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  • 17 Oct 2019
  • Research & Ideas

‘Chick Beer’ for Women? Why Gender Marketing Repels More Than Sells

your order.” Gender-tailored marketing messages from these brands and others—including Mangria and Pink Power tools—are common, yet new research shows they can turn off consumers, particularly women. In fact, they often backfire to the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products
  • 06 Jun 2024
  • Blog Post

Revolutionizing Wellness: Kate Twist (MBA 2008) Shapes the Future of Consumer Health Brands

$100mm to expand nationally, and has partnered with major retailers, developed products, launched campaigns, and digitized consumer experiences. With a passion for high-growth businesses and a commitment to helping underrepresented founders, Twist is re-imagining the... View Details
  • 30 Jan 2018
  • First Look

January 30, 2018

J’s board, became its new CEO and was able to successfully manage competing stakeholder demands, keep the business running, and ultimately paid back every dollar it owed to its creditors by selling the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 27

raises aggregate productivity through two channels: (1) trust facilitates reallocation between firms by allowing more efficient firms to grow as CEOs can decentralize more decisions and (2) trust complements the adoption of View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Innovation & Innovative Capacity - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Research Areas Research Areas Antitrust & Competition Policy CEO Leadership Environmental Quality Innovation & Innovative Capacity Philanthropy Social Progress Index Innovation & Innovative ... Innovation & Innovative Capacity... View Details
  • 24 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 24, 2006

Internasional Harvard Business School Case 207-021 In late 2004, Hilmi Panigoro, CEO of the publicly traded Indonesian oil company Medco Energi Internasional, is striving to regain majority control of the company his brother Arifin... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2011
  • What Do You Think?

So We Adapt. What’s the Downside?

case. The prescription appears simple: "First, seek out new ideas and try new things; second, when trying something new, do it on a scale where failure is survivable; third, seek out feedback and learn... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • Web

Globalization - Faculty & Research

a series of product missteps, negative media scrutiny, and ongoing challenges to its partner relationships, in late 2015, the company was acquired by JAB Holding Company. Now under private control, new CEO... View Details
  • 02 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Careers: Cloud Kitchens Are Now Serving

names—including virtual kitchens, ghost kitchens, shared kitchens, dark kitchens, and shadow kitchens. “A brick-and-mortar restaurant in New York City costs $1 million to $1.5 million to set up, while a cloud kitchen can get up and... View Details
Keywords: by Lena Ye and Geoffrey Jones; Food & Beverage
  • 28 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 28, 2008

Harvard Business School Case 208-129 Bob Kelly, the new CEO of Mellon Financial, is considering the terms of a proposed "merger of equals" with The Bank of New York,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers

Toxic workers aren’t just a pain in the rear; they’re also a pain in the bottom line, according to a new Harvard Business School working paper. Dylan Minor, visiting assistant professor of business administration in the HBS Strategy unit,... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
  • 28 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 28

investors and fiduciaries. A wide range of contributors offer new perspectives on dynamics that drive the current emphasis on short-term investment returns. Moreover, they analyze the forces at work in markets around the world, which are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 27

Transworld Auto Parts had to implement its new strategy flawlessly to survive the auto industry upheaval. The new CEO asked her leadership team to craft strategy maps and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 27, 2007

work and get paid, and the growing role of design in management. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607026 eDonkey-Deciding the Future of File Sharing Harvard Business School Case 707-482 Sam Yagan, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Oct 2023
  • Blog Post

HBS Section I Celebrates Parents, Mentors, and Partners Day

If there’s one thing our LEAD (Leadership and Organizational Behavior) Professor David Fubini (MBA 1980) tried to drill into the MBA Class of 2024 Section I, it’s that we should take the time to thank the people who got us to HBS – whether that be our parents, our... View Details
  • September 2021
  • Case

Posse Foundation: Developing Strong Leaders from Diverse Backgrounds

By: John J-H Kim, Robin Mendelson and Julia Kelley
Founded in 1989, Posse Foundation was a nonprofit organization with a mission of developing future leaders who reflected the U.S.’s rich diversity. The organization ran a selective, localized admissions process in 10 U.S. cities to identify outstanding students with... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Education; Higher Education; Decision Making; Demographics; Diversity; Ethnicity; Income; Race; Values and Beliefs; Geography; Geographic Scope; Growth and Development; Leadership; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Partners and Partnerships; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Identity; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Expansion; Education Industry; North and Central America; United States
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  • 09 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 9, 2010

belief is sound, but the authors' analysis of the performance of 45 companies led by CEOs with military experience revealed differences in how the branches (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps) prepare leaders for business. Those... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 17

Genzyme Corporation is in the midst of planning its new corporate headquarters, which incorporates many innovative green building features. After learning that the building as planned would likely earn a LEED Silver rating, an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

CEO impact differs markedly by industry, and that CEOs have the most significant impact where opportunities are scarce or where CEOs have slack resources. Book:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Research Summary

Research

The founding and expansion of new firms is central to innovation and economic growth, but the determinants of a new idea’s success are difficult to ascertain. The decision to form a new firm and its ultimate outcome are impacted by ownership structure, financing... View Details