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- 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
- 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
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Shaking Up the System
STERNBERG: A career putting leadership to work where others fear to tread. In a lengthy article examining New York City’s education reforms, the Weekend Australian magazine (March 7, 2009) zeroed in on the Bronx Lab School (BLS), often... View Details
- April 2016
- Supplement
Jean-Claude Biver: The Reemergence of the Swiss Watch Industry
By: Ryan Raffaelli
Video supplement for Ryan Raffaelli's "Jean-Claude Biver" suite of teaching products View Details
Keywords: Re-emergence; Passion; Leading Change; Emerging Markets; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Switzerland
Raffaelli, Ryan. "Jean-Claude Biver: The Reemergence of the Swiss Watch Industry." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 416-703, April 2016.
- 19 Jan 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing the Economic Crisis
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered: How do I lead in a crisis? What roles does the Board play? What are the emotional needs of people who lay... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 1998
- Book
Navigating Change: How CEO's, Top Teams and Boards Steer Transformation
By: D. Hambrick, D. Nadler and Michael Tushman
Hambrick, D., D. Nadler, and Michael Tushman. Navigating Change: How CEO's, Top Teams and Boards Steer Transformation. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1998.
- November 2017
- Teaching Note
Generating Higher Value at IBM (A) and (B)
By: Benjamin C. Esty and E. Scott Mayfield
Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 215-058 and 215-059. View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
to the next level. Kaplan, the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at HBS, and Norton (DBA '73), president of the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, Inc., found that the diverse companies that used the balanced scorecard... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Alumni on the Best Business Advice They’ve Ever Received
“You should not jump at the first solution that comes to mind. You should consider alternatives and figure out how to apply them.” —Ken Fettig (MBA 1957) “All leadership is very close in nature to friendship. “All View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
New MBA Admissions Director Gets an Interview
brothers, and I am inspired by their story. I would love to have a picture of the first flight at Kitty Hawk. They were just two hard-working brothers, very unassuming, who helped change the world.” Beyond the CV: Chad Losee Hometown:... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Why Some Companies Thrived During the Pandemic
- January 2020 (Revised July 2020)
- Case
Chemours (A)
By: David G. Fubini and David Lane
The July 2015 spin-off of DuPont’s performance chemicals division as the independent company Chemours burdened new CEO Mark Vergnano and his team with perilous challenges. Despite market-leading offerings in several areas, the company faced a glutted market for its... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Chemicals; Leading Change; Crisis Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Chemical Industry; United States
Fubini, David G., and David Lane. "Chemours (A)." Harvard Business School Case 420-001, January 2020. (Revised July 2020.)
- 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
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
decisions regarding strategy, tactics, and then produce instructions for the team. But that scenario doesn't represent real life, as far as I understand it or experience it, because the goal and the strategy is changing constantly. There... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 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
- 02 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017
Elizabeth Baily Wolf discusses a technique to reframe distress as passion. . The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change Every successful social movement requires three distinct leadership roles:... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Dec 2021
- News
Learning Curve
Courtesy Patti Melcher Patti Melcher (MBA 1986) never intended to open a school. After getting her start in investment banking in Houston’s energy sector after her time at HBS, Melcher became an early employee at SCF Partners, helping to invest the private equity... 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
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Developing Insight that Has Power in Practice
report helped companies devise strategies to manage inventories, increase profits, and cut waste. Though much has changed over the ensuing century, the drive remains the same. “We aspire to be both rigorous and relevant,” says Jan Rivkin,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
mentality” (an insurgent's clear mission and purpose, an unambiguous owner mindset, and a relentless obsession with the front line) can resolve the predictable crises of growth. Leading Strategic Change in an Era of Healthcare... View Details