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12 Aug 2014
First Look

First Look: August 12

late 2009, Marisa worked in acquisitions at Douglas Private Equity Advisors. During the first year Marisa spent a lot of her time reviewing documents, making site visits, and running numbers, using a sophisticated software program called... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Jul 2015
News

Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs

by moving from employer to employer every couple years. They’re not going to take the information and go off and start their own business. They’re committed to the organization where they’re working and they are really motivated to continue with their careers.” Photo... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Goldman Sachs; Reuters; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Peeling Back the Global Brand

Corporate Brands Crossing Borders In the second presentation of the Global Brands session, HBS professor Douglas Holt described a work in progress that he is conducting with HBS professor John Quelch and Earl Taylor of Research... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail

01 Sep 2003
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report

Perry Driggs (MBA ’61), Helmy El-Sherif (MBA ’80), Alex Florence (OPM 16, 1990), Carlos Guzman (MBA ’88), Joan McCabe (MBA ’81), Paul Stewart (MBA ’87), Douglas Tansill (MBA ’63), and Eric Turner (MBA ’82). I feel honored to be a part of... View Details

Keywords: Ted Fischer; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

April 2023
Technical Note

An Art & A Science: How to Apply Design Thinking to Data Science Challenges

By: Michael Parzen, Eddie Lin, Douglas Ng and Jessie Li

We hear it all the time as managers: “what is the data that backs up your decisions?” Even local mom-and-pop shops now have access to complex point-of-sale systems that can closely track sales and customer data. Social media influencers have turned into seven-figure... View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Framework; Analytics and Data Science

February 2004
Case

The Making of Verizon

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Douglas A Raymond and Ryan Raffaelli

Through a series of mergers, Ivan Seidenberg, Verizon chairman and CEO, successfully shared the co-CEO title twice while building the largest telecom company in the United States. The strong and complementary cultures of the companies that Seidenberg and a key group of... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Change Management; Transition; Leading Change; Organizational Culture; Risk Management; Telecommunications Industry; United States

September 2003
Case

Driving Change at Seagate

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Douglas A Raymond and Lyn Baranowski

A new CEO, Steve Luczo, together with COO Bill Watkins, have led a turnaround of Seagate, raising productivity dramatically and increasing innovation through teamwork, cross-functional collaboration, and other transformations in the culture of this manufacturer of disk... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development; Transformation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Groups and Teams; Performance Productivity; Initial Public Offering; Going Public; Information Technology Industry

October 2002 (Revised August 2004)
Case

Canary Wharf

By: William J. Poorvu, Arthur I Segel and Camille Douglas

On September 25, 2002, Peter Anderson was due to meet with Morgan Stanley in ten minutes. Anderson had been the finance director of Canary Wharf Group (CWG) since Paul Reichmann and a group of investors had repurchased Canary Wharf in 1995. Anderson had joined Olympia... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Negotiation; Business or Company Management; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Financing and Loans; Crisis Management; Problems and Challenges; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Success

August 23, 2004
Article

How Model Behaviour Brings Market Power

By: Douglas B. Holt, J. A. Quelch and E. Taylor

Web

Bibliography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Enterprise, 1923–1941. New York: Atheneum, 1968. Fisher, Douglas A. The Epic of Steel. 1st ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1963. --- Steel in the War. New York: United States Steel Corporation, 1946. --- Steel Making in America. New York:... View Details

01 Mar 2012
News

Alumni Book Briefs

and Retain Top Talent to Create an Engaged, Productive Workforce by Kevin Sheridan (MBA ’88) ((McGraw-Hill)) Finding a Path: Stories from My Life by Harry W. Strachan (DBA ’72) ((iUniverse Publishing)) Scooter: The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

2024
Book

Retiring: Creating a Life that Works for You

By: Teresa M. Amabile, Lotte Bailyn, Marcy Crary, Douglas T. (Tim) Hall and Kathy Kram

Retirement, as a major life transition, can be both thrilling and challenging in unexpected ways. Written by acclaimed authors in the fields of business leadership, careers, and work, this book goes beyond the typical financial and health-related advice on retirement,... View Details