around the World They Call Him Mr. China Think Locally, Act Globally No disrespect to Detroit and... View Details
William M. Wood
After successfully managing a mill for his father in-law, Frederick Ayer, Wood organized the American Woolen Mills Company in 1899, combining the enterprises of Ayer and several other businessmen. Capitalized at $60 million, American... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Learning to Speak the Language of Business
Mikitani Main article: Where Innovation Rules Case study: Englishnization at Rakuten From Pinterest to Kobo, how Japan's Rakuten is building a global internet giant (Wired.co.uk) You might call Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA 1993) the Jeff Bezos of Japan. Both lead hugely... View Details
- 10 Apr 2008
- News
The Sum of Our Own Greatness
Group: Tom Ryder, David Habeeb, and Ruth Page. Inspiration for the title came from a Theodore Roosevelt quote: “We cannot do great deeds as a nation unless we are willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.” For Ryder, who confesses that the film... View Details
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Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise Course Number 1731 Associate Professor Zoe Cullen Professor of Management Practice Shikhar Ghosh Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 12 Sessions Project Course... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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Case Study: Welcome Aboard
manage their assets, tenants, and leasing, the software solutions that Lerner and Holder supported offered the promise of a cutting-edge solution. The implementation process once a customer signed on, however, could be a struggle, with... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Books
think about these subjects. High Commitment, High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage by Michael Beer (Jossey-Bass) Drawing on many management studies and his work with senior managers, Professor... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Core Values Keep Airline Flying High
changing labor force, and heightened competition is a tremendous challenge. During the interview, Southwest's managers said that they have to constantly reinvent their processes to adapt to the changing... View Details
Charles Erwin Wilson
Despite his reluctance to produce military goods, Wilson was nonetheless an excellent manager during World War II and helped his company garner over $14 billion worth of military contracts. In the post war era, Wilson’s success continued... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- November 1989
- Case
IBM Corp.: The Full Employment Practice (Condensed)
By: D. Quinn Mills and G. Bruce Friesen
Keywords: Employment; Management Practices and Processes; Computer Industry; Information Technology Industry
Mills, D. Quinn, and G. Bruce Friesen. "IBM Corp.: The Full Employment Practice (Condensed)." Harvard Business School Case 490-009, November 1989.
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Venture: Time Heals All
Assembling a nursing schedule for a hospital ward can be surprisingly difficult—a little like playing three-dimensional Tetris, says Ilana Springer Borkenstein (MBA 2022). “It is a really challenging, tedious task.” Nurse managers must take into consideration a host of... View Details
- July 1979
- Case
Coal Strike of 1977-78 (B)
By: D. Quinn Mills and Richard O. von Werssowetz
Mills, D. Quinn, and Richard O. von Werssowetz. "Coal Strike of 1977-78 (B)." Harvard Business School Case 679-132, July 1979.
- July 1979 (Revised December 1981)
- Case
Coal Strike of 1977-78 (A)
By: D. Quinn Mills and Richard O. von Werssowetz
Mills, D. Quinn, and Richard O. von Werssowetz. "Coal Strike of 1977-78 (A)." Harvard Business School Case 679-131, July 1979. (Revised December 1981.)
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Rapid Response: Inside the Retailing Revolution
years of extensive study, including a comprehensive database compiled under the aegis of the Harvard Center for Textile and Apparel Research (HCTAR). The keys to success in an age of product proliferation, the authors found, are no longer economies of scale and cheap... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
illustration by Pablo Amargo illustration by Pablo Amargo There is a doctor shortage in the United States, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges, which predicts that the deficit could increase to more than 90,000 doctors by 2025. Meanwhile, the... View Details
Keywords: April White