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- 01 Jun 2010
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Admit It: You’re in Denial
Motors to seize market leadership. Why did Henry Ford, who was such a visionary in the industry’s infancy, fail to see that the Model T was about to run its course and that a smooth transition to a new vehicle was essential? After all,... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
limitation is, how big can you build it? And how big can you imagine it? And the remarkable thing is that there are thousands of volunteers who are willing to come and help you do it. So art transitions from being a solitary isolated... View Details
- 01 Oct 2015
- News
Banking on Trust
she brought in a former government minister who had guided a similar transition in his South American country. “Hearing directly from someone who had been through it helped convince the president and parliament that they could make the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Modest Tax Proposal
at a low rate—say, 10 percent—for the next two or three years. This rate would be part of a transition to a better permanent approach—not a one-off repatriation holiday. Such a transition is needed because,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
sandwiches on its own bread. We spent the next two years traveling the country attempting to understand the changes occurring in our industry and concluded that, like so many others, the food industry was undergoing a transition we called... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
graduating from Harvard Business School, Ronnie Cohen made a smooth transition to the high-powered world of McKinsey & Company. Thus, it came as a surprise to his colleagues when he decided to depart two years later to cofound a firm that... View Details
- 10 Feb 2016
- News
Helping Young African MBAs Go Home
return to the continent because they’ve heard about the economic growth, the high GDPs, and the need for management talent, but aren’t sure how to go about that process,” says Igun. “We also provide support to people transitioning to the... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
know one of the things which we realized as we were looking at the shift from again on premise hardware and software that you buy to services in the cloud that you rent is that inherent in that transition is a massive market expansion. If... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
“Multinationals understand that there is significant growth potential for their products in developing markets.” Full Circle Growing up in South Africa, Roshini Moodley Naidoo (MBA ’07) witnessed the country’s transition to democracy and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
will be in this last group. Amid the challenges of protecting the environment and halting its decline in urban areas and elsewhere, there is a consensus that sustainability will drive business during the coming years and that the View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
company in 2006 that involves letting go 5,000 employees and managing the transition to a more diversified product line based on the company’s proprietary technologies. In one instance, Fuji manufactures protective film for flat panel... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Faculty Books
globalization in the transition from socialism to capitalism. Renewing Unilever Transformation and Tradition by Geoffrey Jones (Oxford University Press) Professor Jones, a business historian, looks at Unilever’s decades-old transformation... View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
- News
Many Rivers to Cross
highways versus 5 million in the US—is a significant barrier to economic growth. His advocacy for developing a South American Riverways System to facilitate trade and transit in Colombia and neighboring countries dates to the mid-1990s,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Whitehead Urges MBAs to Become Lifelong Leaders
public, somebody is always opposed. But that’s the exception. On other occasions, consensus is worth striving for.” Asked by a student about moving from the private to public sector, Whitehead said, “I found the transition much easier... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
has really turned to, how can Ken not be the face every day?” Heissler is slowly transitioning customer care to other members of his team, a process he calls necessary but sometimes painful. Got a case? To take part in a future “Case... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
across the country and resulted in more than 14,000 veterans and military spouses obtaining employment within the program’s first 18 months. He also led the revamping of the then-19-year-old Transition Assistance Program’s Employment... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
opportunity to grow and engage its user base by tapping into data and analytics and could add value to Nix in the eyes of prospective acquirers. Should Nix stay the analog course, make the transition to digital, or split limited resources... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
workforce flexed and how will it transition back? PS: The adaptability during the past two months has been breathtaking. We have redeployed hundreds of physicians to new roles within the hospital, and they have accepted those roles... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
electric buses to transit agencies across the country, says that his business “has to a large extent gone mainstream,” with orders coming in from some of the biggest cities in the US, including Seattle and Chicago. But mass View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
continuity. "A smooth transition will be accomplished," the veteran government official vowed. Hui noted that the long-term future looks bright as well: trade with the mainland, now Hong Kong's biggest trading partner, has been growing at... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes