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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Case of Achievement
Enterprises, an international trade consulting and investment firm, Franklin has worked in government with five U.S. presidents, including service as secretary of commerce in the administration of President George H.W. Bush. A.G. Lafley (MBA ’77) view full profile...
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- 10 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Long-Tail Economics? Give Me Blockbusters!
Blockbusters break sales records and exceed expectations. Around 100 pharmaceutical brands exceed $1 billion in annual sales. Procter & Gamble has 23 such brands. Speed. It's not just the sales volume;...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
innovations drive industry transformation and market creation, the authors explain how to unlock disruption’s transformational power. They provide a set of market-proven tools and approaches to innovation that have been honed through fieldwork with innovative companies...
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- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
U.S. market? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516117-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 216-039 Supply Chain Finance at Procter & Gamble In April 2013, View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Innovation as P&G’s Key
CHARAN: Drawing on his global consulting experience. LAFLEY: Customers are “the boss.” Photo courtesy Proctor & Gamble What does it take to delight low-income Mexican buyers of sanitary pads? The answer is not a punch line to a poor joke;...
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- 05 Aug 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?
In one recent case, Procter & Gamble purchased a company producing a low-cost, mass-produced disposable electric rotary toothbrush to be marketed under its famous Crest brand umbrella. As it turns out,...
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by James Heskett
- Profile
Alex Roth
For four years, Alex Roth studied chemistry at Oxford. But instead of following the traditional path to the PhD, Alex took a position with Procter & Gamble where held positions in Finance and Marketing....
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Turning Point: Makeover
9/11 drove me to re-examine my life and priorities. During HBS, I worked at Procter & Gamble hoping for a better fit. I left with acute dermatitis and a “meets expectations” review from my male manager....
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- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
Harvard Business School Case 707-519 In response to a huge crisis in 2000, the new CEO of Procter & Gamble has to decide whether to continue with an unusual organizational design or to revert to the old...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Read excerpts from DENIAL
The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears
Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)
From Denial: Why Business... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
’85) and Daniel Stelter (McGraw-Hill) Examining the decisive actions taken by companies such as General Electric, IBM, and Procter & Gamble to accelerate out of past downturns, the authors show today’s...
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- 12 Jan 2017
- News
Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
degree in chemical engineering, in 1989, she worked at Procter & Gamble in engineering and product development, and then in product supply, as the company started buying cosmetics businesses. When a New...
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Jill Radsken
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions
reach that level of trading volume. Building A Consumer-products Empire But the negatives haven't scared off consumer products giant Procter & Gamble. Since 1987, the company's Latin American sales have grown by 4.5 times to $2.8...
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by Julie Jette
- 11 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
E-Commerce Unplugged
behavior. Good examples of such companies are leaders in the consumer packaged-goods industry such as Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble and Kraft Foods—or retail organizations such as Wal-Mart and...
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by Nitin Nohria & Marty Leestma
- 11 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Meet the MBA Class of 2020
Google, Facebook, Asian Institute of Management, Procter & Gamble HBS ACTIVITIES Digital Initiative Student Advisory Board Enrico Ferrari “REAL SUCCESS COMES FROM EMPOWERING OTHERS. I AM NO ONE ON MY...
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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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- 14 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM
about the legalities and stigma around cannabis consumption in the United States. Chloe Sharp (MBA 2024) Where is your hometown? Detroit, Michigan. What was your pre-MBA industry and role? I was a Gillette Product Supply Engineer at View Details
- 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
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
design thinking, rooted in how knowledge advances from inchoate mystery to codification, thereby causing productivity to grow and costs to drop. Martin shows how companies like Procter & Gamble and Cirque du...
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