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  • 04 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

political participation and interest while improving representation of all groups. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52460 December 2016 Strategic Management Journal Through the Mud or in the Boardroom: Examining Activist Types and Their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2013
  • Case

Zappos.com 2009: Clothing, Customer Service, and Company Culture (MM)

By: Frances X. Frei and Robin J. Ely
On July 17, 2009, Zappos.com, a privately-held online retailer of shoes, clothing, and other soft-line retail categories, learned that Amazon.com, a $19 billion multinational online retailer, had won its Board of Directors' approval to offer to merge the two companies.... View Details
Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Internet and the Web; Mergers and Acquisitions; Organizational Culture; Growth and Development Strategy; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Retail Industry
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  • December 2003 (Revised April 2005)
  • Course Overview Note

Corporate Strategy: Course Note for Instructors

By: Bharat N. Anand
Introduces students to the concerns that impact a firm's choice of strategy, scope, and organization and assists in three central tasks that comprise the typical decision problem: diagnosing the sources of corporate advantage, evaluating the limits to such advantage,... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy
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  • March 2024
  • Case

Lyft 2023: Roads to Growth and Differentiation

By: Ranjay Gulati and Jeffrey Huizinga
Set in San Francisco in winter 2023, this case explores the strategic challenges and initiatives at Lyft under the leadership of its new CEO, David Risher. Confronted with declining market share and financial pressures, Risher spent his first six months at the helm... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Turnarounds; Ridesharing; Transition; Strategy; Culture; Change Management; Transportation Industry; Technology Industry
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  • 20 Apr 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think

candidates. Such actions are not without consequences. The Challenger space shuttle explosion, steroid use in major league baseball, and the financial crash are all results of unethical decision-making, even though the participants at the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy - Recruiting

having a certain background or certain skin color. It's about coming as you are, and that to us is what ‘You look good’ is all about.” Leahy is proud of the business results she and her team are driving and knows they stem from financial... View Details
  • Web

Food & Agriculture - Business & Environment

fertilizers. Rice cultivation produces fermentation, another contributor. Compounding the problem, clearing forests to create land for cattle and cropland eliminates the CO2 absorption that trees provide. [30] Regenerative agriculture could provide a $1.9 trillion... View Details
  • September 2009 (Revised December 2010)
  • Case

Western Union: Our World, Our Family®

By: Christopher Marquis
In 2006, Western Union spun-off from its former parent, First Data Corporation, and began the process of defining itself as a stand-alone organization. Part of that effort was the creation of a strategic corporate social responsibility program called Our World, Our... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Programs; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Alignment; Value
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  • Web

HBR Classics - Alumni

Emotional Intelligence of Groups , Vanessa Urch Druskat and Steven B. Wolff Virtuoso Teams , Bill Fischer and Andy Boynton When Teams Cant Decide , Bob Frisch Assessing the Competitive Landscape Assessing the Competitive Landscape The Five Competitive Forces that Shape... View Details
  • Web

HBS - The year in Review

2022 Annual Report From The Dean Key Metrics Financials PDF Downloads The Year in Review After a tumultuous two years of figuring out how to adapt and thrive in the face of COVID-19, fiscal year 2022 brought a steady return to normalcy at... View Details
  • Web

FAQs - Doctoral

only specific criteria with respect to academic achievement are good academic standing and coursework and/or experience that would prepare one for research. Is financial need a factor in selecting PRIMO Fellows? View Details
  • April 2012
  • Article

Bouncing Out of the Banking System: An Empirical Analysis of Involuntary Bank Account Closures

By: Dennis Campbell, F. Asis Martinez-Jerez and Peter Tufano
Using a new database, we document the factors that relate to the extent of involuntary consumer bank account closure resulting from excessive overdraft activity. Consumers who have accounts involuntarily closed for overdraft activity may have limited or no access to... View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Customers; Social Issues; Outcome or Result; Budgets and Budgeting; Forecasting and Prediction; Competition; Banks and Banking; Policy; Personal Characteristics; Credit; Employment; United States
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  • 28 Nov 2023
  • Book

Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?

and others do not, or for why some crony relationships facilitate growth and others create crisis or stagnation. What strategies do authoritarian political elites adopt to manage the business class? What kinds of View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 22

Working PapersCorporate Social Responsibility and Access to Finance Authors:Beiting Cheng, Ioannis Ioannou, and George Serafeim Abstract In this paper, we investigate whether superior performance on corporate social responsibility (CSR) View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Marketing Your Way Through a Recession

employees. Economic recession can elevate the importance of the finance director's balance sheet over the marketing manager's income statement. Managing working capital can easily dominate managing customer relationships. CEOs must counter this. Successful companies do... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 23 Jun 2022
  • News

The C-Suite Skills That Matter Most

  • September 1992 (Revised March 1998)
  • Case

Japan Confronts an Interdependent World

By: George C. Lodge
Traces the evolution of Japan's economic strategy from 1972 to 1992. Describes the collapse of the Japanese stock market in the spring of 1992, raising the question: Is this the end of Japan's miraculous growth? To help students consider that question, the case... View Details
Keywords: Policy; Financial Markets; Information Technology; System Shocks; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Crisis; Government and Politics; Growth and Development; Situation or Environment; Japan; United States
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  • April 2020 (Revised April 2023)
  • Supplement

TransDigm in 2017: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
TransDigm was a highly acquisitive company that manufactured a wide range of highly engineered aerospace parts for both military and commercial customers. Over the ten years ending in 2016, its stock price had increase ten times, and both EBITDA and revenues had grown... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Ethics; Private Equity; Financial Strategy; Growth Management; Performance Evaluation; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Horizontal Integration; Value Creation; Competitive Advantage; Aerospace Industry; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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  • November – December 2007
  • Article

Fundamentally Flawed Indexing

By: Andre F. Perold
A new theory of finance is being advanced as providing definitive proof that holding stocks in proportion to their market capitalizations is an inferior investment strategy. The claim is that capitalization weighting necessarily invests more in overvalued stocks and... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Capital Markets; Financial Strategy; Stocks; Financial Management; Valuation
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  • 20 Aug 2007
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

system) and multiplies contacts through a shareholder newsletter, a toll-free number, events, and training sessions. Q: Total is French yet part of a highly visible industry that has reaped very high profits in recent years. How can 1 company manage its own View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities