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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Streamlining the Supermarket
which represents close to $100 billion in annual consumer sales. A new report from the Grocery Manufacturers Association/Boston Consulting Group cites “click and collect” as one of the “biggest changes ever in the US retail landscape.” Interested in more information... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
caused by the tendency to focus on quarterly earnings growth and the necessity to appeal to shareholders who are not long-term investors. These two factors have, in many cases, spurred short-term decision making and therefore long-term... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
is an independent foreign aid agency with the mission to reduce poverty through sustainable economic growth in some of the world's poorest countries. "Farmer training was at the heart of the Ghana program," says Jonathan Bloom (MBA 1972),... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
who've emerged as leaders in education reform at a time when charters have experienced rapid growth and decidedly mixed results. Together, they form a chorus: The charter school movement still has great promise. But it will take better... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
NVC was “the right visibility at the right time,” exposing the company to future clients and potential investors, as well as helping it recruit top talent in the US and Canada. “Growth has been extremely high, with 2,200 percent growth... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
seemingly more risky — than innovation. In business today, in nearly every industry, the imperative to grow has driven managers to try any number of new strategies and technologies to gain an edge. The trouble is, just because you change... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
heat. "Like boiling the frog, it has been happening slowly, but it's increasingly hard to ignore," he says. "There is staggering growth in the 65-plus population in countries like Japan. In a few years, much of the world will be like... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Former HBS Dean Fouraker Dies at 74
Dean Kim B. Clark. "He paved the way for the kind of international point of view that we regard as so essential today in educating leaders for the 21st century." Former HBS Dean John H. McArthur praised Fouraker's successful efforts to manage and control the School's... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
misjudged the results of the presidential election. A media junkie as far back as his middle school years and more recently at Nickelodeon’s strategy department, Patel realized he (like many others) had been consuming media that only... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
and Exchange Commission. He also worked in the first Bush administration’s White House. Kim, 40, worked as a strategy consultant at The Parthenon Group, an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, and the COO of the Shackleton Schools, a high... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
assets reaching roughly $10 trillion, equivalent to total assets in the entire U.S. banking system. Says Moss: “While new systemic threats had emerged along the way, there was little effort to regulate them, undercutting the original New Deal View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
trained in agronomy and business, dispenses advice on everything from best practices to business ethics, while keeping track of growth rates and other performance measures with a smartphone app. This process also de-risks the loans in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
and their role in emerging markets has been part of a larger effort to understand how local business environments influence company strategy. Strategy scholars have often emphasized how industry- and firm-specific characteristics affect... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
historians—not just modern business gurus—if you're interested in mastering the power of strategy and the power of execution in your job." CURRENT READING Bush at War, by Bob Woodward A.G. Lafley has been credited with turning around... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
Need for Speed Entrepreneur and investor Chris Yeh (MBA 2000) and Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn and a partner at Greylock Partners, have been fixtures in Silicon Valley since the early days of the commercial internet. Firsthand witnesses to massive successes such... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
management practice has evolved since the "benevolent, high-growth environment" following World War II. That era provided fertile ground for the growth of Alfred Sloan's "strategy, structure, systems" model of the divisional corporation... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
first financial loss. "Their top-line growth was slowing down, but their costs were accelerating, so they were starting to lose some significant money," says Thomke. LEGO hired Danish turnaround expert Poul Plougmann to stanch the red... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
Madison Dearborn sold Fieldglass to SAP for four times what they had paid us—$1 billion. What a miss! In retrospect, the company had just begun its growth trajectory and market dominance. Moral of the story: If you have the opportunity to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
country’s economic health? There’s little doubt that manufacturing as a percentage of our GDP is down. Part of that represents tremendous growth in financial, IT, and health services. It’s hard to know whether it’s a good news story for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Manufacturing Excellence: A Leader’s Guide to Achieving and Sustaining Excellence by Larry E. Fast (PMD 52, 1986) (Productivity Press) Fast explains how to implement and sustain a top-down, comprehensive strategy for manufacturing... View Details