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  • 05 Apr 2021
  • What Do You Think?

Why Can’t More Leaders Teach?

middle managers, in particular whether it had made such jobs harder and more complex. It is the latest chapter in a long-running examination of the role of middle managers that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 23 Jul 2016
  • News

The Art of Persuasion

When Radhika Piramal (MBA 2006) returned to India in 2009, she noted two developing trends with direct implications for VIP Industries, her family’s luggage and bag business. First, air traffic was increasing rapidly with the introduction of new airlines and a growing... View Details
  • 19 Aug 2013
  • News

Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers

with a growing middle class in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Burundi. We hope to become the world's newest 'tiger states.' Bureaucracy and lack of appropriate infrastructure are challenges, but most African countries are now... View Details
Keywords: Management; Management; Management; Management
  • March 2021
  • Supplement

Snapp: Scaling Under Sanctions in Iran (B)

By: Meg Rithmire and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in November 2020 as Eyad Alkassar and Mahmoud Fouz, co-founders of Iran’s first and leading ride-hailing platform, Snapp, eagerly await the results of the U.S. presidential elections.
The case takes us through the challenging times between... View Details
Keywords: Sanctions; Change Management; Disruption; Volatility; Decision Choices and Conditions; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Government and Politics; International Relations; National Security; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Health Pandemics; Transportation Industry; Middle East; Iran
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  • 01 Sep 2013
  • News

Case Study: A Place at the Table

several professors who never called on a woman in class "unless it was a discussion of a 'woman's product.'" A Class of 1973 alumna recalls professors "who, in the middle of a class, would look at the women and the African Americans and... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

Innovation, Inc.

streamlining management and infrastructure at the corporate level. Finally, he held numerous meetings and discussions with small groups of middle managers about Fuji’s future... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Mary Tripsas; Management; Management; Management
  • 13 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?

interviews, I walked away deeply impressed by the managerial capacity in emerging markets. The domestic firms are very, very capable. Yes, they operate under particular constraints—we do not see the many middle View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • August 2024
  • Case

Coca Cola İçecek—Managing a Sudden Turbulence

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Namrata Arora and Gizem Cihan Dincsoy
In November 2021, Kerem Kerimoğlu, Coca Cola İçecek (CCI) Group Supply Chain Development Director, is alarmed by a news headline revealing a shortage of Turkish truck drivers impacting Europe. This crisis quickly affects CCI's distribution as third-party logistics... View Details
Keywords: Business Strategy; Logistics; Supply Chain Management; Crisis Management; Distribution; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Turkey; Central Asia; Middle East
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  • 01 Dec 2003
  • News

Studying Japan from the Inside

Motor was turned around by Carlos Ghosn. Ghosn was sent from Renault, the French auto company, which acquired management control of the financially distressed Nissan in March 1999. Ghosn motivated Nissan’s View Details
Keywords: Cynthia Churchwell; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite

significantly slower rate than their white counterparts as they ascended to middle management, moved more quickly from middle to upper management as they passed plateauing... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
  • 17 Sep 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often

bottom,” she says. Middle managers may fill a critical gap here—especially since the study suggests that they are the ones who often reignite communication after the initial decline. Invest in meaningful... View Details
Keywords: by Ami Albernaz
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

Immersion Program Digs Deep

241 participated in immersions to China and Vietnam, India, the Middle East, Europe, and New Orleans. A sixth immersion on the health-care industry, chaired by University Professor Michael Porter, took place on campus. HBS senior fellow... View Details
Keywords: immersion; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training
  • Career Coach

Jessica Mbaeliachi

Europe, Latin America, Middle East and Africa. Jessica started her career at GE Healthcare, as a product design engineer. She then went on to join the company's healthcare delivery consulting practice. Upon graduating from HBS, Jessica... View Details
Keywords: Emerging Markets; Health Care
  • Web

Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021

at Africa Health Management in Accra, Ghana. Dezzy Ogakwu (MBA 2021) , director/CEO of Lagos-based Aku Fintech, which enables access to digital financial services. Nikki Okrah (MBA 2021) , founder of Ghana-based Chaku Foods, and a grand... View Details

    Eugene W. Rhodes

    Having spent his summers in college working at the Tribune, Rhodes was selected to run the paper in 1922, following the unexpected deaths of both the Tribune’s founder and its managing editor. Despite his youth and lack of experience,... View Details
    Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
    • 01 Jun 2009
    • News

    Lewis and Primo Receive Recognition for Achievements

    received the groups’ Professional Achievement Award, built Essence magazine into the leading lifestyle publication for African-American women. Primo’s real-estate investment and development firm has over $4 billion under management and... View Details
    Keywords: awards; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
    • Person Page

    Media

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    This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

    • 01 Mar 2010
    • News

    Lords of Strategy

    John Weber In his new book, The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World (Harvard Business Press), Walter Kiechel III (MBA ’76) traces the rise of modern management consulting from the 1960s to the... View Details
    Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises
    • 01 Mar 2008
    • News

    An American Odyssey

    He’s got a superhero’s name, and he’s shining a light on enduring wrongs here at home while confronting challenges in the Third World as well. Meet Richard America, who sees policy analysis and quality management as keys to development... View Details
    Keywords: Garry Emmons; Lawrence Fouraker; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training
    • 12 Sep 2019
    • News

    Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse

    Okay. I do my best thinking during yoga. It's a time when I quiet the mind, and I think a lot of other times my mind is constantly going with “How do I manage my three children, and my life, and the logistics, and the work, and the eating... View Details