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- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Work of Art
Jason Price (MBA 2003) in the main gallery space at NXTHVN, the art community he cofounded in New Haven’s Dixwell neighborhood Trying to capture the scope of what’s going on at NXTHVN, the nonprofit arts and community organization Jason Price (MBA 2003) cofounded with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Mickey Herbert (MBA 1969)
graduating from HBS, I worked briefly as a management consultant in New York City before getting laid off. An opening at a nonprofit health-policy research firm lured me to Minneapolis, where I learned about health maintenance... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Clusters and Competition
William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard, whose ideas have been applied to improve the economic performance of companies, cities, states, regions, and entire nations. “This goes beyond the traditional writing of articles and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success
driver of performance in these organizations, regardless of nationality. Eager to determine whether this finding would also hold true among developing economies, Deshpandé and Farley have expanded their study to include information they... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 08 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?
world-beating performances out of some good-but-not-great players and even to motivate others to take pay cuts in order to play for him, an anomaly? Can unusually gifted managers improve employees’ View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
multistrategy firm focused on investment in the entertainment and media space, says that when interest rates are as low as they were for the last decade, “investors start looking for places to pick up returns that feel safe but also have... View Details
- February 1987 (Revised February 2000)
- Case
Polysar Limited
By: Robert L. Simons
Canada's largest chemical company produces and markets butyl rubber in two divisions, each treated as a profit center. The new plant in the North American Division operates below capacity resulting in a significant volume variance and an operating loss. The European... View Details
Keywords: Loss; Profit; Financial Management; Volume; Performance Capacity; Financial Statements; For-Profit Firms; Market Participation; Chemical Industry; Rubber Industry; Canada
Simons, Robert L. "Polysar Limited." Harvard Business School Case 187-098, February 1987. (Revised February 2000.)
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs
When large public companies perform poorly, do the CEOs running them share the financial pain? That question, according to HBS associate professor Brian Hall, is not answered by looking at their salary and bonus but rather by a careful... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- Profile
Blake Landro
Motivated to make a difference in the world, Blake Landro seriously considered law school. But while working at a law firm after college, Blake found that he “liked the business side of the firm more than... View Details
- 05 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2006
associated with an increased reliance on the other. We find that the firms affected by the diminution of copyright protection disproportionately accelerated their patenting in subsequent years. But little evidence can be found for any... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- March 2014
- Teaching Note
Roll Back Malaria and BCG: The Change Initiative
By: Nava Ashraf and Natalie Kindred
- May 2013 (Revised March 2014)
- Case
Gap, Inc., 2000
By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
From humble beginnings as a Levi jeans store, by 2000 Gap, Inc. had grown to become the world's leading specialist clothing retailer. Its CEO, Millard S. Drexler, the "merchant prince," was credited with transforming Gap into a global empire, leading the company... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Change; Fashion; Risk and Uncertainty; Competition; Performance Consistency; Problems and Challenges; Globalized Firms and Management; Competitive Strategy; Business Growth and Maturation; Strategy; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States
Wells, John R., and Galen Danskin. "Gap, Inc., 2000." Harvard Business School Case 713-508, May 2013. (Revised March 2014.)
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
engage in instrumental networking influences how dirty this networking makes them feel. Three laboratory experiments and a survey study of lawyers in a large North American law firm provide support for our predictions. We call for a new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
this exposure." Shiva Rajgopal, who has investigated firms that stop giving guidance, shared some of his findings and those of his colleagues: " . . . firms that stop guiding have poor trailing... View Details
- 03 Apr 2012
- News
Just Compensation
Ferracone: Specializing in executive compensation and performance consulting. Courtesy Robin Ferracone Robin Ferracone (MBA 1980) is the founder (in 2007) and executive chair of Farient Advisors (www.farient.com) —a View Details
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
barriers to terminating relationships), the nature of performance change (a gradual decay in performance can increase the likelihood that firms will persevere in... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 24 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 24
search for low-level, operational choices, which in turn determine performance. Using a simulation model, we show that coupled search processes obscure the performance impact of high-level choices through two mechanisms: (1) a survivor... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Gotta Dance
Above: Horowitz (seated) and Goldberg: More than the same old song and dance (photo by HollenderX2) When Evan Horowitz (MBA 2008) and Geoffrey Goldberg first met, the two clicked on multiple levels. Married in 2013, the pair cofounded Movers+Shakers in 2016, a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Pathfinder
Founded in 1963 by Bruce Henderson (MBA 1941), the Boston Consulting Group is one of a trio of well-known consulting firms that includes McKinsey and Bain. Many MBAs do an early-career stint in consulting—so many that it might almost be... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
from company performance as critics imply? Not at all, according to HBS professor Jay W. Lorsch, whose 1998 working paper, "Compensating Corporate CEOs: A Process View," examines the procedures and forces that drive CEO pay packages.... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross