by John Macomber - Publications - Faculty & Research

autumn 1992
Book Review

John P. Kotter is internationally known and widely regarded as the foremost speaker on the topics of Leadership and Change. His is the premier voice on how the best organizations actually achieve successful transformations. The Konosuke... View Details

01 Jun 1998
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John (“Bo”) Kemp

"That grew into a desire to save, invest, and make more" - a predilection that eventually led to an interest in private-equity investing. Kemp attended Yale, where he continued his entrepreneurial efforts by creating The Greek Shop, a... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; photograph by Webb Chappell

August 2008
Supplement

Lenovo Chief Marketing Officer and Senior VP E-Commerce, Deepak Advani, Interviewed by Professor John Quelch

By: John A. Quelch

Professor John Quelch interviewed Lenovo CMO, Deepak Advani, regarding Lenovo's buy-out of IBM's personal computer business, and Lenovo's marketing strategy leading up to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Leveraged Buyouts; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Hardware; Computer Industry; China

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Fortune Best Books

By: John D. Macomber

Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity (Harvard University Press, 2020) with Joseph G. Allen is one of Fortune’s Best Books of 2020. View Details

12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

John Irving’s Lessons for Business

Photo by Mary Ellen Mark At first glance, perhaps, the writer John Irving might not seem to have a lot to teach the corporate world. As the author of such celebrated bestsellers as The Cider House Rules and... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

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John Schupbach

For many people, rejection by seventeen medical schools would discourage the further pursuit of a career in medicine or health care. But John Schupbach decided not to turn from the path. Instead, he took on... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech

John W. Pratt

John W. Pratt is a professor of business administration, emeritus, at Harvard Business School. He was educated at Princeton and Stanford, specializing in mathematics and statistics. Except for two years at the University of Chicago, and a sabbatical in Kyoto on a... View Details

07 Sep 2016
Working Paper Summaries

Decision-Making by Precedent and the Founding of American Honda (1948–1974)

Keywords: by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and John Heilbron; Auto

Portrait Project

John Brown

failure. I've been rejected by some of the finest educational institutions and most prestigious companies in the world. I've lost public competitions like student elections in front of my friends and peers and been beaten on the football... View Details

Portrait Project

John Regan

so deep that I only felt the faintest tinge of loss. If I d been looking outward, his plight would have been apparent. Instead I was too preoccupied by my own troubles to assist my friend with his. I am better now but will always look out... View Details

Portrait Project

John Coleman

willed it, the words would come. Little by little, they did. And when they finally made sense, I appreciated them more. I fell in love with novels, writing, and poetry. And whenever I struggled, I remember my mom saying the same thing:... View Details

10 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business

To succeed in today's fast-moving economy, traditional corporate structures are holding back companies, even great companies, from being creative enough and speedy enough to compete effectively. What's needed, argues Harvard Business School Professor View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

September 2008
Book Review

Review of The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism, by John Bogle

By: Malcolm Baker

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John Speer

best way to take the civilian world by storm.” Classes as intense as B-2 flight briefings John considered other MBA programs, but HBS stood out “for its emphasis on leadership,” which matched his goal of... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

John McArthur

above: photo by Bill Gallery John H. McArthur, a member of the Harvard Business School community for more than six decades—as a student (MBA 1959, DBA 1963), as a faculty member (beginning in 1962), as Dean... View Details

Keywords: Dean

John C. Mulliken

Strategy consultant, former CTO & CPO, public & private company board member, retail & climatetech entrepreneur, early stage investor. Father of two, husband, sailor, hiker, and aspirational road biker.

John is a senior lecturer in the... View Details

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John Bracaglia

A 2+2 HBS admit, John Bracaglia spent the employment portion of his program working on projects that involved elements of machine learning, collaborating with some of the world's leading technology pioneers, including Google, on... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy; Tech; CPG

01 Jun 2003
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John Read

With a background in government service, truck-parts manufacturing, and private equity, John C. Read (MBA ’71) might seem an unlikely person to run the world’s largest adventure-based educational organization. But about a decade ago, Read... View Details

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

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John Oxtoby

history.” Under Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett’s leadership, John fulfilled roles with the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, chaired by Paul Volker, and the Jobs Council, chaired View Details

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