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John Pepper
Spending his entire private sector career with P&G, Pepper prides himself on heightening P&G’s commitment to customer satisfaction and to creating the “Organization 2005” initiative, which is intended to promote “speed, risk-taking, and entrepreneurialism”...
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Michel C. Bergerac
Bergerac devoted his energies to increasing the distribution of the company’s core cosmetics lines, which were suffering at the hands of fierce competition. Marketing and advertising schemes became more elaborate but paid off for Revlon, as earnings reached a level of...
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David H. McConnell, Jr.
McConnell, Jr. substantially enlarged Avon. He increased the company's product offerings by 400% and lead Avon to become one of the largest cosmetics companies in the United States.
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Stuart K. Hensley
Through strategic acquisitions including Parke-Davis, American Optical Company, and Vister, Hensley significantly expanded Warner-Lambert’s business lines and international presence. Under his leadership, revenues and earnings more than doubled – sales grew from $650...
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Melvin R. Goodes
Goodes grew Warner-Lambert’s market value from $9 billion in 1991 to almost $60 billion in 1999. He helped the pharmaceutical company become a major player in the prescription drug industry and is responsible for striking a deal with Pfizer in 1996 to sell the...
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Richard R. Deupree
In 1930, Deupree was the first individual not of the Procter or Gamble names to head the company. Under Deupree’s leadership, the company became the country’s leading seller of consumer products. Deupree also put Procter & Gamble on the path toward becoming the...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
Issue Focus: Ideas & Impact Illustration by Timothy Cook An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance Pleasure in Progress Teresa Amabile It sounds so obvious: Employees who make meaningful progress in their work enjoy greater engagement,...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
POZEN: Getting people to think about how they are managing their careers in the evolving context of their own personal and professional lives. HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen is living proof of the adage "If you want to get something...
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- 19 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech
President Obama’s Cabinet as Administrator of the US Small Business Administration from 2009 to 2013. [Image: TommL] Related Reading Using Fintech to Disrupt Eastern Bank from Within Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing...
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- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
times. How True North Groups Work In a True North Group you gain experience in giving and receiving feedback in nonjudgmental ways without taking it personally. This approach is more likely to enable individuals to absorb the feedback and use it for View Details
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by Bill George
- 27 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad
Companies change strategy, operational processes, and policies all the time, each shift creating a new group of winners and losers. When Steve Jobs became CEO of Apple for the second time, the culture shifted, with designers enjoying elevated status, perhaps at the...
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by Roberta Holland
- 29 Aug 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model
- 23 Jan 2008
- Op-Ed
A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?
Dictionaries are not static. Some words go unused for so long that lexicographers dub them archaic. Definitions also gravitate to that catch-bin. The plummeting housing market has forced a reevaluation, not just of the financial value of a home, but of its meaning....
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- 01 Feb 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Noncompetes and Inventor Mobility: Specialists, Stars, and the Michigan Experiment
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
In the family of investment products, a U.S. savings bond might be cast as boring old Uncle Ned, snoozing away in the corner after dinner. There's nothing wrong with that—but HBS professor Peter Tufano envisions a more meaningful role for savings bonds in the financial...
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- October 2021
- Case
Dallin and Elizabeth Anderson
By: Leslie A. Perlow and Matthew G. Preble
Dallin Anderson (MBA 2002) and Elizabeth Anderson discuss their their lives in detail, sharing the ups-and-downs of their lives as a couple.
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- 1982
- Article
Managerial Roles and Career Paths of Gatekeepers and Project Supervisors
By: R. Katz and Michael Tushman
Katz, R., and Michael Tushman. "Managerial Roles and Career Paths of Gatekeepers and Project Supervisors." R&D Management 11 (1982).
- 2009
- Chapter
Nobel Laureate Panel Discussion: What Retirement Means to Me
By: Robert C. Merton, Paul A. Samuelson and Robert M. Solow
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Merton, Robert C., Paul A. Samuelson, and Robert M. Solow. "Nobel Laureate Panel Discussion: What Retirement Means to Me." Chap. 1 in The Future of Life-Cycle Saving and Investing: The Retirement Phase, edited by Zvi Bodie, Laurence B. Siegel, and Rodney N. Sullivan, 1–14. Charlottesville: CFA Institute, Research Foundation, 2009. (Monograph.)
- April 2007
- Teaching Note
Leadership Forum: Building Great Careers (TN)
By: D. Quinn Mills and Carole Winkler
- December 1986
- Supplement
Donna Dubinsky and Apple Computer, Interview, Video
Presents a question and answer session with Donna Dubinsky. Examines what she learned from the painful change situation she experienced and illustrates her coming of age as a senior manager at Apple Corp.
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Jick, Todd D., and Mary C. Gentile. "Donna Dubinsky and Apple Computer, Interview, Video." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 887-521, December 1986.