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- May 2005
- Supplement
Otis Elevator: An Interview with Ari Bousbib (video)
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Brian DeLacey
CEO Ari Bousbib talks about how IT is transforming Otis and the practical challenges they are overcoming. Visibly demonstrates what appropriate CEO involvement is in an IT-enabled business transformation. View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Information Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Construction Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry
McFarlan, F. Warren, and Brian DeLacey. "Otis Elevator: An Interview with Ari Bousbib (video)." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 305-706, May 2005.
- 30 Sep 2022
- News
Scaling Hope
schools; the eldest was working on Wall Street. Then, around midnight one Saturday in March, his youngest child, age 16, returned home in tears. He’d been about to take his own life, he told his parents, driven by an alcohol addiction he had hidden from them. It was a... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
Think We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it. Take a Trim Tab Approach to Climate Change The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership Stop Thinking of Climate Change as... View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
carbon credits are created through Clean Development Projects in China under the United Nations' Kyoto Protocol). News Corporation's carbon neutral quest was "about changing the DNA of our business," stated its chief executive... View Details
- 29 Feb 2016
- News
How Joe Shoen Got U-Haul Back on Track
The most recent issue of Forbes magazine has a long piece on Amerco, U-Haul’s parent company, and its return to dominance following decades-long internal turmoil. Leading the charge is Amerco CEO Joe Shoen (MBA 1973), who has a longstanding habit of... 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 Mar 2009
- News
Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems
FROM SUCCESS TO SIGNIFICANCE: Kanter (at left) with several of this year’s ALI fellows. Baby boomers of the world, arise! Calling it “an opportunity to deploy people to fix the world’s problems,” HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter launched the Advanced View Details
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental... View Details
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
Jane Fraser Has to Fix Citigroup. It Will Be a Tough Job.
- 28 Sep 2017
- News
Kellogg Taps Steven Cahillane as Cereal Maker's Next CEO
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
LST (landing ship tank), where he shared a command over 150 sailors. “It was a great leadership experience,” Quainton says. “I had to learn how to make a team out of men who’d come from vastly different experiences and education.”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 14 Jul 2014
- News
How to Be an Entrepreneur Inside Your Organization
Keywords: corporate entrepreneurship
- March 2022 (Revised June 2023)
- Background Note
Climate Issues on the Ground: Snapshots of Diverse American Cities
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Coelin Scibetta and Ryan Barr
This compilation provides brief snapshots of climate action and its geographic and institutional context in 13 U.S. cities that send diverse participants to the Harvard Business School Young American Leaders Program to learn about cross-sector collaboration to address... View Details
- 29 Jul 2024
- News
Leading the Way
of underserved youth like Trejo in Arizona, and currently serves more than 14,000 middle, high school and college students annually. Programs aim to develop leadership skills, self-awareness, and familiarity with pathways to postsecondary... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
financial and strategic decision making. But along the way, I also noted another important aspect of this leadership task, a related line of effort that seemed to go largely unnoticed and unstudied by observers but that was just as vital... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 07 May 2016
- News
Retail in the Blood
As a boy, Simon Belsham (MBA 2007) hung out on the shop floor of Scally Wags Fun Factory, the toy shop his parents ran in the English town of Ashford. The shop closed with the arrival of Toys R Us, but “it gave me an insight into the highs and lows of running a small... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
that is to look at what has changed at Bain & Company in recent years. Increasingly, our clients are demanding strategic counsel in this critical area. At least two-thirds of them currently engage Bain's services on one or more Internet... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
look at how business leaders, both insiders and outsiders, rose to power and how the demographics of leadership have changed over the past century. Among his other works, the most recent is Handbook of View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
discusses how the United States can reformulate some of these ideas from China to foster much-needed change at home. Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy by Joan Magretta (MBA 1983) (Harvard... View Details
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
Six National Football League head coaches were fired on December 31, or “Black Monday,” as it’s known in the sport. The infamous tradition begins immediately after the conclusion of each NFL regular season and represents efforts by underperforming teams to make View Details