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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
at Bulova, leading a team that saved the company from bankruptcy and building a profitable business. Among the many organizations that have benefited from Tisch’s leadership are the Wildlife Conservation Society, the American Jewish Joint... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
financial guts of the business world when I was a teenager.” Big fail: Missing the cut for the high school volleyball team. “I asked the coach what I needed to do to make the team the next year. She told me, and I ended up being captain... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
a team they trusted—and especially me. Our near-catastrophe became a source of guidance: Which decisions, large and small, would most likely preserve and strengthen the confidence of our backers? It has proven a useful guide then and in... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
real-time. With these forecasts, an airport’s operating team can make data-driven decisions, identify late connecting passengers and assist them to make their connections. The airport can also update its resourcing plans based on the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
had undertaken to impact three of the world's most urgent challenges-nutrition, water, and rural development-and Jöhr's team was fundamental to each of these pillars. Yet the forces changing the global food system were formidable:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
we propose the degree of frame flexibility (i.e., the capability of the top management team (TMT) to expand an innovation’s categorical boundaries and to cast the innovation as emotionally resonate with the organization’s identity,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?
Source: Raw Pixel Stockbrokers are taking advantage of their privileged position to increase profits for favored investors and hedge funds, all at the expense of their other customers, new research suggests. A team of economists has found... View Details
- 27 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work
founding in 1912. But overall, under 15 percent of US family firms are managed by nonfamily executives, according to the Family Firm Institute. Sadun's team plans to apply the findings of the family firm research in other studies on... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules
a connection.” The data included information about which members of the senior management team attended each meeting (the CEO, CFO, IRO [investor relations officer], and COO); the location of the meeting (corporate headquarters, a company... View Details
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
Transworld Auto Parts had to implement its new strategy flawlessly to survive the auto industry upheaval. The new CEO asked her leadership team to craft strategy maps and balanced scorecards to help each division implement its strategies.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
complicity between workers and management. Perhaps most surprising of all, Anteby argues, is that the practice may help some organizations be more effective. Homer making keeps teams together and skills sharp during idle times in the... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
into summary statistics.” You Might Also Like: From P.T. Barnum to Mary Kay: Lessons From 5 Leaders Who Changed the World How Would Jack Welch’s Leadership Style Fare in Today’s World? How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?... View Details
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
Tech Giants Can’t Win by Feng Zhu and Bonnie Yining Cao. Copyright 2024 Feng Zhu and Bonnie Yining Cao. All rights reserved. You Might Also Like: Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy? Digital... View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
and Stay Flexible Checking Your Ethics: Would You Speak Up in These 3 Sticky Situations? The Best Person to Lead Your Company Doesn't Work There—Yet Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image:... View Details
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
clinical trials. The couple adopted the cause as their calling and organized a fundraiser to support the work of Jen’s doctors at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center. “Our idea, which came to be known as Cycle for Survival, centered around indoor cycling. Each... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
African studies, in 1997, when she took a position as an internal auditor with Catholic Relief Services. In that capacity, she and her team conducted thorough reviews of the agency’s health, agriculture, and micro-enterprise programs in... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
ship’s log, photos, video, and Q&A. We reached 7 million readers and about 250,000 students, mostly in middle school. The program team included experts in environmental science, shipping, oceanography, medicine, geography, history, math,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
at HBS.” Three significant achievements should be added to those mentioned in the March article: For eighteen months, between late 1950 and early 1952, Bob and his family lived in Washington, D.C., during which time he headed a four-person faculty View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
research management, to pay more attention to achieving results rather than expanding knowledge for its own sake,” Van Etten says. “In part, we’re encouraging academics to team up with industry in the hopes that the private sector’s focus... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons