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- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job
organizational context, and how decisions shape and enact strategy. The final module examines the role of the general manager in driving necessary changes and, ultimately, the course studies the centrality of decision-making inside... View Details
- 02 Oct 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Grade Would You Give Walmart CEO Doug McMillon?
Andrei Stanescu SUMMING UP Was Walmart’s Leadership Sufficiently Proactive in Meeting Broader Corporate Responsibilities? Several times as many respondents to this month’s column gave CEO Doug McMillon high marks as opposed to low marks... View Details
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
course, VCs I interviewed didn't use the word "career imprint"; still, what they did point to were important differences in the kinds of capabilities, connections, confidence, and cognition that people developed at these different firms. And these differences... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- April 2025
- Supplement
#FutureFresenius: 'Committed to Life' in 2024 and Beyond (B)
By: David J. Collis, Benjamin C. Esty and Haisley Wert
From February 2024 onward, Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA continued to make progress on the #FutureFresenius transformation that CEO Michael Sen had initiated in October 2022. The company had completed the initial "reset" phase and moved into the "revitalize" portion of the... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Finance; Transformation; Leading Change; Health Industry; United States; Germany
Collis, David J., Benjamin C. Esty, and Haisley Wert. "#FutureFresenius: 'Committed to Life' in 2024 and Beyond (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 725-415, April 2025.
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Leading the Way
University, as well as a leader in the worlds of business and social responsibility. John Hess: My experience at HBS was transformational. HBS faculty pushed me to think differently about leadership and how to solve problems, and I was... View Details
- 31 Aug 2016
- News
Managing McDonald’s Makeover
that the iconic brand is “keeping pace with changing tastes and habits.” The move was reportedly unexpected, given McDonald’s history of promoting from internal ranks. (Kempczinski was brought on last year.) In quickly tapping a relative... View Details
- October 2013
- Teaching Note
Teaching Note IBM and the Reinvention of High School (A): Proving the P-TECH Concept
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
The Next Big Thing
life-sciences center of the world, by virtue of its unsurpassed “cluster” of world-renowned universities and teaching hospitals; medical-device, biotech, and pharmaceutical companies; financial firms; and skilled workers. “The leadership... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
in their businesses. After one such session, a senior manager asked, "Is there anything you won't get involved in?" I felt I had to get deep into the businesses to create the necessary changes in behavior. Creating a more... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Monaco's Digital Transformation
country’s own digital security agency handles all encryption. Genta, who brings to his role a background in business leadership at Google, Amazon, and Orange, also worked with his team to develop the Monaco ID card, a secure way for a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
mission statements to the contrary, many deans and recruiters complain that MBAs don’t understand the practice of leadership or have sufficient awareness of their impact on others. Reflecting on these findings, Garvin concluded, “Business... View Details
- 24 Feb 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Palm Beach
Society (BiGS), which he described as an 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... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Promising Starts
Eight Class of 2011 MBAs will spend the coming year working in key management positions with nonprofits and public-sector organizations with support from the School’s Leadership Fellows Program. This year’s fellows are (front row) Alisa... View Details
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
New Head of MBA Admissions Is 2013 Grad
HBS as program director for 2+2, a deferred admission process for students in college or full-time master’s programs. After graduating from HBS as a Baker Scholar, Losee worked for a year as an HBS Fellow in the Dean’s Office. In that role, he collaborated with the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Leading Quietly
instance. "Preparation, caution, care, and attention to detail are usually the best approach to everyday challenges," writes Badaracco. "What usually matters are careful, thoughtful, small, practical efforts by people working far from the limelight. In short," he... View Details
- 18 Mar 2021
- News
Authentically Leading with Blind Ambition
sales/finance leader, and inspirational change agent who works at Red Hat/IBM. He was the first blind executive to graduate from Harvard Business School’s Program for Leadership Development and has been... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Embracing Digital Transformation
priorities. Now, such gifts will play a key role in fueling the School’s digital transformation. Leadership in the Digital Age Monaco's Digital Transformation Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS HBS Curricula Explore the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions
Just before the MBA reunions last spring, a group of women graduates met for a new program that provided a special opportunity to discuss their business and leadership goals in the broader context of their lives. Titled Charting Your... View Details
- 01 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil
ties to the rest of the company, so angered Arrow's traditional salesforce that a wall had to be erected between the warring camps. How Leaders Do It For pace-setting companies, the three stages of response to change are much different.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne