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Ian K. MacGregor
efforts, he built AMAX into the third largest mining operation in the United States. From this success, he moved back to Britain where, in his 70’s, he reorganized the British Steel Corporation. View Details
Keywords: Metals
Roy D. Chapin
Chapin reorganized Hudson’s finances, and as a result, the original stockholders, who paid in $100,000 in 1910, received $16 million in new stock and $7 million in cash. View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
Lewis W. Lehr
In his first year at the helm of 3M, Lehr presided over a major reorganization of the company’s diversified operations into 4 distinct divisions. The new and improved 3M began to focus on quality and innovation, as Lehr invested heavily... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
William Durant
Beginning his career as a carriage and wagon manufacturer, Durant made the switch to automobile manufacturing in 1904 by reorganizing a failing Buick Motors. He believed that the key to success in the automobile industry was creating an... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
George A. Schaefer
production. Though Schaefer’s plans didn’t return Caterpillar to the extremely profitable position it had previously enjoyed, his hard work at reorganization helped the company turn a profit of $486 million in 1986, its first in four... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
Stanley C. Gault
Taking the helm of the company his father helped to found, Gault was instrumental in reorganizing and revitalizing Rubbermaid from a small household gadget company into a streamlined and efficient multinational corporation. He embarked on... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 22 Dec 2016
- Op-Ed
The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth
the government should not be in the business of helping some small businesses and not others. The editorial writers reinforced their view of SBA by pointing to President Obama’s proposed reorganization of federal economic agencies in... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
- 13 Jul 2022
- Book
Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?
What if the way we work could be a catalyst for solving huge problems like inequality and climate change? In the new book Democratize Work: The Case for Reorganizing the Economy, Harvard Business School Professor Julie Battilana and a... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Passing the Torch
several units, reorganize relations with customers, and increase diversity at the top of GE's executive ranks, with the company looking "completely different in three or four years." All well and good, but many observers are wondering if... View Details
- 19 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Podcast: Rupert Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal
worsen. The industry is now going through full-scale consolidation and reorganization in the face of competition from Internet properties. The trend begs the question: Is Murdoch overpaying for Dow Jones? Harvard Business School professor... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
How Does the HBS Endowment Work?
the Harvard University endowment. HMC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the University, is under new leadership and in the middle of a major reorganization designed to improve returns across all asset classes. View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Faculty Books
negotiation theory, Professor Subramanian explores the common situation in which negotiators are “fighting on two fronts” — across the table but also on the same side of the table with competitors. This is a guide for all involved in buying or selling everything from... View Details
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
complicated bankruptcy in US history, emerged from Chapter 11 with a confirmed plan of reorganization in only three and a half years. Because of Chapter 11 and the expertise of US restructuring professionals who advise troubled companies,... View Details
- Profile
Yubo Cui
GMAT scores and, he believes, “taking a leadership role in the joint venture’s reorganization initiative,” Yubo’s second application to HBS succeeded. Now in his EC year, Yubo sees the “beauty of HBS” in “the diversity of students and how... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Transforming the IRS
now running more like a 21st-century business than a 1950s-style business. Internally, we implemented a top-to-bottom reorganization and began to bring business practices and technology up-to-date. We also implemented new strategies for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
process of change is that of overwhelming oversight. Oversight is clearly important, but I see some weariness among intelligence personnel who have to answer questions again and again and have been reorganized only to have the View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- Op-Ed
A Golden Opportunity for Ford and GM
board chair. Since that time, he has acted decisively, removing Fritz Henderson as CEO and assuming the mantle himself. Whitacre quickly reorganized the company from top to bottom, cut out layers of middle management, initiated new... View Details
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George Pierce Baker Courtyard | About
Dean included the reorganization of the faculty along updated subject areas, revisions in the MBA Program to give more weight to emerging fields of knowledge, the broadening of financial aid, the admission of women as full participants in... View Details
- 04 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment
chart from the same two years. Chances are, those two charts look pretty similar. Sure, there are organizational outliers, like online shoe-seller Zappos, which famously adopted “holacracy,” a structure of no job titles and no bureaucracy, giving teams the power to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New Releases
Smart Choices by John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney, and Howard Raiffa (Harvard Business School Press) Decision-making is a major part of life for every human being. Where should you live? Which house should you buy? Is it time to change careers? Whom should you hire?... View Details