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23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23

Global Engagement Partner (GEP) for a large U.S. financial institution and about to take over this role for a much larger global financial institution. The GEP role is a critical one at PwC. GEPs have responsibility for the firm's largest... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Asia Pacific - Global Activities 2021

Asia Pacific Asia Pacific Marking Ten-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake Region Pictured: Professor of Management Practice Hirotaka Takeuchi hosted a virtual gathering in March to mark the 10th anniversary of the Immersive Field... View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

Bad Times for Business

members, after all, are part-timers. And while they're expected to be independent, they have to rely heavily on managers and auditors for information. One problem in all this was that the boards weren't getting appropriate information and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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Maggie Sanchez (MBA 1990) on Purpose-Driven Board Leadership - Blog: RGE Report

learning is likely why Sanchez has had such a varied career in and outside of corporate America. Skilled at managing complex, multi-stakeholder organizations and building partnerships, Sanchez has led change initiatives inside companies... View Details

September 2011 (Revised February 2013)
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Trucost: Valuing Corporate Environmental Impacts

By: Michael W. Toffel and Stephanie van Sice

Trucost provided corporate environmental performance data and analysis to institutional investors and corporate managers, but after operating for a decade had yet to achieve profitability. Trucost was struggling to effectively differentiate its high quality products... View Details

Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Distribution Channels; Investment; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Information; Value; Environmental Sustainability; Financial Services Industry

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11 Apr 2000
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Financial Services 24/7

accounts at a Schwab branch office. "There is a certain ceremony that most people are used to when large sums of money are involved," he explains. Because customers aren't comfortable using their mouse to hand over significant dollar amounts, they go into a branch... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015

approach of creating a dedicated sales force for Ultrasound. This choice was complicated by the matrix organization structure of Philips where regional general managers (GMs) had profit and loss (P&L) View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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About IT: IT Planning and Service Delivery Team Profile | Information Technology

approach to IT management. This team interacts with essentially every aspect of the IT organization and greatly influences how all of IT operates and does so effectively because they have a view of all of IT’s work and how it’s done. The team is View Details

22 Dec 2015
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Cahill to Lead HBS External Relations

has assumed a new role as Strategic Advisor, External Relations. As executive director, Cahill is responsible for managing all aspects of the School’s alumni relations, development, and alumni marketing and... View Details

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Doing Business with China 2035: Navigating Uncertainty - Course Catalog

while still responding to ever-changing policy directions in Beijing, Washington, and Europe. Our course will examine case studies of firms that have faced these challenges and will equip students with strategies for managing geopolitical... View Details

01 Dec 2003
News

Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2

Can white-collar corporate America do business with “green” environmentalists? Roger Ullman (MBA ’89) thinks so. Ullman, who worked in the mergers and acquisitions division of Merrill Lynch for twelve years, retired from his post as a View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

14 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 14, 2009

and Compliance), and so he has substantial internal management responsibilities as well. The case raises questions about whether he will be able to retain these internal View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 16, 2007

that information disclosure is particularly likely to spur responses from firms whose legitimacy is threatened (and thus are shamed) and face lower-cost opportunities to respond (and thus are particularly able). Testing this by examining... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Jul 2006
Op-Ed

The Case for Consumer-Driven Medicaid

The Medicaid program provides a much needed health insurance safety net for 52 million of our nation's poor and medically needy, but its price tag threatens the financial stability of the states, growing 9.5 percent in 2004 alone—far in excess of revenues. Fiscally... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger

April 2011 (Revised July 2011)
Case

Renewing GE: The Africa Project (A)

By: David A. Thomas and Stephanie J. Creary

This case profiles the evolution of General Electric's African American Form (AAF), an employee affinity group, and its efforts to increase the company's involvement in Africa. The AAF formed in 1991 to help advance GE's recruitment, retention and development of black... View Details

Keywords: Diversity; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Africa; United States

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Visionary, Innovator, Educator - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in View Details

11 May 2020
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Better Than Cash

Courtesy Ruth Goodwin-Groen Ruth Goodwin-Groen (MBA 2001) has a lot of work to do. “Our job will not be done until all people—old or young, rich or poor, male or female—are able to make and receive payments in a way that works for them,” says Goodwin-Groen, View Details

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Kurt White

the quality of people and thought here.” Two years in, the experience has already proved transformative. “In the military, I operated in an environment where I was expected to make the calls all the time,” Kurt says. “That seemed to be the only feasible way for View Details

06 Dec 2013
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela

leading from behind is hard work and involves some crucial responsibilities and judgment calls: deciding who's in (and, just as important, who's not in) the group; articulating the values that will inform the group; developing the talents... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Linda Hill, Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Gautam Mukunda

01 Mar 2022
What Do You Think?

Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?

organization performance in his book Win From Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive Advantage. Your feedback to last month’s column: Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”? The general sense of the View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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