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- 01 Jan 2004
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D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954
Director & Former Managing Partner, McKinsey & Company, Inc. Former Treasurer, Harvard University Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION Wesleyan University, 1952 B.A., Mathematics LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "HBS honed my powers of View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
explores these differences in a working paper titled "Limits to Globalization: Organizational Homogeneity and Diversity in the Semiconductor Industry." Extensive interviews with managers at nine major firms (four American and five Japanese) and an View Details
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Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Jun 1998
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New Releases
retail sales will pass through a franchise chain; fully 96 percent of the American population has eaten at a McDonald's. Considering the astonishingly rapid growth of chains in recent years, it is not surprising that a comprehensive View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
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Delivering the Power to Dream Big
technology will not only increase solar adoption in the United States, but help people in the developing world as well. In industrialized countries, "you can imagine the impact on portable electronics—it can give you freedom from the...
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- 16 Oct 2014
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Reducing special-interest influence over government regulation
When regulated industries exert undue influence on (or “capture”) their governmental regulators, problems that are all too familiar may result. And while scholars have investigated regulatory capture, deregulation has been the most...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
an in-depth analysis of the opportunities and challenges, both traditional and contemporary, of doing business in India. Great Service Made Simple by Frederic B. Sargent (OPM 2) (The Sustainable Service Institute) A short story with...
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- 22 Aug 2016
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The Future of GE
consumer businesses we were in. We’ve exited plastics and things like that. In the last 15 years, we’re one of the few leadership teams in history that’s sold $100 billion in businesses and bought $100 billion worth of businesses.” This new GE is building an View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
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Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
framework for IT baselining and planning, is examining how the new information economy is transforming the traditional management principles of the industrial economy. Nolan is studying, for example, how IT is changing the traditional...
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Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
research plus their own wealth of practical and academic experience to examine the unique challenges of leadership in professional service firms. The result of what may be the first-ever collaboration between an HBS faculty author and a CEO alumnus, Aligning the Stars...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences
Data’s Double Duty: Research and the Real World As Raffaella Sadun was wrapping up her Corporate Strategy course last fall, one of her students sent her a four-page analysis of the private equity industry in...
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- 14 Dec 2015
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A Leader’s Call to Action
time when she was reflecting on her three-decade career working in the gas and electric utilities industry and realized that she could credit a series of strong leaders and mentors for helping her rise through the ranks. Starting as an...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2007
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Daniel Vasella
sales of $37 billion. The company’s aggressive investment in research has made it an industry leader in new drug approvals. And when opportunity knocks, Vasella doesn’t hesitate to broaden Novartis’s business mix through acquisitions. He...
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- 26 Jan 2015
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The Ingredients for Success
to get a start in the industry and to existing cooks who want to qualify for better jobs—programs that don’t exist in New Orleans today. The institute will also offer culinary tourism classes, something not currently available for...
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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Short Takes
Ownership Matters: Bringing Owners on Board In his working paper, "The Impact of Ownership Type on Performance in Public Corporations: A Study of the U.S. Textile Industry 1983-1992," HBS assistant professor David L. Kang demonstrates...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2008
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Mara Aspinall
are now beginning to treat genetic analysis as an integral element in a patient’s diagnosis and treatment plan. But it cannot stop there. Since most currently practicing physicians have not been trained in this new field, there is a need...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Lords of Strategy
Company; and HBS professor Michael Porter (MBA ’71). In addition to the pioneering roles played by this innovative quartet, there is another leitmotif — a fifth key player — that runs throughout the book: The industry would not exist as...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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New News
things I learned at HBS is that when something is hard, you ask why. Looking at industry data, I saw a ton of untouched white space in targeted media, which was common in New York back in the 1800s. You had a newspaper for German New...
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- 06 Dec 2018
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Cold Call Horror Stories
apologized and he said he wanted to warm call me. The case was about an industry I’d worked in, and he knew that, and he thought this was an opportunity to get me to say something to bring me in. And because he came in late, he didn’t get...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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Books
industries — from automotive and semiconductors, to banking and pharmaceuticals. Citing the falling costs of computing and advances in simulation and combinatorial technologies, he urges companies to capitalize on new opportunities for...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
greatest success factor: disciplined leadership. The authors relate the stories of executives who have successfully broken through the barriers of growth to identify what they all have in common. They supplement these findings with decades of View Details