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Carter Romansky

nothing you can mess up that we can't fix.' It was just the most fantastic encouragement – it completed charged us to move forward. That's the kind of leadership I like – empowering people to takes risks and be creative!" Integrating... View Details

05 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 5

environment of scientific and industrial expansion. Venture funding occurred more widely in the United States than it ever had done before. While the roots of the American venture capital industry are long-standing and multifaceted, they... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

Still in transition, unfortunately, but Merton has an idea for a different approach that would provide an integrated solution to the retirement conundrum. "Think of it as an answer, but not the only answer," he says. The plan... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

16 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

performance—and the issues about how top executives seem to be getting a different kind of deal than employees get, there is a fundamental cynicism about the free enterprise system. The closed CEO labor market and the consequences it has wrought fundamentally threaten... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 1997
News

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statistical data from five hundred business groups in India and spoke to dozens of managers in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Chile. The pair found that companies outside the United States perform better when they replicate the quality... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Sep 2005
News

Predictable Surprises

in the attacks, but that information was in separate silos. Richard Clarke, whose job it was to integrate across those silos, was a leftover from the Clinton administration, with limited influence in the new Washington power structure.... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

September 1992 (Revised November 1993)
Supplement

Germany in the 1990s: Managing Reunification, Supplement Two

By: George C. Lodge

Designed to be handed out after discussion of Germany in the 1990s: Managing Reunification and its Supplement. View Details

Keywords: Political Elections; Economy; Situation or Environment; Inflation and Deflation; Interest Rates; Central Banking; Integration; Germany; Italy; United Kingdom; Europe

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4.6 HBS Campus Demonstration Policy | MBA

environment of trust and mutual respect. All members of the HBS community, in joining it, agree to integrate the values of: respect for the rights, differences, and dignity of others, honesty and integrity... View Details

05 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

Authors:Sharon Horsky, Steven C. Michael, and Alvin J. Silk Abstract The common perception appears to be that vertical integration of advertising services is more the exception than the rule in the U.S. advertising industry. This study... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 22

and exploration in terms of innovation streams—incremental innovation in existing products as well as architectural and/or discontinuous innovation. Based on in-depth, longitudinal data from 13 business units and 22 innovations, we... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

02 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 3, 2008

bribery but even made it tax deductible until 1999, it was not welcomed in some nations where Siemens did business such as the United States—or in Germany after 2000—but old practices continued. Cooperative... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Jan 2021
Blog Post

Bringing the Lessons of 2020 into 2021

2020 was a year we won’t soon forget. Individuals and organizations around the globe were faced with unprecedented challenges that pushed their creativity, resolve, and resilience to the limits. We faced a global health pandemic, an economic crisis, and a public... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Oct 1998
News

Value Added

perspective - like that of his 5,000 McKinsey colleagues - extends far beyond the immediate horizon. One of the world's premier management consulting firms, McKinsey conducts business from 80 offices in 37 countries, with almost half of its 220 senior partners based... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

05 May 2015
News

Alumni in London Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration; Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969), HBS Campaign regional chair for Europe and a member of the Global Leaders Circle; and Scott D. Malkin (MBA 1983), vice chair for Europe and a member... View Details

04 May 2015
News

Alumni in Paris Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

evening featured remarks by Dean Nitin Nohria, Professor Robert Steven Kaplan (MBA 1983), faculty chair of the HBS Campaign, Senior Associate Dean for External Relations, and the Martin Marshall Professor of Management Practice in... View Details

01 Apr 2002
News

Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle

NFL, Nokia, Sony, UPS, and United Airlines. "Well-crafted programs have generated hundreds of millions of dollars of incremental revenue for some of the world's leading marketers, while ill-conceived programs have simply raised the cost... View Details

Keywords: Charles M. Williams; Epsilon Data Management; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

11 Oct 2024
News

Highlights from the Fall 2024 Alumni Board Meeting

mission and work of the Institute for Business in Global Society (BiGS) from Debora Spar (PMD 62, 1991), Senior Associate Dean of BiGS and Unit Head of General Management, and Drew Keller (MBA 2022), Director of BiGS. Spar highlighted... View Details

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Teaching Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

joint venture with a community hospital to establish Hoag Orthopedic Institute, a for-profit hospital and two ambulatory service centers. By controlling and integrating all aspects of the patients' medical treatment, the physicians... View Details

03 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The State of Customer Service Leadership

service sector? What role does it play in the US economy? Heskett: Leadership practices in the service sector deserve attention because this sector represents nearly 90 percent of employment and nearly 80 percent of gross domestic product... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail

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