Leading Change - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Dec 2019
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Thinking Smart About Numbers

“Professor Desai’s students and alumni who heard him for the first time pointed out his expert skill at communicating complex subjects in a simple and highly accessible way.” A question and answer session followed the November 11 talk, and the audience explored the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 1996
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New Releases

Spencer, president and CEO of Sematech, bring together top technical managers from Alcoa, IBM, Intel, and Xerox and leading scholars of the history and economics of technological change. The result is an important discussion of the... View Details

01 Sep 2008
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Stanford Lets Students Customize

EXCHANGING IDEAS: HBS Dean Jay Light talks with Stanford Dean Robert Joss. Stanford describes its new MBA curriculum, launched last fall, as a “revolutionary change in management education.” It aims to remedy what the school viewed as a... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2019
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The Race Against Resistance

illustration by Marcos Chin illustration by Marcos Chin It’s hard to overstate the impact that antibiotics had on medicine after they became widely available in the 1940s. In the United States, the leading causes of death shifted from... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

01 Mar 2019
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The One That Got Away

percent stake, which would have been a much smaller ownership position than we usually get. So it was an “off-strategy” investment. It was also in the highly competitive space of lead generation, where companies are paid a referral fee if... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information

graduates who want access to the School's renowned inventory of management information. A new Web portal, HBS Working Knowledge (www.hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu), was launched in October, bringing together a wealth of information from View Details

01 Mar 2008
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One-on-One with Jim Breyer

are very important. One is generalist investment skills combined with industry specialization. A balance between investment prowess and operating knowledge is important as well, since we really do typically lead or colead our investments... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

06 Dec 2018
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Source Code

space they occupy, what they sound like. All these interactions make changes to your brain—specifically in the neocortex, the vast portion (about 70 percent) near the front of the skull that is responsible for giving us logic, reason,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg

01 Oct 1997
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Theory & Practice

Defining Moments by Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr. (Harvard Business School Press) How should you respond if you are offered an opportunity at work solely because of your race or gender? What should you do if a single parent on your staff is falling behind in his or her... View Details

01 Jun 1998
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Diversity and Community

commitments to diversity as seriously as our obligations to our customers and shareholders." In accepting Levi Strauss's award, Haas noted that the company "has always tried to be a source of positive change in the communities in which we... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

19 Jul 2011
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Brightening the Future

efforts to improve living standards and open new possibilities for the 20 million (one in four) Filipinos who live in remote areas and lack reliable access to electricity. In May, three motorcycle riders embarked from Manila, leading an... View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Jun 2004
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Alumni Author

on skills or education or experience. It is based on personal attributes and approaches to life. Specifically, I have divided the book into four sections: gaining perspective, managing yourself, leading others, and building values. Were... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Apr 1996
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Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World

are wreaking havoc on the workplace. Reengineering, for example, destabilizes and changes the rules by which organizations operate, he says. "Many of these programs are actually designed to make life easier for top management without... View Details

16 Jul 2019
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The Making of a Movement

making decisions that could advance treatment options for patients with rare cancers. Neither of the Linns worked in science or medicine. A few years earlier, rare cancers had not even been on their radar. Now it was possible their choices could View Details

Keywords: Greg Forbes Siegman; cancer

01 Dec 2003
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Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

again with respect to some of the issues raised by China.” Innovation and continuous improvement are the keys to moving to a stronger competitive position, he says. “We changed more than the Japanese did. The Chinese are more... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

02 Nov 2015
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Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans

Scott Royster (MBA 1992) believes higher education has the power to transform Africa if only its students have access to it. “Statistics from around the world show that individuals who are able to obtain a university degree earn higher lifetime incomes that those who... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

03 Jun 2016
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Again in a Great City

Cummings saw the potential of the city dwindling. The change was partially economic—the city’s credit rating, which had improved by the end of the 1990s, slipped again in the 2000s—and partially personal: Cumming’s children had graduated... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly

20 Aug 2014
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With No Time to Lose

moment Kremer fell ill, HBS was there. Classmates Guy Yamen, Nate Boaz and Andrea Marano were instrumental in helping launch the organization. Professor Jan Hammond, his section adviser, made the calls that got him an appointment with Dr. Robert Brown, the View Details