Executive Ability (Management) - Publications - Faculty & Research

December 1997 (Revised April 1998)
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By: F. Warren McFarlan and Melissa Dailey

Business Week's June 1997 "Rising Star" profile of Springs Industries' president and COO, Crandall Bowles, reported that she was poised to become one of the top two or three women executives in the country. In November 1997, the company announced Bowles' appointment to... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Operations; Product Marketing; Management; Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; South Carolina

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01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008

development organizations, involved in both research and program design and delivery. This case explores CCL's approach to leadership and management education for executives and presents some of the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Demonstration Policy | About

advancing learning. At Harvard Business School, this occurs most frequently in the classroom, where the case method pedagogy relies on the ability of students to express even sharply different views so as to build understanding and deepen... View Details

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Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade

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

14 Apr 2022
Op-Ed

Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned

without empathy, cumbersome administrative processes, and an inability to change. Reflect on the blind spots. When leaders realize where their organizations are falling short, they can reflect on their shortcomings and make a concrete commitment to change, rather than... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

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John H. McArthur | About

launched a multi-pronged strategy in 1991 that included revisions in HBS’s comprehensive general management programs (e.g., the Advanced Management Program) and an expansion of focused programs (e.g., short,... View Details

13 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding

Even as COVID vaccines begin early deployment, pressure on leaders continues to mount to engage in “Big C” change: rapid course corrections through job cuts, recruiting a fresh management team, and redesigning roles and responsibilities... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt, and Sebastian Flegr; Sports

01 Sep 2023
News

Turning Point: Listen to the Music

Marnie Tattersall: (MBA 1972) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Marnie Tattersall: (MBA 1972) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and came to the United States in 1958 with my parents and my brother because my parents thought it was... View Details

Keywords: music; film; purpose; career

24 Jan 2020
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Clayton M. Christensen Dies at 67

and taught for many years the MBA elective curriculum offering, Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise, which uses a general manager's lens to evaluate theories about strategy, innovation, and management to predict which tools,... View Details

01 May 2020
What Do You Think?

Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?

SUMMING UP Is Management the Missing Ingredient in Melding Organization Culture and Remote Work? Those who have experienced remote work are largely vocal supporters of the notion. Its success is dependent, on the one hand, on an effective... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Roche : Recipient of the 2023 Outstanding Reviewer Award from Organization Science . Raffaella Sadun : Included in the 2023 Thinkers50 Radar list—a list of 30 "up-and-coming thinkers whose ideas we predict will make an important impact on View Details

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Brian Kenny | About

and implementation of the School’s marketing, communications and public relations efforts around the world. Working with the Dean’s executive team and HBS faculty, Brian oversees the alignment of branding, marketing, and media relations... View Details

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Do You Have Change Fatigue?

Chances are you've got a story like Andrea Zintz's. Now president of Andrea Zintz & Associates, a consulting firm in Pennington, N.J., she was working for a health-care concern in 1997 when the firm's executive committee decided to... View Details

Keywords: by Nick Morgan

24 May 2017
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David G. Bradley, MBA 1977

Establishes Advisory Board Foundation, precursor to CityBridge Foundation 1997 Purchases National Journal 1999 Corporate Executive Board (CEB) IPO 1999 Purchases the Atlantic 2001 Advisory Board Company (ABC) IPO 2011 Helps free American... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

12 Apr 2022
Blog Post

The Many Languages of Medicine to Impact Care Delivery

understanding of the issues they intend to address. Fundamentally, I believe in people and their ability to impact their community if given the adequate resources. At DIH, a major objective has been to empower individuals who are... View Details

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Software Tools - Research Computing Services

and installed Unix and 3rd party software. This includes (but is not limited to) commands like mv , cp , and the system python . Anything outside of these locations must be referenced by a full pathname to execute the program. If you wish... View Details

08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

has sharply declined over the past 30 years, from 60% or 70% to only about 20%. What accounts for this trend? Disruption is coming for management consulting, the authors say, as it has recently come for law. For many years the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 20, 2007

capabilities approach and postulates that "legal astuteness"—defined here as the ability of the top management team to communicate effectively with counsel and to work together to solve complex... View Details