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By: Rohit Deshpande

Rohit Deshpandé is Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing at Harvard Business Schoolwhere he currently teaches in the Owner/President Management Program and in other executive education offerings. He has also taught global branding, international marketing, and... View Details

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HBS - The year in Review

standards, and values of the School. The recipients were honored during the Class Day ceremony. The 2023 Award recipients were Reshma Kewalramani MD, FASN (GMP 18, 2015) CEO and President, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Depelsha Thomas McGruder MBA 1998 COO and Treasurer,... View Details
  • 25 Jun 2020
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Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

planet.” HOME REGION Ann Arbor, MI UNDERGRAD EDUCATION University of Michigan PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Ford Motor Company, University of Michigan, Tesla Motors, Inc., BMW Group AG, BMW Manufacturing, Sunventrix... View Details
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Historical Data & Sources - Business History

Ford on Six Continents , Cambridge University Press, June 2011. Ford Motor Company Annual Reports, various years Directory of American Firms... View Details
  • 08 Sep 2022
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Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time To Lead. Are You Ready?

George says, she became an “enabler” for the whole firm. Navigate today’s challenges. Be prepared to successfully lead your company through crises and help solve difficult global problems. In 2014, new General View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 01 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

kindness does not. The value and rewards of kindness have been touted by leaders as legendary as King Solomon and Desmond Tutu to latter-day executives like General Motors CEO Mary Barra, known for her inclusive, employee-centric style.... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
  • 27 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

identity. There are numerous historical and current examples of companies forced to face the external shocks of disruptive innovators or shifts in consumer demand. Raffaelli mentions that many Swiss mechanical watch View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24

product for the conversion of crop residues from corn into fermentable sugars for the production of motor fuels. But the problem was that the company only controlled one piece of the value chain. To succeed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

took off by the mid-1960s, and in 1956, along with a syndicate of other banks, Lehman Brothers made an initial public offering of the Ford Motor Company. Lehman Brothers also entered the field of commercial... View Details
  • 09 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

information is significant and avoiding information overload. David J. Collis, the Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and Michael G. Rukstad, the late senior... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

was purchased for approximately $1.1B by Ariba, where Mr. Burgstone served as Vice President and co-head of corporate development. He has also worked as a high-tech strategy consultant (semiconductor, telecom, online financial services), and in general management for... View Details
  • 16 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018

January–February 2018 Harvard Business Review More Than a Paycheck: How to Create Good Blue-Collar Jobs in the Knowledge Economy By: Campbell, Dennis, John Case, and Bill Fotsch Abstract—Fifty years ago a good blue-collar job was with a large manufacturer such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 May 2013
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First Look: May 7

publicly announced their intention to sell their 76.7% stake in Ducati Motor Holding S.p.A., an iconic Italian producer of sport performance motorcycles. The decision followed a six-year turnaround during which Ducati returned to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 14, 2010

provide illustrations from the Toyota Motor Company to show how deliberate perturbation enables efficient exploration in the midst of intense exploitation. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2023
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The Musts of 2023

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. At fall reunions, we set up shop on campus and asked alumni about what media moved them this year. What changed their minds or their hearts. And their answers ran... View Details
  • 29 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 29

Kids Tom Nicholas and David ChenHarvard Business School Case 811-042 In October 1945, Henry Ford II received a telegram in his office at the Ford Motor View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Nov 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Developing Your Next CEO for the Family Business

aggressive change agents. The Non-Family Outsider Non-Family Outsider Alan Mulally (See Fig. 1) had the deep skills and experience needed to change and then grow Ford Motor View Details
Keywords: Retail; Auto
  • 26 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

National Health Costs Could Decrease if Managers Reduce Work Stress

unit. "But traditionally in the US we have not placed a lot of emphasis on the role of workplace stress in the high cost of health care." In recent years, General Motors spent more on health care than it did on steel, and across... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • 19 Apr 2004
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Birth of the American Salesman

Electric, and Carnegie Steel were all founded in the 1880s; in the following decade came Wrigley's Chewing Gum, General Electric, Burroughs, and Pepsico. These companies developed modern sales techniques, created procedures for management... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
  • 27 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future

company to a larger one. In contrast, startups funded by a VC syndicate with less familiar co-investors are most likely to exit through a potentially splashy IPO that could let founders retain more control, says Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne