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- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
turn, winning breeds greater confidence and raises the company to an even higher level. Building organizational confidence, especially in turnaround situations where organizations have been on losing streaks, is the work of leaders.... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Make or Break
BLOOM: Build it and good things will come. Ron Bloom (MBA ’85) has been an investment banker, a special assistant to the president of the United Steelworkers, and cochairman of President Obama’s task force over-seeing the Chrysler and GM bailouts. Now he’s gotten an... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
possible turnaround of this huge institution, one that affects everybody in the country. I saw it as an opportunity to bring about fundamental change at an agency that really needed it, to have an impact on a key function of government,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 25 May 2011
- News
Race to the Finish?
multicultural, turnaround artist and shake-things-up executive, born in Brazil, raised in Lebanon, educated in France, and revered in Japan (One poll there had Japanese women selecting the happily married Ghosn as their top choice for an... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 07 Feb 2017
- News
Checking in with One Championship
Singapore. Then his fortunes changed, a dramatic turnaround documented in this Bulletin profile. After founding and selling a startup with two HBS classmates, Sityodtong headed to Wall Street, working for several large investment funds... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
MBA 101: HBS Commencements Pass the Century Mark
Associate Professor Anita Elberse (Strategic Marketing in Creative Industries), Professor Frances Frei (TOM), Senior Lecturer Stephen Kaufman (TOM), Professor Deepak Malhotra (Negotiation), and Professor Paul Marshall (Entrepreneurial Management in a View Details
- 02 Feb 2017
- News
Growing and Competing at the Local Level
helps small businesses in his state contribute to America’s competitiveness and economic health. “In running manufacturing facilities, I’ve been an operations turnaround person for my entire career—except for the last five years. I would... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
an organization in crisis, primed for transformation. Enter Craig P. Coy (MBA 1983), appointed CEO in April of that year, and HBS professor John A. Quelch (DBA 1977), appointed board chairman in June. Together, they embarked on a View Details
- Profile
Behrad Mahdi
"the turnaround was done, and it was time for me to leave. That's when I began to think about going to business school. I had learned so much — unpacking my experiences would be very rewarding. I had strengths in political and... View Details
- 07 Oct 2024
- News
On the Move: Nikos Bartzoulianos (MBA 2008)
particularly admire? One is an HBS grad, AG Lafley (MBA 1977), who led such a big turnaround at Procter & Gamble. Pankaj Bhalla and Austin Lally also at P&G, are two others. I loved how much emphasis they put on talent development and... View Details
- 01 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
payoff than the firm. In our model, the horizon mismatch occurs because managers take actions based on longer-term consequences than the firm cares about. That is, the firm's preferred actions are myopic relative to the manager's career. For example, a troubled firm... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Sharon Patrick
categories.” Patrick has done just that since earning her MBA. After thirteen years at McKinsey followed by, as president, a turnaround of Cablevision’s Rainbow Programming, in 1993 Patrick founded her own company to create and own... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Career to Smile About
advantage." Speed has also characterized Juliber's ascent up the corporate ladder. After helping to double sales and triple profits for CP's Asian operations in only three years, she was named chief technological officer for worldwide operations. She was then asked to... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
How DC is Taxing the Country
in three years, with firms less able to compete in the global marketplace, pay employees higher wages and benefits, or both. A turnaround would require a national economic strategy—and that would require a functional political system, the... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
The World's Banker
for his public service, including an Honorary Knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II. He is currently chairman of the board of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. Today, over two years into his tenure at the Bank, Wolfensohn is deeply absorbed in his... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Tech Trekker
Symbolics, the supermom helped lift the firm's revenues from $1 million to $120 million. From there, Lang led a string of turnarounds and product launches with software companies. In 1993 she signed on with Lotus Development Corporation.... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- Profile
Tafadzwa Samushonga
toward ‘doing’.” Through a project management role at Life Healthcare, she drove strategic initiatives while working closely with the teams responsible for execution. And at ThoughtWorks, she provided technical assistance to the Operations Team, most notably, leading... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Touching All the Bases: Stephen A. Greyser
In his MBA elective, The Business of Sports, Professor Stephen A. Greyser brings an insider's knowledge to topics such as league development, sports and the media, corporate sponsorship of sports, marketing for teams in turnaround... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- Profile
Paul Wang
distributing mosquito nets to the needy, and we’re evaluating the effectiveness of different evaluation approaches. TAMTAM evaluations are practical, not theoretical; we promise to deliver research results in just a few months. The quick View Details
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
and continued thought the successful turnaround under her successor, Mark Hurd. As such, special focus is given to the individual board personalities and their conflicts over this time in order to fully explore the environment in which... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace