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- 01 Mar 2008
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Classroom Legend
officer and an administrator in the office of the Quartermaster General, earning the rank of captain. World War II had a significant impact on Christensen’s career. The organizational challenges of warfare on a global scale encouraged the...
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- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
to recognize leadership in difficult times, something that all of our honorees helped to punctuate.” Apart from the rare Lifetime Achievement Award, Sarnoff notes that this year for the first time, all three leadership honorees were women. “All three women are...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards
board’s agenda, and the flow of information. Proposals to separate the chairman and CEO posts only when a new CEO takes office have not worked because as long as other CEOs remain chairmen, there is the appearance of a demotion and loss of face. The View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
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Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
Mall — it is not surprising that 80 percent of the museum's visitors are not from the D.C. metropolitan area. "Unlike other museums," observes Bob Fri, "we don't need to get on the treadmill of constantly changing our temporary exhibits...
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- 01 Jun 2004
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The Ambidextrous Organization
time, they maintain tight links across units at the senior executive level. In other words, they manage organizational separation through a tightly integrated senior team. Such “ambidextrous organizations” provide a practical and proven...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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Capturing Human Capital
Confronted with the fundamental changes that are transforming today's global business environment, a number of firms are finding it necessary to reevaluate their organizational priorities. "These are...
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- 30 Nov 2017
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Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
included everything from international political conflicts to “an increasingly competitive marketplace.” Most observers assumed this latter challenge was a sign of America’s changing tastes—that the fast-casual, more ingredient- conscious...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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New Releases
Leading Change by John P. Kotter (Harvard Business School Press) Total quality management, reengineering, rightsizing, and restructuring -- innovations intended to make companies more competitive -- routinely fall short, says HBS...
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- 01 Feb 1998
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Women at the Top
Koehn, with a presentation titled "Managing Change in the Third Industrial Revolution." Koehn galvanized the gathering with an interactive lecture and slide presentation that drew lessons from business history and focused particularly on...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
and professional fulfillment. The book includes thought-provoking questions for reflection to help readers make a similar transformation. Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao (MBA 1998) (Spiegel & Grau) In 2015...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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Meditations on the Bottom Line
orchestrating major changes in organizational design and culture. Then, in 1995, feeling she had taken "values-based management" as far as she could within a large corporate environment, Bothwick began...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
organizational negotia- tions. To add realism, the unit's faculty has scrambled the sections for this course so that students encounter both familiar and unfamiliar faces across their classroom bargaining table. "The role of informal...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Apr 1997
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HBS Research Available on World Wide Web
development of entrepreneurial ventures? How about success factors for women managers, or the psychological factors that influence risk-taking? Interested in updating yourself about information technology in the organization, the changing...
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Consultant on the Go
publicity and staying on task. While accumulating some 500,000 frequent-flier miles a year, Charan pursues his passion: helping executives solve problems. The northern India native would rather talk — in plain English — about how to break down View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
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"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit
of large corporate databases. A management information systems specialist, Professor James I. Cash, Jr., focuses on how companies use information technology to improve organizational effectiveness and how businesses are View Details
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Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Health-Care Initiative to Leverage Ongoing Efforts
Dean Kim B. Clark has announced the formation of a faculty initiative in health care, with HBS professor of management practice Richard G. Hamermesh serving as chair. Technology strategy, the design of care delivery, consumer-driven health care, team learning and View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
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Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
with its star’s interests and goals? What if an organizational change prevents stars from undertaking the type of assignments they most enjoy? What if the nature of the firm’s culture and leadership is...
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- 29 Apr 2019
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A Global Mission
Thailand, after the Khmer Rouge, and to Somalia and Ethiopia in the early days of the famine. “I was always interested in the most difficult situation,” says DeFehr. “They were all organizational problems.” Today he’s working in...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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Curb Your Smartphone Habit
MIT, she grew deeply interested in “spending long periods of time living with and living like” the people she studied, “trying to understand the world from their perspectives.” In her new book, Sleeping with Your Smartphone: How to Break the 24/7 Habit and View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
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Books
scenarios early on in the product development process, while the financial and organizational costs of changing course are still relatively low. In Experimentation Matters, Thomke defines six principles that...
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