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25 Feb 2020
News

Action Plan: Just Breathe

pain: major surgery requiring months of recuperation or meditation to manage the stress that was at the root of his health issues. But the practice didn’t fit with his image of a type A, high-powered executive. “I came to meditation... View Details

Keywords: April White

04 Sep 2019
News

What I Do: Keith Cerny (MBA 1991)

nearly 75,000 patrons in the United States and abroad, and produced a performance and global simulcast of an opera, Tod Machover’s Death and the Powers, that featured robots. In Fort Worth, he’ll be co-leading the search for a new music... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

27 Apr 2017
News

Helping Veterans Gain Skills to Thrive in the Business World

Goldman, where he has worked since earning his MBA. The company actively looks to hire veterans through its Veterans Integration Program and other initiatives, and York is involved in nonprofit programs supported by Goldman that help them... View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence

this type of manager, the School has introduced a comprehensive, six-week Executive Education program called The General Manager (TGM). The course enables participants to step back from their day-to-day responsibilities to gain a broad, View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

Article

Designing Sustainability at BMW Group: The Designworks/USA Experience

By: Kellie McElhaney, Michael W. Toffel and Natalie Hill

This case study describes how an industrial design company developed a sustainability management system (SMS) standard, designed and implemented an SMS throughout its business, and then became the first company in the world to achieve third-party SMS certification by a... View Details

Keywords: Design; Governance Compliance; Management Practices and Processes; Standards; Environmental Sustainability; Auto Industry; United States

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01 Dec 2005
News

Buy the Book

as a sublime integration of operations and marketing,” says Deighton, who taught the case to MBAs for the first time this fall in the elective course Consumer Marketing. “Patterson understands that if you want shelf space you need to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

August 2005
Case

Bill Belichick and the Cleveland Browns

By: John R. Wells and Travis Haglock

Genius? That is not what they were calling Bill Belichick in Cleveland. Why? Four losing seasons in five years. Fans hurled trash and insults. The media resented him. Ownership abandoned him. Players quit on him. Very different from the three Super Bowls in five years... View Details

Keywords: Business History; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Management Practices and Processes; Management Style; Sports; Sports Industry; United States

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06 Aug 2014
What Do You Think?

What Is Warren Bennis’s Legacy?

fully integrated human beings who know themselves and bring out the best in others . As I was joining Medtronic (a company George would later lead) in 1989, I read Warren's classic, On Becoming a Leader. For the first time an author... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

19 Jan 2017
News

Finding Purpose in Profit

As an undergraduate at Princeton, Coupounas majored in philosophy and then spent a year at Oxford studying philosophical theology as a Rotary Foundation Graduate Fellow. She also sang and acted in various choral groups and theater productions, and View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; B corporations

03 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

world. What does the book add to the literature that you felt was lacking? Mihir Desai: Recent waves of globalization have had several distinct effects on firms that have not been addressed by many academics. First, rapidly integrating... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

28 Jul 2016
Blog Post

Why I’m Not Changing Careers after Business School

with global immersion. I grew up in the United States, got my undergraduate degree in the United States, and worked for companies in the Unites States. But being a global... View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

Two Kinds of Green

with video "chapters." HBS Business and Environment Initiative - Check out HBS faculty research and news on sustainability efforts on the HBS campus With the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) now well established, organizations continue to grapple with... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; natural products company; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Oct 2002
News

Lessons in Leadership

insights into how to motivate people, allocate resources, and act with great integrity in moments of crisis. Second, we are now living in a turbulent time. There are new questions about where we are going as a people, as business leaders,... View Details

Keywords: Antarctica

Profile

Julio Cedeno

Julio Cedeno was born in Texas just months after his mother and father (originally from Mexico and Venezuela respectively) arrived in the United States from Venezuela. As the oldest among a generation of siblings and cousins, Julio was... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy

06 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health

chronic work stress, while only 36 percent reported their employers provided adequate support to manage it. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, some 6.7 percent of American adults experience "major depressive disorder; antidepressants are the most... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Air Transportation

01 Jun 2024
News

Outside Voices

motion, bringing Greeks back home to further strengthen the labor market and create new economic opportunities. “After 12 years of training in Greece, these talented individuals immigrate primarily to the United States or Europe, where... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Pete Ryan; immigration; repatriation; innovation; public policy; Greece

01 Apr 1997
News

Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT

The following article is the ninth in a series on the activities and research taking place in each academic unit at HBS. The information technology (IT) industry, for which rapid change has been a constant for decades, has reached another... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb

01 Jun 2007
News

More Faculty Honors

Professor Max Bazerman has received the 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program. The institute, dedicated to fostering enlightened leadership, recognizes exceptional professors who are leaders in View Details

Keywords: awards; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

26 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

at essentially the same frequency as they target cash in segments related to alleged infringement. By contrast, cash is neither a key driver of intellectual property lawsuits by practicing entities (e.g., IBM and Intel) nor of any other... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

08 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

faculty member.) In the interview, he discussed his latest book, Can Japan Compete?, cowritten with Hirotaka Takeuchi and Mariko Sakakibara, as well as the book's implications for business practices beyond Japan. In this second part,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

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