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  • June 2012 (Revised March 2014)
  • Case

Best Buy in Crisis

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In June 2012, Best Buy was in crisis. In 1996, Best Buy overtook Circuit City as the world's leader in consumer electronics retailing; however, 18 years later, Best Buy now found this position threatened. With $51 billion in revenues, it was still the biggest CE... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Forecasting and Prediction; Competitive Strategy; Ethics; Management Teams; Consumer Products Industry; Electronics Industry; Retail Industry
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    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    3-Minute Briefing: Nathaniel Fick (MBA/MPA 2008)

    diagnostics? We need to make innovation our North Star. I’ll travel from South Asia to Central America to Eastern Europe to the West Coast, then repeat; I don’t even get jet lag anymore. I like to get up early in whatever city I’m in, run... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna
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    Chris Aguemon

    about your hometown? I won’t call Loudoun County, VA a small place necessarily but where I grew up has a small town feel with local foods, a historic downtown all while still having access to major airports and a major city in Washington... View Details
    • 01 Oct 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: October 1

    often cited as a success story of public disclosure. Hygiene grades influence customer decisions and serve as an accountability system for restaurants. However, cities (which are responsible for inspections) have limited resources to... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Mar 2024
    • News

    Game On

    seeing the need to shore up the club, McCarthy offered to help the Bird Key’s commodore navigate the tangle of permitting and agency signoffs. “You must go through federal, state, county, and city agencies, and you worry about the... View Details
    Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Edward Linsmier; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment
    • Web

    My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back - MBA

    Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
    • 20 Sep 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change

    French youth services organization Unis-Cité, which was modeled after the American nonprofit City Year. Credit:  Unis-Cité “If you do not innovate and have a solution to the problem you’ve identified, the movement will die,” she says. “I... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • Web

    Past Issues - Alumni

    dreams Complete Table of Contents June 2023 Curb Appeal Can Jessica Tisch (JD/MBA 2008) clean up New York City in her role as commissioner of the Department of Sanitation? Alumni Achievement Awards 2023 As leaders across the private,... View Details
    • 07 Nov 2023
    • News

    Love and Money

    professional photographer. Because everyone is Googling you or making snap judgments about you from your dating profile, from your LinkedIn profile, and I think too many of us don't pay attention to having a high-quality photo. So find a photographer in the person's... View Details
    • 01 Oct 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

    to shareholders. So any attempt to cut labor expense could well have provoked a public backlash—especially since at the time the company's home city of Schweinfurt had an unemployment rate of 16 percent. For publicly traded companies, the... View Details
    Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
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    Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online

    than other online programs (From a 2023 survey of participants across all HBS Online programs, conducted by City Square Associates). Better overall experience (From a 2023 survey of prospective learners, conducted by View Details
    • Web

    Frameworks & Key Concepts - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    Nations, regions, states and cities all require clear economic strategies that engage all stakeholders, boost innovation and ultimately improve productivity. Porter on Prosperity “National prosperity is created, not inherited. It does not... View Details
    • Web

    Curriculum - Business & Environment

    hazards on city streets? Wei and four schoolmates at Peking University had launched ofo on their campus with 1000 bikes in fall 2015. Since then, they had deployed 6.5 million. The question now was how many more? The Social Purpose of the... View Details
    • 08 Mar 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens

    many of its most influential citizens. Yet a small group of opponents catalyzed a local movement that, despite being outspent 1,500 to one by the bid’s boosters, ultimately caused the city to back out in 2015. [DAD can be appropriate for... View Details
    Keywords: by James K. Sebenius; Real Estate; Construction
    • 14 Sep 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings

    Work-from-home employees whose days seem longer, with more meetings and emails than ever before, may find a new Harvard Business School study validating. An analysis of the emails and meetings of 3.1 million people in 16 global cities... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost
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    The Caring Company

    Photos, Citi Pay Gap, Caregiving Crisis: Broadsheet January 17 Kristen Bellstrom & Emma Hinchliffe 17 Jan 2019 | Fortune Why Business Should Support Employees Who are Caregivers Danielle Kost 17 Jan 2019 | HBS Working Knowledge Harvard... View Details
    • 29 Jul 2021
    • Blog Post

    Exploring the Intersection of Business & Health Care: Summer Fellow Derek Soled (MD/MBA 2022)

    The HBS Summer Fellows Program enables students to apply their classroom training as they explore career opportunities in roles or regions where compensation is generally lower than the traditional MBA level. This summer, we are connecting with some of our 59 Social... View Details
    • Portrait Project

    Jourdan Henry

    I sat at a square, stainless-steel table that was cold to the touch. Two New York City Police Department detectives were on either side of me. I was interrogated as they sought to uncover why a juice box was missing or how a window was... View Details

      Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time

      One of the leading business thinkers in the world offers a bold, new theory of advanced leadership for tackling the world's complex, messy, and recalcitrant social and environmental problems.

      Over a decade ago, renowned innovation... View Details