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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
All in Good Time
image of a hard-driving entrepreneur who is on call around the clock doesn’t mesh well with the nonstop demands of family life. But that didn’t stop Allison O’Kelly (MBA ’99) from leaving a fast-track management position at Toys “R” Us... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Chinese CEOs, Professors Study at HBS
environment, managing across business disciplines and country borders, and providing organization-wide leadership,” says HBS professor Krishna Palepu, who codirects GCPC along with colleagues from the other two institutions. “HBS is proud... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
transformational leadership. Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer Managing for Conflict and Consensus by Michael A. Roberto (Wharton School Publishing) Assistant Professor Roberto offers guidance to leaders who want to improve... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Tech for the People
about ways that tech companies can develop products and services that both benefit the public and align with their business model,” he observes. Tsai says courses such as Public Entrepreneurship, taught by Mitchell Weiss, professor of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Passion & Purpose
who aspire to have an impact on business and society. Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987 Cofounder and Managing Partner, Strategic Grant Partners Boston, Massachusetts Joanna M. Jacobson “A fulfilling career doesn't always follow a straight... View Details
- 19 Feb 2010
- News
The MBA Oath Debate
fiduciary responsibilities. In many countries, board members and, as a consequence, managers have a fiduciary duty to maximize the wealth of the shareholders. None of them would accept that managers promote... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Robert B. Stobaugh (DBA '68)
In June, the School conferred its highest honors, the Distinguished Service Award and the Alumni Achievement Award, on four professors emeriti and five alumni, respectively. This is a profile of a Distinguished View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
New Program for Science-Based Businesses
scientific discoveries from the lab to the market. The program is designed for executives with strong science backgrounds as well as nontechnical managers with key business responsibilities. HBS faculty will lead sessions on topics such... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
businesses. ” — DEIRDRE LEOPOLD, managing director of MBA admissions and financial aid, commenting on the increasing numbers of women heading to business schools. (Forbes.com, April 16, 2010) “CEOs who actually take the trouble to delve... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
the most challenging of environments. She honors their work by focusing on hers, that of the service leader. “My job is to enable my staff to do the best work that they can,” she emphasizes. By that she means not just her senior team, but... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A Call to Innovation
BIG BETS: Kao proposes investment in research and education. Robert Gumpert/NB Pictures As innovation guru and former HBS faculty member John Kao (MBA ’82) sees it, the United States is already losing on the great economic battleground of the 21st century: the struggle... View Details
- September 2005 (Revised January 2006)
- Case
Yum! Brands, Inc: A Corporate Do-Over
By: Frances X. Frei, Amy C. Edmondson, James Weber and Eliot Sherman
Describes the successful turnaround of the restaurant company Yum! Brands after its spin off from PepsiCo and covers how the company's leadership planned and executed on virtually every dimension of the employee experience. The main dilemma centers on what the company... View Details
Keywords: Product; Brands and Branding; Service Operations; Expansion; Trade; Leadership Development; Business or Company Management; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry
Frei, Frances X., Amy C. Edmondson, James Weber, and Eliot Sherman. "Yum! Brands, Inc: A Corporate Do-Over." Harvard Business School Case 606-041, September 2005. (Revised January 2006.)
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A New Day for Fellowships
Professor Andrew McAfee’s Managing in the Information Age class. Burns was among several dozen HBS graduates from the 1950s and 1960s who came to campus in April for a pilot program called “Fellowship Day.” After attending classes,... View Details
- January 2025
- Teaching Note
Vytal: Packaging-as-a-Service
By: George Serafeim, Michael W. Toffel and Stacy Straaberg
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 124-007. The Germany-based startup Vytal operated the largest digital-native reusable packaging-as-a-service network globally, having raised nearly €15 million, established a large network of restaurant partners, and prevented the use of... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Innovation and Invention; Business Growth and Maturation; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Startups; Resource Allocation; Risk Management; Adoption; Strategy; Performance Productivity; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Supply Chain; Distribution; Entrepreneurship; Climate Change; Business Model; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Profit; Financing and Loans; Expansion; Green Technology Industry; Service Industry; Retail Industry; Germany; Europe
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
The key to managing innovation starts, and probably ends, with incentives. In his new book, The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations, Harvard Business School Professor Josh Lerner puts it this way:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
family who knew more about money management than most money managers on Wall Street. Everyone looked confident and sophisticated. I felt like a complete dope—an ex-Naval officer with a degree in English.... View Details
- April 2011 (Revised May 2012)
- Case
City Year: The Journey
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and James Weber
Throughout its first two decades, City Year, a non-profit organization, was dedicated to recruiting young adults to give a year of public service. It had passed through several growth phases but by 2010 a new challenge, and opportunity, had arisen when City Year and... View Details
Keywords: Education; Service Operations; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Efficiency; Resource Allocation
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and James Weber. "City Year: The Journey." Harvard Business School Case 311-080, April 2011. (Revised May 2012.)
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
@Soldiers Field
welcomed 2,800 alumni and guests to campus for a full program of events and presentations, including “How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life” by Associate Professor Alison Wood Brooks, one of six 10-minute flash talks offered in Klarman Hall. NETWORK EFFECTS In... View Details
- 30 Jan 2021
- News
Finding a Fresh Approach to Dry Cleaning
management skills and new technologies to double its revenue and expand the business beyond the basics of shirts and suits, according to a Washington Post story by Thomas Heath. About three-quarters of Parkway’s business comes from 3,000... View Details