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  • 07 Mar 2022
  • News

Workforce Trends You Need to Know, How COVID Impacted Digital Transformation, & Why Low Wage Jobs Are So Hard to Fill

  • 07 Mar 2022
  • News

Workforce Trends You Need to Know, How COVID Impacted Digital Transformation, & Why Low Wage Jobs Are So Hard to Fill

  • 01 Jul 2020
  • News

Make the Most of Your Relocation

  • June 11, 2014
  • Article

Keep Learning Once You Hit the C-Suite

By: Boris Groysberg
What skills do companies prize in C-level executives? To answer these questions, we surveyed 32 senior search consultants at a top global executive-placement firm. Experienced search consultants typically interview hundreds and even thousands of senior executives; they... View Details
Keywords: Executive Ability; Management Skills; Learning
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  • 2007
  • Book

When Professionals Have to Lead: A New Model for High Performance

By: Thomas J. DeLong, John J. Gabarro and Robert Lees
For too long, professional services firms (PSFs) have relied on the "producer-manager" model, which works well in uncomplicated business environments. However, today's managing directors must balance conflicting roles, more demanding clients, tougher competitors, and... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Management Practices and Processes; Service Operations; Performance Effectiveness; Strategy
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  • 12 May 2015
  • Blog Post

"Every Day at HBS is a Gift"

been like for them. Before coming to HBS Derrick Snyder studied engineering at Vanderbilt and spent a few years working for National Instruments. After graduation Derrick is moving to Austin, TX to join Monitor Deloitte's consulting... View Details
  • October 2004 (Revised November 2004)
  • Case

Mavens & Moguls: Creating a New Business Model

By: Myra M. Hart, Victoria Winston and Kristin Lieb
Mavens & Moguls is a "virtual" marketing-consulting firm of approximately 40 professionals. Examines the processes by which its founder, Paige Arnof-Fenn, learns the business, builds a power network of industry experts and potential customers, and uses this expertise... View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Values and Beliefs; Work-Life Balance; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Operations; Networks; Business Model; Growth Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Consulting Industry
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  • December 1998 (Revised March 1999)
  • Case

Guangdong Nowada Group, The

By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Anthony St. George
In late 1998, 38-year-old He Boquan, CEO of the Guangdong Nowada Group, a health beverage producer, needs to decide how to fund his company's growth and ambition to become China's number one domestic health beverage producer by 2002. A consultants study revealed that... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Capital; Foreign Direct Investment; Growth and Development; Leadership Style; Management Skills; Negotiation Offer; Competitive Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; China
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    Hise O. Gibson

    Hise Gibson graduated from West Point, where he was a member of the Division-1A Army football team. Following graduation, he commissioned in the US Army as an Aviation Officer in the UH60 Blackhawk Helicopter. He served with distinction in various command and staff... View Details

      Lauren H. Cohen

      Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

      Keywords: asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management
      • 09 Nov 2015
      • News

      The World's Most Influential Business Thinkers 2015

      • 2016
      • Book

      The Three Box Solution: A Strategy for Leading Innovation

      By: Vijay Govindarajan
      How to Innovate and Execute. Leaders already know that innovation calls for a different set of activities, skills, methods, metrics, mind-sets, and leadership approaches. And it is well understood that creating a new business and optimizing an already existing one are... View Details
      Keywords: Innovation Strategy; Innovation Leadership
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        Leonard A. Schlesinger

        Leonard A. Schlesinger is Baker Foundation Professor at the Harvard Business School where he serves as Chair of the School’s Practice based faculty and faculty Chair of the MBA Field Global Immersion program. He has served as a member of the HBS faculty from 1978 to... View Details

        • 22 Mar 2022
        • News

        Frank from Harvard Talks Sales

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        Sarah Hoffner

        Sarah wants to help students understand the various options for careers in healthcare, including finance/investing, consulting, pharma/biotech, managed care, and other healthcare start-ups. She can also advise on how to best position your... View Details
        • August 2001 (Revised March 2008)
        • Case

        NerveWire, Inc.

        By: Nitin Nohria and Anthony Mayo
        NerveWire, a management consulting and systems integration provider based in Newton, MA, was closing in on its second anniversary. In the beginning days of NerveWire, the major challenge was recruiting--finding the right people who embodied its values and business... View Details
        Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Behavior; Internet; Newton
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        • 13 Sep 2006
        • Op-Ed

        Rising CEO Pay: What Directors Should Do

        pressure is the fear of losing an adequately performing CEO. To make sure this does not happen, compensation committees rely on surveys by compensation consultants about CEO pay in similar companies but without regard to company... View Details
        Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch

          Richard S. Ruback

          Richard S. Ruback is a Baker Foundation Professor and the Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He is currently focusing his research in applied corporate finance, especially... View Details

          • September 1983 (Revised November 1984)
          • Case

          Syntex Laboratories (B)

          The recommendations of the consultants require a number of assumptions and modifications to be implemented by Syntex Labs. Presents the initial implementation plan of the company. View Details
          Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategic Planning; Salesforce Management; Pharmaceutical Industry
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          • June 2000
          • Case

          Rebirth of the Swiss Watch Industry, 1980-1992 (A)

          By: Michael L. Tushman and Daniel Radov
          The Swiss watch industry has been devastated by new entrants from Asia in the low- and mid-priced watch segments. Japanese and Hong Kong firms have used quartz technology to lower costs dramatically. Nicolas Hayek, president of a Swiss consulting firm, is asked to help... View Details
          Keywords: Information Technology; Product Development; Organizational Structure; Change Management; Alignment; Product Positioning; Brands and Branding; Management Teams; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Switzerland
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