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01 Mar 2025
News

Editor's Letter

The things we choose to save, and display, say something about us. Along with the usual photos of loved ones (husband, daughter, horse), my desk in Teele Hall includes a ceramic bluebird, a train ticket from Sri Lanka, and a vintage Budweiser can discovered during a... View Details

01 Aug 2001
News

Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)

venture funds, he has eloquently and vigorously made the case for this source of economic development in a continent long dominated by big business and risk-averse managers and investors. Born and raised in The Hague, the son of a... View Details

Keywords: Georges F. Doriot; John G. McLean; Alumni Achievement Award; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

01 Mar 2008
News

Avoiding a Succession Crisis

many firms have not instituted a process for managing the development of potential leaders. Many have not even thought about the process of selecting a leader when the time comes for change. And as a result,... View Details

Keywords: Joseph L. Bower; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

17 Mar 2017
News

Schwarzman on Blackstone and the Value of an MBA

(via Poets & Quants) (via Poets & Quants) Many b-school students covet a career like the one Steve Schwarzman (MBA 1972) has had. He became a managing director at Lehman Brothers when he was 31. Seven years later, he cofounded Blackstone,... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

September 13, 2023
Article

The Myth of the CEO as Ultimate Decision Maker

By: Nitin Nohria

Chief executives are responsible for guiding corporations, so the role inevitably requires making many decisions. But people overestimate the level of personal involvement CEOs have in this process. Instead of making decisions, CEOs tend to shape decisions, by... View Details

Keywords: Problem Solving; Delegation; Leadership Style; Decision Making; Time Management; Power and Influence

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01 Jun 2009
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Cynthia Carroll

figure of $10.1 billion to $4.5 billion and are concentrating on three major projects, two in Brazil and one in Chile. We must deliver these projects on time and on budget. Meanwhile, we’re cutting production and putting some other... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management; Management

01 Jun 2020
News

Inside Out

our health and the bottom line. There are two parts to his equation: time and money. Let’s start with time: studies have found that in North America and Europe we spend 90 percent of our time indoors. It... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices

01 Dec 2000
News

Faculty News

pioneering African-American business leader. (More on the Fitzhugh chair will appear in an upcoming issue of the Bulletin.) Alan D. MacCormack, an expert in product development and the management of technology, is the first Lumry Family... View Details

Keywords: H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA '33); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Mar 2003
News

All in a Day's Work

hoped to leverage in a less-than-encouraging job market. Both are also well aware of their good fortune to have found specialized positions that fit their backgrounds yet offer great potential for personal and professional growth at a View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Boston Community Capital; Samsung; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

August 1993
Background Note

Executing Change: Seven Key Considerations

By: Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana

Provides a 7S framework to complement the McKinsey 7S framework. Focuses on some of the critical choices that must be made in implementing change--Strategic Intent, Substance, Scale, Scope, Speed, Sequence, and Style. Overall, the note argues that these choices must be... View Details

Keywords: Change; Framework; Goals and Objectives; Management Style; Time Management; Strategy

01 Sep 2011
News

Taking That Hill

Niekamp “Honestly I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about being a woman in a male industry,” Cynthia Niekamp (MBA 1983) told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (April 27, 2011). “It’s just my life; it’s been my life.” Niekamp, who as a... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

01 Jun 2002
News

Fellowship Dinner Brings Students and Donors Together

in his post-dinner remarks. Thanking donors for their “selfless generosity” and promising that HBS fellowship students “will repay the world many times over,” Christopher E. Crane (MBA '02) expressed his appreciation at this year's... View Details

Keywords: Management

01 Jun 2008
News

Understanding the Digital Frontier

Web 2.0 opportunities for your firm are endless. Managers can engage with customers via blogs (caution: they take much more time than you think). Victoria’s Secret and thousands of other firms have highly... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Management

February 2001 (Revised March 2001)
Case

Apax Partners and Dialog Semiconductor: March 1998

By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner, Antonio Alvarez-Cano and Borja Martinez

Apax Partners is considering a complex buyout of a semiconductor manufacturer. The firms must assess in a compressed timeframe the complex technological, financial, and operational risks that the proposed transaction poses. View Details

Keywords: Market Transactions; Leveraged Buyouts; Restructuring; Time Management; Production; Risk Management; Financial Services Industry; Semiconductor Industry

01 Sep 2017
News

Alumni on the Best Business Advice They’ve Ever Received

“Never forget that your employees are ultimately going to make or break the business you’re in. A lot of the time what happens is people think, oh, let’s put the customers first and let’s make sure that the customers are happy, satisfied,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Skydeck; podcast; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

January 1996 (Revised March 1998)
Case

Linking Strategy and Innovation: Materials Technology Corporation

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Materials Technology Corp. (MTC), a high-tech materials company, is struggling in its development portfolio and to achieve a better record of delivering new products on time. View Details

Keywords: Technology; Innovation and Invention; Business Strategy; Time Management; Product; Production; Manufacturing Industry; Chemical Industry; Technology Industry; United States

November 1991 (Revised January 1997)
Case

Motorola, Inc.: Bandit Pager Project (Abridged)

By: Steven C. Wheelwright

Describes the development of a fully automated production line for manufacturing radio pagers. The company regarded the project as highly successful; it becomes clear in the case, however, that there were some shortcomings as well. Some marketing issues were not... View Details

Keywords: Time Management; Marketing; Product Development; Production; Success; Projects; Technology; Telecommunications Industry