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- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
Bowls 2010 Launches "Kick Cancer" season-long campaign In 1994, Robert Kraft paid a record amount — $172 million — for one of the worst football teams in the NFL. The New England Patriots had lost 36 of their last 50 games and had the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
McNamara Illustration by Zak Pullen For a man who once commanded huge organizations and made decisions affecting the lives of millions, Robert S. McNamara (MBA 1939) is mostly on his own these days. Dressed... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
Robert W. Johnson, Jr.
Johnson established J&J management policies, including the “credo,” which still exists today. He decentralized the company during the 1930s by dividing it into a number of small divisions, each responsible for a few products. As part... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- Portrait Project
Robert Duke Biederman
boardroom. I want to do things like that for my kids. When I was a little boy, my mom was a lawyer in private practice. She left work early and took me to the park for ice cream and a ride on the carousel. I want to build a company by... View Details
Robert L. Vann
well as garnering the black vote for a myriad of political campaigns. The Courier grew tremendously under Vann, reaching a circulation level of 250,000 by 1938 as one of very few truly national black newspapers. View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
Robert F. McDermott
diversified financial services enterprise with over $30 billion in assets. His deep commitment to customer service and concern for employee satisfaction were recognized by industry analysts who often ranked USAA as the best managed... View Details
Keywords: Finance
Robert R. McCormick
effective source of raw material. One of the last great journalists to implant his own personality on a newspaper, McCormick was both hailed and vilified for his staunchly conservative and isolationist views. Though he stirred much personal controversy, the newspaper... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- 22 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution
Business leaders can't develop and execute effective strategy without first gathering the right information, says Harvard Business School professor Robert Simons. In his new book, Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 20 May 2024
- Blog Post
Get to Know Class Day Student Speaker Erik Roberts
View Video Erik Roberts (MBA 2024) often pauses for quite some time before answering questions. He laughs and says he can be verbose—that he needs a moment because he wants to answer succinctly and thoughtfully. For someone who wants to... View Details
- 20 May 2024
- News
Get to Know Class Day Student Speaker Erik Roberts
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
In a recent Harvard Business Review article, professor Robert Simons wrote about how organizations can design jobs for maximum performance. In this excerpt, Simons discusses what he terms the four basic "spans" of a job—control,... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 17 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
New Treasury Rules Help Long-Retirement Planning
longevity annuity should appeal to workers who believe they have enough retirement savings to last for one or two decades, although they just don't know what would happen if they lived to age 90 or 100. In the past, longevity annuities with late-starting payments were... View Details
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
subordinate to the functions? Maybe you should organize by product, with separate units set up to serve specific markets. You play with the different combinations in your hands. How to decide ... This is the most obvious—and... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
that internal support or shared services groups provide, such straight-across cost or numeric comparisons become meaningless. Today's successful support unit earns its keep by being a trusted partner to the business units it serves. So,... View Details
Robert T. B. Stevens
In response to the changing nature of the textile industry and to the growing inefficiencies in the company, Stevens merged the manufacturing and selling sides of the business and took the new entity public to raise much needed funds. The new structural change was... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
- 08 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability
When the customer says "jump," they ask "how high?" They offer additional product features and services to their customers, but fail to receive prices that cover the costs for these additional features and services. How can companies avoid this... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Robert B. Stobaugh (DBA '68)
experience," states Stobaugh, "because I realized how much I had missed the academic world of discussion and ideas." Encouraged by his professors, Stobaugh entered the Harvard DBA Program in 1965 at the age of 37. He earned his doctorate... View Details
- 2006
- Book Review
Book Review of 'What Price the Moral High Ground? Ethical Dilemmas in Competitive Environments' by Robert Frank
By: Nien-he Hsieh
Hsieh, Nien-he. "Book Review of 'What Price the Moral High Ground? Ethical Dilemmas in Competitive Environments' by Robert Frank." Business Ethics Quarterly 16, no. 2 (April 2006): 306.
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
corporate strategy—create value by becoming known for better governance and greater transparency to external providers? Can they lower their cost of capital and perhaps get a valuation premium based on the reputation and performance of... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 22 Jan 2013
- HBS Seminar