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Foley Fall2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors General Management, Organizational Behavior Lynn Paine Spring2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Crafting Your Life: The First 10 Years Post MBA (LIFE) Organizational Behavior Leslie Perlow Fall2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Creating View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
to standardize their products and helped establish brand identities through consistent appearance. By 1938, food dyes had achieved such widespread use, and had raised such public concern, that the federal government amended the 1906 Pure...
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Carmen Nobel
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
top management wondered how to best strengthen their brokerage team. The acquisition of Spaulding and Slye, a renowned Boston-based firm, provided instant growth in some key markets, but organic growth was harder to achieve. While the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
performance in their exchange ties (Gulati and Sytch, 2007) and acquisitions (Zaheer et al., 2010); revenues (Baum et al., 2000; Shipilov and Li, 2008); market share (Zaheer and Bell, 2005) and market entry (Jensen, 2008); IPO success...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
of Boca Junior's business model and how it differs from that of the richer soccer clubs in Western Europe. Also enables an assessment of successful talent and brand management strategies in the context of a sports franchise with a...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
technological and market risks, where the former is of paramount importance. Pioneers ultimately realize a higher likelihood of acquisition but wait longer to be acquired. Therefore, to some extent, later movers can free ride on...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
flow situation, should Owen reconsider the acquisition offer? Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/813036-PDF-ENG Friend Bank: The Time for Hope (Abridged) Clayton Rose and Aldo SesiaHarvard Business School Case 313-010 In 2010,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
know, so I think sometimes people will be a little bit too much in a hurry to say, oh, here's what I want to do long-term, and so I got to jump in and do that right now. But to have the opportunity to work for a really well-established company that's a big View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
Business School Case 514-054 Diageo: Innovating for Africa Diageo, the world's leading premium drinks business, had a long history in Africa starting from its beer brand Guinness first exported to Sierra Leone in 1827. By 2013, 13% of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
brand in the U.S.; a competitive offering of private label and exclusive brands; and, following the execution of One Macy's and My Macy's, a fresh, unique foundation for future growth. However, the company still faces significant...
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Carmen Nobel
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
made it far enough to launch a spring and fall collection and received widespread media coverage. The brand was slowly starting to gain traction with customers, too. But by the end of 2012, the startup—running low on cash and plagued by...
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Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
race to win new customers and e-reader converts. It will make the company a truly global entity, bringing it closer to its customers in Asia. And the acquisition will simplify the supply chain, driving down costs (the Kindle DX,...
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- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
Tang Harvard Business School Case 410-018 Shanghai Tang is a luxury brand that focuses on Chinese-inspired fashion, accessories, and home decoration products. In fall 2008, amidst a growing global economic crisis, Raphael Ie Masne,...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
director Nadir Godrej (MBA ’76), who oversees business divisions in the areas of chemicals, foods, and medical diagnostics. More such acquisitions will take place in the future, he believes, as Godrej expands its worldwide distribution...
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Julia Hanna
- 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008
Haber and Aldo Musacchio Abstract In 1997 Mexico allowed foreign banks unrestricted entry to the market. What impact did foreign mergers and acquisitions have on Mexico's banks? We find that all banks in Mexico have become increasingly...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
president and CFO of Medtronic, overseeing a number of acquisitions and sales at the medical device company and broadening its reach to include a more global investor base. In this special edition of Skydeck honoring recipients of the...
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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
discover that there was not a single brand of "gourmet" ketchup on the market. If J.B. Lyon had known about J.M. Smucker, he may have simply shrugged his shoulders and walked away. But the enterprising 26-year-old knew nothing of the jam...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
goals is permissible—a lesson no one taught me early in my career. FLAVIA BUARQUE DE ALMEIDA Cathy Benko (MBA 1989), vice chairman and chief talent officer, Deloitte Consulting, Foster City, California First, someone who can help you think through what your personal...
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- October 2016
- Supplement
24 Hour Fitness (B): Ownership Changes, 2005–2016
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
In 2016, 24 Hour Fitness was the number-two fitness chain in the United States, generating revenues of $1.4 billion from 441 clubs serving 3.8 million members. Based in San Ramon, California, 24 Hour Fitness operated clubs in 13 states. Having grown rapidly to become...
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Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "24 Hour Fitness (B): Ownership Changes, 2005–2016." Harvard Business School Supplement 717-423, October 2016.