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- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
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more economically developed countries. But they do have something else: each other. "Peer groups are often used as a commitment device to achieve personal goals, but there has been little empirical evidence evaluating their... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
describe it—in a way that applies to health care or any industry—is innovation that transforms a product or service that historically has been very complicated and expensive into something that is affordable... View Details
- June 2013
- Case
Ken Traub at American Bank Note Holographics
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Michael Norris
Ken Traub is hired as CFO for American Bank Note Holographics, the market-leading security holograph company in January 1999, but discovers on his first day that the company has misstated its financials and resigns. After consulting with the company for the next... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Moral Sensibility; Earnings Management; Crime and Corruption; Personal Development and Career; Management Teams; Service Industry; Service Industry; United States
Srinivasan, Suraj, and Michael Norris. "Ken Traub at American Bank Note Holographics." Harvard Business School Case 113-073, June 2013.
- 18 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?
missing the consequences and longer-term effects.” UNEQUAL PAY FALLOUT Partnerships remain key to the way the professional service and investment sectors are run. Previous... View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
- News
A Storybook Beginning
constantly: POM and Service Management,” he states. “Ordering 500 Kindles, shipping them halfway around the world, getting them, intact, through customs and to schools way off... View Details
- August 1997 (Revised September 1997)
- Case
GMIMCo Venture Capital: September 1996
By: Josh Lerner, Peter Wendell and Catherine M. Conneely
Kathryn Stokel must choose between three venture capital groups (if any) in which to invest the pension fund of General Motors Corp. Each has distinct strengths and weaknesses. View Details
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
provide insights for marketers and the advertising industry. Until as recently as last year, for instance, most Internet advertising had been Web-sponsored, promoting firms such as Internet service... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- September 2010 (Revised December 2010)
- Case
Santander Consumer Finance
By: J. Gunnar Trumbull, Elena Corsi and Andrew Barron
A Spanish company has to decide if they should expand into the fragmented European consumer finance market and has to make important organizational strategy decisions in the midst of the world economic downturn that followed the 2007 U.S. credit crunch. Since 2002, the... View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Financial Markets; International Finance; Personal Finance; Consolidation; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Financial Services Industry; European Union; Spain
Trumbull, J. Gunnar, Elena Corsi, and Andrew Barron. "Santander Consumer Finance." Harvard Business School Case 711-015, September 2010. (Revised December 2010.)
- Career Coach
Jill Huggett
Jill Huggett (Carroll '00), Principal, Bridgepath Career Advisors, is a certified professional career coach and certified professional resume writer. Jill combines professional coaching theory with her previous experience as a financial... View Details
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- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
group interested us most. They saw the possibility of building businesses using the kinds of innovation and technology that brought millions of rural poor into the market system (as China Mobile did by bringing mobile phone View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Faculty Books
True North Groups: A Powerful Path to Personal and Leadership Development by Bill George and Doug Baker (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) Incorporating recent research in psychology... View Details
- 26 Oct 2015
- News
Ron Johnson’s Post-Penney’s Rebirth
The November issue of Fast Company has a profile of Ron Johnson (MBA 1984)—former Apple retail guru and JC Penney CEO. Johnson’s now at the helm of a consumer electronics startup, Enjoy, that focuses on View Details
- Career Coach
Ildi Nielsen
and consumer products companies. Ildi also spent 12 years as an Executive Search Consultant in New York and Chicago for financial services firms. She worked with senior... View Details
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- January 2008 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
Uría Menéndez (A)
By: Robert G. Eccles
Uria Menendez, the pre-eminent law firm in Iberia, is at a critical point in its long and distinguished history. Its newly appointed second generation co-managing Partners are facing some critical strategic decisions concerning how the firm should position itself in... View Details
Keywords: Global Strategy; Networks; Selection and Staffing; Work-Life Balance; Compensation and Benefits; Decision Making; Expansion; Legal Services Industry; Iberian Peninsula
Eccles, Robert G. "Uría Menéndez (A)." Harvard Business School Case 408-088, January 2008. (Revised March 2008.)
- Career Coach
Kristin Brennan
candidates, and moving across the boundaries of strategy consulting or professional services roles v. operating roles with direct line authority. Prior to her current role, Kristin worked in leadership... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise
- 09 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Veterans Day Reflections
the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience the case method classroom and walk around an iconic campus. I was shocked and surprised by the personalized attention I... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
advisers that what I was seeing was reproducible and scientifically valid. It also just happened to be personally valid for me." “Having the net made these people more willing to walk on the high wire.”... View Details
- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
determination of compensation and, if so, how? Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making Our natural tendency to maintain silence and not rock the boat, a flaw at once personal View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
private life. These honorees, like their predecessors, are often in the limelight by virtue of their notable accomplishments and high-level positions in the private and public sectors. Curious about the... View Details
Leonard A. Lauder
stellar financial results while successfully launching a series of new products. His attention to detail, focus on quality, and personal service have become standards for the... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products