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John P. Kotter

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 Dec 2009
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Q&A; with John Kotter

01 Apr 2013
News

HBS Professor Emeritus John Kotter Wins McKinsey Award

06 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

from Buy-IN: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down By John P. Kotter and Lorne A. Whitehead Fear Mongering This kind of attack strategy is aimed at raising anxieties so... View Details

Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead

10 Sep 2008
News

John Kotter - A sense of urgency

1999
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John Kotter on What Leaders Really Do

By: J. P. Kotter

Keywords: Leadership

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02 Jun 2008
News

Changes with Penguins: A Q&A; with Harvard Guru John Kotter

08 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency

an open-minded and approachable person in a more powerful position who can take the lead. Certainly we need to be prudent. But in a more rapidly changing world, finding opportunities in crises probably reduces your overall risk. To Learn More: Watch a video of View Details

Keywords: by John P. Kotter

08 Sep 2008
News

Professor John Kotter Details How Leaders Can Create and Sustain a Sense of Urgency

29 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Get Off the Dime!

Using real-life stories, John Kotter and Dan Cohen have identified eight steps toward making large-scale change in organizations. The first step: Create a sense of urgency among the relevant people.In... View Details

Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen

01 Jun 2004
News

John Dearden Remembered

John Dearden, a professor at HBS for more than thirty years, died in January at a nursing facility in Connecticut, after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was 84. An authority on managerial accounting and a pioneer in the use of... View Details

Keywords: John Dearden; Dearden; Ford Motor; Alzeimer; obituary; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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

01 Jan 2007
News

Leading Change - Why Transformation Efforts Fail

Keywords: John P. Kotter

John Beshears

John Beshears is the Albert J. Weatherhead Jr. Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit, teaching the second-year MBA course "Negotiation." He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.... View Details

John F. Batter

John Batter is a retired Litigation Partner in the Boston Office of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP where his practice focussed on on the defense of public and private companies and their directors and management against breach of fiduciary duty claims and... View Details

September 2008
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Mr. Nelson Peltz, Founding Partner, Trian Partners. Interviewed by Professor John Quelch

By: John A. Quelch

Professor John Quelch interviewed Mr. Nelson Peitz, Founding Partner of Trian Partners on events and decisions leading up to the decision to acquire the Snapple brand and the results of that corporate decision. View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Private Equity; Investment; Brands and Branding; Financial Services Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

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June 2009
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F. William McNabb, Chairman, Vanguard Group, Interviewed by Professor John Quelch, April 2008

By: John A. Quelch

Professor John Quelch interviewed F. William McNabb, Chairman, Vanguard Group in April 2008 to review updates since the original case was published in 2004. View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Financial Services Industry; United States

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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

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