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  • June 2011 (Revised June 2013)
  • Case

Sino-Ocean Land: Responding to Change

By: Nicolas P. Retsinas, Jeffrey Hu and Runjiao Xu
In 2010, Sino-Ocean Land Holdings Limited was a highly successful, large real estate developer based in Beijing, China. Sino-Ocean Land had three main business segments—property development, property investment/management, and other real estate related businesses. From... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategic Planning; Diversification; Property; Policy; State Ownership; Business Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Real Estate Industry; Beijing
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  • 25 Nov 2015
  • News

HHL Awards Honorary Doctorate to Harvard Professor Stefan H. Thomke

  • 25 Aug 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Managerial Practices That Promote Voice and Taking Charge among Frontline Workers

Keywords: by Julia Rose Adler-Milstein, Sara J. Singer & Michael W. Toffel; Health
  • 30 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

need to get shareholders more engaged? What shape should the separation of management and ownership take in the twenty-first century?” “We are now in a situation where index investors are the major shareholders in most of the large- and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • September 2013
  • Case

United Rentals (A)

By: Jay W. Lorsch, Kathleen Durante and Emily McTague

In December 1997 United Rentals (URI) went public on the NYSE. Ten years later, during the peak of the economic meltdown, the company's performance was in decline. United Rentals had experienced its share of problems in the prior years and was still struggling to... View Details

Keywords: Board Of Directors; Board Dynamics; Accounting Fraud; Governance; Board Committees; Merger; Corporate Governance; Construction Industry; United States
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    Steven C. Wheelwright

    Steve Wheelwright is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School.

    Following his retirement from HBS in 2006, he served with former Dean Kim B. Clark at BYU-Idaho and then from 2007-2015 he served as... View Details

      Jon M. Jachimowicz

      Jon M. Jachimowicz is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches the Leadership and Organizational Behavior course (LEAD) in the Required Curriculum. He studies... View Details

      • 13 Mar 2005
      • Research & Ideas

      The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands

      Are brand management issues faced by a powerful for-profit company such as Toyota the same as those navigated by an international non-government organization (NGO) such as the Red Cross? Yes and no. In their new book, The New Global... View Details
      Keywords: by Manda Salls
      • 03 Nov 2021
      • Blog Post

      Alumni Viewpoints: Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

      critical role in global society. In the lead-up to COP26, the Business and Environment Initiative asked HBS alumni business leaders from a wide range of sectors and disciplines what they see as the role of business and business leaders in... View Details

        Stephen A. Greyser

        Stephen A. Greyser is Richard P. Chapman Professor (Marketing/Communications) Emeritus, of the Harvard Business School, specializes in brand marketing, advertising, corporate communications, the business of sports, and nonprofit management.  A... View Details

        Keywords: sports
        • 03 Dec 2020
        • Research & Ideas

        Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

        many companies is that widespread salary cuts may not be workable because of existing employee agreements. Furloughs A furlough is a mandated unpaid leave of absence, utilized by private (such as General Motors during the 2019 United Auto Workers strike) and View Details
        Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

          George A. Riedel

          George A. Riedel is the Henry B. Arthur Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit, where he currently teaches TEM (The Entrepreneurial Manager) and acts as a Section Chair in the Required Curriculum (RC). He has also taught TOM (Technology and... View Details

          • April 14, 2017
          • Article

          Companies Like United Need to Cultivate Good Judgment, and Free Their Employees to Use It

          By: John A. Deighton
          United Airlines has pledged to improve its training programs and empower its employees to put customers first in the wake of a video showing a passenger being dragged from a plane. Of all the U.S. air carriers, United should have known the power of social media and... View Details
          Keywords: Crisis Management; Customer Focus and Relationships; Employees; Training; Air Transportation Industry
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          • 04 Aug 2009
          • First Look

          First Look: August 4

          709-474 In 2005, Partners in Health (PIH) was invited by the Rwandan Ministry of Health to assume responsibility for the management of public health care in two rural districts in Eastern Rwanda and create... View Details
          Keywords: Martha Lagace
          • 19 Aug 2021
          • Op-Ed

          Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control

          officers—some of the military’s most senior leaders—sometimes assume that great officers leave the military for the private sector because they want to make more money. In reality, some of those officers move on because their needs have... View Details
          Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
          • 09 Jan 2018
          • First Look

          First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018

          December 13, 2017 Harvard Business Review What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager By: Austin, Julia Abstract—As an aspiring product manager (PM), there are three primary considerations when... View Details
          Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

            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
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            The Evolution of Science-Based Business: Innovating How We Innovate

            By: Gary P. Pisano
            Science has long been connected to innovation and to business. As early as the late 19th century, chemical companies, realizing the commercial potential of science, created the first industrial research laboratories. During much of the 20th century, large-scale... View Details
            Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Governance; Innovation and Management; Risk Management; Research and Development; Science-Based Business; Commercialization
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            • February 2008 (Revised June 2008)
            • Case

            Shoppers' Stop Group (SSG)

            By: Rajiv Lal and Virginia Fuller
            As B.S. Nagesh thumbed through the 2006-2007 Annual Report for Shoppers' Stop Group (SSG), action shots of healthy-looking people dressed in the latest fashions amid the words "Redefining Retail" brought a smile to his face. As managing director of SSG-a Rs 8.9 billion... View Details
            Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Initial Public Offering; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Emerging Markets; Retail Industry; India
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            • August 2004 (Revised February 2006)
            • Case

            Marketing James Patterson

            By: John A. Deighton
            Can a successful novelist use direct-to-consumer marketing to grow his brand? The author, who in a previous career ran a major advertising agency, uses advertising with great success to build his stature as a crime fiction writer. Further, he applies his experience at... View Details
            Keywords: Advertising; Debates; Surveys; SWOT Analysis; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Outcome or Result; Sales
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