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Doing Well By Doing Good With Darrin Williams, CEO Southern Bancorp

N2Growth Blog

Professor Rebecca Henderson , an esteemed professor of management at Harvard Business School and a world-leading expert in reimagining capitalism, was interested in the Bank’s trajectory and purpose. After they met, she became so interested that she asked Darrin for permission to write a full-blown Harvard case study on Southern Bancorp. .

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How Google Has Changed Management, 10 Years After its IPO

Harvard Business Review

It has also helped shape the practice of management. Staying true to its roots as an engineering-centric company, Google has stood out both for its early skepticism of the value of managers as well as for its novel, often quantitative approaches to management decisions. How Google manages. Business in the age of Google.

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Case Study: How Hard Should You Push Diversity?

Harvard Business Review

It had appeared in a special online supplement of Businessweek on the subject of diversity, and it concerned the company's efforts to increase female and minority representation in management. Charles Begley, GlobeBank's managing director of diversity recruiting, was already reading it onscreen, dumbfounded. "We Charles asked. "I

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Case Study: An Angel Investor with an Agenda

Harvard Business Review

Editors' Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. This scene was what she'd envisioned when she quit her job as an occupational therapist five years before, to enroll in a health care management course and, later, business school.

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Alibaba Looks More Like GE than Google

Harvard Business Review

Alibaba, the Chinese internet titan that filed for an IPO in the U.S. last week, could be the largest tech IPO in history. And it sets strategy like one, according to a Harvard Business School case study by professor Julie Wulf. But Alibaba doesn’t look much like Facebook, Google, or even Amazon. The article, by J.

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The Right Way to Present Your Business Case

Harvard Business Review

But the more you can inject an emotional appeal or human connection into your narrative, the stronger and more memorable your case will be. With a business case, odds are that you’re trying to insert change,” says Duarte. Case study #1: Build buy-in ahead of time. Case study #2: Impress with unique visuals.

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The Dell Deal Explained: What a Successful Turnaround Looks Like

Harvard Business Review

How Dell went from dorm room startup in 1984, to the world''s largest PC maker in 2005, and then saw its stock plummet precipitously the next year, is the subject of a lengthy Harvard Business School case study by HBS professor Jan Rivkin. Both strategies are evident in the case of Gerstner and IBM.

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