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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Silent Killers: Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Learning
uncovered these obstacles using a process they refined more than a decade ago called Organizational Fitness Profiling (OFP). OFP helps CEOs or business unit general managers and their top teams assess how... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Staying the Course
Jessie Woolley-Wilson (MBA 1990) Jessie Woolley-Wilson (MBA 1990) In early March 2020, DreamBox Learning CEO Jessie Woolley-Wilson (MBA 1990) could point proudly to the growth of the online math company. In the last nine years, since the... View Details
- 02 Aug 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?
“For too long we have been ‘marketing’ led (with too little knowledge of) what and how customers actually interact and buy from you Unless you spend time with your customers then you don’t have any real ideas on how to move the NPS (Net... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Jan 2008
- What Do You Think?
Does Judgment Trump Experience?
judgment is worthless; good judgment without experience is still good judgment!" On the other hand, Robert Moses asserted that "a person without experience is very unlikely to have good judgment; experience is the wheel that grinds and hones." And... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
The Heart of the Deal
an HBS classmate of Burke’s, a connection that led to the code word “Crimson” during part of the deal’s secret negotiations, the New York Times (December 3, 2009) reported. The transaction “began in earnest” last March, according to the... View Details
- 10 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
PRIDE in the HBS Community
influential business leader. Annise Parker spoke to us about her transition from gay rights activist to being a Mayor of a major U.S. city and how she navigated the discrimination and bumps she hit along the way. Today, Annise is the... View Details
- 25 Jul 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Evolution of Apple
constant," says Yoffie, noting that the case is used as part of the MBA required curriculum in the Strategy course and in numerous Executive Education programs. It can also be taught with a video presentation by John Sculley, Apple's... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Juicy Story
Yoffie, noting that the case is used as part of the MBA required curriculum in the Strategy course and in numerous Executive Education programs. It can also be taught with a video presentation by John Sculley, Apple’s View Details
- 29 Jun 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change
can I do? What are key enterprise risk-management strategies? How Do I Build My Business In This Environment? Building Businesses in Turbulent Times An economic crisis is a charter for business leaders to rewrite and rethink how they do... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Take a Trim Tab Approach to Climate Change
CEOs of global companies like Coca-Cola, the company figuring most prominently in the Times piece, and Nike (also mentioned) must start to recognize and take responsibility for View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
revenues were less than $750 million. In short order, he became CEO and chairman. When he retired at age 59 in 2001, the company employed 28,000 and revenues exceeded $6.7 billion. George attributes the company’s success to maintaining an... 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
- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
She was introduced by Mark Tatum (MBA 1998), Deputy Commissioner and COO of the National Basketball Association. For only the third time in its history, the club gave out the Lifetime Achievement Award, this View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Build a Better Board
you put together. The basic motivating pressures for change inside the boardroom, I think, should be, "How do we do a better job? And to do a better job we've got to use the limited time we have... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
time to do it. These time-poor people experience less joy each day. They laugh less. They are less healthy, less productive, and more likely to divorce. In one study, time stress produced a stronger negative... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
it was the right decision. When she was appointed CEO of Time Inc. in 2002, the rest of the world knew too. “I’ve always had a long-term view,” notes Moore. “You’ve got to choose a career you’ll be happy... View Details
- Career Coach
Layla A. Ramirez
Training Institute. She is an Intercultural Development Inventory Qualified Administrator, a 360 Inclusive Leadership Compass Coach and is Dare to Lead trained. In 2022 Layla founded and became the CEO of The FirstOnes Collective, LLC, a... View Details
- 30 Jan 2009
- News
What’s It Worth to You?
How much is a CEO worth? What is appropriate compensation for the leader of a large and complex organization? One frequent reply has been “Let the market decide.” The “market” apparently decided that Lehman Brothers View Details
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
LLP, has just returned from the groundbreaking of Deloitte University. When completed, Deloitte University would be a world class learning and development center owned by, and for the exclusive use by the employees of, Deloitte. Deloitte... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2017
- News
Thoughts on Charlottesville
dismayed, and to find the courage to stand up for our convictions––much as Ken Frazier, the CEO of Merck, did on Monday, reminding us that individual actions matter. As Dean of Harvard Business School I... View Details