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  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

Leading In a New Era

structure up-to-date. Last year, Boise Cascade announced its most profitable year ever, with earnings of $352 million on sales of $5 billion. At about the same time that Harad's company was struggling against declining profits, across the... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
  • Web

Connections & Relationships | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

role, I am able to draw on my HBS general management training to lead organization-wide strategy and operations planning and help coordinate and enhance the work of the senior management team. Stephen Chan, MBA/MPP 2009 Job Title Chief of... View Details
  • August 2010 (Revised July 2012)
  • Supplement

Leaders Who Make a Difference: Joel Klein Brings Accountability to NYC DOE: Day 2

By: Joseph L. Bower and Sonja Ellingson Hout
Joel Klein took over the NYC Department of Education in 2002 and radically transformed the strategy and organization remarkably with improvements in performance. Day 2 focuses on Klein as a strategist, organization builder and driver of performance. Supplementary... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Organizational Structure; Corporate Strategy; Education; Performance Improvement; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry
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  • 01 Dec 1998
  • News

Short Takes

Ownership Matters: Bringing Owners on Board In his working paper, "The Impact of Ownership Type on Performance in Public Corporations: A Study of the U.S. Textile Industry 1983-1992," HBS assistant professor David L. Kang demonstrates... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • Web

Richard Jenrette | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Full Transcript (PDF) Richard “Dick” Jenrette, HBS 1957, was a cofounder of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ). Dick brought skills in journalism and analysis to the partnership and helped establish a structure for the reports that soon... View Details
  • 13 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 13

homeowner—equity extraction is sufficiently widespread-as it was during the years leading up to the peak of the U.S. residential real-estate market-the inadvertent coordination of leverage during a market rise implies higher correlation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Sep 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help

industrial complex that limits healthy competition in order to promote its continued growth and caters to the power and profit-driven demands of its best customers instead of the broader public interest. During the 2016 election cycle,... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
  • 08 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model

activities can be located inside a firm or across firm boundaries. In the latter case, activities may involve customers, suppliers, partners, or other stakeholders. Accompanying the physical value chain is a related information value chain through which involved... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
  • August 2009 (Revised August 2009)
  • Case

Intel NBI: Radio-Frequency Identification

By: Willy C. Shih and Thomas Thurston
The Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) group was a start-up that was part of Intel's New Business Initiatives. It sought initially to develop and sell a high performance Rf fast read rate module targeted at fixed position readers that might be found in loading docks... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Organizational Structure; Failure; Diversification; Integration; Semiconductor Industry
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Private Equity Finance - Course Catalog

of the classes. Educational Objectives This course has two objectives. First, it builds a rigorous approach and toolkit for sourcing, analyzing, negotiating, structuring and managing PE investments. The second goal of the course is to... View Details
  • September 2012
  • Case

Ringier - Building a Digital-Age Media Company

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee
Overview of the strategic re-orientation and diversification of Ringier, a Swiss based media company, as they confront the challenges of staying competitive and profitable in the new and increasingly digital media landscape. View Details
Keywords: Media And Publishing; Publishing; Media; Organizational Structure; Strategy; Diversification; Publishing Industry; Publishing Industry; Switzerland
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  • 01 Jun 1996
  • News

Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course

endeavor, McCraw and Koehn recall with a shared laugh. "We had endless debates with our colleagues inside and outside our unit about how the course should be structured and which countries should be chosen for inclusion," McCraw notes.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • May 2013 (Revised October 2014)
  • Case

Novartis: Leading a Global Enterprise

By: William W. George, Krishna G. Palepu and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Novartis, the world's leading healthcare company, was formed in 1996 out of a merger of two very different, mid-tier Switzerland-based pharma companies. The case traces the company's evolution over the past 17 years, as it transformed into a truly global enterprise... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Talent and Talent Management; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Success; Globalized Markets and Industries; Management Teams; Change Management; Business History; Mergers and Acquisitions; Global Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Switzerland
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  • 06 Nov 2019
  • Op-Ed

Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything

The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a... View Details
Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy
  • 20 Jan 2015
  • News

Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized

health care system. Bushkin’s unassuming item is MedKaz®, a 4-GB flash drive carried on a keychain or in a wallet that can hold a lifetime of medical records, giving patients control over their data and providing a full picture for doctors, so that they can View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • Web

2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Management Keynote Arlie Hochschild , University of California, Berkley Strangers in Their Own Land: Can We Make Common Cause? Blitz Session 1: The Structured World and the Self Sarah Kaplan, Bobbi Thomason, Aneeta Rattan, Lindsey... View Details
  • 29 Aug 2024
  • Blog Post

Exploring Sustainable Energy: A Visit to Vestas Wind Turbine Manufacturing in Odense, Denmark

the company’s commitment to process improvement and excellence. The meticulous process standardization and data tracking of both components and process efficiency was impressively coordinated at such a massive scale. Finally, we learned... View Details
  • Web

Print View - Course Catalog

crucial to the success of any relationship. Building trust into the structure and daily operations of a business translates into increased revenue and profit, productive growth, the satisfaction of stakeholders and shareholders, View Details
  • 16 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 16

look at the creation of the Carnegie Tech Graduate School of Industrial Administration after World War II. This episode illustrates the increasingly successful claims of social scientists, backed by philanthropic foundations, on business... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • News

The Path to Economic Revival

needed to fuel growth. That was the national strategy, but it was not industrial policy. There’s an important need today for having a coordinated national strategy at the policy level. Will U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Manufacturing