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    Jill J. Avery

    Dr. Jill Avery is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator in the marketing unit at Harvard Business School. She is a respected authority on branding and brand management, customer relationship... View Details

    Keywords: consumer products; arts; advertising; automobiles; retailing; fashion; hotels ＆ motels; food; beverage
    • 12 Dec 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: December 12, 2006

    people) or not served at all. Third, the products and services they offer are simpler and cheaper than alternatives, but recipients view them as good enough. Fourth, they bring... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
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    Robert Kimmel

    Robert Kimmel (HBS '03) brings 15 years of operations management and consulting experience. He enjoys working with students who are exploring moves into operational roles, considering a departure from... View Details
    Keywords: Consulting; Consulting; Consulting; Consulting; Consulting; Consulting
    • 01 Sep 2023
    • News

    That Was Then, This Is Now

    It started with a question. But before that, it started in the classroom. Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) loved the discussions in his LEAD course, taught by Professor (and now former Dean) Nitin Nohria; wanting to make them more tangible, Deifell adapted the idea of... View Details
    Keywords: Photographed by Tony Deifell (MBA 2002); edited by Julia Hanna. Above: Heidi Brooks, photographed in 2003 and 2023.; life experience; family; leadership

      George Serafeim

      George Serafeim is the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He co-leads a Lab, within Harvard's Digital, Data, Design Institute, and serves on the faculty steering commitee of Harvard University's Salata Institute. He... View Details

      Keywords: asset management; insurance industry; automobiles; industrial goods; fashion; food; green technology
      • April 2009 (Revised August 2010)
      • Case

      Buro Happold

      By: Robert G. Eccles and Kerry Herman
      Padraic Kelly became Managing Director (MD) of the engineering services firm Buro Happold in 1996. One of his first initiatives was "Aim for Growth," which was intended to help the firm grow beyond its current size where it was constrained by a structure of having each... View Details
      Keywords: Training; Entrepreneurship; Leadership Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Skills; Organizational Culture; Programs
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        Samuel L. Hayes

        Samuel L. Hayes holds the Jacob H. Schiff Chair in Investment Banking Emeritus, at the Harvard Business School.  He has taught at the School since 1970, prior to which he was a tenured member of the faculty of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He... View Details

        • 14 Nov 2007
        • First Look

        First Look: November 14, 2007

        PlaNet Finance was a French NGO providing technical support and training services to microfinance institutions (i.e., institutions providing financial View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace
        • 10 Mar 2022
        • Blog Post

        How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Vika Wasyliw

        had the opportunity to do engineering co-ops (longer-term internships) at three different companies. During these experiences, I noticed that the vast majority of technical leaders either had very strong business instincts View Details
        • Career Coach

        Connie Walsh

        team for $5B Staples Brands Group at Staples, Inc. She was responsible for marketing & developing product lines and brands across retail, contract, online and catalogue businesses View Details
        Keywords: Consumer Products; Retail; Social Enterprise; Technology

          Michael W. Toffel

          Professor Toffel is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management. His research examines how companies are addressing climate change (especially decarbonization) and other environmental and working condition issues in their operations and supply... View Details

          • February 1997 (Revised April 1997)
          • Case

          Harrington Financial Group

          By: Robert C. Merton and Alberto Moel
          In early 1997, Harrington Bank, a small Indiana savings and loan (thrift) wondered what its next move should be. Harrington was acquired in 1988 by the principals of Smith Breeden Associates, a money-management and consulting firm specializing in the application of... View Details
          Keywords: Banks and Banking; Mergers and Acquisitions; Price; Risk Management; Mortgages; Contracts; Asset Management; Investment; Financial Services Industry
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          • 10 May 2020
          • Blog Post

          Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

          before. I wasn’t sure. I made a calculated decision to have a baby at business school. Sure, I could have deferred for a year and taken advantage of my consulting firm’s generous maternity leave policy. Yet,... View Details
          • 04 Dec 2012
          • First Look

          First Look: December 4

          Sustaining Innovation When Outsourcing Components in Multi-technology, Multi-component Systems Authors:Ian Mackenzie and Casimer DeCusatis Publication:Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice... View Details
          Keywords: Carmen Nobel
          • 23 Nov 1999
          • Research & Ideas

          What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?

          Some large consulting companies, such as Andersen Consuiting and Ernst & Young, have pursued a codification strategy. Over the last five years, they have developed elaborate ways to codify, store, View Details
          Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen, Nitin Nohria & Thomas Tierney; Consulting
          • July 2019 (Revised May 2021)
          • Case

          Acelerex

          By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
          In early 2019, Randell Johnson, Founder and Chief Executive of Acelerex, was reflecting on the company’s first year of rapid growth and the challenges of scaling the business that lay ahead. Acelerex was riding the waves of change taking place in electrical power grids... View Details
          Keywords: Energy; Energy Sources; Growth Management; Expansion; Global Strategy; Cash Flow; Web Services Industry; Web Services Industry; Web Services Industry
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            Ray A. Goldberg

            A native of North Dakota, Dr. Goldberg received his A.B. from Harvard University in 1948, his MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in 1950 and his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Minnesota in 1952.

            ... View Details

            Keywords: agribusiness; agriculture; fast food; food; food processing; forest products; grocery; high technology; information; restaurant; retailing; soft drink; textiles; tobacco; transportation; wholesale; wine
            • 14 Apr 2015
            • First Look

            First Look: April 14

            management and continuous improvement, as well as the dynamics of service competition in a rapidly growing market. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/615043-PDF-ENG Harvard Business... View Details
            Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

              Lauren H. Cohen

              Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

              Keywords: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services
              • 15 Oct 2001
              • Research & Ideas

              Rethinking E-Leadership

              Chuang, CEO of Aquent, an employment services company headquartered in Boston. In roughly half of the new initiatives Aquent has invested in over the last few years, Chuang estimates, "we have gotten too excited about a new product... View Details
              Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni