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- 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007
need to resign," read the email from the founder of Webpoint to the company's board of directors. Les Trachtman, the CEO of Webpoint, has to figure out how to react to the founder's "it's Trachtman or me" ultimatum. Webpoint was Trachtman's fourth View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Blog
Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School
identity. Jim's history of overcoming obstacles inspires us to power through the challenges that come with doing this work. We have a job to do, and we want to make sure we're carrying on the work that Jim and other folks have done. How... View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
leaders to recognize that, yes, you need to do a lot of time on plumbing, but don’t forget the job of a poet. In that context, then I try to unpack what is a poet as a leader. And one of the pieces I talk about is how they build a grand... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
“But it was the right approach for the time,” says Nohria, who joined the faculty in 1988 and, like Palepu, is a native of India. Writing in the Sept./Oct. 2011 issue of Harvard Magazine, he noted, “In the 1980s, the best companies, the best management practices, and... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity by Karen G. Mills (MBA 1977) Palgrave Macmillan Small businesses are the biggest job creators and offer a path to the American Dream. But for many, it is difficult to get the capital... View Details
- 31 May 2018
- News
Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
applying for jobs and any type of stressor, and the place you go for comfort for me was always the eating disorder. I continued to feel like I had breakthroughs because I'd hit some sort of milestone, but the real recovery came when I... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
in that premass-media era. Titled "More Job Givers Wanted," the article made the case for entrepreneurship in no uncertain terms. "Jobs do not simply exist," Slichter reminded his readers. "They are created by alert, imaginative, and... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
world. Kortenhorst: That is another transition. And it is an interesting transition, in that, I was surprised to learn how much that world is different from the business world. And how civil society does not always do a good job in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
to scale couldn’t find a chief financial officer or a chief operating officer, so we got into executive search,” adds Bradach. To address this need, in 2003 Bridgespan launched Bridgestar, offering a full range of executive search services and an online View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
disruptive to its drug development efforts and delay new drugs coming to market. UK politicians expressed concerns over downsizing and job losses in the economically important pharmaceutical sector. The case allows readers to explore who... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
Focusing on relative total shareholder returns (rTSR), the predominant metric specified in these contracts and used by market participants to evaluate managers, we document that 60% of firms—those that choose specific peers—do a remarkable View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
contributions to product design, but the same cannot be said for services. Undoubtedly many examples of outstanding service design exist, and we will mention some later in this work. But recognition of service design as a discipline, as a management function, or a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
promotion, and job assignments: an "evaluation nudge," in which people are evaluated jointly rather than separately regarding their future performance. Evaluators are more likely to focus on individual performance in joint than... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
capitalization. “The Valley of Death” The many faces of Andy Grove, from left: hobnobbing in black tie with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at a celebration of Time magazine’s 75th anniversary (1998); on the really big board in Times Square... View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
high volume continuous flow manufacturer of commodities chips to a job shop structure that focused on custom manufacturing services. This entailed more than rearranging the manufacturing lines; it meant a dramatic shift in the company... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
various perspectives, raise conceptual and empirical concerns, underscore challenges for further development of this literature, and provide directions for future research. Quality Management and Job Quality: How the ISO 9001 Standard for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
upper management accepts an emergency order. By working through the impact on the production system, students should develop a feel for how shifting demand in a large factory that is structured as a job shop alters the demands on, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
a trait. But I remember, like, my first job in sales. I was good, right? But why was I good? I could always see GE through my customers' eyes. And because I could do that, it made me much more effective to gain market share or grow. And... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
day, Lhota thought, as beautiful as any the city ever sees. After seven years in the Giuliani administration, including service as the city's budget director, Lhota, the deputy mayor for operations, was becoming more conscious of each passing day. His View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
hollow gestures (saving jobs via jawboning) without any real substance. These interviews have been edited for length and clarity. Christina Pazzanese is a Harvard Staff Writer. This article first appeared in the Harvard Gazette under the... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese