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- 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
Valuation No abstract available. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/219051-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 219-080 Executing Active Investment Strategies No abstract available.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Apr 2012
- What Do You Think?
How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?
the Big Thinker." Gerald Nanninga cautioned us that "the big risk is that it gives executives a false sense of comfort." Clifford Francis Baker added, "My concern is primarily focused on the possibility of complacency data derived from... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
retention in this Q&A. Making the Move to General Manager Managers face a critical transition when they rise from functional expert to general manager. It's an exciting shift but it's also fraught with pitfalls. A new executive... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader, Harvard Business School professor Linda A. Hill and former executive Kent Lineback discuss the steps to take and the roadblocks to avoid in order to meet that challenge. Is Groupon Good for... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 19 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 19, 2006
Harvard Business School Case 506-054 Takashimaya, the largest department store in Japan, was suffering from declining sales. CEO Koji Suzuki had succeeded in instituting changes to cut costs. However, Suzuki needed to come up with a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
Kellner (soon to succeed Bethune as CEO), Deborah McCoy, and others. Akin Ongor had Saide Kuzeyli, executive vice-president of human resources, as his sidekick-in-chief; she shared the duties of coaching the people of Garanti Bank to... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
often for two or more years. Any debtor, no matter how small, could hold up the process at any point by issuing written complaints to the court. Fernando needed to figure out whether the company was worth saving, whether it had a business View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
executives assumed that their private email would not be made public. There is another angle to the incident, however. It can be viewed as an extreme example of corporate transparency, however unintended it may have been. Personal... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries
"They are like personalities," whose strength is their consistency of quality and service. "They are the source of a reputation that customers can trust," added Jeanette Sarkisian Wagner (HBS AMP '90), vice chairman of the Estée Lauder Companies... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 05 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?
company's strategy but with intimate knowledge of how to get things done inside the organization? Bower's analysis of the leadership and performance of S&P 500 companies in the U.S. leads him to conclude that "insiders perform... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
drives wealthy and powerful people to white-collar crime? I draw from extensive personal interaction and correspondence with nearly fifty former executives as well as research in psychology, criminology, and economics to investigate how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
analyst before coming to HBS , and he said, 'I can't tell you how many layoffs I have recommended in the course of my short career. ' He said, 'I feel terrible now.' Granted, the same student was quoted later that day in a Strategy class,... View Details
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
traffic are sufficiently improved relative to the offerings of the ad auctions when separate. When there is an insufficient improvement, such mergers can harm advertisers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-055.pdf Investing in Improvement: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
Case 708-479 This case on the globalization of East Asian pop music is useful for teaching concepts of regional business strategy and also of cultural arbitrage. Music companies in the case must examine why certain markets are clearly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
Sometimes executive education has little to do with what happens in a classroom. Mentoring and coaching are the time-tested ways for wisdom and knowledge to be passed through an organization. Harvard Business School professor Dorothy... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
for companies to explain their rationale for the limitations they place on computer usage. Control access to your systems. You don't allow just anyone off the street to wander in and use your company's fax machines or sit in on a strategy... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
grounded in the competitive dynamics that may otherwise drive a race-to-the-bottom. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50203 forthcoming Journal of Business Ethics Corporate Governance and Executive... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
Business Review, Merton, a Nobel laureate, urges senior corporate executives and boards to view derivative applications not just as tactical measures but as strategic tools that convey competitive advantage. A first step is distinguishing... View Details
- 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009
government-sponsored organization that was funded with 50 billion yen in equity capital and 10 trillion yen of government-guaranteed funds. Daiei presented the IRCJ with a unique opportunity to demonstrate the effectiveness of its restructuring View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
CEO Succession: The Case at Ford
remain the company's executive chairman.) Harvard Business School professor Joseph L. Bower, the Donald Kirk David Professor of Business Administration, is an expert on corporate strategy, organization, and leadership. He discusses the... View Details