Filter Results:
(1,484)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(4,616)
- People (9)
- News (1,923)
- Research (1,484)
- Events (20)
- Multimedia (146)
- Faculty Publications (976)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(4,616)
- People (9)
- News (1,923)
- Research (1,484)
- Events (20)
- Multimedia (146)
- Faculty Publications (976)
Sort by
- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
MaterialsColgate Max Fresh: Global Brand Roll-Out Harvard Business School Case 508-009 In February 2005, Nigel Burton, in his third year as president of global oral care at Colgate-Palmolive Company (CP), had every reason to feel... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative
allows them to function in an environment characterized by risk, instability, and the unknown. Indeed, many collaborations evolve in rather unpredictable ways, depending to a great extent on trust and confidence. Pfizer Executive Vice View Details
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Will American Brands Be a Casualty of War?
In a recent op-ed piece for the Sunday London Times, Harvard Business School professor John Quelch warned that popular U.S. brands could be in for a rough ride overseas should anti-American sentiment grow over President Bush's handling of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
Budget Impasse, 2001–2019, draws on recent government documents to explore America's economic performance since 2001, the ideology and effects of the Bush tax cuts, Obama's fiscal stimulus in 2009, the Trump tax cuts in 2017, the bipartisan budget deal in 2018, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
immigration trend related to the growing number of Western-educated Chinese? A: Over 300,000 Chinese students enrolled in various US colleges and universities last year. President Xi Jinping’s own daughter graduated from Harvard a few... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
Bros. Coffee: A Compelling Future Travis Boersma, cofounder and president of the Dutch Bros. coffee chain, faces three operational decisions that will shape the company's growth trajectory and distinctive culture. First, should they offer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
Jr. (MBA '56), former head of McKinsey & Company worldwide and president of The Bendix Corporation and now chairman and CEO of Avenir, a private investment group, became founding chairman of the Trinity Forum in 1991. An "academy... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
Harvard Business School Case 307-091 Mark Ernst, the Chairman, CEO and President of H&R Block, has to decide how to respond to a competitive threat posed by a competitor's refund-lending product. Block is the largest U.S. tax... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
iStock Even as President Donald Trump and Republican leaders seem set on a course to weaken Obama-administration consumer protection regulations, a soon-to-be-published study reports that 7.3 percent of financial advisors in the United... View Details
- 16 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘The Strategist’
executives in Harvard's Entrepreneur, Owner, President (EOP) program. During that time, she realized that many of her students hadn't spent much time thinking about their own companies' strategies. In this excerpt, Montgomery describes a... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
as Egyptian and Syrian disengagement accords with Israel following their 1973 war. Along with diverse political leaders, diplomats, and business executives, every U.S. President since John F. Kennedy—including President-elect Donald Trump... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
companies devised political strategies that maneuvered a reluctant President Roosevelt into supporting their interests, and the Mexican government more than fully compensated them as a result. Neither wages for oil workers nor Mexican... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
1910, faster than the contemporary United States. "A dog with a bone in its mouth neither barks nor bites," Diaz is reported to have said. When Franciso Madero became Mexico's new president in 1911, he attempted to govern as a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 10 Nov 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones
stock valuation President Trump’s executive order in June suspending new work visas barred nearly 200,000 foreign workers from entering the United States and prevents American companies from hiring skilled immigrants using H-1B or L1... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors
period of intense reflection, Cisco’s board determined that they would need a more innovative mindset to compete in a rapidly changing industry, and leapfrogged over the company’s two presidents to name the head of sales its new CEO.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Oct 2017
- Research Event
In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?
Design. With extensive background experience in digital content, most recently as executive vice president of product and technology at the New York Times, Kinsey Wilson, currently a visiting fellow at the Shorenstein Center, had a... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands
far. Boston Red Sox baseball player David Ortiz took a selfie with President Obama, which seemed playful at first until it was later revealed that he had done so on behalf of Samsung cameras. Some fans are not amused when the "soft edge... View Details
- 19 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 19
http://hbr.org/search/314034-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 914-013 The Morning Star Company: Self-Management at Work Morning Star, a collection of affiliated companies, had grown steadily since 1970 when Chris Rufer, president and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
Fed plays a role in all this? A: There has been a creeping politicization of the Fed. Over the years, a number of Fed chairmen have overtly fought against that, despite the fact that presidents of various stripes would periodically take... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
the next phase of his life. For the first two years after selling CircleLending—a pioneer in the person-to-person lending field—to Richard Branson, he stayed on as president and CEO of Virgin Money USA. Now resigned, he has decided to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace