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- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
to change the mindset,” he said, citing the grim representation of Black people in leadership positions at Fortune 500 companies. “We need to have the courage to recognize this as a defining moment in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out
stay, and job satisfaction of staff. In the study, the researchers looked at CEOs with tenure in at least two organizations and compared the performances of hospitals with new CEOs against those that did not experience a change at the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
real business opportunity to invest in companies with high-growth potential and at least one woman in a leadership role that were being overlooked by the traditional VC community. Sometimes, in order to see an opportunity, you have to be... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
On The Case
Professor Linda Hill first met Tom Mihaljevic (GMP 15, 2013) when he came to campus to participate in a fireside chat that Hill unexpectedly wound up facilitating. At that time, he was the CEO of Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, and the pair found they had a lot to talk... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
stacks of the white foam growing racks—she lays out the challenge. Climate change and its progenies, drought and flooding, are threatening traditional agricultural systems. And even when those systems work, they still rely on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Man with a Mission
he hired him to head OU’s leadership programs and to work with its International Programs Center and other campus initiatives as an inspirational role model for students. And who wouldn’t he inspire? A helicopter pilot and now a major in... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
revenue from a hundred million when you joined up to 800 million now. 98 percent of that is advertising. That’s pretty incredible first of all. But I imagine—you know how things are: Getting people to try new things and change behavior,... View Details
- 08 Apr 2021
- News
Real Talk
executive leadership diversity training, in her courses to discuss his work in South Africa. But tensions and emotions were especially high that day. “So, in addition to sharing our own personal narratives, we created a sense of social... View Details
- 01 Aug 2019
- News
Investing for Good
projects serve. But I think our work goes far beyond the lives of the projects. Our impact is really about changing mindsets. “Investors should be thinking more holistically about their portfolios, beyond risk and return, and to really... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
East to West
associates Chisato Toyama (MBA ’99) and Kim Eric Bettcher. As head of the first-year required course Leadership and Corporate Accountability, Paine notes that she often looks for opportunities to bring a global perspective to the... View Details
- 15 May 2018
- News
Spreading the Safety Net
a critically ill loved one without this same level of benefits. I had inadvertently created classes of employees — and by doing so, had done my part to contribute to America’s inequality problem. The new policy gives warehouse employees access to the same benefits... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Tools and Training for a “Wicked Problem”
the homeless transition to affordable housing, and expanding behavioral health services and substance abuse treatment programs are all part of the plan; when it comes to its implementation, however, Keller will draw on tactics he picked up as a participant in the... View Details
Keywords: homelessness
- 17 Mar 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in New York
interdisciplinary research enterprise that will position HBS as an intellectual hub for examining the most critical issues and opportunities of our times—from climate change and environmental sustainability to racial equity and social and... View Details
- 28 Jun 2010
- HBS Case
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Technology and Operations Management course (TOM), the case offers valuable takeaways for future managers of any complex service organization. "It's a good TOM case in that it includes hard numbers and rigorous analysis," Edmondson notes. "But it's a... View Details
- 18 Feb 2021
- News
Jumping In, Fighting Bias
to leadership roles at Quidsi, Jet.com, and Walmart. “My gender, ethnicity and faith compelled me to be ambitious in a way that I don’t know if I otherwise would have been,” Balbale told the Wall Street Journal. Last June, Balbale left... View Details
- 07 Oct 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
Justine Smyth (PMD 77, 2002) remembers a time when no one in New Zealand talked about breast cancer. It was 1980, and her mother, just 45 years old, had been diagnosed. Her mother underwent a mastectomy and survived, but “we weren’t allowed to tell anyone,” Smyth... View Details
- December 2018
- Case
OTE: Managing in Times of National Crisis (A)
By: Juan Alcacer, Jérôme Lenhardt and Emer Moloney
In late 2010, Michael Tsamaz was appointed CEO and Chairman of Greek telecommunications company OTE. OTE still exhibited many traits of a large incumbent organization, with high personnel costs, crippling bureaucracy, lack of customer-centricity, a dull brand, and... View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; Transformation; Economy; Crisis Management; Telecommunications Industry; Greece
Alcacer, Juan, Jérôme Lenhardt, and Emer Moloney. "OTE: Managing in Times of National Crisis (A)." Harvard Business School Case 719-456, December 2018.
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Nancy Hall (MBA 1974)
Levitt in Marketing. When I’m teaching my students — who are interested in changing the world — I know that what they learn will stay with them for years. It’s an incredibly satisfying feeling. — SY View Details
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
Self-confidence is not the real secret of leadership. The more essential ingredient is confidence in other people. Leadership involves motivating others to their finest efforts and channeling those efforts in a coherent direction. Leaders... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
opportunities. And while oil prices continue to rise and fall, energy services firms are seeing rapid growth—especially those firms that provide services to both traditional and emerging clean technology energy sectors. When approaching View Details
Keywords: by Staff