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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side
successful capital campaign, as the dean who has steered HBS Publishing through a challenging digital transition, and as a committed and engaging teacher — that it’s easy to forget that Howard is first and foremost a brilliant scholar. He’s View Details
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
now, but that could change in a few years when the markets are right. "We specialize in restructuring patents, carrying out further development work, then getting them into the hands of strategic buyers who can bring them to market."... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
company, with a focus on changing relationships between manufacturing technology and R&D between the mid-1940s and the mid-1960s. Pfizer first moved into pharmaceuticals through participation in the U.S. government's penicillin effort... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
Alzheimer's, MS, and Huntington's) and do so by encouraging collaboration among researchers in the HMS community. When Ivinson takes the helm in 2001, he finds a dysfunctional center with little organization or structure. In addition, he has little formal authority to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
compromises and disappointments. For some people, the level of uncertainty is not a good thing. I didn’t have a great idea or start something new that I thought up on my own. It was an existing business that we radically changed over the... View Details
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
"the right environment" to promote accountability and head off future disasters. The corporate leaders we have interviewed say that culture isn't something you "fix." Rather cultural change is what you get after you've... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
cybersecurity. Revenues declined, criticism grew, and challenges of change remained. Watson businesses were new, unproven, and required change in nearly every aspect of legacy operations and culture. To... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
those business aspects where agility is most crucial—where the business environment is changing fast—and which elements have the greatest impact on customers’ decisions. She then shows how to master three aspects of agility: market... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
to generate profits, he threw them out. To be clear, large German firms definitely do not move as quickly today as many American firms. The German economy is going through fundamental structural changes because of Europeanization and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation
since 1980, that company has become more diverse over time, potentially due to improved HR policies, changes in hiring practices, and other efforts to diversify the workforce,” Koning says. “But our economy is not only made up of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
India, Brazil, and other developing nations shook off decades of economic stagnation to achieve remarkable growth. Concurrently, world trade advanced to the point that capital and products now flow freely around the globe. All these View Details
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
indeed, when making decisions, the unconscious can best be trusted when blood glucose levels are low, whereas conscious deliberation yields the best results when blood glucose levels are elevated. The Rise of the Functional Manager: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS
“Reimagining Capitalism.” I often think back to the really gritty questions we asked. That class changed the way I think. On the career side, I did a summer internship supported by SEI, and I now am an HBS... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
recently he led efforts to introduce major technological changes in the Program for Management Development (PMD) as faculty chair from 1987 to 1994. Concerned that students and faculty in PMD were ignoring the computer resources available... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
organizations in which he and his firm invested. The objectives to which he referred were Collins’s and Porras’s BHAGs, preferably a ten times improvement in some performance metric. In his book Exponential Organizations, Salim Ismail further described the world of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
Vasella Illustration by Dennis Balogh Twenty years ago a young doctor with a hankering for business experience gave up his clinical practice in Bern, Switzerland, and moved to East Hanover, New Jersey, to try his hand at drug sales with the Swiss conglomerate Sandoz.... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
within the company by ruthless cost-cutting rather than investment. Speaking of investment, the best investment anyone can make at any career stage is to behave honorably and make friends. Graciousness, even in victory, goes a long way to... View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition
of 2016 Section G is the best!” What advice do you have for current HBS students interested in pursuing a career in your field? Pradhan: “Force yourself to be an outbound person and spend time researching and getting to know people at... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
Conant, he taught in a leadership course that he had designed for the company's high-potential managers. In all cases, higher-ambition leaders identified future leaders and developed them—usually through cross-functional and cross-geographic View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
Changes in Ownership and Management of Large West German Family Firms (1960-2008)." Author:Christina Lubinski Publication:Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte 55, no. 2 (2010) Abstract Large family firms fall between two... View Details