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- 01 Feb 1999
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which looks at the roles of three management groups: worldwide business managers, country or regional managers, and worldwide functional managers. A second new chapter, "Managing the Transformation Process," outlines the structural and... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
Supplemental Airlines, which had the license to do that, but in most cases they weren't doing that. So we were able to acquire a little airline called Zantop, and in many ways, that was the most important deal that we did because it... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
acquisition of small- and medium-sized companies, Baker first observed the corrosive effect of corruption. "I didn't come out of HBS equipped to deal with it," he recalls. "It was so harmful to the business process, I started trying to... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
Equity Finance class, an advanced elective course offered in the Harvard Business School MBA elective curriculum. The structure of the book follows the timeline of a typical investment. Starting with deal... View Details
- 09 Oct 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
than just financial gain,” he stresses. Some of his most successful deals have involved conservation easements that minimize investment risk while creating economic value from parcels that merit conservation. He has worked extensively on... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
affect the decision to go public. As the authors shed light on the structure and operations of venture capital firms, three major themes emerge. First, all venture capitalists confront tremendous incentive and information problems, in... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
in foreign countries. "Some of the governments are quite small, and they like dealing directly with the person who makes decisions in the company," he explains. "There's more flexibility involved than there would be with a larger... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
levels of players, right? So when you think about the investors, there's foundations that have a different organizational structure and different culture and a different way of thinking. There is corporate investors who think differently.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
humor Professor Sahlman and sign up for his adventurous new course. Wouldn’t they? Sahlman believed he had a conceptual structure for the course that might protect him from the dreaded Onion Outcome. “My goal from the beginning,” he... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
Chairman, Synthes, Inc. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 1959 M.S., Civil & Structural Engineering LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "I learned so much in C. Roland... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ink
Future-proof Handling his first consulting job after years of experience in accounting and academics, Vijay “VG” Govindarajan (MBA 1976, DBA 1978) sat down to sketch out a strategy for his client. Literally written on the back of an envelope, the View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
of business, and it taught me how to think as a businessperson,” says Fisher. “The case-study method is fantastic at making you assess all the factors you have to deal with. It says, Here’s the situation; what’s the action plan? And... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
may indeed have been the best of the best, McCall’s theory gives a causal explanation of why. It wasn’t because they were born with superior skills. Instead, it was because they had honed them along the way, by having experiences that taught them how to View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
of personality, coupled with the leadership of his successor, a former investment banker, extraordinary structural changes were made in the Seattle system. Nielsen retired from the school board in 2001 but remains active with a community... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
administrators. While the coursework through the CSML program provided the structure and rationale for highly effective leadership, the access to a cadre of exceptional leaders from across the world was equally beneficial as we continue... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one. This process of Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism. It is what capitalism consists in and what... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
take advantage of them and do amazingly well, but most of our organizations—in every single industry across every single economy—grow linearly and not exponentially. That means we need to change the structure of our organizations.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Finding a Balance
would otherwise be unable to afford treatment. Authored in 2003 by HBS professor Rohit Deshpandé, the case began as a straight pricing study. “The pharmaceutical industry is unlike any other,” Deshpandé explains. “Although the prices vary from country to country, we... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
contribution to the greater good and the well-being of others. This can have practical implications for our work. It can help us develop a deeper sense of purpose, hope, and optimism. It can help us overcome obstacles, deal calmly with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
program, featuring a takeoff on “get out of jail free” cards from the board game Monopoly. This wasn’t a blockbuster like the new shaving systems for women, but it showed that everyone has a role to play in a culture of innovation. To go from idea to successful... View Details