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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Designing Change
Hill, who expects the case to be taught in Marketing and Organizational Behavior courses as well as in design schools. “Most of our change-management cases focus on a CEO or senior leader, not a middle manager, and few consider how to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
information technology can lead to more flexible organizational structures and innovative management control systems. These ideas appear in her recent casebook Managing in an... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
Management from 1960 to 2000," Nolan highlights the critical shifts in the four eras in the evolution of IT. The Industrial Era, he writes, created an automation mindset, while the Data Processing Era led to View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Nonprofits: Choosing a Path for Growth
remarks follow. While our survey did not explore the reasons for choosing branching over affiliation, some nonprofits may prefer branching because it allows the nonprofit leader to exert the most control since the new organizational units... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Zest to Invest
organizational issues. "I never thought my courses at HBS on managing people would be applicable to me," he confesses. "But my job has become more administrative and supervisory. I used to think I could turn... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
means there was a complaint—about the food, about the service, some negative thing that had escalated to the point that a manager had been called on to straighten things out. Or at least, that’s what it used to mean. In fall 2016,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Chai Ling
"China's democracy and free-market economy will require people with a solid understanding of capital markets, advanced management skills, and experience in global competition," she says. After developing her skills and establishing a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Raymond A. Baxter: Sweet Smell of Success
improve their ability to approach the public, make plans, and set goals." Baxter worked at the "Grandma's" cookie division of Frito-Lay before coming to Interbake Foods in 1987. His earliest priorities included updating production technology and redefining View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
Charles J. Christenson Chuck Christenson, the Royal Little Professor of Business Administration and a specialist in management control, has been a member of the HBS faculty for 39 years. Throughout his career, he has been an innovative... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
READ MORE An Orchestral Startup—Richard J. Lim (HBS'98), cofounder of Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra Managing a Master—Edward C. Arrendell (MBA'80) with Wynton Marsalis, "an unbeatable combination." Guitar Hero—Henry E. Juszkiewicz (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 20 Jun 2014
- News
Innovation is not a side business to running a company—innovation is the business
Leading innovation is the foundation of a company's success—in bad times as well as good. This is the lesson Lynda M. Applegate, Baker Foundation Professor, has drawn from her research. Applegate has identified an approach to managing... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
as a business student at nearby Brigham Young University, pursing a degree in organizational behavior. The original plan was to go into accountancy, but a finance internship was enough to convince her that just crunching numbers wasn’t... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
changes in its workforce and shifts in the broader social narrative," she observes. "This type of study adds to our understanding of how organizational and societal practices work together." McGinn notes that over the past few decades... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
board papers, policy papers, management strategy reports, business proposals, a commission of inquiry report, minutes of meeting, corporate letters, audit reports, opinion editorials and blog articles. The author also taught a course on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Faculty Books
Enterprise Analytics: Optimize Performance, Process, and Decisions through Big Data edited by Thomas Davenport (FT Press) This book, a collection of research papers from the International Institute for Analytics, addresses a wide variety of topics in View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
work-related benefits in the process. Are we literally taking our phones to bed with us? In a survey we did of 1,600 managers and professionals in various organizations across the globe, 26 percent admitted to sleeping with their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Faculty Books
decisions, many critical choices still come down to human judgment, based on the best available insights. Visiting Professor Davenport and his coauthor relate 12 stories of organizations that have successfully tapped their data assets, diverse perspectives, and deep... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective
Microsoft and Cisco, Nolan said the mature business model of a hierarchical organizational structure with a "make-and-sell" strategy can't be adapted to the virtual, information-enabled world of dot-coms. There, the real-time speed,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
Career Development Programs. Jefferson now lives back in Singapore, where he is busy building his leadership-development company, the Jefferson Group. “The focus will be on organizational transformation, enhancing performance, and... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
full pay to work for community organizations. At IBM, on the recommendation of eight workforce diversity task forces consisting of company employees (Asian, Black, Hispanic, Native American, Gay/Lesbian, People with Disabilities, White Male, Women), View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons