Team Roles - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 1998
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Putting on the Wheels

intimidating aura. "On a dreary January day, we drove over the border," he recalls. "The East German countryside, still under communist rule, bristled with barbed wire and watchtowers." But Hughes's initial assessment of the factory's potential was right on the money.... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

22 Jan 2018
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The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition

Osmosis team (Editor's note: Shiv is cofounder and CEO of Osmosis) and the work we are collectively doing to improve how we educate current and future health care professionals. This recognition would not have been possible without the... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Jan 2005
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Judith R. Haberkorn, 111th AMP, 1992

carriers. NYNEX later merged with Bell Atlantic—a fellow "Baby Bell"—and Haberkorn became president of Consumer Sales & Services in 1998. At the end of her career she was leading 30,000 employees. Retired since 2000, Haberkorn continues to be a View Details

01 Sep 2012
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The School of Life

important roles for a parent. Is It Really the Right Stuff? In 1979, writer Tom Wolfe captured the public imagination with his depiction of one of the most competitive professional environments in the world: the screening of American... View Details

Keywords: Professor Clay Christensen; Educational Services; Management

01 Jun 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

grow? How are teams most effectively created and then nurtured in this context? What is a leader's role in this culture? Edmondson, the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management, describes five... View Details

11 Dec 2017
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Growing from Within

there’s an obvious cost to that arrangement. But what are the benefits that company ownership offers McDonald’s? In the US, the McDonald’s Operating Company, McOpCo as we call it, plays an important role for the McDonald’s system:... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

01 Oct 2000
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

for them to be introduced in the next issue of the Bulletin -- and would like to thank those retiring members who served us so well. We look forward to working with the new team and building on the successes of the past with the help of... View Details

28 Jun 2024
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Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories

New York Leadership Dinner Honors Leaders Challenging the Status Quo At its 55th Annual Leadership Dinner in May, the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) honored four leaders whose careers and contributions to the world embody this year’s theme, “Challenging the Status Quo.”... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2014
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Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014

most profitable products and customers and demonstrating how, when, and where to apply over twenty distinct improvement tools and techniques. Finally, it discusses how to embed the process and the tools into the ongoing operations of a business. Decide One Thing: The... View Details

01 Feb 2001
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Books

book with the title Can Japan Compete?" It was some nine years ago, at a time when Japan's economic success was overwhelmingly credited to its government's involvement with industry, that Porter and his team began an in-depth study of the... View Details

Keywords: books; research; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2005
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Winning Legally

research to administrative agencies that might not have the resources to gather such data on their own. There have been instances where companies have had a huge impact on the laws that govern them. In 1998, for instance, management and legal View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2003
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John Read

with an awareness that the group that supported them had nothing to do with pigment or gender or economic status. Please explain Outward Bound’s role in schools. Our Expeditionary Learning program, which is ten years old, takes the same... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Outward Bound; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services

01 Oct 2001
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New Economy Notables: Eileen M. Rudden

to HBS to gain the business skills she found she needed at the paper. Stints at The Boston Consulting Group and Wang were followed by a stellar fourteen-year career at Lotus, where Rudden ran the teams that developed Lotus 1-2-3 and Lotus... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2005
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Changing Lives One Computer at a Time

the KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) Academy, an innovative arts-focused charter school in the South Bronx. Dell has run the TechKnow program in 38 communities nationwide and served 4,100 students since early 2002. But the HBSAAA partnership, with its View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Dec 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

proven approach to analyzing and solving challenges and provides a common language anyone can understand. Teams That Work: The Six Characteristics of High Performing Teams by Cliff Chirls (MBA 1979), George... View Details

01 Apr 2000
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Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences

characterized the conference as "a community-wide call to action" and an opportunity to explore the role of HBS graduates in contributing to development in the African-American community. On the opening day of the conference, alumni... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

01 Mar 2012
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Competitiveness at Risk

project is chaired by Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin, who are joined by a team of HBS faculty together with thought leaders from other institutions. It aims to inspire alumni, other business leaders, and policymakers to take... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

26 May 2022
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Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories

Netflix, Pixar, Salesforce, and Facebook. “During the time I was president, we held three in-person dinners, honoring Twitter, Workday, and Yelp, says Susan Hailey (MBA 1984), current HBSANC board chair and former president. “It was a true View Details