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- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
authors look to the future—what will the shopping experience be like for us, and for retailers, as ecommerce becomes an ever larger part of the market. In early February, 93-year-old retailer RadioShack announced it was filing for... View Details
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
August 2012, Molycorp announced it would issue $120 million of equity and $360 million of convertible debt. To facilitate the issuance of convertible debt, the firm entered a "share lending agreement" with Morgan Stanley whereby... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
recruit and retain motivated and capable CHWs. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/910030-PDF-ENG Brazil: Leading the BRICs? Arthur A. Daemmrich and Aldo MusacchioHarvard Business School Case 711-024 Brazil's new president, Dilma Rousseff, had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
the draft. To be able to select him in the eighth spot seemed like a steal for the Rockets and their newly hired assistant general manager, Daryl Morey. Moments later, the assembled crowd's jubilation turned to horror as television analysts covering the draft View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
compared to non-founder firms. Overall, the evidence suggests that boards with founder-directors provide more high powered incentives in the form of pay and retention policies than the average U.S. board. Stock returns around M&A View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
because I had a coach—a behavioral psychologist—come and teach our company and coach them for four months from Mexico, and at the end of that at an all-staff meeting, he announced that we're becoming a self-managing company. The same day... View Details
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
needed by way of infrastructure, in that new company. So this morning the team announced that we had sold it at a very good profit, and I basically stopped the celebration and said, "Yeah, that's terrific. I mean, that's wonderful.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
“Pretty straightforward. Pretty frightening.” That’s how Jim Sharpe (MBA 1976), chairman and CEO of Extrusion Technology, Inc. (ET), describes an out-of-the-blue situation his company faced two years ago, when its largest customer View Details
- March 2022 (Revised November 2022)
- Case
When Should CEOs Speak Out Publicly? The 2021 Georgia Voting Law
By: William W. George, Hubert Joly and Amram Migdal
This case describes the March 2021 passage of a voting and elections law in the U.S. state of Georgia and reactions by corporations and corporate leaders to the law. Included are a brief history of voting rights in the United States and Georgia and an overview of the... View Details
Keywords: Voting Rights; CEO Activism; Communication; Communication Intention and Meaning; Communication Strategy; Forms of Communication; Announcements; Spoken Communication; Decision Making; Judgments; Voting; Demographics; Nationality; Race; Geography; Geographic Location; Geopolitical Units; Country; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Government Legislation; Political Elections; History; Law; Laws and Statutes; Rights; Leadership; Leadership Style; Management; Management Skills; Relationships; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Social Psychology; Status and Position; Society; Civil Society or Community; Culture; Public Opinion; Social Issues; Societal Protocols; United States; Georgia (state, US)
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
"roadmap" as part of the firm's strategic transformation. The roadmap showed both a destination (a target EPS number) and a detailed path to that destination in terms of revenue growth, margin expansion, and share repurchases. After successfully achieving its... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812046-PDF-ENG PNC Financial: Grow Up Great (B) Christopher Marquis, William Drewery, Bradley Crane, and Laura Velez VillaHarvard Business School Supplement 412-119 In 2011, the PNC Financial Services Group View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
the norms of science. It's an ironic and fascinating time to study technology, science, and invention. In some ways the processes of invention in firms are moving towards an open science model. For example, Novartis and the Broad Institute just View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
resorts and the burgeoning cruise line business. Club Med revenues dropped off, and the physical plant at many of the villages deteriorated. The company's new management, however, has apparently halted that slide. Its bold plans for the future were buttressed in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
swipes and the ability to “rewind” to a profile they mistakenly passed by for $10 to $20 a month, depending on age. The app also began experimenting with advertising in April. Jess, Meet Ken and Hinge have not announced plans to monetize... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
all of these risks, did the acquisition add value to shareholders? AbbVie made headlines in March 2015 when it announced its $21 billion acquisition of Pharmacyclics. AbbVie, a research-based pharmaceutical company, was founded in 2013... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/616043-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-027 Apple Pay On September 9, 2014, in front of a packed audience in Cupertino, California, Tim Cook, the chief executive officer of Apple, announced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
Foreign investment in developing countries has always involved an element of risk. Just ask Verizon Communications, which could lose hundreds of millions of dollars in Venezuela should President Hugo Chávez follow through with plans View Details
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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
In fiscal 2023, 47 percent of MBA students received a need-based scholarship from the School with awards ranging from $2,500 to $76,000 per year for full tuition and course fees. The average annual award was nearly $45,000. Last summer, HBS View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
International Energy Agency’s chief economist announce that 2010 saw the largest annual rise in carbon emissions in history. So just how hot is it? Climate change, Bloomberg says, is “the greatest challenge that humanity has ever created... View Details
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
average of $33 per month. Premium clubs also continued to flourish, while the competition from not-for-profits such as university and employee gyms continued unabated. In 2016, the new CEO announced a new strategy to counter these... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel