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- 13 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?
Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, who leads the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. “Our paper reveals some very attractive and socially beneficial aspects of the private equity industry,... View Details
- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 16 Sep 2014
- Career Events
Returning to Work After a Break
As a "relauncher" herself, Carol Cohen (MBA 1985) understands the challenges of returning to work after multi-year career breaks. She has also engaged with hundreds of hiring managers to understand their biases and the risk they associate with hiring people who are... View Details
- 16 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service
The transformation took several years. The results speak for themselves. Over the next several years, close to 75 of some of the largest firms in the world signed on with JLL for similar services. None of this would have been possible without a concerted effort on the... View Details
- 14 Jan 2019
- Op-Ed
These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership
Group to add healthier products to its lineup. When soft drink sales declined in 2010, shareholders criticized PepsiCo’s execution. Nooyi responded by beefing up PepsiCo’s marketing and strengthening her leadership team—but held firm to... View Details
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Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab | About
1982). Originally from Chicago, Judy earned a BS of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois and an MBA from Harvard Business School (MBA 1983). She is the managing partner of PagsGroup, where she invests in startup... View Details
- 09 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Where Will You Be in 30 Years: Behind the Scenes of the 5 Big Life Decisions Documentary
their own companies. Singer and Hackett wanted to see how those plans were put into play right after HBS and over the course of a career. All of these stories needed to start somewhere, and Singer and Hackett found that somewhere in a basement room on the HBS campus.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
business and civic leaders helped the city clean up its act, but by the early 1980s, most of the smokestacks had shut down anyway, as manufacturing jobs moved out of the area. People left in droves. Visitors today see a different... View Details
- 04 Jan 2024
- News
Great Heights
In 2019, after more than a decade scaling the heights of product management in Silicon Valley, Lisa Kostova (MBA 2009) decided to take on a different kind of climb. Over a sabbatical year, Kostova trained for and summited Denali, which, at 20,310 feet, is the tallest... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- January 2010 (Revised November 2012)
- Case
Savage Beast (A1)
By: Noam Wasserman and LP Maurice
For several months, things had been spiraling downwards at Savage Beast, the music-recommendation company started three years before by Tim Westergren. The company's founder-CEO recently left due to pressures both at home and within the venture. Dozens of investors... View Details
Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Financing and Loans; Lawsuits and Litigation; Management Teams; Partners and Partnerships
Wasserman, Noam, and LP Maurice. "Savage Beast (A1)." Harvard Business School Case 810-051, January 2010. (Revised November 2012.)
- 21 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The New Math of Customer Relationships
organizations with whom we've had no previous contact that get in touch with us to check up on the latest thinking that they say has influenced their management over the past decade or so. Finally, the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
their non-connected holdings. A replicating portfolio of connected stocks outperforms a replicating portfolio of non-connected stocks by up to 8.4% per year. Returns are concentrated around corporate news announcements, consistent with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
Management Journal Monitoring Global Supply Chains By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill Abstract—Firms reliant on supply chains to manufacture their goods risk reputational harm if the working conditions in those... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
Desan look to how scholars in history, law, and political science are redefining capitalism in light of the American experience. Essayists write on such diverse subjects as markets, selling of slave clothing, the Gilded Age, women’s rights, money and finance, risk... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 05 Jul 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is “Executive Intelligence” for Leaders?
Summing Up Judging from the number of responses to the July column, Justin Menkes, author of the book Executive Intelligence, appears to have tapped into a hot issue with his concern that what he terms "executive intelligence"... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- June 2021 (Revised November 2024)
- Case
MicroStrategy: Accounting for Cryptocurrency
By: Jonas Heese and Annelena Lobb
On February 15, 2021, Alina Moss, an analyst who covered the technology company MicroStrategy, pondered a rise in MicroStrategy’s share price. Moss had dialed into the company earnings call. When it ended, Moss had more questions than answers. MicroStrategy had... View Details
Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Share Price; Electronic Commerce; Intangible Assets; Assets; Accounting; Financial Statements; Financial Management; Financial Reporting; Analytics and Data Science; E-commerce
Heese, Jonas, and Annelena Lobb. "MicroStrategy: Accounting for Cryptocurrency." Harvard Business School Case 121-066, June 2021. (Revised November 2024.)
- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
Learning promotes performance—is there any argument? Without learning, organizations, teams, and managers are stuck in yesterday's world. In fact, says Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson, there are built-in tensions between... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 17 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
KFC’s Explosive Growth in China
crucial social skills for young adults who grew up in single-child households, creates lifelong Yum! Brands customers, and develops a culture of customer service in a country where there was none. The restaurant View Details
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
business initiatives, we find that firms engage in a dynamic process of managing contradictory boundary activities. Boundaries between differentiated units are reinforced to enable exploitation and exploration, while corporate boundary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- February 2011 (Revised December 2012)
- Case
Coca-Cola on Facebook
By: John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
In late 2008, executives at Coca-Cola had to decide what to do with a fan-created page on Facebook that had amassed over one million followers in three months. From a legal point of view the fan-created page was in violation of Facebook's terms of service as a... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Governance Controls; Policy; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Social and Collaborative Networks; Food and Beverage Industry
Deighton, John, and Leora Kornfeld. "Coca-Cola on Facebook." Harvard Business School Case 511-110, February 2011. (Revised December 2012.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- 22 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
10 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture
Those who aren't living up to BHC's values soon get the point. Employees at all levels in an organization notice and validate the elements of culture. As owners, they judge every management decision to hire,... View Details