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- 27 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Have We Lost Sight of Integrity?
of America did in the sexual abuse scandals that cost them billions in legal settlements. For a business example, look at Boeing and the crashes of two 737 MAX aircraft that killed 346 people—a topic covered in two Harvard Business School...
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by Bill George
- 15 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)
Trump have been savagely reinterpreted on TikTok. Criticizing brands. Brands are the subject of video attack, as in the case of Victoria’s Secret. Brand responses. Brands respond on TikTok to criticism. Ryanair won widespread affection when it launched a series of...
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by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
- 03 Jan 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?
both could be very direct as well. Hesselbein, according to one account, once lectured a class of retiring CEOs that included Alan Mulally, who was out of a job at Boeing prior to becoming CEO of Ford, to stop “whining” about what they...
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Re: James L. Heskett
- 20 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?
version. Further along, Musk wants to land people on Mars. Long-term NASA partner Boeing continues work on its CST-100 Starliner commercial orbiter, and the rocket manufacturer is collaborating with NASA on human commercial flights to the...
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- July 2017 (Revised January 2020)
- Background Note
Primer on Multiples Valuation and Its Use in the Private Equity Industry
By: Victoria Ivashina and Henrik Boe
This note explores the mechanics of multiples, different types of multiples, when and how to use them, and common pitfalls associated with multiples valuation. While a multiples approach is a very convenient valuation method, breaking down the underlying assumptions...
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Ivashina, Victoria, and Henrik Boe. "Primer on Multiples Valuation and Its Use in the Private Equity Industry." Harvard Business School Background Note 218-017, July 2017. (Revised January 2020.)
- 12 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs
issue here is industrial policy (on the Chinese side) competing with a lack of an industrial policy (on the US side)" This equally calibrated response from China suggests we are witnessing preparation for a “big negotiation” to avoid a real trade war. For example,...
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by Willy C. Shih;
Manufacturing;
Auto;
Steel;
Air Transportation;
Technology;
Telecommunications
- 01 May 2000
- What Do You Think?
Can You Hard-Wire Performance?
viable alternative. Original Article Several months ago, the General Electric Company announced that it had closed a deal with Boeing that specified that only GE aircraft engines would be installed on the newest version of 777 aircraft...
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by James Heskett
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-022.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAirbus vs. Boeing (B): Should Airbus Build the VLCT Alone? Harvard Business School Supplement 707-448 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this supplement:...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
a recent setback, Boeing lashed together the efforts of 50 partners in 130 locations working together over 4 years. These firms aren't just manufacturing partners—they actually design the components they make. "In our view, Boeing's...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation
manufactuer's 787 Dreamliner, designed and built using more than 100 outside partners, is perhaps the most-watched example of the use of innovation networks. But already almost two years late, the project was dealt another blow last month when View Details
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
product-improvement process and evaluate a new item's potential in the marketplace. Boeing has used learning from experience to smooth out difficulties facing its new development projects. For example, a high-level employee group that had...
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by Laurie Joan Aron
- 22 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
CEO Succession: The Case at Ford
Podcast with: Joseph Bower Interviewer: James Aisner Running Time: 8 min., 23 sec. In early September, Ford Motor Company announced that Bill Ford would be replaced as CEO by Boeing's Alan Mulally, credited with the turnaround of the Commercial Airplanes division of...
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- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
heavily on other, usually smaller, companies or external individuals to conduct many of their activities. What part of your iPad is made by Apple? Is the Verizon customer representative you're talking with really part of that company? How many parts of the Airbus or...
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- 28 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
B2B Branding: Does it Work?
ingredient brand. It makes zero sales to end consumers, yet Intel built a consumer demand pull for its chips that required every PC manufacturer to incorporate them and to advertise Intel Inside on their products and in their ads. Other ingredient brands include...
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- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
sophisticated customers will not be good at working with mass-market retailing channels. The key then is to identify what processes a competitor has and what processes the company lacks. Processes are developed when companies solve the same problem over and over again....
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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
A host of organizations — among them Lucent Technologies, the Boeing Company, and Southwest Airlines — have recently begun to ponder such intangibles in an effort to attract and maintain a motivated, performance-boosting workforce. Books...
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by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
young company in the months and years ahead? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/417048-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 118-020 Accounting Turbulence at Boeing Unlike its rival Airbus, View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Companies Detangle from Legacy Pensions
Companies that traditionally offered defined benefit plans have closed them to new hires, and even frozen them for existing employees. Just look to Seattle, where Boeing workers on January 3 narrowly ratified a contract that will convert...
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- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
huge fines and their executives live with the knowledge that lives were lost. Same with the lack of maintenance at PG&E. The company is convicted of killing 86 people, is paying huge fines, and is bankrupt. Boeing is at least...
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by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
how he might retain the delicate balance among stakeholders while still maintaining liquidity in the market. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808100 The Boeing Company: Moonshine Shop...
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Martha Lagace