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- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
and required careful management of capital. GE Capital, Plastics, Medical Systems, and NBC were areas of growth, whether organic or through globalization or acquisitions. By coding our GE managers' resumes, we were able to determine their...
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- 06 Nov 2000
- What Do You Think?
Succession at GE: What’s Next?
Last year I completed a case series on GE, titled "GE ... We Bring Good Things to Life," in which the issue of CEO succession was raised in the last of the two cases. In classes in which I've used the materials for discussion,...
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by James Heskett
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Evolution of the Social Enterprise Conference | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
social entrepreneurs reject status quo as such, and are working every day to make change in ever bigger and better ways. We know, as students of global challenges and foot soldiers ourselves, that making “a dent in the universe” is not...
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IFC: Saudi Arabia; Economic Diversification - Course Catalog
with dozens of PhD students over the years will be used in the Fall preparatory sessions for this IFC. Grading 20% - Fall interim presentation 20% - January pre-trip submission 60% - Final submission and presentation to company Course...
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- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
Europe, a private equity investment company, had worked in the family business for a few years but had developed a career mainly outside of the family business. The transfer of the shares’ ownership had tightened the three brothers’ bonds...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy
After four years in consulting, Leahy came to two important realizations: she wanted to be an operator and she was craving more creativity. “I love working with people and I really wanted to get my hands into the business,” she says. “I...
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Consumer Products / Retail
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
intuits a developing bottleneck in the assembly line and creates a fix before a problem occurs. It's also the CEO who draws on years of experience to solve a strategy imbroglio that has paralyzed top staff. It's the venture capitalist—who...
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by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 07 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
How One Organization Increased Their Internship Yield
signal – it can be a turn-off.” Corning, a long-established leader in material sciences and manufacturing, has stepped up its engagement with HBS interns, moving from an average of one summer intern a year to as many as six; in the summer...
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Manufacturing
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | 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...
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Scrapbooks & Collectibles- The Art of American Advertising
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...
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Video Clips & Discussion Questions - Creating Emerging Markets
trying to establish the first hospital in the 1980s, as well as the motivations that helped him persevere. Jaithirth (Jerry) Rao Jaithirth (Jerry) Rao Founder of MphasiS and Value and Budget Housing Corporation, explains how years of...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
approach for the masses. Investment management startup Alpha Architect, cofounded by COO Patrick Cleary (MBA 2010), is considering the launch of an affordable, active robo-advisor that would seek to outperform a passive, globally...
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- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
them opportunities to learn. In this paper, we investigate how these two strategies may bring different productivity benefits over time. For our empirical analyses, we use two-and-a-half years of transaction data from a Japanese bank's...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1999
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New Releases
The Intellectual Venture Capitalist(Harvard Business School Press) In the ninety-year history of Harvard Business School, John McArthur's fifteen-year tenure as Dean is exceeded only by Wallace B. Donham's 23 years at the HBS helm. When...
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Susan Young
- 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007
paper quantifies anecdotal evidence that Chinese firms are more diversified than similar firms in other countries. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-007.pdf Innovation through Global Collaboration: A New Source of...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
There is a mismatch between what many scholars assume is the purpose of taxes and what most people believe for themselves. That mismatch means that the advice experts offer to policymakers and citizens debating American tax policy can...
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- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
enterprise, the future is not something that just happens. It is something they create. Richard S. Tedlow A born empire builder, Carnegie could see in the early 1870s that steel was destined to transform the material basis of civilization. Market conditions in...
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by Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Jun 2017
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Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
to a career switch to investment banking that would culminate 23 years later in Ogunlesi’s appointment to executive vice chairman and chief client officer at Credit Suisse. Now chairman and managing partner at View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
million. Clay didn’t own the horse, but he makes a standard commission of 5 percent on managing the sale of some 250 horses a year like her. Boarding and sales are two facets of his business, Clay explains; he also breeds his own mares,...
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- 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
future at the same time. It is like changing the engine of a plane while it is flying. Based on almost ten years of research, this book provides a framework for companies to reimagine their business. Using rich case studies and rigorous...
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Dina Gerdeman