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- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Jorge Redmond, CEO of Chocolates El Rey, called a meeting with senior management to discuss the company's growth strategy. A relatively small firm with sales of around $14 million, El Rey produced top quality chocolate made with single... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
value in the nonprofit, private, and public sectors. Over the years, interest among faculty and students has steadily grown, says Childress, who served as SEI’s executive director for four years before joining the faculty. Since the... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Lou Wells taught me what I think of as ‘granular mastery’—that all truth is found in specific detail,” says Bradley, who as a student researched and wrote an article for Harvard Business Review about the overseas expropriation of US... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
coauthored by Professor Tom Eisenmann and researcher Lisa Mazzanti, is under discussion by first-year students in The Entrepreneurial Manager. Wallace has the opportunity to offer a firsthand perspective and listen as her decision points... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
specializing in building and managing prisons. Students must assess the firm's strategy and risks, evaluate key financial reports, derive forecasts of future performance, and use these forecasts to value the firm. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
door to his studio, Yoga by Donation, is never locked. Students slide dollar bills or, occasionally, tens and twenties into a black safe on an unattended reception desk before slipping off their shoes and finding a spot on the floor of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
unhappy? He then challenges his students to consider what they have learned at HBS that will help guide their own choices about career and family. In 2010, at the request of one of his students, Christensen shared his thoughts about... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
trusted brand in business. Building a Winning Career: A complete guide to securing and thriving in your ideal senior role By William Cowan (MBA 1972) Stradis Pty LTD Do you know how to seek out and win your next executive role? Are you... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
809-073 The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is one of the largest and fastest-growing pools of investment capital in the world and follows an unusually active program of investment management. In the market turmoil of late 2008, Mark Wiseman, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
Publications October 2014 John Wiley & Sons International Strategy: Context, Concepts and Implications By: Collis, David J. Abstract—This book is designed for every student who will be involved in managing and advising companies... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
people it affects, the more important it is that the apology be pitch-perfect. Once a company decides that an apology is necessary, it needs to carefully consider the who, what, where, when, and how of executing it. For core violations, the "who" has to be... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
funds. Such decisions would matter from the perspective of generations of students and faculty who depended on HMC maximizing returns and getting the balance of the Harvard portfolio right. Purchase this case: View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
(IMM), a measure of the social value created by a company per equity dollar invested. If a company fails to meet the IMM threshold, Rise will not invest in it. The case finds McGlashan and Maya Chorengel (HBS MBA ’97), Rise’s senior... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Oral Histories | Baker Library
Virginia. When I was growing up in Virginia, it didn't even exist. It's one of these big emerging state universities that is growing by leaps and bounds and has 10,000 students and ten years before that hadn't even existed. And I was... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
gathered from interviews with senior executives at about five hundred major companies in China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Deshpandé and his team discovered that many of the "strategic levers" essential to high... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
industries such as agriculture and biofuels. As GenapSys came closer to releasing its product, Esfandyarpour and his Senior Director of Operations and Strategy, Leila Rastegar (HBS '11), sat down to decide which of three business models... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
face. More than 1,500 MBA students at Harvard Business School have experienced these groups since 2005, as well as participants in executive education courses and World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders. Evaluations about their True... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
integration and degree of structural differentiation together affect a firm's ability to explore and exploit. We suggest that the senior team's ability to attend to and deal with contradictory internal architectures is a crucial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
including a full or partial sale of the firm. Students must assess the firm's strategy including the key risks and success factors associated with this industry; evaluate basic financial reports; assess the firm's past performance;... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Oct 2024
- In Practice
Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged
“no” to enough things to ensure we have slack in the system? After all, the patterns of burnout are often predictable, and planned downtime is cheaper than unplanned downtime. Christina Wallace is a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne