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15 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 15

http://hbr.org/product/tesco-group-food/an/514022-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-023 Mission Produce As the leading distributor of fresh avocados in the U.S., Mission Produce was at a crossroads in late 2013. Avocado consumption was booming and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Don’t Listen to “Yes”

decisions. But conflict does not mean browbeating. In his new book, Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus (Wharton School Publishing), Roberto describes the toll on organizations when leaders... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation

transcripts, Yu says the team encountered plenty of bad calls, and it was "mind-boggling" how poorly some CEOs and CFOs communicated. Take the CFO of one of the largest retail banking groups in Europe, who was asked about a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

09 Apr 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

The Dark Side of Performance Bonuses

used in CEO bonus plans, relatively little attention is paid to the design of the bonus plan or unintended consequences. Equality and Equity in Compensation Why do some firms such as technology startups offer the same equity compensation... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

phase; it simply doesn't represent a sustainable solution for consumers. Yet employers are the natural gatekeepers for retirement plans, he believes. For example, when focus groups were presented with a new retirement product, individuals... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

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MOC Network reaches 20 year milestone - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Resources Resources Video Courses Data Events & Presentations Frameworks News Publications Courses Courses MOC Affiliate Network MOC Course at Harvard The New CEO... View Details

09 Nov 2023
Blog Post

The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business

in a thriving business when a job offer comes from a company you’ve always admired that’s on the brink of bankruptcy. The risks are tremendous but so are the potential rewards – to you and society. This situation brings to mind the experience of James Mwangi, View Details

September 2023 (Revised June 2024)
Case

Kaspi.kz: Building Trust through Innovation

By: Sandra J. Sucher, Fares Khrais and Marilyn Morgan Westner

This case is written to help students explore how companies can maintain and develop trust while innovating, how to identify and respond effectively to warning signs that they may not be as trusted as they believe, and how being trusted can aid in expanding and growing... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Culture; Trust; Technology Adoption; Innovation and Invention; Banking Industry

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10 Feb 2015
First Look

First Look: February 10

John A., and Leora Kornfeld Abstract—The new marketing order, as played out on media platforms like YouTube, Twitter and Instagram, is so unlike the order it is displacing that it might seem like bedlam, an asylum of sorts for ideas... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Health Care - Faculty & Research

and Jeremy Dann After its spin-off from one of the world's largest ultrasound makers, Sonosite attempts to popularize a new kind of handheld ultrasound units. Sonosite needs to decide if it should focus on View Details

13 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?

new borrowers who are taking loans and repaying them is evidence enough that this sector has had enormous impact. But another view that we’re also deeply sympathetic to is that, 30 years into the microfinance story, around 2005 and 2010,... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Financial Services

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MOC Course at Harvard - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

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Career Networking - Alumni

Glickman, CEO of Great on the Job, to learn what executive presence is (and isn't), why it has nothing to do with your title or role, and how to show up with presence every day in our new virtual reality.... View Details

24 May 2018
Blog Post

Win/Win Board Assignments: Expert Advice from Board Recruiter Julie Norris

For many successful business people, retirement (or the advanced stages of their careers) is not a time to abandon old interests, but an opportunity to create new successes on the foundations of previous ones, perhaps by serving on a... View Details

09 May 2017
What Do You Think?

Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?

way: “What happened to the lessons I was taught on campus about running the business as a ‘going concern’?” How do we encourage CEOs to manage for sustainability? What do you think? On September 13, 1970, an opinion piece appeared in The... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Jan 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs

Professor Mukti Khaire's challenge to management students is lofty, even by Harvard MBA standards. Don't just change the way people live, change the way they think. Change culture. In her new elective course, Creative High-Impact... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Food & Beverage; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

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Bankruptcy | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

commercial mortgages, high yield securities, and leveraged loans, Lehman Brothers faced the prospect of bankruptcy. CEO Richard Fuld proved unsuccessful in securing a rescue effort for Lehman Brothers with the Korea Development Bank,... View Details

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Impact Stories | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

2018 New Venture Competition Social Enterprise Track Flare Wins 2017 New Venture Competition Social Enterprise Track UrSure, Inc. wins 2016 New Venture Competition Social... View Details

23 Jun 2023
News

Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

Alumni Board members on campus for their annual spring meeting // Credit: Panfoto Hard work, with humility for humanity, is the spirit that animates Harvard Business School's MBA program today, Matt Weinzierl, Senior Associate Dean and Chair of the MBA Program, told... View Details

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Regional Winners - Alumni

2022, Co-founder & CEO Eric Gruskin, MBA 2022, Cofounder & COO Region: New York Codigo Codigo is a rapid software development platform which tools help developers accelerate Blockchain development by... View Details

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