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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
public school teachers (CalSTRS) was mandated by his board to “prioritize engagement with makers and retailers of firearms in California” following a series of gun-related tragedies in schools. While CalSTRS had a long history of engagement and even divestment, as a... View Details
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HBS - The year in Review
virtual Executive Education programs 14,000 hybrid classroom hours across 16 classrooms Harvard Business Publishing Leadership Change In February 2021, Harvard Business Publishing announced the retirement of... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
funds to support them. As these students search for role models, they would do well to look to their benefactor, who worked his way up from the streets of Brooklyn to the top of the business world. Ann M. Fudge (MBA '77) Executive Vice... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
that distinguish top performance." What matters to Egon Zehnder? Sure, the founder of one of the world's largest executive search firms believes that new hires must possess piercing intellectual skills and résumés that ring with... View Details
- 19 Apr 2024
- News
Alumni Host Energy CEO Summit in Houston; Austin Club Co-Hosts SXSW Reception
Clubs News Clubs News Houston Alumni Host Annual Energy CEO Summit The HBS Club of Houston presented its fourth annual Energy CEO Summit on April 3, which featured four of the industry’s top CEOs discussing trends and challenges around the theme of “Energy Security and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
Company executives would have to make a choice of whether and how to cut their workforce costs—either through mass layoffs or furloughs. Our goal with the case was to explore the tradeoffs between these two forms of employee cost... View Details
- 29 Nov 2023
- News
A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway
Clubs News Clubs News Southern California Holiday Gala Will Boost Scholarship Fund After a brief hiatus due to the pandemic, the HBS Association of Southern California (HBSASC) is once again hosting its annual Holiday Benefit Gala on December 9 to support the HBSASC... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
crises. Participants will leave this session understanding the state of the art in identifying financial market bubbles, and how predictable crises are. Women Protagonists: On and Off the Page Carin Knoop (MBA 1994), Executive Director,... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
management—most believe the world is behind where it should be to achieve net-zero by 2050. Therefore, it is incumbent on all business leaders to aggressively execute against their companies’ net-zero plan. Aris Papadopoulos (MBA 1985)... View Details
- January 2021 (Revised April 2022)
- Case
Best Buy's Corie Barry: Confronting the COVID-19 Pandemic
By: William W. George and Amram Migdal
This case examines the leadership of Corie Barry, the new CEO of Best Buy, with a focus on actions the company took in 2020 to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic. The case includes a history of Best Buy’s strategy and leadership, including the transitions between the... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Change; Disruption; Volatility; Communication; Competency and Skills; Customers; Decision Making; Ethics; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Cash Flow; Financial Condition; Financial Liquidity; Goods and Commodities; Corporate Governance; Health Pandemics; Human Resources; Executive Compensation; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Resignation and Termination; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Innovation and Invention; Jobs and Positions; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Job Design and Levels; Job Interviews; Job Offer; Labor; Employment; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Law; Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Management; Business or Company Management; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Management Style; Management Succession; Management Systems; Management Teams; Risk Management; Operations; Distribution; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Logistics; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Supply Chain; Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Outcome or Result; Personal Development and Career; Retirement; Work-Life Balance; Planning; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Relationships; Business and Community Relations; Labor and Management Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Safety; Science; Strategy; Retail Industry; North and Central America; United States; Minnesota
George, William W., and Amram Migdal. "Best Buy's Corie Barry: Confronting the COVID-19 Pandemic." Harvard Business School Case 321-073, January 2021. (Revised April 2022.)
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
business management, organizational behavior, entrepreneurship, and strategy. He reached many students and researchers, but he reached a lot of businesspeople as well. I'm struck by how many executives have read what he wrote and how much... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
characterize the direct effects that changes in that price index would have on retirees who differ in their initial wealth at retirement and in their mortality rates after retirement. I propose a simple but flexible theoretical framework... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
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Donaldson Room | About
Donaldson Room The Donaldson Room, located within the Emeriti Faculty Center of Cumnock Hall , was named to honor the service of Professor Gordon Donaldson. About the Name The Donaldson Room in Cumnock Hall was dedicated in 1993 upon the View Details
- Career Coach
Martha Tassinari
Martha (HBS '94) has been an executive coach and career counselor at HBS since 2007. She has helped thousands of MBA students, Alumni and Executive Education participants (GMP, PLD, OPM, New Path) identify... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
In Memoriam
HBS professor J. Keith Butters, an authority on finance and taxation, died in Lexington, Massachusetts, in December. He was 90. The Thomas D. Casserly Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, Butters retired from the HBS... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Professor Barnes Remembered
Executive Education programs until his retirement from the active faculty in 1998. He also worked to improve classroom instruction at HBS and throughout Harvard. His HBS colleague, Senior Lecturer John... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
Samuel M. Zemurray
Zemurray made his first fortune with the Honduras-based Cuyamel Fruit Company, and intended to retire when, in 1930, he sold the company to United Fruit in exchange for stock in the larger firm. A falling stock market, however, forced him... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
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HBS Cases | Baker Library
HBS Cases About the Case Method Harvard Business School pioneered the case method of teaching in the 1920s as a way of bringing management lessons to life in the classroom. The HBS case method presents real-life situations that executives... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Professors Pearson, Thurston Remembered
Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, Philip H. Thurston (DBA ’59) died March 24 at his home in Weston, Massachusetts. He was 87. Thurston joined the faculty in 1958 and taught thousands of MBA, Doctoral, and Executive Education... View Details