Strategy Execution - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 1997
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Growing Together

illustrates wonderfully just the kinds of strategy issues that many participants in SPNM face." Jatrice Martel Gaiter, the executive director of SOS-KDI's fledgling U.S. operation, elaborates on just one of... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

01 Jun 2010
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New Horizons

left. The center will serve as a research and teaching hub for the University and provides a venue for HBS Executive Education programs. Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell / Harvard University News Office View Details

Keywords: Construction of Buildings; Construction; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

24 Jul 2018
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How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft

At an executive retreat in 2015, Hood lectured senior leaders on the need for more internal and external metrics to keep employees on a measurable path and communicate better to investors. Nadella and Hood hatched a plan to refocus... View Details

20 Jun 2014
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Innovation is not a side business to running a company—innovation is the business

Leading innovation is the foundation of a company's success—in bad times as well as good. This is the lesson Lynda M. Applegate, Baker Foundation Professor, has drawn from her research. Applegate has identified an approach to managing growth and innovation while also... View Details

01 Sep 2012
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Alumni, Faculty, and Other Experts Offer Career Advice

executive; and Kevin Sheridan (MBA 1988) will explore strategies to manage mobile employees. Also presenting will be executive coach Patti Hunt Dirlam, HBS professors Joseph Badaracco and Kathleen McGinn,... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2023
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Righting the Ship

received an A; 80–90 percent, a B; and so on. The second part of the new strategy focused on resource allocation. Instead of basing funding on the number of employees, Stuckey moved to a formula-based allocation that considered both need... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Dec 2008
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Alumni Books

support a coherent business strategy. The successful execution of this strategy has made KFC China the industry leader in growth, profitability, market share, and brand recognition in the world’s... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2014
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Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes

for senior executives at HBS. Aligning Strategy and Sales is full of voices and stories from top firms, business leaders, and educators who offer valuable lessons through their experiences—both their... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; faculty research; faculty books

24 Apr 2014
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Making TV Look Like America

college. She is now a management development executive at Warner Brothers. Burgos’s heritage (she emigrated from the Dominican Republic) and her love of acting have inspired her interest in a career in media and entertainment. “I want to... View Details

01 Apr 1999
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HBS Collaboration Helps Management Education for Minority Students

leveraging HBS's strength in this area by launching a series of programs designed to connect professors to practice. The group has since sponsored workshops on the case method, interactive learning, and research techniques, among other topics, and enabled faculty to... View Details

Keywords: Anne Kavanagh

22 Jul 2015
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Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs

them really became a full-time career.” This was in the 1990s, when Gould had a management position in marketing and strategy at Reuters and before family-friendly HR policies, such as job-sharing, had caught on with many companies. She... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Goldman Sachs; Reuters; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2006
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Job One: Alumni Engagement

needs and expectations, using valuable information from the ongoing MBA and Executive Education surveys. Those surveys helped the committee identify program ideas targeted to specific age groups. The committee also developed a set of... View Details

Keywords: Peter Cooper

01 Oct 1999
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Four Promoted to Full Professor

president of Ceramics Process Systems Corporation (CPS), a firm he cofounded with several MIT professors in 1984. A former Boston Consulting Group project manager, he was instrumental in founding the firm's manufacturing strategy... View Details

01 Mar 2008
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Negotiating with Wal-Mart

Sebenius says, “but a lot of our students and executives face counterparts who aren’t interested in playing by those rules. So what happens when you encounter someone with a great deal of power, like Wal-Mart, who is also the ultimate... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade

15 Nov 2016
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Uncovering The Secrets of Mittelstand Success

and Willy C. Shih, the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice, together with Vincent Dessain (MBA 1987), executive director of the Europe Research Center, arranged visits to 11 companies across Bavaria. At firms such as... View Details

01 Mar 2014
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Book Review: The Old West

more than 10 percent, and India's more than 6. It won't be long, says Daniel Pinto (MBA 1993), cofounder and chief executive of Stanhope Capital, one of the largest independent investment firms in Europe, before the West falls to the East... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Oct 1999
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Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business

has developed for the course so far - "Siam Cement Group: Corporate Philosophy" and "The Haier Group" - take place in Thailand and China, respectively. Named Asia's most ethical company several years ago in a survey of the region's View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Mar 2011
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Faculty Research Online

Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution In his new book, Seven Strategy Questions, Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration Robert... View Details