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  • 29 Feb 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: JSW Steel and Cement and the Quest to Capture Carbon in Hard to Abate Sectors

across the country. How to juggle the challenge of developing a country of 1.4 billion people while being pressured to achieve a net zero target? As we explored India during our ten days for our Immersive Field Course, from its Financial... View Details
  • June 1992 (Revised March 1993)
  • Case

Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc. 1990

By: Timothy A. Luehrman
The CFO of Fleetwood Enterprises is considering whether to recommend a large share repurchase to the board of directors. Fleetwood's core businesses, manufactured housing and recreational vehicles, are very sensitive to business cycles and oil prices. Following Iraq's... View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Capital Structure; Stock Shares; Price; Crisis Management; Production; Manufacturing Industry; Iraq; Kuwait
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  • Career Coach

Erika Osterling

Transportation (General Management, Services, Business Operations, Product management, Supply Chain, Expat), Cameron, Avery Dennison, PepsiCo (Marketing and Sales Strategy) View Details
Keywords: Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All)
  • 09 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 9

  Publications December 2014 Academy of Management Journal Harnessing Productive Tensions in Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Work Integration Social Enterprises By: Battilana, Julie, Metin Sengul, Anne-claire Pache, and Jacob Model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Hans W. Becherer

    Becherer rebuilt Deere & Company, following the financial farm crisis of the 1980s, into a diverse, global competitor. In 1998, revenues from outside the United States accounted for approximately 25% of Deere & Company sales.... View Details
    Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
    • August 2009 (Revised September 2009)
    • Case

    Tenova: Mining for Growth in an Economic Crisis

    By: Gary P. Pisano, Elena Corsi and Elisa Farri
    In December 2008, Gianluigi Nova, CEO of Tenova SpA, a technology and equipment supplier to the metals and mining industry, had to choose between two options. The first was to continue growing in the company's core business: equipment for the steel production. The... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Crisis; Leadership; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Diversification; Industrial Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry
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    Crisis Leadership - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

    change ingrained habits and emerge as industry leaders. One such firm was the renowned Waltham Watch Company, which pioneered the production of watches from interchangeable parts. Like all manufacturers of non-essential products, Waltham... View Details
    • 20 Dec 2006
    • Op-Ed

    Investors Hurt by Dual-Track Tax Reporting

    lesson of economics. Legislators would also be restricted to changes in rates as opposed to tinkering through myriad preferences. Publicly reporting taxes paid is a sensible first step in restoring some sanity to these parallel universes. With luck, these strange... View Details
    Keywords: by Mihir Desai
    • September 2003
    • Case

    Executive Compensation at Reckitt Benckiser plc

    By: V.G. Narayanan, Krishna G. Palepu and Lisa Brem
    Investors felt betrayed by the increasingly lucrative pay packages awarded to CEOs and other top executives at multinational companies. Yet, board members charged with adequately rewarding executives were forced to compete with rising packages of salaries and stock... View Details
    Keywords: Design; Stock Options; Investment Activism; Corporate Accountability; Compensation and Benefits; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Management Teams; Business and Shareholder Relations; Consumer Products Industry; Netherlands; United States
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    • April 2025 (Revised April 2025)
    • Case

    JPMorganChase: Leadership in the Age of GenAI

    By: Iavor I. Bojinov, Karim R. Lakhani and David Lane
    This case study examines JPMorgan Chase's (JPMC) journey in adopting and implementing Generative AI (GenAI) following the release of ChatGPT. It outlines JPMC's initial cautious approach focused on data security, followed by strategic investments in internal platforms... View Details
    Keywords: Banks and Banking; Governance Controls; Information Technology; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science; Cybersecurity; Digital Platforms; Digital Transformation; Information Management; Information Infrastructure; Technology Adoption; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Sharing; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing; Product Development; Performance Improvement; Customization and Personalization; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    Neil Band | MBA

    Neil Band Computer Science, Secondary in Economics Adams 2020 Cohort 1 The Tech Innovation Fellowship is an incredible opportunity to gain an abridged yet authentic business school experience. In learning the operational and financial... View Details
    • Fast Answer

    IFC: LA/Hollywood

    target="_blank">company alerts within Capital IQ. For a multimedia learning module on Capital IQ check out our Learn with Baker Library Capital IQ Introduction. LSEG... View Details
    • 22 Apr 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: April 22, 2008

    business of Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH), the world's leading luxury products group, Ramiro Otano had overseen a spectacularly successful run at the company by any financial measure. Despite the... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 01 Jun 1999
    • News

    A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News

    they prayed." HBS's answer to Leno and Letterman, Larry Klein (MBA '80), who fully intends to keep his day job as an investment advisor, has recently packaged that and some two hundred other jokes to help financial professionals add a... View Details
    Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
    • 01 Dec 2004
    • News

    Boom Times Ahead

    productivity cycles drive economic booms that are further powered by the explosion of new technologies,” explained the Sacramento Bee (October 5, 2004). People get excited when Dent gets bullish, because he’s been right on the money... View Details
    • 07 Jul 2009
    • Research Event

    Business Summit: Historical Roots of Globalization

    of convergence can be hard for people and countries to support, though, and over time can mount into an anti-globalization backlash. Globalization today faces a legitimacy crisis that has been unfolding for the past decade, a product... View Details
    Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
    • 16 Jun 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

    "Although Levitt's article was primarily concerned about the globalization of the product market, this paper expands the domain to three areas—the labor market, the financial market, and the View Details
    Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
    • 03 Dec 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts

    flavijus For the first time, a link has been drawn between public sentiment about a company’s sustainability practices and how that company is valued in the market. The results are important both for investors searching for under-valued, socially responsible companies,... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 19 May 2021
    • Blog Post

    Instagram Takeover - Ja’ Saint-Tulias (MBA 2022)

    "calling” than a career pivot. As a first-generation student born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, chemical engineering was a path towards creating skincare products and addressing the beauty needs of people of color. However, throughout... View Details
    • 16 May 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?

    that meet performance standards at reasonable costs. But in practice, too few government managers are skilled in understanding and using industry financial incentives or the process of controlling costs, schedules, and technical... View Details
    Keywords: by J. Ronald Fox; Service