Business Earnings - Publications - Faculty & Research

Profile

Lindsay Steinmetz

Why was earning your MBA here important to you? After working for a small, entrepreneurial organization I wanted to build a stronger foundation in general management. HBS expanded my knowledge of industries, types of organizations, and... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

August 2023 (Revised January 2024)
Supplement

Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (B)

By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel, Susan Pinckney and Amram Migdal

The case describes Arla’s history, in particular its climate change mitigation efforts, and how it implemented a price incentive system to motivate individual farms to implement scope 1 greenhouse gas emissions mitigation measures and receive a higher milk price. The... View Details

Citation

Purchase

Web

Shared Value & Investors - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Investing The Purpose of Investing The fundamental purpose of investing for society is to allocate capital to companies who can earn an attractive return Investors create the greatest societal value by selecting companies that will use... View Details

01 Dec 2007
News

Lighten Up

Business and Pleasure: Kim and Coup Coupounas enjoy the scenic beauty of the Rocky Mountains just as much today as when they moved to Boulder almost a decade ago. (photo by Stephen Collector) The trail weaves back and forth in steep... View Details

Keywords: Kathryn Jones; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

26 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Clayton M. Christensen, Acclaimed Author and Teacher, Dies At 67

BOSTON, MA—Clayton M. Christensen, Harvard Business School’s Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration, acclaimed author and teacher, and the world’s foremost authority on disruptive innovation, died... View Details

02 Dec 2018
News

An Emphasis on Teamwork

Dan Krebs (MBA 2005) Dan Krebs majored in engineering at MIT, but he was drawn to consulting and private equity after earning his undergraduate degree. “When I applied to HBS,” he notes, “my goal was to get an integrated view of the many... View Details

25 Aug 2014
News

Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999

Download Sheila Marcelo profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1970 Born, Manila, Philippines 1993 Earns BA, Economics, Mount Holyoke College 1999 Earns JD/MBA 1999 Joins HBS as... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

07 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 7

Missing Quarterly Analysts Forecasts (revised) Authors:Richard Mergenthaler, Shiva Rajgopal, and Suraj Srinivasan Abstract We find that missing the quarterly analyst consensus earnings forecast is associated with career penalties in the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Feb 2023
News

Alumnus Gift Will Nurture Basic, Therapeutic Science

in the fields of business, finance, sport, and philanthropy. He is currently chairman of the private investment firm B-FLEXION, formerly Waypoint Capital. Born in Rome, he is a graduate of Babson College and Harvard Business School, where... View Details

02 Dec 2018
News

A Chance to Thrive

Patricia Miller Zollar (MBA 1989) Attending HBS was a pivotal milestone in Patricia Miller Zollar’s life. “There is before HBS and there is after HBS,” says Zollar, a managing partner at Neuberger Berman, an asset management firm in New York. The North Carolina native... View Details

Portrait Project

Raamin Mostaghimi

bar her from meaningful employment. That year, she turned 24 years old. The year I turned 24, I enrolled at the Harvard Business School. My life is not mine, it was not free, and it definitely did not happen by chance. Opportunity was not... View Details

Web

Robert G. James Lounge | About

family's strong ties to Harvard Business School, the lounge in McArthur Hall was named the Robert G. James Lounge. After earning his MBA at HBS and his PhD in economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts... View Details

20 Feb 2018
News

David Perry’s Green Revolution

working on at an oil refinery for Exxon to startup CEO. (Perry exhibited his entrepreneurial vision while at HBS, telling the Bulletin in 2001 that he wrote four business plans while earning his MBA.) After... View Details

01 Jan 2010
News

Allan W.B. Gray, MBA 1965

fascinated by stocks since he was a boy, Allan Gray has built a successful career around finding and investing in companies which are priced well below his assessment of their intrinsic value. After earning his MBA and sharpening his... View Details

18 Sep 2019
News

Level Up

There was a very specific moment when the crisis underway in the sports industry became clear to Angela Ruggiero (MBA 2014). It was August 4, 2015, when Disney CEO Bob Iger announced in the company’s quarterly earnings call that its... View Details

Keywords: Paul Flannery and Dan Morrell; illustrations by Matt Chinworth

Profile

Eryn Schultz

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I decided to apply to business school because I wanted to pivot away from strategy consulting and move into an operations focused role at a mission-oriented... View Details

Keywords: Services; Consumer Products

01 Dec 2010
News

The Father of Modern Advertising

discussed — to a president, Warren G. Harding. The Man Who Sold America (Harvard Business Review Press) by Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986) and Arthur W. Schultz, goes a long way to reintroducing Lasker as an industry trailblazer.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

Profile

Tyler Todd

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I love my engineering background, but my long-term goals of senior management and running my own company necessitated that I learn how to make sound business... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services; Energy / Extractive Minerals; Manufacturing

23 Apr 2018
News

Sowing the Seeds of Leadership

hooked.” Scholarship with Relevance Condo says he “bumped into” the idea of a pursuing career in academia in the early 1990s, while earning his master’s at INCAE, Latin America’s renowned business school.... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 2006
News

Enron’s Legacy

continuing flow of detailed monthly earnings reports, and many directors engage in weekly and often daily conversations with management. The idea is to pursue a candid, informal, and continuing dialogue with management. Finally, most... View Details

Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Enron; Finance

Publications