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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Q & A: Pat Russo - Focused on the Future at Lucent Technologies
wireless, software, and semiconductors, to name a few - has put us in a very strong position. We are also fortunate to be able to draw on innovations from Bell Labs to find total solutions to meet our customers' needs. How has Lucent View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping
strategic planning." COMMON CHALLENGES "Nonprofits are so resource-constrained, they typically spend a lot of time fighting fires and don't have the time to step back and really think strategically. When you're a mission-driven... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
strategic business investment in inner cities goes much deeper and will produce "profitable and sustainable change for both sides." In her latest book, she looks at a number of companies that found that... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
shifts into opportunities for even greater success. In 1985, Martin Sorrell was ready for a change. He had spent nine years at Saatchi & Saatchi, helping the London-based advertising firm reach superstar status with his strategic and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
with encouragement from faculty mentors, pursued his growing interests in markets and investment. During his tenure at the School he has served as chair of the Finance unit and taken on a number of key administrative roles, including director of faculty planning and... View Details
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
operations, drawing him to HBS. After receiving his MBA, Simmons took a job in Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont’s office as policy advisor and director of strategic initiatives, with a focus on education equity, workforce development, and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
CEO, having first served six months as COO. Since 9/11, it’s hard to think of a business with more growth potential than security. Even before that fateful day in 2001, GE executives made the strategic decision to build from scratch a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
male-dominated mining community. The first woman and non–South African to lead the 95-year-old company, Carroll, a native of Princeton, New Jersey, was hired as a change agent, and her combination of compassion, View Details
- 04 Feb 2020
- News
In Harmony
One spring day in 1983, Mark Weinstein (MBA 1981) sat down in his Watergate Tower office at Strategic Planning Associates in Washington, DC, looked out at the Kennedy Center, and worked out a strategic plan... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
In Memoriam
Emeritus, passed away in October at the age of 78. His work focused on exploring the strategic uses of technology by corporations and the relationship between technological change and competitive strategy,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Research Brief: The Power of Could
question unwittingly locks you into a tradeoff, upholding your moral principles in one way but breaking them in another. Instead, strategically asking yourself what you could do often generates an array of new solutions that might satisfy... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Releases
Initiative at Arthur Andersen, in their new book, Broken Promises: An Unconventional View of What Went Wrong at IBM. Based on interviews with IBM executives, company records, and surveys of the company's customers, Broken Promises is a cautionary tale of View Details
- 06 Jun 2018
- News
The Business of Social Justice
become legal in one day. These kinds of changes have decades of investment behind them.” As COO, Brooks oversees strategic planning, operations, and finances, as well as the evaluation of programs to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
first looked at the sector, we realized almost every district had some great schools and every school had some great classrooms, but no urban district had a portfolio—a system—of great schools. From the outset, our goal has been to change... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
perfect set of slides to convince investors to back you and your venture. The authors, veterans of the startup world, show you how to create a compelling pitch deck and how to plan and execute a fundraising road show to garner financial support for your business. The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
AI Enhances Diagnostic Care
changing the field of medicine. In the past several decades, the growing use of artificial intelligence in the health care sector has made it possible for computer systems and diagnostic machines to learn and problem solve, mimicking... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
phones, and focused the company on the critical launch of its next iteration of handsets, BlackBerry 10. The phones came in two versions: first launched was a touch-screen phone designed to attract mass-market consumers, followed by version with a keyboard for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
strategy," notes Mills. To help managers fine-tune these techniques, the book offers guidance on developing global opportunities; changing the local corporate mindset to a global one (and filtering that way of thinking down to employees);... View Details
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
undergraduate at Stanford University, in 2007, Rewane began to put her thoughts into action. She set up an initiative with her sister, Jemine Rewane (MBA 2009), and some friends, called the Impact Initiative (Inspiring Minds, Perceptions, and Attitudes to View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
A New Path for Alumnae
that. What is more typical of HBS alumnae? Although they all wanted meaningful full-time employment, their goals had changed substantially over the years: Money was important, but not the primary motivator. Organizational purpose and... View Details