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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
Gamble, and other consumer-goods businesses. "Create or identify the need, and then fulfill that need in a big way." Lopez arrived at Starbucks in 2004 to lead its global consumer-products division and, over time, expanded his...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
two days a week from her country home and eventually left New York for good. Initially worried that she’d feel isolated in the country, Reade laughs and confides: “I met more people here my first week than in my nine years in New York.”...
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- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)
HBS, Ramirez returned to Danaher, spending two years in Global Talent Management and acting as the de facto Chief Diversity Officer for one of Danaher’s operating companies. That DEI role, in particular, was...
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- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
inspired-makes all the more impressive what the design firm IDEO has already achieved. Its help-seeking and help-giving culture is behind the firm's success. But how has IDEO managed to make helping the norm? To answer this question, the authors spent two View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
reduction of firm variability, we do not find this offsetting beneficial effect to be strong. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44730 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 413-065 Omar Ishrak: Building Medtronic View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
eight months, and quickly established offices in Europe and Asia. Within a year it had announced forty strategic partnerships with companies such as Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, and Citibank. Pandesic executives boldly announced their first...
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by Michael Raynor
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
undermined the company's performance. For all its strengths, it was my impression that Medtronic's culture was too Minnesota Nice. I realized that these aspects of Medtronic's culture had to change if we were going to be an effective competitor and realize our vision...
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by Bill George
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
observations. Although healthcare as a whole still suffers from the elephant problem, it's suffering less all the time—at least where science is concerned—thanks to remarkable and ever-faster scientific advances. Chief among the advances is genomic research that offers...
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- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
Multi-Sourcing at Adidas This case describes the design and implementation of an IT-multi-sourcing strategy at a large global sportswear company, the adidas Group, which is headquartered in Germany. To help increase the benefits and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
2017 Emerald Group Publishing Extreme Teaming: Lessons in Complex, Cross-Sector Leadership By: Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey Abstract—Today's global enterprises increasingly involve collaborative work by teams of experts...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
received a call from a small manufacturing plant in Medfield, Massachusetts. They had read Douglas McGregor's now classic book The Human Side of Enterprise and wanted to implement, in their relatively new plant, his ideas about how people's energies could be unleashed....
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by Martha Lagace
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
2000 From humble beginnings as a Levi jeans store, Gap, Inc. by 2000 had grown to become the world's leading specialty clothing retailer. Its CEO, Millard S. Drexler, the "merchant prince," was credited with transforming Gap into a View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
Case 706-447 Examines the industry structure and competitive strategy of Coca-Cola and Pepsi over 100 years of rivalry. New challenges in 2006 include boosting flagging carbonated soft drink (CSD) sales and finding new revenue streams....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #11: Mary Jo Veverka (HBS 1978): Fostering Actionable Climate Literacy
than $10 million in grant funding each year to local organizations for hands-on projects that are greening coastal bays. Celebrating its 50th anniversary, the North American Association of Environmental Education is setting stringent...
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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Better than Cash
independent strategy and marketing consultant. In that time, approximately 550 CAP volunteers have donated nearly $7 million in consulting services. This year alone, fourteen teams of HBS alumni will donate an estimated $1.1 million in...
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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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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
users control of other computers remotely is priced as low as $20. And business is booming. A PricewaterhouseCoopers survey found that global security incidents rose 38 percent in 2015—the biggest jump in the survey’s 12-year history....
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai