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  • 16 Dec 2015
  • Blog Post

Unexpected Moments at HBS

simplicity of our upbringing; stories of working summers on a farm and crowded high school basketball gymnasiums. ·        Sitting next to a young man who worked in manufacturing operations in China, while we listened to General View Details
  • March 2008 (Revised July 2011)
  • Supplement

Cadbury Schweppes: Capturing Confectionery (C)

By: David Collis, Toby Stuart and Troy Smith
In late 2002, global confectionery and beverage maker Cadbury Schweppes needed to decide whether or not to make an acquisition bid for Adams, an underperforming gum company which had been put up for sale by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. Examining the decision from a... View Details
Keywords: Food; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • September 2020 (Revised December 2020)
  • Supplement

Hitachi Rail Limited (B)

By: David J. Collis, Akiko Kanno and Nobuo Sato
This supplement describes the strategy and organisation changes made by British executive, Alistair Dormer, after he is made head of Hitachi Rail's global business. The company acquires an Italian company, continues to win contracts in the UK, but struggles to bring... View Details
Keywords: Organization Structure; Leader Selection; Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Strategy; Global Strategy; Organizational Structure; Leadership; Mergers and Acquisitions; Integration; Values and Beliefs; Rail Industry; Japan
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  • 01 Jun 1998
  • News

Simmons Family Endows Professorship

important in shaping who we are as businesspeople," echoes David E. Simmons (MBA '85), president of Simmons Family, Inc., a firm established by Roy Simmons in 1978 that owns and operates radio stations in... View Details
  • 03 Jan 2023
  • What Do You Think?

How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?

(iStockphoto/400tmax) While summarizing comments to this same question asked about Jack Welch in last month’s column (shown below), I received word of Frances Hesselbein’s death. Welch was regarded by many as the greatest CEO of the 20th... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • 19 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55632 forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Active Choice, Implicit Defaults, and the Incentive to Choose By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

important contribution to improving the practice of management. Michael L. Tushman : Honored with the 2010 INFORMS Distinguished Lecture in Technology Management. 2009 Julie Battilana : Selected by the French-American Foundation as one of... View Details
  • March 2008 (Revised July 2011)
  • Supplement

Cadbury Schweppes: Capturing Confectionery (D)

By: David Collis, Toby Stuart and Troy Smith
In late 2002, global confectionery and beverage maker Cadbury Schweppes needed to decide whether or not to make an acquisition bid for Adams, an underperforming gum company which had been put up for sale by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. Examining the decision from a... View Details
Keywords: Food; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Strategy
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  • March 2008 (Revised January 2023)
  • Supplement

Cadbury Schweppes: Capturing Confectionery (B)

By: David Collis, Toby Stuart and Troy Smith
In late 2002, global confectionery and beverage maker Cadbury Schweppes needed to decide whether or not to make an acquisition bid for Adams, an underperforming gum company which had been put up for sale by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. Examining the decision from a... View Details
Keywords: Food; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 12 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster

to Climate database, and Earth Warriors offered a free teacher training to all Subject to Climate teachers on how to teach climate change to young children which was attended by over 100 teachers. Earth... View Details
  • September 2020 (Revised April 2021)
  • Case

Hitachi Rail Limited (A)

By: David J. Collis, Akiko Kanno and Nobuo Sato
Hitachi must decide whether to make a British executive, who has successfully built its European rail business from scratch, head of its global rail division even though the bulk of revenues for the unit still come from Japan. The case describes the history of Hitachi... View Details
Keywords: Global Strategy; Leadership; Values and Beliefs; Human Resources; Globalized Firms and Management; Organizational Structure; Rail Industry; Japan
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  • Web

Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Jane Li, and Ioana Neamtu. 2024 Elisabeth Kempf : Winner of the 2024 Second Place Jensen Prize for the best paper published by the Journal of Financial Economics in the Areas of Corporate Finance and Organizations for "Political Ideology... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • News

Alumni Bookshelf

Health Care Organizations by David W. Young (DBA ’77) (Jossey-Bass) Young, a member of the faculty at Boston University’s School of Management who will teach next semester at... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 13 Mar 2018
  • First Look

March 13, 2018

West: Origins, Evolution and Resilience The United States in Contemporary Perspectives: Evolving Forms, Strategy, and Performance By: Collis, David J., Bharat Anand, and J. Yo-Jud Cheng Abstract—In spite of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Apr 2024
  • News

Mission Control

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details
  • Profile

Ruzwana Bashir

Innovative Companies in Travel’ by Fast Company alongside Airbnb and Google. Bashir used her experience and contacts at startups like the Gilt Groupe and Artsy to secure millions in funding from the likes of Google’s Eric Schmidt,... View Details
  • 28 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 28

company, called Cardio-Metric, in 2002, it consisted of seven young engineers (including its two 25-year-old founders) working from a one-bedroom Minneapolis apartment. By 2008, when the venture... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 May 2023
  • News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2023

Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more... View Details
Keywords: leadership; management; work-life balance
  • 01 Aug 1998
  • News

High Honors

Jobs and the Worker, challenged management theories then in vogue by suggesting that jobs should be designed around people's needs, an idea that has gained popularity in recent years. Turner's greatest rewards, however, have come from... View Details