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- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
and broader interpretations of business's role in society surfaces throughout Keen's story. He wrote his HBS application essay about wanting to learn the tactics of corporate business for the good of tribal peoples—to be a sheep in wolf's... View Details
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
George: I teach governance and serve on many corporate boards, and I can tell you that once you make the decision to go from a wholly-owned private company to go public, you're getting public money, you're getting investor money, pension... View Details
- January 2023
- Case
Natura: Weathering the Pandemic at Brazil's Cosmetic Giant
By: Brian Trelstad, Pedro Levindo and Carla Larangeira
Brazil's Natura, a multi-brand cosmetics group, has taken several measures to safeguard the livelihoods of its thousands of employees and millions of sales representatives during the COVID-19 health and economic crisis. The company has also made strides in its efforts... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; ESG Reporting; Acquisition; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decision Making; Social Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Global Strategy; Corporate Governance; Health Pandemics; Human Resources; Human Capital; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing; Distribution Channels; Supply Chain; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Customer Ownership; Relationships; Business and Community Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Networks; Partners and Partnerships; Science-Based Business; Reputation; Human Needs; Social Issues; Strategy; Equality and Inequality; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Brazil; Latin America
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
Dividends Harvard Business School Case 209-004 In 2006, Progressive Corporation announced a change in its dividend policy. Henceforth, dividends would be paid annually rather than quarterly and, more importantly, would be set according to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
the highest “yield” rates in higher education. And on the other side of graduation, HBS alumni traditionally enjoyed astonishing success. It seemed an easy job to walk into. McArthur, however, knew better. He had spent more than two decades at HBS, and understood its... View Details
- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
purchasing and brought process discipline to store operations through using Six Sigma quality methodology. Although the changes led to higher profitability, the retailer's stock price remained unchanged. Many wondered if poor stock market performance was a reflection... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
professional lives in a new direction. An early pioneer in the high-tech world, Ilene Lang (MBA 1973) worked in senior management and chief leadership roles at established corporations and start-ups alike during the 1980s and ’90s,... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
level of accomplishment aren’t eager for others to know. Few women, and few women of color, have created multimillion-dollar brands in senior corporate positions, legendary entrepreneurial environments, and startups. Hilliard’s fearless... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
which are bonds whose proceeds are used for environmentally sensitive purposes. After an overview of the U.S. corporate and municipal green bonds markets, we study pricing and ownership patterns using a simple framework that incorporates... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
John Irving’s Lessons for Business
Photo by Mary Ellen Mark At first glance, perhaps, the writer John Irving might not seem to have a lot to teach the corporate world. As the author of such celebrated bestsellers as The Cider House Rules and The World According to Garp,... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public scrutiny. The authors of a new... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
to make sure the product gets made efficiently and that it’s marketed effectively. I also have to solve problems every day within a corporate culture that changes with every movie.” “The negotiation courses... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- October 2024
- Case
Edizione
By: Cynthia A. Montgomery, Dante Roscini, Elena Corsi and Hugo Etchegoyhen
This case study examines the diversification and transformation of Edizione, the Benetton family's holding company originally established to reinvest dividends from the Benetton clothing brand. Edizione expanded significantly in the late 1990s and early 2000s,... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Style; Leading Change; Leadership Development; Family Business; Family Ownership; Communication Strategy; Crisis Management; Management Style; Change Management; Asset Management; Management Succession; Private Equity; Corporate Governance; Organizational Culture; Reputation; Public Opinion; Mergers and Acquisitions; Diversification; Expansion; Air Transportation Industry; Fashion Industry; Transportation Industry; Travel Industry; Italy; Europe
Montgomery, Cynthia A., Dante Roscini, Elena Corsi, and Hugo Etchegoyhen. "Edizione." Harvard Business School Case 725-395, October 2024.
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
now as broad in scope as the backgrounds of its practitioners. VanAuken is a case in point: He's the president of BrandForward, a consulting shop he founded in 1999 in upstate Honeoye Falls, New York, after years in the corporate world,... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
investment firm, he and his partners paid particular attention to defining their corporate culture by considering, “How are we going to behave with each other, how we’re going to be with clients, how do we... View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
little is known about how workers perform in assignments to locations far from their hometowns, which may subject them to increased cultural distance, information costs, and effects related to social attachment to hometown/workplace. By... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
very little of the variation in sales growth and margins.” Accordingly, Oberholzer-Gee advised that “it is a not a good idea to dismiss a company’s investment potential because it is in the interior of the country.” Second, the importance of relationships in Chinese... View Details
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
the Public Corporation, and Greater Commitments to Sustainability: Signals from the Corporate Board By: Eccles, Robert G., J. Herron, and George Serafeim Abstract—This book is a comprehensive reference work exploring recent changes and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Jeremy Andrus
Golden Ear.” Their no-holds-barred creativity is supported by a corporate culture steeped in youth and rebellion, as expressed in the company’s motto, “Every revolution needs a sound track.” The corridors of... View Details