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  • April 2010
  • Case

A Giant Among Women

By: Willy C. Shih, Ethan S Bernstein, Maly Hout Bernstein, Jyun-Cheng Wang and Yi-Ling Wei
Few CEOs successfully manage the evolution of their companies from OEM outsourcer to branded manufacturer to expert consumer marketer as well as Tony Lo, CEO of Giant Manufacturing Co. Ltd., now the largest bicycle manufacturer in the world. In the mid-1980s, Giant... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Customer Focus and Relationships; Global Strategy; Gender; Customer Satisfaction; Product Development; Bicycle Industry; Taiwan
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  • July 2020
  • Case

King's College Hospital in Crisis

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
On December 11, 2017, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (King’s), one of London’s leading teaching hospital groups, was put into “special measures” by NHS Improvement (NHSI), the financial regulator of England’s National Health Service (NHS). The future of... View Details
Keywords: Hospitals; Financing; Health Care and Treatment; Financial Condition; Crisis Management; Organizational Structure; Transformation; Strategic Planning; United Kingdom
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  • 08 Mar 2021
  • In Practice

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?

A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

the region might never recover, that people without water, electricity, and food would have to flee, the company would lose all its customers, and employees would lose their jobs. Yakult was certainly hurting—the company’s CFO noted that... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Aug 2021
  • Book

Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO

marketing was dreadful, and its finances would have collapsed had it not been for CFO Fred Anderson’s work. The world of computers was dominated by Microsoft, especially after the introduction of its breakthrough product, Windows 95, in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

CEO would turn to regarding acquisitions. Of course, his CFO would be pivotal. Continuing to map backwards from the CFO, we turned up an analyst in the finance department whom the CFO deeply respected and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 26 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Office of Strategy Management

collaborate with the CFO to "integrate" strategy into operational planning and budgeting. We have yet to see a CFO resist the effort to make the planning process more strategic and useful for the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 12 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Pay Workers More So They Steal Less

majority of CFOs for internal corporate control, emphasizes that adequate human resource practices such as "competitive compensation programs" play an important role in preventing fraud. According to Sandino and Chen, takeaways... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail
  • 05 Nov 2021
  • Op-Ed

Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?

considers Shibusawa’s foundational thinking as having a long-term vision; essentially “aiming for the North Star.” He was working as CFO of Mizuho Financial Group as the 2008 financial crisis took hold, which prompted him to reassess the... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Rei Morimoto; Financial Services; Retail
  • 18 Nov 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams

Reinforcing The Message The researchers expanded on that point in the last study, in which participants were asked to play the role of a management team tasked with advising the CEO on which CFO candidate to hire. In this case, the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 26 Nov 2001
  • Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

dishonest behavior to all parts of the company's management system and even to its relationships with outside parties. Managers start to feed misleading information to customers, suppliers, and employees, and the CEO and CFO begin to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
  • 26 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

When Silence Spells Trouble at Work

level of "consensus" they had achieved. One by one, team members celebrated their achievement. The head of marketing went first. "We made some great progress today," he said, "I'm excited—passionate—committed to the future. " The View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
  • 10 Jul 2007
  • What Do You Think?

How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?

emphasize developing good leadership drive an extra 10 percent premium in EPS , I think most CFOs and CEOs would salute those results." Several shifted the topic (or did they?) to followership, suggesting an interesting set of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 27 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 27

contribution is positively associated with proxies for quality of accruals and governance. Next, we investigate the implications of accruals' predictive value for accrual-based market anomalies. We find that portfolios formed on stock return predictions using... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward

negotiations with a potential acquirer's CEO. Instead, we researched who the CEO would turn to regarding acquisitions. Of course, his CFO would be pivotal. Continuing to map backward, we turned up an analyst in the finance department whom... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
  • 23 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 23

the CFO of Haley-Midland, Inc., dispensed with pleasantries and started right in on her questions for Jim Sweeney, the senior vice president of human resources, and Nancy Walters, Haley-Midland's vice president and treasurer, about the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 25

over how aggressively the company should try to grow, and those fights are threatening to derail Lynx's recent success. Purchase this supplement: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810029-PDF-ENG Wareham SC Systems, Inc. Harvard Business School Case 110-015 View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules

investors who met with the firm. The records spanned a six-year period between 2004 and 2010, in which a total of 340 investors held 935 meetings with company executives. Of those 935 meetings, the IRO was present at 858, the CEO at 831, the View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 18 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 18, 2008

the position of Brand Development Manager (BDM) to build the company's presence, sales, and relationships with its retail customers. After one year, the CEO, CFO and President must evaluate the impact of the BDM on retail customers, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 12

HawkinsHarvard Business School Case 111-065 CFO of German heavy equipment manufacturer examines through company examples potential impact of proposed changes to revenue recognition rules. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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