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- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981
Mahindra in 1991. Anand Mahindra has been leading M&M’s charge into the ranks of the world’s global corporations ever since. Established in 1945, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (M&M), named after one of India’s best-known business families, got...
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- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Business Administration, Emeritus Alumni Achievement Awards Ralph M. Barford (MBA '52) President, Valleydene Corporation Limited Chairman, GSW Inc. Despite occupying diverse industry sectors, several of Canada's best-known blue-chip...
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- 10 May 2020
- Blog Post
Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers
The many times I showed up at Shad missing a shirt or bra because my daughters decided to reorganize my backpack before school. Kanako Sakai | Class of 2021 Little(s): Ren (3) Pre-HBS Industry: Management consulting How do you do it? I...
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Charles L. Brown
Brown guided AT&T through one of the largest corporate reorganizations in United States history by settling the government’s antitrust case in 1982. He successfully divested of AT&T’s local phone...
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Communications
Pierre S. du Pont
duPont headed the duPont Corporation during the period of the first World War. During duPont’s presidency, the corporation was greatly expanded in order to meet munitions orders from the United States and...
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Chemicals & Industrial
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George Pierce Baker Courtyard | About
Baker was a graduate of Harvard College, where he taught economics from 1928 until 1936, when he joined the HBS faculty. He served in the army during World War II, and throughout his Harvard career, held a variety of influential government and View Details
- 13 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis
Gulati, the problem starts with corporate growing pains. When businesses are small, they organize themselves into clear functional units, tapping experts in each respective function to make sure each unit excels. But as they grow, these...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
filed for bankruptcy protection in November 2011. For the smaller US Airways, it was a chance to bulk up to compete on an equal footing with the big domestic carriers on the tarmac, United and Delta. In their articles below, Harvard Business School Professor Stuart...
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- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
wanted to work with nonprofits, and Habitat offered a way to begin learning on-the-ground skills like transporting cement blocks over crumbling roads in time to build a house. The plan after graduating from HBS was to work in the View Details
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Paul Flannery
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Judith R. Haberkorn, 111th AMP, 1992
whom you hire and whom you fire—and when. It will be crucial whether you are an entrepreneur, corporate executive, investment banker, or consultant." CURRENT READING Freakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner When Judy...
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- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
for evaluating the different sources of uncertainty and their implications for various stakeholders of the firm when attempting a reorganization with creditors or considering opening a court-supervised View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Meditations on the Bottom Line
orchestrating major changes in organizational design and culture. Then, in 1995, feeling she had taken "values-based management" as far as she could within a large corporate environment, Bothwick began consulting, working on a doctorate...
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- 01 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil
anger and blame stage. They are moving out of denial, but the corporate response emphasizes stopping "them" rather than innovating. Case in point: The U.S. auto industry. When threatened by superior Japanese imports, domestic...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
government, became his mentor and continued to support his studies through law school. Donham specialized in corporate restructuring as a vice president at Boston’s Old Colony Trust Company and won wide praise from both labor and...
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Deborah Blagg
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
economic welfare. Paper: http://pubs.aeaweb.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.27.1.45 Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting in China: Symbol or Substance? Authors:Marquis, Christopher, and Cuili Qian...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
Sabine Oil & Gas Corporation In 2016, a trial began to determine the future of Sabine Oil & Gas Corporation’s $3 billion chapter 11 reorganization plan. The plan called for first- and...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
Reexamination of Tunneling and Business Groups: New Data and New Methods Authors:Jordan I. Siegel and Prithwiraj Choudhury Abstract The last decade of corporate governance research has been focused in large part on identifying what leads...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
of dollars every year. I estimate that liquidation is frequently chosen when a reorganization would have maximized total creditor recovery. I estimate that courts could dramatically improve creditor recovery by assigning liquidations...
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- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
the largest corporate donors to principal candidates in closely watched congressional races manage earnings downwards in the two quarters immediately preceding the 2004 election. We find no evidence of such downwards earnings management...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
opportunity to develop themselves, to make a contribution, and to work well with their peers. What's your opinion about corporate tax shelters? Abusive tax shelters are a major problem, and the Treasury Department has proposed new...
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Garry Emmons