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- 01 Mar 2008
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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
- 01 Jun 2008
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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
- 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
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Of Value and Values
Generation manages to do the appropriate level of due diligence in emerging markets that lack transparency. Another wondered how Generation’s practice of sometimes holding investments for only a short time... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
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Shattering Glass
society we thought that would be enough. Boris Groysberg: Our expectation for the 21st century was that it was only a matter of time before we reached gender parity in leadership. But so far the changes have been disappointing. The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
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Rags to Riches
Husnu Ozyegin (MBA ’69) is the richest man in Turkey, and he’s enjoying his wealth by giving lots of it away. Since 2000, he’s doled out some $50 million, building 36 primary schools and girls’ dormitories in Turkey’s poorest regions, the New York View Details
Keywords: Management
- 29 Feb 2016
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How Joe Shoen Got U-Haul Back on Track
prints out a P&L statement and asks the manager what Shoen can do to make the business better. He jots down ideas on a pad, then snaps a photo of his notes with his phone to text to his assistant, who then often turns it into a memo to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
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Ink
will get you 80 percent of the results, and forget the rest.” —Laurie Stach (MBA 2011), founder and executive director of MIT Launch, an entrepreneurship program for high-school students, discussing startup time View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
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They Call Him Mr. China
million in US investor capital, Perkowski launched ASIMCO in 1994, quickly cobbling together a network of far-flung joint-venture factories, each number one or number two in its product category. And in each case, he managed to wrest... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
of their work each day on a numerical scale and to describe briefly one work-related event that stood out in some way. What have you discovered about the relationship between creativity and time pressure? Most View Details
- 01 Apr 2008
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“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
at a time could use it), and one time it managed to spill all its cards on the floor. Val remembers that it took most of a week to put them back in order. How were changes in... View Details
- 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
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
role in several of them," says Laguë. "I learned that you spend 90 percent of your time on the companies that don't make it. Investing in fewer companies is more interesting than investing in many, and you have better outcomes. The... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A View from the Top
really great cultures,” said Donna Dubinsky (MBA ’81), cofounder and CEO of Numenta and former CEO of Palm Computing and Handspring. “That’s what pulled us through the hard times and made us more resilient and flexible for change.” HATS... View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
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Wired to be Inspired
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Professor Ranjay Gulati, whose research looks at how the most resilient companies approach growth and profitability, chaired the Advanced Management Program at HBS for many... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
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Brick by Brick
founder. Under his management, product demand was so high at times that executives actually found themselves discussing ways to slow sales. That all changed in the early 1990s as seismic shifts pounded the toy market. Big-box toy... View Details
- 27 May 2014
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Crowdsourcing the Capitalist's Dilemma
The next time Professor Clay Christensen (MBA 1979) has a dilemma, he knows where he'll go for a solution: to HBS alumni. Christensen, Senior Lecturer Derek van Bever (MBA 1988), and alumni of the Building and Sustaining a Successful... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
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Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller
addressing and the dissemination of the project’s research to global practitioners. What inspired the Managing the Future of Work Project? JOSEPH FULLER: It began as an extension of the School’s US Competitiveness Project and over View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
emerging technologies, new business models resulting from broadband deployment, security concerns, regulatory obstacles, and other subjects. In Their Time The Greatest Business Leaders of the Twentieth Century by Anthony J. Mayo and Nitin... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
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Teachable Moments
1997. “Sometimes our students arrive at HBS thinking they are the sum total of their résumés,” says DeLong. “In courses like Authentic Leader Development or the Interpersonal Skills Development Lab, we try to move them away from this stance, from image View Details