Leadership Transition - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2011
News

Making Their Way

capacity and reducing transit times. Notes Ward, “The Gateway will enhance America’s competitiveness in global markets. We’re proud of our role in the Gateway for that reason, in addition to the fact that so much of our own business at... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

01 Dec 2011
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Li & Fung's Global Footprint

Issue Focus: Leadership To keep pace with a fast-changing global business environment, “You’ve got to institutionalize the process of reinvention,” says William Fung. Photo courtesy Li & Fung Ltd. Issue Focus Making the View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Wholesale Trade

21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

sector in which women ascended, either corporate or entrepreneurial, relate to the discursive strategies women employ in their legitimacy narratives. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53143 Between Home and Work: Commuting as an... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 1

started. But it faced many questions as the ventures grew and started to win their first customers. How should NBI handle the transition of the venture back to a mainstream division within Intel? Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 24, 2008

evidence of how intra-regional differences in socio-political variables have aided theoretical development, and with respect to questions of entrepreneurship, regime durability, and democratic transition especially. Publisher's site:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2017
News

Supercharged

electric buses to transit agencies across the country, says that his business “has to a large extent gone mainstream,” with orders coming in from some of the biggest cities in the US, including Seattle and Chicago. But mass View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Tavis Coburn

01 Dec 2012
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50 Years & Counting

gender itself is not a good predictor of negotiation performance. Gender differences appear when guidelines for negotiation are ambiguous and environmental triggers are present—such as the number of women in leadership positions—that... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

31 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

today's managers are trying to implement third-generation strategies through second-generation organizations with first-generation management. In an earlier study we analyzed the evolution of CEO Jack Welch's thinking at General Electric Co. and the simultaneous... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Race Does Matter in Mentoring

and design assignments. The education facilitated his transition into management when he was finally promoted two years later. Once in middle management, Williams's career took off; he was charged with coordinating the engineering,... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

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Medium of Artistic Expression - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007

Middle East: Measuring Sales Force Effectiveness Harvard Business School Case 106-063 Nutricia's Middle East and African region is transitioning from a trading to a customer focus. CEO Ernest Vandenbussche must decide how to market infant... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Oct 1999
News

The View from the Pit

learned about the basic functions of marketing, production, accounting, and finance." Want-ing more time to sort out the tension between theory and practice, Baldwin stayed on at HBS, earning her doctorate in 1977 and joining the faculty in 1981. One initial difficulty... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

16 Nov 2021
Blog Post

Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)

in technology, serving in senior leadership roles in Latin America at SAP and Facebook. However, his entrepreneurial story started years earlier with his family business. “My dad had a small manufacturing company that made construction... View Details

01 Jun 2010
News

Admit It: You’re in Denial

Motors to seize market leadership. Why did Henry Ford, who was such a visionary in the industry’s infancy, fail to see that the Model T was about to run its course and that a smooth transition to a new vehicle was essential? After all,... View Details

Keywords: Richard S. Tedlow; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Management

January 2017 (Revised March 2017)
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Royal DSM: From Continuous Transformation to Organic Growth

By: William W. George, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Amram Migdal

Royal DSM CEO Feike Sijbesma was pondering the challenges of shifting DSM’s global organization from the constant transformations of the past 100 years to creating organic growth. When Sijbesma took the helm as CEO in 2007, he further pushed and completed the company’s... View Details

Keywords: Organic Growth; Organizational Change; M＆A; Mergers And Acquisitions; Divestment; Business Ventures; Business Divisions; Business Growth and Maturation; Restructuring; Change; Change Management; Transformation; Transition; Engineering; Chemicals; Mining; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Capital Markets; Financial Markets; Food; Globalization; Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Health; Nutrition; History; Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Management; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Practices and Processes; Management Style; Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Ownership; Public Ownership; Performance; Strategy; Adaptation; Consolidation; Corporate Strategy; Value; Value Creation; Biotechnology Industry; Chemical Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Mining Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Europe; Netherlands

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15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016

Falato, Antonio, and David Scharfstein Abstract—We present evidence that pressure to maximize short-term stock prices and earnings leads banks to increase risk. We start by showing that banks increase risk when they transition from... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Mar 2021
News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

majority, leadership ranks remain male-dominated. The persistence of these inequalities begs the question: Why haven’t we made more progress? In Glass Half Broken, Colleen Ammerman and HBS professor Boris Groysberg reveal the pervasive... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

10 Dec 2014
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Front-Row Seat

a portfolio that has reversed years of financial losses. “Atlantic Media is one of the only legacy companies that has made a successful transition to digital,” adds Perlmutter. “Their corporate strategy is inherently tied in with doing... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; digital media; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

31 May 2011
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First Look: May 31

compensating differential for working when outside options are most attractive), but more experienced answerers tend to forego these opportunities. Book: http://www.benedelman.org/publications/google-answers.pdf Stop Stealing the Spotlight: The Perils of Extraverted... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne