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- 18 Oct 2017
HBS Information Session at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Join us to learn more about Harvard Business School and the 2+2 admissions process to the MBA at HBS. The event...
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- 29 Oct 2014
- News
The Value of Keeping the Right Customers
- June 2017
- Teaching Note
Succession Planning at Samsung: The Merger Formula of Cheil Industries and Samsung C&T
By: Gwen Yu
A merger deal of two Samsung group companies becomes a center of a corruption scandal. The merger of Cheil Industries and Samsung C&T was seen as a crucial step to transfer power to Lee Jae Yong, the heir of Samsung group. The deal was criticized to purposefully...
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- April 2020 (Revised April 2023)
- Supplement
TransDigm in 2017: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
TransDigm was a highly acquisitive company that manufactured a wide range of highly engineered aerospace parts for both military and commercial customers. Over the ten years ending in 2016, its stock price had increase ten times, and both EBITDA and revenues had grown...
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- 22 Aug 2012
- News
The World's Most Powerful Women In Business 2012
- August 2009
- Case
Meeting the Diversity Challenge at PepsiCo: The Steve Reinemund Era
By: David A. Thomas and Stephanie Creary
This case profiles PepsiCo's diversity journey under the leadership of former chairman and CEO Steve Reinemund who instituted diversity as one of the company's strategic imperatives. It demonstrates the ways in which Reinemund partnered with his leadership team and...
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Keywords:
Diversity;
Leadership;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Organizational Culture;
Performance Effectiveness;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United States
Thomas, David A., and Stephanie Creary. "Meeting the Diversity Challenge at PepsiCo: The Steve Reinemund Era." Harvard Business School Case 410-024, August 2009.
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The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
technology kings, the corporation had an international presence in the world economy. “U.S. Steel was a giant—or a monster, depending on one’s perspective,” B. Mark Smith writes in Toward Rational...
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- 06 Jan 2015
- News
Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus Paul Vatter Dies at 90
- September 1997
- Case
Information at the World Bank: In Search of a Technology Solution (A)
By: W. Earl Sasser, Josep Valor and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Information Technology Services Director Mohamed Muhsin planned to restructure the World Bank's information technology in response to President Jim Wolfensohn's call to build a knowledge bank. Several reorganization efforts taken by the bank in the 1980s led to a...
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Keywords:
Restructuring;
Information;
Knowledge Management;
Mission and Purpose;
Technology;
Public Administration Industry
Sasser, W. Earl, Josep Valor, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Information at the World Bank: In Search of a Technology Solution (A)." Harvard Business School Case 898-053, September 1997.
- March–April 2019
- Article
The Dual-Purpose Playbook
By: Julie Battilana, Anne-Claire Pache, Metin Sengul and Marissa Kimsey
Corporations are being pushed to dial down their single-minded pursuit of financial gain and pay closer attention to their impact on employees, customers, communities, and the environment. But changing an organization’s DNA may require upending the existing business...
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Keywords:
Hybrid Organizing;
Business And Society;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Business Model;
Goals and Objectives;
Organizational Structure;
Leadership
Battilana, Julie, Anne-Claire Pache, Metin Sengul, and Marissa Kimsey. "The Dual-Purpose Playbook." Harvard Business Review 97, no. 4 (March–April 2019): 124–133.
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
important for regional development as well: "Given the many and mostly unsuccessful attempts to recreate Silicon Valley in various areas, understanding whether noncompetes play a role could be of help...
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by Martha Lagace
- 08 Aug 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Entrepreneurship and Business History: Renewing the Research Agenda
- March 2014 (Revised October 2014)
- Teaching Note
ISS A/S: The Buyout
By: Lucy White and Carsten Bienz
Provides the opportunity to value a leveraged buyout; and to examine the nature and extent of a company's responsibilities to its bondholders. Here, the context is a "going private" transaction in Europe, where the financing plan called for the addition to the...
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Keywords:
LBO;
Private Equity;
Contracts;
Global Business;
International Business;
Finance;
Ethics;
Law;
Service Industry;
Europe
- February 2014 (Revised October 2014)
- Case
ISS A/S: The Buyout
By: Clayton Rose, Carsten Bienz and Lucy White
Provides the opportunity to value a leveraged buy-out; and to examine the nature and extent of a company's responsibilities to its bondholders. Here, the context is a "going private" transaction in Europe, where the financing plan called for the addition to the...
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Keywords:
LBO;
Private Equity;
Contracts;
Global Business;
International Business;
Finance;
Ethics;
Law;
Service Industry;
Europe
Rose, Clayton, Carsten Bienz, and Lucy White. "ISS A/S: The Buyout." Harvard Business School Case 214-027, February 2014. (Revised October 2014.)
- 08 Feb 2016
- News
The costs of inequality: Increasingly, it’s the rich and the rest
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
Knowledge Indeed, when we focus our energy on our strengths, we feel more authentic—and that increases resilience and happiness, improves relationships, and reduces stress, according to research by Francesca Gino, the Tandon Family...
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by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- November 2018 (Revised August 2020)
- Case
The Reinvention of Kodak
By: Ryan Raffaelli and Christine Snively
The Eastman Kodak Company (Kodak) was a name familiar to most Americans. The company had dominated the film and photography industry through most of the 20th Century and was known for making affordable cameras (and the “Kodak Moment”) and supplying the movie industry...
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Keywords:
CEO;
Leadership;
Asset Management;
Transformation;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Competitive Strategy
Raffaelli, Ryan, and Christine Snively. "The Reinvention of Kodak." Harvard Business School Case 419-012, November 2018. (Revised August 2020.)
- 31 Dec 2018
- News
The year of the last action hero
- November 2018
- Case
Governance Transition at Anadolu Group
By: Paul M. Healy and Esel Y. Cekin
Kamil Yazici and Izzet Ozilhan founded and built Anadolu Group Holding—a family business that grew into a multi-billion-dollar regional powerhouse. For 57 years they were equal partners in running the company. They then handed over a leadership role to a next...
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Keywords:
Family-managed Business;
Professionally-run Company;
Second-generation;
Third-generation;
Governance;
Governance Changes;
Succession Planning;
Corporate Culture;
Shareholders;
Board Of Directors;
Long-term Sustainability;
Conglomerate;
Family Business;
Corporate Governance;
Change Management;
Management Succession;
Leadership;
Transition;
Organizational Structure;
Consumer Products Industry;
Turkey;
Central Asia;
Middle East
Healy, Paul M., and Esel Y. Cekin. "Governance Transition at Anadolu Group." Harvard Business School Case 119-048, November 2018.
- Research Summary
The Role of Information Technology in the Provision of Services
By: James I. Cash
James I. Cash, Jr. is exploring the role of information technology in service management. Specifically, he is studying the implications of the ubiquity of information technology at three levels in service-providing organizations. (In the United States today, service...
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