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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
much of her first post-HBS year managing the pilot. Resolving Crisis Situations Mendu and other members of the partnership developed a three-part initiative informed by the best practices they gathered from local stakeholders and...
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- 01 Sep 2005
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GE’s Immelt Urges MBAs to Dream Big, Work Hard
here.” In his own career, Immelt said, that has meant experiencing and learning more deeply the import of four lessons that he initially absorbed at HBS: focus and discipline (“Very few jobs have been beneath my dignity; every job has...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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High Honors
brought more women into the traditionally male world of mining. When she joined Anglo American, there were few women in leadership positions, while today 22 percent of the company’s managers are female. “It is a business imperative,” she...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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An American Odyssey
He’s got a superhero’s name, and he’s shining a light on enduring wrongs here at home while confronting challenges in the Third World as well. Meet Richard America, who sees policy analysis and quality management as keys to development...
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- 01 Dec 2007
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How Business Schools Lost Their Way
of society. Donham now declared that in institutions (such as his own) that called themselves schools of “business administration,” too much emphasis had been placed on the first of these two words and too little on the second. Admin-istration, he said, required View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
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Rethinking Call Centers: Effective Delivery of Service is Key
call centers, with their attendant voice response units, need not be frustrating. When a company manages its call center well, effectively linking a triad of service, information technology, and internal processes, both the customer and...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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Innovation, Inc.
will help it thrive in captivity? Three professors in the School’s Entrepreneurial Management unit who focus on the study of creativity recognize the romantic allure of believing it’s a rare quality bestowed...
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- 01 Dec 2001
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Faculty News
Nancy F. Koehn, a member of the Entrepreneurial and Service Management unit and an authority on business history, has been named a full professor. Honored in 1998 by the HBS Student Association for her classroom excellence, Koehn...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Case Study: On the Record
sell 100 vinyl records a month or have their songs stream on Spotify 1.5 million times,” says Kelleher, who led music app partnerships at Google Play before founding Austin-based record manufacturer Gold Rush Vinyl. The company grew out of a need Kelleher saw in her...
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- 09 May 2013
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Road Trip
MBAxAmerica (mbaxamerica.com) by the students, it's more like a rolling summer job with an entrepreneurial focus and a dash of pro bono consulting, built around visits to seven high-potential companies in the American heartland. Making...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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Where Are They Now?
upon educating leaders who would have a positive impact on the world. The article remains a classic and has since been republished several times. Zaleznik’s take on the subject of leadership was informed by his training and certification as a psycho-analyst, something...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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Noted & Quoted
businesses. ” — DEIRDRE LEOPOLD, managing director of MBA admissions and financial aid, commenting on the increasing numbers of women heading to business schools. (Forbes.com, April 16, 2010) “CEOs who actually take the trouble to delve...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care
back-office burdens from the doctors and support staff to the company. One of the company's software services, for example, translates electronic records from its system to others (no more stuck MRIs), and lets doctors track and manage...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit
more than three-dozen breakout sessions served to sharpen participants’ focus on the summit’s agenda: profound and fundamental questions regarding leadership, globalization, and market capitalism. The future of market capitalism was very...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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Surviving Success
In the frenzied, early months of a new venture’s launch, few entrepreneurs anticipate a future beyond their role as company leader. In “Founder–CEO Succession at Wily Technology,” HBS assistant professor Noam Wasserman and former HBS entrepreneur-in-residence Henry...
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- 19 Feb 2008
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The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen
the additional risk and legwork involved in making an independent film can pay off in creative control over the final product—even after a studio accepts a film for marketing and distribution, executives can’t demand that the ending a film be changed at a View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
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MBAs on a Mission
was typical for an HBS Leadership Fellow. The program catapults new grads into high-level positions at nonprofit and public-sector organizations, offering access to CEO-level management and decision-making. Meanwhile, organizations...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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Home Sweet (Modular) Home
cracks began to appear in its carefully crafted production plan. The first order of modular homes languished on the assembly line for months as Greentech struggled to resolve a number of serious production-control issues. Stuntz now has hired a new production-control...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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Committed To HBS’s Success
who participate in them. “The School faces tough competitors,” says Tukman, president of Tukman Grossman Capital Management Inc. “Great as it is, HBS is only as good as its faculty and its students. If one wishes to help ensure the...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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Lessons from Private Equity
firms are the management arsenals of many public companies — strategic due diligence, blueprints for action, tying compensation to performance — but they are not applied with sufficient consistency, rigor, or thoroughness. In short, what...
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