Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (4,273) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (4,273) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 95 of 4,273 Results →
  • February 2023 (Revised March 2025)
  • Case

Graphic Packaging: Project Cowboy (A)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and E. Scott Mayfield
In July 2019, Graphic Packaging CEO Michael Doss was proposing a $600 million investment in a new machine to produce coated recycled board (CRB), a type of paper packaging used for consumer products (cups, cereal boxes, beverage boxes, etc.) that utilized recycled... View Details
Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Growth Management; Demand and Consumers; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Expansion; Value Creation; Supply and Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States; North America
Related
  • 16 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

association as well as the food and beverage brands that supply them. We’ve invested in the industry and served as corporate board members and leaders of industry coalitions, and we now, as educators, prepare future founders and leaders... View Details
Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage
  • 13 Feb 2020
  • Book

Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations

buying Alstom, GE’s chief energy competitor, but ignored warnings from wary board directors and senior executives who claimed Alstom had made bad deals and otherwise performed poorly. Since the acquisition, Alstom has struggled—and today... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Dec 2023

Busting Application Myths with HBS Admissions

Spend 30 minutes with members of the HBS Admissions Board as we walk through the HBS application, offer tips on how to approach the application process, and bust some myths about the admissions process. View Details
  • 23 May 2019
  • News

Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997

Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1971 Born, Hong Kong 1986 Enrolls in Milton Academy as boarding student 1993 Earns AB, Economics, Harvard College 1993 Joins McKinsey & Co., Business Analyst 1997 Earns MBA, Baker... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 07 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 7

at both the senior management and director levels affect corporate philanthropic contributions. We also find that organizational structure constrains the philanthropic influence of board members, but not senior managers, a result that is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2015
  • Case

Clifford Chance: Women at Work

By: Boris Groysberg, Katherine Connolly and Stephanie Marton
It was October 2013, and global law firm Clifford Chance was coming under fire for the second time in less than a year for reputedly failing to provide a supportive work environment for its female associates. A memo entitled "Speaking Effectively" was just issued to... View Details
Keywords: Women; Law; Fairness; Employee Relationship Management; Retention; Human Capital; Organizational Culture; Performance Expectations; Work-Life Balance; Public Opinion; Problems and Challenges; Legal Services Industry; United States
Related
  • 02 Apr 2020
  • What Do You Think?

What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?

unprepared boards and CEOs from responsibility so their companies won’t be sued.” “In the corporate sector, the continuing effort to brand the COVID-19 pandemic as a Black Swan is a retroactive attempt to protect unprepared View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Web

Investors - Entrepreneurship

Managing Partner, SV Life Sciences MBA 1991 Tim Brady Board Member, QuestBridge MBA 1995 James W. Breyer Co-Founder, Accel-KKR MBA 1987 Rob Chandra Senior Advisor, Bessemer Venture Partners MBA 1993 Tony Chao Partner, Tyche Partners MBA... View Details
  • 26 May 2022
  • HBS Case

Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?

decision-making processes. Many companies already elevate an ethics focus to the board level, creating committees on corporate responsibility and accountability. These structures can help create trust in a company’s products among the... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 25 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 25

they realized they would have to go back to the drawing board to better gauge which investors would have an appetite for this type of investment and how best to market the fund to those parties going forward. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Aug 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

but at this stage, if you don’t have the confidence and the right people to do things without you, it will be a rough ride. In fact, when founding CEOs don’t learn to step up into their roles and empower their leaders, investors and board... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 16 May 2023
  • In Practice

After Silicon Valley Bank's Flameout, What's Next for Entrepreneurs?

status and manage tricky processes under pressure. For example, how to get a timely board resolution to temporarily tap into personal funds to make payroll during the SVB situation could translate into how to fast-track a decision on how... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Technology; Financial Services
  • Person Page

Full Biography

By: Rohit Deshpande

Rohit Deshpandé is Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing at Harvard Business Schoolwhere he currently teaches in the Owner/President Management Program and in other executive education offerings. He has also taught global branding, international marketing, and... View Details

  • 25 Aug 2014
  • HBS Case

Starbucks Reinvented

97 percent from the same time a year earlier; for the fiscal year, net earnings were down 53 percent to $316 million. The Starbucks board was reluctant to send 10,000 partners to New Orleans at a cost of $30 million, but Schultz stuck to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage
  • Web

Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni

companies that facilitate project-based and/or flexible-work opportunities. iRelaunch Co-founded in 2007 by Carol Fishman Cohen (MBA 1985), iRelaunch is a full service career reentry company, providing programming, training, conferences, events, job View Details
  • Web

Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

across the spectrum, from entrepreneurial ventures to more established firms. Publications No One Left Behind (A) By: Lynn S. Paine, Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard, Max Hancock and David Lane March 2025 | Faculty Research In September 2021, the View Details
  • 2019
  • Article

Go-Shops Revisited

By: Guhan Subramanian and Annie Zhao
A go-shop process turns the traditional M&A deal process on its head: rather than a pre-signing market canvass followed by a post-signing “no shop” period, a go-shop deal involves a limited pre-signing market check, followed by a post-signing “go shop” process to find... View Details
Keywords: Go-shop Process; Mergers and Acquisitions; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Deal; Performance Effectiveness; Technological Innovation
Related

    Wenxin Du

    Wenxin Du is a Professor of Finance and the Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial Management at the Harvard Business School. She studies global currency and fixed income markets, central banking, financial... View Details

    • Web

    Team - Case Method Project

    dancing, playing board games, and spending time with her four ferrets. Maureen O’Hern Maureen O'Hern works with the Case Method Project on teacher outreach and mentorship, and is also a history teacher at Boston Collegiate Charter School.... View Details