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- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
Systems: In Search of the Next CEO It’s August 2014 and John Chambers is expected to announce his retirement after 17 years as CEO of global technology giant Cisco Systems. Under Chambers’s leadership, Cisco has grown from $2.2 billion in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
fundraisers for relief operations, or offering free goods and services, there are countless instances of HBS graduates who mobilized to help. Henry M. ("Hank") Paulson, Jr. (MBA '70), chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, was one of the first Wall Street executives to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Second, the correlation between bond yields and ratings fell. And lastly, negative stock price responses to announced rating downgrades are larger in absolute value (a downgrade in this weaker ratings environment is even worse news).... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
coordinate the activities of the three product-based business units which, until now, have operated autonomously. As he is executing the restructuring, Bank of America, an important account of the firm, announces its intention to reduce... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
2018, the organization announced a new ethics policy, so Culver Humphrey came forward with her story once again. Leadership rebuffed her a second time, so she met with the Oregonian. Team members were stunned by what they read. For many,... View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
equity inflows have a more negative announcement effect on equity returns than those on debt inflows. Real investment falls in the three years following the controls. Overall, the findings have implications for macro-finance models that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
http://hbr.org/product/fei-cheng-wu-rao/an/414056-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 712-463 Sweet Deal-Industry Self-Regulation of Breakfast Cereal Advertising to Children In response to growing concern about childhood obesity, in February 2006 the Council of Better... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
Purpose, Values, and Principles. Bob McDonald announced in August that P&G's growth strategy for the future is "purpose-inspired growth." So P&G makes it a conversation. Decisions get made in the company that can be tied... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
Go-Jek announced it was mulling a partnership with Blue Bird to allow users to hail and pay for taxis through its app. Such an alliance would likely smooth over ruffled feathers at Blue Bird and with the regulators. About the same time,... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
struggled for the past several years, and JANA thought the presence of new directors could help turn around its operations, while Whole Foods resisted, adding new directors and announcing ambitious new financial targets. Facing continued... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
toward lower-uncertainty periods. We document that the resulting opportunistic earnings management is concentrated in CEOs, firms, and periods where such incentives are likely to be strongest: (1) where CEO wealth is sensitive to change in the share price, (2) where... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
KOR), a group of Polish intellectuals banded together in support of workers across the country, the first time the two groups had formed such an alliance. In the fall of 1976 one of Waldemar’s classmates heard about KOR through the static of Radio Free Europe,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
drug dealers. But he also announced a nationwide education campaign, part of which would be “unsavory commercials” to “scare” kids away from using drugs. It’s a potential action that Langford—who was on a conference call with the White... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
company's efforts toward protecting human health, natural resources, and the global environment. As part of that effort, GM has now become the first major auto manufacturer in modern times to bring to market the first true electric vehicle. In January, the company... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
structure up-to-date. Last year, Boise Cascade announced its most profitable year ever, with earnings of $352 million on sales of $5 billion. At about the same time that Harad's company was struggling against declining profits, across the... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
the McDonald’s in the shopping center across Main Street from FreshBox Farms could be offering meatless burgers soon: The fast-food chain recently announced a trial partnership with Beyond Meat, whose products are made in part from yellow... View Details
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
upgrading of its channel strategy design that accounted for 46% of North America sales in 2006. Nonetheless, NetApp senior management announced they expected to grow revenue another 30% in fiscal 2007 with half the growth coming from... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
ecosystem development. Indeed, when it comes to setting the table for fintech, America’s foreign rivals might just have it beat. In 2015, then British prime minister David Cameron announced that he wanted to make the UK the world leader... View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
Case 119-030 Fair Value Accounting at Berkshire Hathaway Inc. In May 2018, Berkshire Hathaway announced an unprecedented loss of more than $1 billion for the first quarter of 2018. Warren Buffett blamed this loss on the new accounting... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
Netflix and Blockbuster in the DVD rental market and, later, Netflix's subsequent growth (and strategic challenges) in video streaming. The case is set in September 2011, after Netflix announced the unbundling of its DVD rental and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne