Fortune 500 - Publications - Faculty & Research

Henry W. McGee

Henry McGee joined the HBS faculty in 2013 after retiring as President of HBO Home Entertainment, the digital and DVD program distribution division of Home Box Office, the pioneering premium television company. A member of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit,... View Details

Keywords: television; motion pictures; media; e-commerce industry; entertainment; broadcasting; distribution; health care; journalism; wholesale; arts; nonprofit industry

February 2015 (Revised June 2017)
Case

Intrapreneurship at DaVita HealthCare Partners

By: Joseph B. Fuller, David J. Collis and Matthew G. Preble

Josh Golomb, president and general manager of DaVita Rx (Rx), was about to meet with Kent Thiry, CEO of Rx's corporate parent, DaVita Healthcare Partners Inc. (DaVita), in August 2013. The two would discuss whether Golomb should lead a new DaVita venture, Paladina... View Details

Keywords: Intrapreneurship; Entrepreneurial Organizations; Startup Management; Startup; Strategic Positioning; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Corporate Strategy; Business Startups; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Health Industry; United States

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Educators

Purchase

Michael Porter is an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies... View Details

Keywords: biotechnology; e-commerce industry; health care; information; information technology industry; internet; nonprofit industry; service industry; state government

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Strategic Human Capital

My research focuses on the links between managerial background, job attributes, organizational/firm characteristics, and firm performance. Broadly speaking, I am interested in how a manager's skills, knowledge, connections, experiences, and other attributes... View Details

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The Evolution of Corporate Structure, Internal Governance, and Leadership

My research documents the evolution of the internal governance of senior management in large US firms over a 20-year period and explores, via multiple methods, the causes and consequences of these changes. My findings suggest that... View Details

30 Jan 2024
Research & Ideas

‘Intrinsic Joy’ Sparks Ideas Better than Cash

Users typically share their innovations so that others may benefit. In the fast-moving world of machine learning, many breakthroughs rely on open source tools, including Python libraries, the authors write. More than 90 percent of Fortune... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology

14 Dec 2016
HBS Seminar

Siobhan O'Mahony and Rebecca Karp, Boston University

05 Dec 2022
What Do You Think?

How Would Jack Welch’s Leadership Style Fare in Today’s World?

business faced incredible barriers at the time (and arguably still do)—there had only been two women CEOs in the Fortune 500 at that point. As we gathered for lunch, Welch arrived a few minutes late and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Industrial Products; Media & Broadcasting; Medical Devices & Supplies; Manufacturing

31 Oct 2023
Research & Ideas

Beyond the 'Business Case' in DEI: 6 Steps Toward Meaningful Change

More than three in four Fortune 500 companies justify their workforce diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts by making the business case. It sounds like this: By making our workforce more diverse,... View Details

Keywords: by Katherine Hutt Scott and Barbara DeLollis

01 Dec 2023
News

The Imposter Among Us

Drill In 1981, I was promoted to CIO of a Fortune 500 chemical company, with responsibility for both information systems and the nationwide telecommunications network. My background didn’t include any... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

09 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Unilever—A Case Study

1929 by a merger of British and Dutch soap and margarine companies, 1 it has ranked as one of Europe's, and the world's, largest consumer-goods companies. Its sales of $45,679 million in 2000 ranked it fifty-fourth by revenues in the View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail

10 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

Too Nice to Lead? Unpacking the Gender Stereotype That Holds Women Back

and hold fewer seats on the boards of Fortune 500 companies. Researchers have investigated everything from women’s behavior during pay negotiations to their choice of jobs in order to understand why this gap... View Details

Keywords: by Shalene Gupta

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Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

strategy advisor to leading U.S. and international companies, served on Fortune 500 public boards, and played an active role in U.S. economic policy at the federal and state levels. He has worked with heads... View Details

18 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent

past four decades, organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies to federal, state, and local governments have slashed benefits, retirements, job security, and labor protections. These actions have saved... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson

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Historical Data Visualization - Business History

Countries of Operation Trends Over Time Politics & Economics Interstate Conflict Trends Over Time Corporations Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) American Business Geography of Fortune 500 Largest US Firms 1955... View Details

30 Sep 2019
Book

6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees

are only three black CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, and not one of them is a woman. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/nLYZsznG22TM52YETsw8][/div] What doesn’t help, the authors say, are recent incidents in... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

agencies, and Fortune 500 executives. The bet: by providing "no-strings-attached" help to ecosystem partners, the partners might someday reciprocate by steering founders seeking funding to a16z. The case... View Details

Dataset

Largest US Firms 2015

Dataset

Largest US Firms 1955

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Profiles - MBA

interest: Cloud, AI and ML, Digital health, Data science Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business: This past academic year, I worked with the Harvard Data Analytics Group where I had the opportunity to work with View Details

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