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- April 2019 (Revised December 2019)
- Case
Turnaround at Mattel, 2017
By: Ted Berk
Just nine months into her new role as chief executive of Mattel, the world's leading toy maker, Margo Georgiadis faces a set of unexpected, inter-related decisions in the fall of 2017. Mattel's performance had been lagging for a number of years, and Georgiadis had been... View Details
Keywords: Turnarounds; Takeover; Leading Change; Financial Condition; Decision Making; Transformation
Berk, Ted. "Turnaround at Mattel, 2017." Harvard Business School Case 219-102, April 2019. (Revised December 2019.)
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
An American Story
Joan Levy and Ted Levitt on August 1, 1948. The couple married six months after their first date. Photo courtesy Joan Levitt Boris Levitt was a Russian shoemaker who lived under Stalin before he was captured by the German army and brought... View Details
- 21 Jul 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Managing Human Capital—Global Trends and Challenges
Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Business Summit presentation. View a full summary and video of the event on the HBS Centennial Web site linked below. Date of Event: October 13, 2008 Moderator: David H. Thomas, HBS faculty Speakers: View Details
Keywords: Re: David A. Thomas
- 28 Feb 2011
- News
Rebooting the Human Condition
“futurist,” Enriquez has received, along with Bill Gates, an unprecedented invitation to be a guest curator at the 2011 TED (Technology Entertainment and Design) conference, which kicks off today (February 28) in California. TED, whose... View Details
- 07 Dec 2020
- News
Lifting The Stigma
was amazing. On the outside, I kept racking up awards. And it hit me. I realized how dangerous the stigma of mental health troubles was.” Delle’s response was a 2017 TED talk, “There’s No Shame in Taking Care of Your Mental Health.” He... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Honoring a Visionary Thinker Who Took Time for Students
needed to persuade his 50th Reunion classmates to contribute to a new fellowship. The selling point, he says, was that the fund will be named for the late HBS professor and Harvard Business Review editor Ted Levitt. “Ted was a giant in... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Transitioning Students into Alumni Ted Fischer (71st PMD) galvanized his committee to focus on improving students' understanding of the resources available to them as alumni as well as the School's financial needs and organization. The... View Details
Keywords: John Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
HBS Gift Planning
family in the future. Under current IRS valuation methods, the portion of a charitable lead trust gift that will be transferred to family can be discounted, meaning that significant gifts can be made with little or no gift and estate tax consequences. For Planned... View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Lessons from the Classroom
NFL Players Touch Down at HBS
is much needed, said the players. At best they have only a few years of earning power in professional football. And they don't work under guaranteed contracts—they are one nasty hit away from forced retirement. "Our window of opportunity is very, very short,"... View Details
- 15 Apr 2010
- News
A (Literal) Game Changer
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
’59; OPM 13, 1988) Potomac, MD Levitt’s Personal Touch Changed Lives and Institutions I just read Julia Hanna’s piece on Professor Ted Levitt in the September 2008 Bulletin and belatedly hasten to add the story of how View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Alumni Connections: Photos of Recent Alumni Events
WeMaintain celebrating at Le Hub in Paris with judges, club officers, and guests after winning the Europe regional HBS New Venture Competition Alumni Track in March. 3 Roy Willis, Ted Lewis, and Lillian Lincoln Lambert (all MBA... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Life Is a Marathon
has led “a life heartily lived,” the Times reported. “You’ve got to have goals in life or you wither away,” Mendes said. “It’s no disgrace to fail, only not to try.” Before his career in investment banking, Mendes was a Marine Corps pilot who trained, and flew missions... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
suggest that HBS give priority to analyzing the factors that led to this crisis, and make recommendations that will correct its abuses. Stephen J. Rogers (MBA 6/’47) Chelsea, MI Ted Levitt and a Timely Remembrance Julia Hanna’s very fine... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
The Heart of the Deal
1982 Tylenol tampering incident and became famous for his leadership through that crisis. His brother, Bill Burke (MBA ’92), was president of TBS, later headed up the Weather Channel, and authored a biography of Ted Turner. CEO Jeff... View Details
- 25 Nov 2021
- News
An Aria for the Ambidextrous Organization
impactful as an adult,” crediting Professor Michael Tushman’s ideas for the inspiration and title of his TED talk, “The Ambidextrous Opera Company.” In a recent episode of the Atlanta Opera podcast The Business of Opera, Zvulun talks to... View Details