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- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
are hiring a manager to help run this system, what are the attributes of the ideal candidate? A: We observed that the best managers in these TPS managed organizations, and the managers in organizations that seem to adopt the Rules-in-Use...
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- 20 Apr 2021
- Book
A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success
they are then able to better serve their customers. This is particularly true in service industries. A third difference is that I emphasize the strategic value of operational effectiveness. Traditionally, we did not make much of running...
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by Danielle Kost
- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
strengths of and barriers to commitment and performance. These task forces are clearly instructed by the CEO or business unit manager (depending on the level of the organization in which this process is applied) to bring back the truth....
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat
Who really runs the world? We're not talking in a power-brokers-conspiring-in-the-back-room sort of way. Rather, by looking at the institutions that countries themselves have set up to organize the world's affairs, can we determine who is...
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by Michael Blanding
- 10 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Veterans in the MBA Program: Profiles of Service
the classroom. Here’s a look at three MBA student veterans. Julie Guzman (MBA 2022) Photo courtesy Julie Guzman On an early morning run in 2010, Julie Guzman noticed that the only other people active on her undergraduate campus were ROTC...
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- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971
in the Northeast, responsible for everything from running the projectors to selling more than 1 million pounds of popcorn each year. To help Hollywood fill seats, O'Donnell bought Allied Advertising, which, with the clout befitting the...
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- 01 Jan 2004
- News
D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954
Ron Daniel told graduating students how to tell if they were in the right job. "You have to want to run to work at least four days out of five," he advised. As a consultant at McKinsey for almost fifty years, twelve of them as managing...
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Leading Successful Digital Transformation
may be disrupted in the future is not the best recipe for long-term success. Experimentation: Companies often run hackathons and innovation days that inspire employees to start many new digital projects. Senior management encourages these...
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- 16 Aug 2018
- News
Working with a Giver’s Spirit
If you were looking for the perfect candidate to run a nonprofit that fights poverty through entrepreneurship, Manny Ayala (MBA 1992) is just the person you’d want. That was the opinion of Cindy Ko (MBA 2005) in 2013 when she was...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
underinvestment in the economy and managers trying to buy back stocks to appease shareholders while neglecting good investments. Or, worse yet, managers could be trying to boost earnings metrics to flatter themselves. At the same time,...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Recommended Reading - Advancing Racial Equity
story of the St. Luke Bank in Richmond, Virginia: the first and only bank run by black women. Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, Justice, Power, and Politics By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor...
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- 20 Jan 2022
- Op-Ed
3 Steps to Help Companies Rebuild Trust During the Pandemic
struggled with whether to lay off or furlough employees. Business leaders have had to make tough calls amid rapidly changing conditions with official guidance that keeps changing, and their decisions have run the gamut from trust building...
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by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 06 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea
by delay can be a very powerful strategy because it's so easy to deploy. A case is made that sounds so reasonable, where we should wait (just a bit) until some other project is done, or we should send this back into committee (just to...
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by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
S. Bernstein (MBA 2006, DBA 2013) + More Info – Less Info Talent markets are shifting. Until recently, job seekers focused mainly on what organizations would hire them to do: organizations posted jobs, and people applied for them. For many of us, however, the pandemic...
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- 06 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge
telecommunications company in which there was a greater than 50 percent difference in revenue-per-call between top-quartile and bottom-quartile employees. “There are common pitfalls that people face in the sales process,” says Stanton. “People repeatedly View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- Web
HBS Cases | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
the Run on Lehman and the Shadow Banks, and the Decision to Bailout Wall Street.” HBS No. 718-022. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing, 2017. Foley, C. Fritz, and Linnea Meyer. “Nomura's Global Growth: Picking Up Pieces of Lehman.”...
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- 01 Jan 2013
- News
André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973
wanted to go back to Brazil because at that time the country was really booming," he says. He was soon put in charge of developing the bank's leasing company. During his 10-year career at Unibanco, he quickly rose through the company,...
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Susan Young
- Web
When Ideas Become Reality: Entrepreneurship at HBS - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
Tactics, deal design, and set-up are three crucial components of the most effective negotiations. Yet many negotiators focus only on the tactical part, running the risk of undermining their own best interests. How can you negotiate more...
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by Martha Lagace
- Profile
Enrico Ferrari
grocery delivery venture in Germany and Australia, which was backed by Rocket Internet, the largest European internet incubator and investor. Although that founder's journey ultimately came to an end, Rocket recruited Enrico as the...
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