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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 Apr 2013
News

HBS Professor Emeritus John Kotter Wins McKinsey Award

John P. Thompson

Continuing the expansion begun by this father, John Thompson, aided by his brother Jere, grew 7-Eleven into the national business it is today. Despite a failed venture into the... View Details

Keywords: Retail

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... View Details

Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead

John P. Mackey

Through a series of acquisitions, Mackey transformed Whole Foods from a small, niche player in the grocery retail business into a major enterprise. In many ways, Mackey and Whole Foods have brought organic and natural foods into the mainstream of America through... View Details

Keywords: Retail

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

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

1999
Book

John Kotter on What Leaders Really Do

By: J. P. Kotter

Keywords: Leadership

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01 Jan 2007
News

Leading Change - Why Transformation Efforts Fail

Keywords: John P. Kotter

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

Stephen P. Bradley

Professor Bradley is the William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. In addition to teaching Management and Strategy in the Owner President Management Program and leading an... View Details

Keywords: e-commerce industry; financial services; health care; high technology; internet; pharmaceuticals; telecommunications

01 Oct 2002
News

Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.

Deborah Blagg (send e-mail to the author) DISTINCT YET OF A PIECE PROFILES FROM THE CLASS OF 1977 John R. Davis: Nature's Blessing Michael F. Cronin: A Focus on the Fundamentals Ann M. Fudge: Enhanced Perspective Steven C. Watson: Course... View Details

23 May 2019
News

Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997

spouse, Leon Palandjian, whom she met her sophomore year. It is apt that upon graduation she received the John B. Imrie Memorial Award for her “joyous affirmation of life” and “ability to respond creatively to difficult situations.”... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

15 Nov 2021
News

Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959)

giving annually to the HBS Fund, in honor of his 50th Reunion, Waite decided to leave a lasting legacy at the School by including it in his will. HBS recognized his commitment by welcoming him into the View Details

01 Jan 2004
News

Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963

best people you can find and then let them do their job." CURRENT READING Political Education: National Policy Comes of Age, by Christopher T. Cross As head of Hazleton, which he turned into the largest independent contract laboratory in... View Details

19 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States

besieged with global discord that threatens regional peace, faces the same domestic headlines. In 2011, when young Israelis—and extending eventually to not-so-young Israelis, fueled by Facebook—mounted a "cottage cheese... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas, John H. Vogel & Charles S. Laven; Construction; Real Estate

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

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September 1989 (Revised October 1994)
Case

Sir John Harvey-Jones

By: John P. Kotter