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  • 18 Jan 2011
  • News

Apple's Cook Faces Leadership Hole as He Tries to Fend Off Google Android

  • 17 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom

As investor pressure mounts on companies to show their environmental impacts, leaders are encountering an unwieldy tangle of terms and approaches. Climate accounting basics and a dictionary of sorts can help demystify the calculations and voluntary targets that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • April 1994 (Revised May 1995)
  • Case

Laura Ashley (A): A New CEO Takes Charge

By: Richard L. Nolan
In a turnaround situation, a new CEO must take actions in the short term to gain control and exercise executive leadership and lay groundwork to formulate a long-term strategy to rebuild a viable business. View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Management Teams; Business Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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  • April 2020 (Revised October 2020)
  • Case

Unilever's Response to the Future of Work

By: William R. Kerr, Emilie Billaud and Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej
In February 2020, Nick Dalton, executive vice president HR business transformation at Unilever, reflected on the changing nature of work marked by rapid advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation. Launched in 2016, Unilever’s Future of Work... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Human Capital; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Structure; Transformation; Human Resources; Consumer Products Industry; Europe
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  • 01 Mar 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?

with our younger talent about ideas they are proposing for our company’s strategic direction? Personally, should I be making use of one or more of these apps that I don’t understand? Twenty-five years ago, there was a sense at General Electric that senior View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Article

How Much (More) Should CEOs Make? A Universal Desire for More Equal Pay

By: Sorapop Kiatpongsan and Michael I. Norton
Do people from different countries and different backgrounds have similar preferences for how much more the rich should earn than the poor? Using survey data from 40 countries (N = 55,238), we compare respondents' estimates of the wages of people in different... View Details
Keywords: Inequality; Justice; Wage; Cross-cultural; Wages; Equality and Inequality; Fairness; Income; Employees; Management Teams; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
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  • Blog

In-Person Programs: Q&A with Portfolio Directors

and social effervescence of our on-campus experience in a fully virtual online environment. The key to our success with the virtual programs was that the faculty, staff, and participants were all willing to dive in with enthusiasm and just go for it! WHAT HAS IT BEEN... View Details
  • April 1992
  • Supplement

Prelude Corp.: Afterthoughts

By: Norman A. Berg
Commentary by an executive familiar with the industry on what went wrong at Prelude and what the difficulties are in creating economies of scale in the lobster fishing industry. View Details
Keywords: Management; Problems and Challenges; Cost Management; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 16 Apr 2019
  • News

How Best Buy's outgoing CEO, Hubert Joly, rescued the company

  • Web

Faculty & Advisors | MBA

underrepresented managers. Enke earned her PhD at Columbia University, and MBA at Harvard Business School where she was awarded the Kaplan Fellowship in life sciences. Marc Casper MBA ‘95, Harvard University; BA, Economics, Wesleyan University Marc was named President... View Details
  • Web

Academic Programs | About

full-time residential program with a focus on real-world practice. Doctoral Programs Eight full-time programs leading to a PhD for scholars interested in academic research. Executive Education Programs for individuals and organizations... View Details
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Professors Introduce Valuation Software

In an age when mergers, acquisitions, and spin-offs are increasingly common in business, you need a new skill in your kit bag: the ability to analyze and value potential partners, deals, investments—even your own company. The Business Analysis and Valuation Model (BAV)... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Video

Khalid Al Rumaihi

Khalid Al Rumaihi, Executive Chairman of Amriya Group, discusses how the geopolitical crises in the Middle East impact Bahrain, highlighting that investors view the country as a diplomatically neutral gateway to the region. View Details
  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Harvard Business School Opens New Classroom At Taj Lands End, Mumbai

    Kris Johnson Ferreira

    Kris Ferreira is the Edgerley Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management (TOM) Unit. She teaches the Supply Chain Management course in the MBA elective curriculum and analytics in numerous Executive Education... View Details

    Keywords: retailing

      Michael Beer

      MICHAEL BEER

      Mike Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s... View Details

      • January 2022 (Revised February 2022)
      • Case

      Envision Group

      By: Gunnar Trumbull, Bonnie Yining Cao and Dawn H. Lau
      Based in China, Envision was one of the world’s leading Greentech companies. Chief Executive Officer Lei Zhang had set the goal of achieving carbon neutrality across the company’s global operations and supply chain by 2022 and 2028 respectively. As part of its... View Details
      Keywords: Green Technology; Climate Change; Emerging Markets; Information Technology; Strategy; Management; Renewable Energy; Energy Policy; Environmental Sustainability; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Green Technology Industry; Battery Industry; China; United States; Japan; United Kingdom; France
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      • July – August 2009
      • Article

      Preferential Treatment: The New Face of Protectionism?

      Free trade agreements have increased dramatically over the past decade. This forethought considers how they present global executives with thorny strategic and operational decisions, a piece of which has to do with China's entry into the FTA scene. View Details
      Keywords: Agreements and Arrangements; Trade; Strategy; Operations; Decisions; Practice; China
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      • April 2004 (Revised May 2006)
      • Background Note

      Achieving Profitable Growth and Market Value

      By: James L. Heskett and Richard G. Hamermesh
      Provides an overview of how a new venture needs to change as it passes from the initial start-up to the growth phase. Explores how a venture's leadership, strategy, and execution need to evolve to deal with rapid growth. View Details
      Keywords: Growth Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Change Management
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      • January 1991
      • Supplement

      Volkswagen of America: Audi 5000 (B)

      By: Stephen A. Greyser
      Six months after the launch in the United States of Audi 5000, Audi marketing executives and their advertising agency must appraise the introductory advertising for the car. Three alternative campaigns to replace the current one are under consideration. View Details
      Keywords: Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Product Launch; Performance Evaluation; Auto Industry; United States
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