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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Books
think about these subjects. High Commitment, High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage by Michael Beer (Jossey-Bass) Drawing on many management studies and his work with senior managers, Professor... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
cost something on the order of $5 billion, not the $5 million one might expect for a typical start-up,” Esty explains. And all too often, he adds, they can turn out to be losing propositions. The managerial challenge is to make sure that $150 billion or so of annual... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Motorola; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
them to downsize and slash jobs. “It was a commodity price down cycle across almost all metals. We were obviously expecting a large negative impact,” recalls Chernilovskiy, then an asset manager at Kazakhstani zinc-producer Kazzinc, a... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
advantage of lax monitoring to build corporate empires with little strategic coherence, producing commensurately lackadaisical results. I do believe, however, that with the abandonment of the professionalization project and the idea that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Case of Achievement
hired to jump-start a moribund division of the investment bank. Parson’s success at generating business was offset by performance reviews from supervisors and subordinates that painted him as a poor fit in the firm’s collaborative culture. Should he be promoted to... View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Beyond Case Writing
Sometimes big ideas start with small experiments. That’s been the experience of HBS associate professor Nava Ashraf, whose experimental approach to research in developing countries has produced insights that have influenced government... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Facing Ambiguity
research associates Erika Ferlins and Laura Feldman, students are assigned the parts of six managers or engineers who were involved in the Columbia mission. After logging into their password-protected role, students watch, read, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Faculty Books
How did the United States lose its leading edge in producing innovative goods and services? Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie Jr. Professor of Business Administration, and Shih, professor of management practice,... View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Covering All Corners
Riad Armanious (MBA 2008) regards the pandemic as the greatest professional challenge he has faced as managing director of family-owned Eva Group and CEO of Eva Pharma, a multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Egypt. The... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
nonprofit focused on improving urban economies, and ICV Partners, a Black-owned private equity firm focused on companies in the lower middle market. Willie Woods is cofounder, president, and managing director of ICV Partners, and in this... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
get behind their ideas, going through fertility treatments while launching a company, managing investor expectations, prioritizing mental health, setting benchmarks, hiring to fill experience gaps, and even returning VC funding. “It takes... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
alumni in our programs are extraordinary individuals. Each had great success as consumers and users of management knowledge. Now, in the Doctoral Programs, they are producers of knowledge that will shape and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
they have. The accelerator brings together research foundations with relevant datasets and analytics companies to leverage the latest in artificial intelligence and machine learning, with the ultimate goal of identifying models that View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer
presentation was that at the bottom of the website it said, ‘A Mark Zuckerberg Production’,” he recalled. “I knew he was passionate about the site and making it a platform beyond college campuses.” “I caved,” he said. “It was five cents a share.” Breyer invested $13... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Leadership in the Digital Age
six HBS Global Research Centers, Hill and her Leadership Initiative team hosted a series of virtual roundtable discussions on the pressing issues that accompany digital transformation. The goal: to examine how leadership has evolved in the 21st century and to View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Nov 2011
- News
750 World Wonders and counting
story of what he describes as “the 1,000 wonders on earth, including at least one in each and every one of the world’s 200 countries.” Main Wilson has a full-time job as COO of the UK’s Institute of Directors (IOD), but has nonetheless View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
And his afterlife: “When three-headed Cerberus greeted him / Socrates replied: ‘I won’t need / an attack dog, thank you. I married one.’” Mergers and Acquisitions: Integration and Transformation Management as the Gateway to Success by... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
founder to pledge the company’s commitment to implement these ESG elements.” MPower’s first three investments reflect the firm’s wide range: WOVN Technologies, a group that produces a website and associated app that allows organizations... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- News
Gloria Steinem and Diane Paulus Take Center Stage
are looking forward to when there is a play produced about her creative life!” HBSA of Nigeria Celebrates Star Leaders at Black Tie Gala Close to 300 guests, including many HBS and Harvard alumni as well as top business leaders, converged... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Jennifer L. Scott
years, the HBS Show, a theatrical spoof of campus life written and performed by students. As producer of this past April's extravaganza, "HBS Goes to Hollywood," Scott managed 80 cast and crew members and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young