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- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
returns on the investments in our assets. And then we will be able to grow and deliver more health care to more people." But what was most distinctive was the extent to which Gooding galvanized the turnaround by seeking to change the...
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by Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
ultimately acting upon complex decisions. The (A) case provides an inside look as Felipe Calderón, president of Mexico, works with his cabinet ministers to decide how to turnaround a corrupt, highly unionized, and poorly managed...
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Carmen Nobel
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
which had historically been very manual in nature. CEO Juan Villarzu's initial turnaround attempts introduced a customer-centric corporate culture to his ranks, but he was still challenged by how to create an outsourcing strategy given...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
Biver stay on and gave him responsibility to revive the once venerable, but ailing, watch company Omega. Between 1995 and 1999, Biver led another turnaround effort that increased Omega's revenues from $350 million to $900 million. While...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
deliver, they go. I think that is pretty clear to everybody,” says Natarajan. Natarajan led the company’s turnaround by instituting an annual Vision Community exercise, which invites selected employees at all levels to join in...
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- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517060-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 517-037 JCPenney: Back in Business In 2016, JCPenney was in the midst of a multi-year turnaround after coming dangerously close to bankruptcy. Under CEO...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
to enable adaptation at a local level, focusing on results, and creating feedback and learning mechanisms. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/119084-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 118-033 Turnaround at Norsk...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
contracts. The Big 3 were gaining market share-Ford was now handily outselling Toyota Motor Corp. in the U.S. after falling behind in 2007. Many saw the Big 3 turnaround as proof that a unionized manufacturing industry could be revived...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
employers to provide essential benefits, including health care after retirement. That meant we didn’t have to face much public responsibility to do that. The American Dream may have to be reinvented, perhaps with a bit more public responsibility.” But Kanter says work...
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- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
Hilfiger is taken private by Apax Partners after years of disappointing performance and strategic impasse. Students are asked to evaluate alternative strategic options for the company and to propose a concrete turnaround plan for the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
into an $8 billion behemoth 10 years later, and most recently leading a massive turnaround at Hewlett-Packard—Whitman has left her beloved Bay Area for a stand-up desk in Hollywood’s media district. There she finds her phone and hotfoots...
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- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
with a number of questions. What were the implications of moving from an open hiring market to the placement of cohorts of BTR graduates in high-priority schools? Was BTR's model sufficient to prepare new teachers to join struggling schools in the absence of a...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
risk-return trade-off. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/molycorp-morgan-brother-s-reverse-convertible-notes-c/an/215002-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 314-068 Starbucks Coffee Company: Transformation and Renewal This case analyzes the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
the venture-capital turnaround that took root in 2004, venture firms returned to the fundamentals of dealmaking, with primary focus on the entrepreneur’s ability to build a good company, says Clint Harris (MBA 1977), a cofounder and...
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- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
Amazon.com: The Brink of Bankruptcy Harvard Business School Case 809-014 Enables a thorough analysis of the Amazon.com business model and its evolution from 1994 to 2001. The case ends with the company poised on the brink of bankruptcy and enables discussion of how to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
process, managing turnarounds of Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, and three decades of leadership in international finance. He and two of his children recently launched Wolfensohn & Company, LLC, a private investment firm and adviser...
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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
Exxon Mobil stock. After working for McKinsey & Company and Trammell Crow, he started a real estate investment firm and now runs Waco-based Vananne LLC, focused on commercial real estate turnarounds and reinvestments. Taylor moved from...
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- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
educate people about the Coronavirus and offer advice on testing and treatment. He’s now involved in “supporting the scaling [of] a COVID-19 testing prototype for faster/quicker testing and turnaround of test results.” The technology is...
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- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
started the turnaround of the company by first working on values—redefining them and communicating them widely. First, they do not merely focus on cost cutting and layoffs when a crisis arrives. While they may lay off employees (though...
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by Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=909025 Malaysia Airlines (A) Harvard Business School Case 209-024 In the first six weeks on the job, the new CEO of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) has developed an ambitious View Details
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Martha Lagace