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- 05 Dec 2019
- Blog Post
Addressing Unmet Needs in Health Care Using an MBA
you arrived at HBS, were you planning to go into a health care career? What influenced your decision to pivot into that industry? Before coming to HBS, I worked at Procter & Gamble as an operations...
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- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/413126-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 403-127 Procter & Gamble On July 12, 2012, Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management announced publicly that...
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Anna Secino
- 25 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People
Companies and government leaders have long tried to recreate the kind of Silicon Valley innovation magic that made Facebook and Google such goldmines. Cities from Cincinnati to Saskatoon have launched startup labs. Companies including Nationwide Insurance, Walt Disney,...
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by Danielle Kost
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
New Releases
including Hewlett-Packard, Ford Motor Company, Kirin Brewery Co., and Procter & Gamble - that have successfully implemented such systems. Cost & Effect describes systems that help frontline employees to...
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- 20 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation
market or a community for its suppliers.” More practically, working with outside innovators does not mean that all the "keys to the kingdom" have to be given away. Instead, firms can become intelligent about selectively revealing core issues in ways that their IP is...
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- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
must pay the cost of the marketplace, not the sellers. Sahlman: Scott, can you give us the short version of your career? Randall: After working at Procter & Gamble in brand management and in consumer...
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
’01) (Harvard Business Review Press) Anthony draws on stories from his research and fieldwork with companies like Procter & Gamble to demystify innovation. He presents a simple definition of innovation,...
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- 02 Oct 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?
McDonald of Procter & Gamble and the company's shift to more emphasis on digital media as an example, commented that "it is possible to allow experimentation trial and error without the CEO looking...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
outside the United States view us, they look at organizations like Boeing, DuPont, GE, Johnson & Johnson, and Procter & Gamble as gold standard companies. We tend to lament that manufacturing is going down,...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
and leaders who set the right tone and secure resources. With examples gathered largely from Procter & Gamble and Citigroup, readers are escorted through each step, with valuable chapter-ending diagnostics...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
his creation of multidivisional structures present a fascinating portrait of one of the century's most impressive business minds. Neil McElroy and D. Paul ("Doc") Smelser of Procter & Gamble introduced soap...
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- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
external markets. In many companies, widening the span of influence counteracts the rigidity of organizational structures based on boxes and silos. For example, although global companies like Procter & View Details
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by Robert Simons
- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
problems—be it a Hewlett-Packard or more recently Procter & Gamble and JC Penney—is the only alternative firing the CEO and starting over? A: You don't have to fire the CEO. A lot depends on establishing...
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by Jim Aisner
- 01 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sometimes Success Begins at Failure
manage Internet services. Seek external licenses. Through external licensing, projects that aren't being used internally might unlock additional revenues on the outside. Procter & Gamble follows this...
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- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part One]
to use the technology; but it's an elaborate and complex relationship, because these companies themselves also work much more closely together. It is more than Wal-Mart working with Procter & Gamble as a...
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by Staff
- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
Old Spice's Twitter campaign. In 2010, Procter & Gamble launched a campaign where Facebook and Twitter users were encouraged to send messages to Isaiah Mustafa, the strapping spokesman for Old Spice who...
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- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
years of experience at the likes of Procter & Gamble and Johnson & Johnson, decided to set himself up as Spain's first pizza magnate and founded TelePizza. He believed that customers in Spain—and,...
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by Walter Kuemmerle
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
on its way to the successful creation of an entirely new business segment. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/410052-PDF-ENG Gillette Company (E): Procter & Gamble Rosabeth Moss...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
defined consumer segments or, indeed, of individual consumers. Engaged Consumers The interactive nature of the Internet means that customers are now engaged more than ever in the co-creation of brand meaning and the development of marketplace offerings. View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
Procter & Gamble (P&G) announced headline double-digit earnings per share growth for the year ended June 30. A closer look at the numbers suggested a less healthy picture. Sales, volumes, and...
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Sean Silverthorne