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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Shattering Glass
complex question—and some straightforward advice for organizations committed to change. In the last half of the 20th century, women made great advances in the business world. Why has this progress stalled? Colleen Ammerman: Women were... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
purchase monthly shares by weight, rather than à la carte, resulting in a fulfillment process that is “relatively complex and pretty unique,” Cummings says. Every order—with 5 to 30 items, selected from 100 products stacked on a... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
numbers of stakeholders potentially influencing decisions, with teams and flatter organizations, and with command, control, hierarchy, and authority systems often unable to elicit crucial cooperation and commitment." In addition, he notes... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
principles of partnership. Tierney: In these businesses, the people you pay are more important than the people who pay you. Your people are your product. This creates a complex and unforgiving business: If a professional service firm’s... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
Four 1971 classmates — three who serve on the front lines of corporate leadership in the 1990s and one learned observer of the changing role of the senior executive — comment on the complex task of running a successful company in an... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
things," says Greg Thompson (MBA 2005), CEO of the Tennessee Charter School Incubator, which provides managerial training and school launch support for charter school leaders. "Now we need systems to make sure high-quality people have the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
managers' ability to put this new technology to effective use, McFarlan stated, "Making it happen is very hard. The major challenge in 1996 is much less the vision than it is the messy, complex problem of implementation." For the next two... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
point-of-sale systems at the retail stores. They had some policies that were interesting. One of the policies is, they cleared the POS systems every night. They’d wipe the hard drives, just in case someone... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
capture—which isn't tied to a specific place. Those systems can be anywhere that CO2 is available in the atmosphere. Which is everywhere. JM: The density of those molecules is much less, therefore it's a much more difficult sort of energy... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
resources, or finance. By exploring the emergence and evolution of these positions, the authors examine the ways in which power at the apex of complex organizations is structured through roles and relationships, in response to diverse... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
information. We owe it to those who passed away in the disaster to upgrade our systems to help save lives in any future calamity." —GE AGRICULTURE John Whiteside Grass Farmer, Wolf Creek Farm For years, the résumé of John Whiteside (MBA... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
unpredictable elements: Cuban politics, US politics, and the weather. The potential payoff? Making the first footprint in the sand. Watching a country take a new shape. Being part of a revolution. Keeping up the vintage American fleet at Havana’s NostalgiCars can... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
natural resources of a similar kind - if, say, the money from tree harvesting were used to plant more trees. It's very difficult to achieve consensus on these issues." Richard H.K. Vietor, Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management, believes that given... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
discipline. It comes in a mess, and we try to figure out how to understand it, and how to deal with it. What the world most needs going forward is integrative, holistic, and systemic thinking. The challenge for the School is how to keep... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
complexity of pulling together idea, sound, and movement into a unified whole. The squirrel skitters to the edge of our path, thinks better of it, and darts back to safety—a smart decision, since Langford never saw it. Which isn’t to say... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Multiple generations of computing
computer-memory system modeled after the human neocortex. The first product, Grok, detects anomalies in IT systems by automatically finding complex patterns in streams of data.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Faculty Books
Corporate Information Strategy and Management by Lynda M. Applegate, Robert D. Austin, and F. Warren McFarlan (Irwin/McGraw-Hill) This extensive collection of HBS cases devoted to IT gives an overview of contemporary information systems... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
The CEO and the Functions of Leadership
In a working paper presented at the June colloquium, HBS professors Michael Porter and Nitin Nohria consider the CEO’s role in the large, complex organization that is typical in today’s global economy. An excerpt follows: “CEOs must... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out
recent study, “The Impact of CEOs in the Public Sector: Evidence from the English NHS,” Associate Professor Raffaella Sadun and her coauthors conclude that a singular leader is far less effective in these large and complex public... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Robots to the Rescue
Mountz Photo courtesy Kiva Systems Kiva's robots in action Main article: Where Innovation Rules In the News: Boston Globe: Amazon Buys Kiva for $775M Those who know Mick Mountz (MBA 1996) well were not overly surprised when he started a... View Details