Growth Strategy And Execution - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 May 2018
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Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs

HBS alumni in New York to participate in a voluntary outreach program to help local nonprofit institutions. Bhargava and Misra, who had found early success as an investment executive View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Leading Change

doubling down in China, where over half of its workers are based. Yang aspires to introduce new competitive strategies to the entire textile and apparel industry, and to be a... View Details

01 Jun 2013
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overworked, yet there's a huge gap in quality training for them." —Anthony Priest (MBA 1996) Program Specialist, Office of Career and Technical Education, District of Columbia Public Schools Marc Sternberg (MBA 2000) Senior Deputy... View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools

29 Aug 2018
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The Value of Valleys

American woman and she said, "I wanted this job to be yours so badly, and you're obviously smart. You're well spoken, but you lacked executive presence." View Details

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

it’s all about empowerment. Says Johnson, now a senior executive at PepsiCo in New York, “Coming to work and doing no harm is very different from coming to work and changing... View Details

01 Feb 2001
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Books

Prusak identify the social elements that contribute to knowledge sharing, innovation, and high productivity and show how nearly every managerial action can enhance or diminish an organization's social... View Details

Keywords: books; research; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2004
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Retirement's Changing Face

full-time — is their own clearly articulated definition of fulfillment and success. While each emphasized that there is no single strategy for achieving balance between work, family, View Details

Keywords: Personal Services

01 Mar 2012
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Making Finance Personal

use over engineering-driven solutions in the consumer-software space and showed that simplicity trumped bells and whistles, an important lesson for subsequent entrepreneurs in those early days of 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

01 Sep 2012
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What’s the Big Idea?

position.” While organizations (and individual workers) don’t win by “brain collecting,” they do benefit from strategies that take cultural and skill matches into consideration. Groysberg notes that he’s... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

31 Jan 2022
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Michael Trejo Brings Business Back to the Valley of the Sun

A recent article in Hispanic Executive profiles Michael Trejo (MBA 2013), who left a career in finance to return to his native Arizona and help grow a local business. As the article notes, his return was... View Details

Keywords: Printing and Related Support Activities; Printing and Related Support Activities

01 Dec 2002
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Faculty Updates

of Business Administration, Emeritus. Yoshino is an expert in the areas of global strategy and management, competitive strategy, and general management. He served as a director... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits

Much of the conversation during the day centered on the need for nonprofits to adopt business-like practices, including more accountability, transparency, and efficiency. Mark Rigdon, director of philanthropic View Details

01 Apr 2002
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How-To Book for General Managers

Effective implementation often comes down to how well executives design, direct, and influence their organization's critical processes. HBS professor David Garvin's new book, General Management: Processes... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2007
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Steve Schwarzman

growth capital. And given the demands for growth capital, leveraged purchases aren’t necessarily the right financial structure for most companies. In Japan, the number of... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

01 Dec 2004
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HBS to Release 2004 Annual Report

Thanks to diligent fiscal management and growth from income-producing activities, Harvard Business School finished fiscal year 2004 last June in a strong financial position. Total revenues of $309 million... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Sep 2012
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Path Forward

Nearly 500 alumni and other business and policy leaders gathered in Washington, D.C., in June for the latest in the School’s series of regional US Competitiveness Project events. A panel discussion led by... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

23 Jan 2017
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The CEO Who is Perking Up Peet’s Coffee

In a profile of Peet’s Coffee CEO David Burwick (MBA 1989), the East Bay Times details the company’s growth under his watch: Since 2013, annual sales have jumped from $395 million to almost $800 million, 70 new locations have been added,... View Details

01 Jun 2010
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Admit It: You’re in Denial

to Apple in 1997. The results of Jobs’s exhortation speak for themselves. But at how many firms do people really think different? By definition, not many. Is yours among those favored few? The executive can defeat denial, View Details

Keywords: Richard S. Tedlow; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Sep 2003
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The Kids Are Alright: Alumni Children Crack Case

Reunion kids in class: with comments ranging from random to brilliant, analyzing an online company. Eisenmann: adventures in Neopia. Growth is something that children experience every day. And they certainly... View Details