Team Focus - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame

she'd been occupied with in the previous couple of weeks, she cited two different activities. "I went to the Super Bowl in Arizona and actually worked as part of their operational team in the set-up and tear-down of the event. You View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Apr 2002
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Q&A - Mark Fields

unsuccessful growth strategies, and a brand image — Mazda was once synonymous with innovation and excitement — that had become blurred. To fix those things, we had to win the support of the management team in order to restructure and... View Details

Keywords: auto; Mazda; Ford; Mark Fields; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

managing some of the most dangerous mercenaries in Africa, battling rebels with a crew of anti-Castro Cuban exiles, and learning what the rest of the intelligence world was dying to know: the location of Che Guevara. He describes how he and his View Details

06 Oct 2022
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On the Road to Recovery

programmer, people’s lives don’t depend on your work,” Moreno says. “It’s very different for nurses.” The travel-nursing sector also had different regulatory challenges and significantly greater expenses than did other staffing businesses. But the View Details

Keywords: Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance; Nursing and Residential Care Facilities; Health, Social Assistance

25 Aug 2014
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Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999

find help with their children, parents, pets, and homes. “We help families achieve their aspirations by giving them peace of mind in helping their loved ones,” says Marcelo, whose philanthropic endeavors focus on women, entrepreneurship,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

30 Nov 2017
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Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

demarcation. Now the workers are on the floor, delivering orders or helping customers with the new kiosks; Karavites has updated his employee training to include a focus on customer interaction. Average customer count is up at this... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia

01 Sep 2024
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Next Level

In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details

Keywords: Maggie Mertens; photos by Cameron Karsten; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 1998
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Managing the Business of Life

she notes. "Because of the technology and a management focus on the end result, I was given a lot of flexibility I might not otherwise have had." In turn, Middlebrooks passes on the goodwill to her staff. "As a manager who has had... View Details

01 Dec 1997
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Banking on HBS

reasons why HBS decided to take a leadership role in organizing and implementing EDP. "The program has energetic CEO support in the person of Jim Wolfensohn, a focus on top-rank managers, and a global orientation," he explains. "It... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

students to focus on what interests them. As part of their projects, they can evaluate new business ideas, prepare business plans, or consult with existing entrepreneurial businesses. One team of students,... View Details

01 Jun 2020
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All Hands on Deck

number of Harvard Business School Online courses, such as Global Business and Leading with Finance, as well as in a data science bootcamp designed to teach students how to leverage big data throughout their careers. The CPD team is also... View Details

Keywords: Jen Mele

01 Mar 2017
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In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)

appointment as director general of Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission. MORE The Amazing Life of One of America’s Earliest Black, Female Entrepreneurs MORE The Amazing Life of One of America’s Earliest Black, Female Entrepreneurs Today, Oteh and her World Bank... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2008
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Back to the Future

ON THE PRIZE: U.S. dependency on Middle East oil will be long term, Stobaugh says; about one-fifth of U.S. imports are from the region. YASSER AL-ZAYYAT/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Energy Future argues that U.S. energy policy should focus on... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

17 Nov 2022
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Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change

2002) COO, Fermata Energy As business leaders with lots of privilege, it is our responsibility to focus our efforts on both creating and scaling climate change solutions AND to support bringing more people, from different places, to our... View Details

01 Sep 2006
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Light Years Ahead

investment. In addition, he worked half-time with a Boston-based management consulting firm on the strategy problems of several important corporate clients. He soon decided to focus his full attention on HBS. As the first graduate of the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Sep 2007
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Riding It Out

have a strong team and had already developed a recall procedure in the event that something like the melamine incident happened,” says Gisholt. “It’s one of those instances that’s challenging as a parent and as an entrepreneur — you don’t... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; dog food; pets; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

14 Oct 2020
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Sewn with Love

first time Hanazawa has wrestled with the ways she could urge her industry to focus on social impact. In 2011, an earthquake and tsunami leveled towns and cities in her home country of Japan, and she struggled with how to help. She... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

22 Jul 2015
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Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs

her teaming up with Julianne Miles, a former business executive turned psychologist, to found Women Returners. “What we also knew was that there was a lot of demand on businesses to diversify their senior management and replenish the... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Goldman Sachs; Reuters; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2014
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The Digital Deck

Lastly, to be self-sustaining, HBX requires a robust economic model." "Our approach and offerings through HBX are directly influenced by the School's distinctive case-based learning model, which is rooted in the principle of active learning coupled with a View Details