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- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
Photos by Nancee Lewis The kind of private schools Chris Crane (MBA 1976) invests in have cement floors, no glass in the windows, cramped quarters, and just enough food on hand for the students to eat. “I see mothers labor in the... View Details
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
guide. Clear articulation of values and principles helps employees choose among alternatives in a consistent manner. "One Cemex, we are only one Cemex," CEO Lorenzo Zambrano declared to me. The Mexican company is one of the world's top View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
focusing and winning with one choice protect for, or better enable, the latter—or does it actually make it harder? In Saga’s case, focusing on unlocking the individual user growth will create more credibility when working with partners. But bringing on partners without... View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
wanted to work with nonprofits, and Habitat offered a way to begin learning on-the-ground skills like transporting cement blocks over crumbling roads in time to build a house. The plan after graduating from HBS was to work in the... View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
advisor to Liberian president and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a 1971 graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School, wrote the policy memorandum at the request of the Liberian government, which seeks fast growth of its own. To View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- Profile
Arthur Rock
people can’t handle that stage and that is of course what happened at Apple.” By 1993, the board decided it was time for Sculley to go as well and Rock left the Apple board shortly thereafter. He continued to invest in startups and cement... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
Challenges of Cement Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image Credit: HBSWK with assets from AdobeStock/Igor Groshev and AdobeStock/vectorfusionart. View Details
- Blog
How the Pandemic Changed Case Development in Latin America
often helped to cement valuable relationships with case protagonists. "These executives have become our friends and are often happy to attend HBS admissions or alumni events. They want to help HBS," explained Cal. That said, the team... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
forces, he says. “The government feels like a well-run organization, and that’s new for this country.” Changing the private sector will take longer. A whole host of structural impediments predated the populist government by several decades, says Titan View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
that women could lead in war and must enjoy equal rights. In helping to cement the territorial defeat of ISIS, whose savagery toward women astounded the world, these women played a central role in neutralizing the threat the group posed... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
spaces and to make its mark worldwide. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/519023-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 518-063 Measuring True Value at Ambuja Cement The case discusses the measurement of social and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
populist leaders who made scapegoats of refugees, immigrants, and minorities. "If we stay the course and fail to change, we will continue to further destroy the planet and further cement inequality." These tensions between neoliberalism... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
manageable? A second challenge is to figure out how to further expand ShondaLand. How could Rhimes best build her portfolio and further cement ShondaLand's place in television history? Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
Centre. “It was time to cash in on my public profile and cement the connection in people’s minds between training and job placement and Sarina Russo,” she explains. To fill the center’s nine vacant floors, Russo won government contracts... View Details
- 15 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives
period. And over the past 10 years it realized an average total ROE of nearly 20 percent, versus negative 1 percent for the S&P 500. Others are Cemex (historically, good returns in the cement business!) and Ryanair (good returns in... View Details
- 04 May 2018
- News
How to Win the Kentucky Derby
Terry Finley: I used to go to the race track after school with my father on a regular basis, and all my brothers and sisters—actually four brothers are in the construction business. They're all in the cement mason business, and in the... View Details
Keywords: horse racing
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
out for a beer, women might feel uncomfortable, but perhaps won’t say anything. They may try to become one of the boys in certain environments to try to cement their place in the organization. The courts have said, in certain... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
interactive and integrative components of channel strategy. Unfortunately, however, most firms—regardless of their place in a given channel—do not manage their go-to-market strategies in that inclusive way. Once they carve out a profile, channel structures slowly... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
much would change. Maybe the Iraqi military would fall under the control of the Shia-Islamist parties, something that the United States is now trying to stop, but not very successfully. The Sunni insurgents would take over most of the Sunni provinces. And a U.S.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
MBA degrees handed out nationally. But more importantly, HBS was cementing its identity, centered on the powerful pedagogy of the case method and on the entire MBA experience as a unique and transformational event. Indeed, the School had... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna