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- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
the key risk factors have developed from a pressure to enhance productivity, eliminate waste, remove supply chain duplication, and drive for cost improvement," says William L. Michels, CEO of consulting firm ADR North America, Ann... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
teaching, and consulting over the past ten years, I have come to understand more deeply than ever that the best managers are those who have an appetite for learning and are willing to work on themselves. Management is very hard; even the... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
http://hbr.org/search/513091-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 913-420 Tim Blanchard at Jones Mendel & Co. Tim Blanchard struggles to balance all the demands facing him as a partner of a consulting firm. He must decide how to serve... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
HBS - The year in Review
Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Thomas Graeber Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Jillian Jordan Negotiation, Organizations & Markets James Riley Organizational Behavior Maria Roche Strategy Marlous van Waijenburg Business,... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Relative TSR (rTSR) is increasingly used by market participants to judge and incentivize managerial performance. We evaluate the efficacy, reasons, and implications of firms' benchmarks in rTSR-based contracts. Although compensation View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Fola Folowosele
bar that I set for myself as well. How has HBS prepared you for your summer internship and long term career? I split my summer into two parts - I interned at PUMA for the first month before spending the rest of my summer as an internal View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
Habib. “I’d always heard about Magda and how she was an execution machine,” says Enan. Still living in the States at the time, Enan asked Habib out for coffee whenever she came back to Cairo. Habib was consulting after exiting Fawry—a... View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
How did he do these deals? What strategies and tactics worked and what failed? Why and under what conditions? What ethical challenges does this approach present? Is there an underlying logic and method to his approach that, well beyond... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
town of Warren Buffet.” Keen started a consulting firm, Talon Strategy; he also joined the faculty at Creighton, teaching strategy and entrepreneurship. He was ready to move on from his experiences in... View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
strategies and their importance for globalization have been scarce. In The Language of Global Success, Tsedal Neeley provides an in-depth look at a single organization—the high-tech giant Rakuten—in the five years following its English... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
(AMS), an international business and IT consulting firm. "The impact the professors were having on my sectionmates and me made a deep impression." Wasserman recalled that one of the most enjoyable aspects of his work life had been helping... View Details
- 12 Mar 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO
the CEO, with manageable consequences that are generally positive. Factor 1: Fit High performing companies require CEOs with the right skill set, decision style, and values. They have strong credibility with key stakeholders. They build strong executive teams that can... View Details
- 06 Feb 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?
percent of the economic gains of the past 30 years in the United States, other developed economies, and even the BRIC countries. Assuming for a moment that all of this is correct, what's the answer? First, is executive pay too high, or is the problem, as compensation... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
What." Since 2009 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Kind of Blue, it's a good time to ask: How did he do it? One of the answers is "radical simplicity," according to HBS professor Robert D. Austin and Carl Størmer, founding principal of... View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
industry. The Flattening Firm—Not As Advertised Author:Julie Wulf Publication:California Management Review 55, no. 1 (fall 2012) Abstract For decades, management consultants and the popular business press have urged large firms to flatten... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Payment and Financial Aid - HBS Online
credential programs. Grants are not available for the Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business (CLIMB) , the Credential of Digital Innovation and Strategy , the Certificate in School Management and Leadership (CSML) ,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Debunking Teenagers: 200 Research-Based Parenting Strategies to Help Your Adolescent Successfully Navigate the “Tempteen” Years By Daphne Adler (MBA 2004) Independently Published Why are teenagers... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
payments to support clients’ liquidity; helped salons apply to crisis relief funding such as unemployment support and rent postponement; hired consultants to create guidelines for safety measures in the salons, and shared them with each... View Details
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
For decades, management consultants and the popular business press have urged large firms to flatten their hierarchies. Flattening (or delayering, as it is also known) typically refers to the elimination of layers in a firm's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Nguyen. Lauren H. Cohen : Winner of the 2016 Jack Treynor Prize from The Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance (Q-Group) for "Lazy Prices" with Christopher J. Malloy and Quoc Nguyen. Lauren H. Cohen : Winner of the 2016 Best Paper Prize of the Journal of... View Details