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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
of entry-level assistants, neophyte managers, seasoned VPs, CEOs, and anyone else who worries that their company may be caught flat-footed by the future. More Than a Motorcycle: The Leadership Journey at Harley-Davidson, by Rich Teerlink... View Details
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
Sloan School of Management, Harvard Law School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, the University of South Africa, and the Iran Center for Management Studies. His books on teaching, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion View Details
- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
things, there is a transition to get through. The two-finger typist who wants to learn to touch type will suffer a performance decrement when he makes the shift. The idea was to improve performance by learning a new skill (e.g., touch... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
your own, authentic way. Whatever your field or family structure, you will learn to cope with transitions at home and at work, deal with guilt and worry, negotiate for advancement and flexibility, and much more. Written by Daisy Dowling,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
between the FASB and the IASB would allow GAAP to better respond to market forces. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1413775 The Effect of Market Leadership in Business Process Innovation: The Case(s)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
suggest. Our results challenge the widely held view that appointments of independent directors necessarily add objectivity to the board of a firm. Purchase the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14232 The Ontological Foundations of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
innovation outcomes as well as the ongoing performance of existing products. We find that ambidextrous organization designs are relatively more effective in executing innovation streams than functional, cross-functional, and spinout designs. Further, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 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
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
targeted therapies administered through IPG extended patient lifespans but increased overall costs. Now, in mid-2017, IPG is undergoing a major transition as it prepares to outsource the bulk of its genomic testing volume to Navican... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
exclusive than the approximately 7,000 companies worldwide that received a venture investment in 2010. Birchbox was among the just 823 companies—11.8 percent—that had at least one woman founder. The number with a woman of color on the View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
success put them in a group even more exclusive than the approximately 7,000 companies worldwide that received a venture investment in 2010. Birchbox was among the just 823 companies—11.8 percent—that had at least one woman founder. The number with a woman of color on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
local Normandy cows, a region known for its dairy products. Not all of the original Jeannette workers were enthusiastic about making the transition to a new way of doing things. They are no longer with the company. “Some of them weren’t... View Details
- January 2017 (Revised March 2017)
- Case
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
George, William W., Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Amram Migdal. "Royal DSM: From Continuous Transformation to Organic Growth." Harvard Business School Case 317-063, January 2017. (Revised March 2017.)
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
October 2016 Harvard Business Review Competing with a Goliath By: Avery, Jill Abstract—A Peruvian apparel company struggles to position itself against a global brand. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51646 October 2016 Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
privately financed project that will provide enough desalinated seawater to provide drinking water for 300,000 San Diegans. The propriety of having private companies provide a public good like water may be controversial, but the economics are not. As for View Details
- Web
HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
primarily by Executive Education, HBP, and MBA tuition and fees. After a challenging fiscal 2021 in which Executive Education was forced to halt operations and then rapidly transition to all-virtual programing because of the pandemic, the... View Details
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
countries, these deals can last for a while. More democratic regimes and the emergence of NGOs, however, ensure that such deals will come under attack rather soon. To take illustrations from another continent: Two large foreign companies signed concession agreements... View Details
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HBS - Financials | From the CFO
successful transition to remote learning, delivering 30 courses virtually. All of the Program's graduates were fully employed at graduation, and the School developed a financial aid plan to support an additional year for those students... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
be treated like the mother/son/ brother/aunt/neighbor that we all are. No matter how senior you are, you have lots to teach and even more to learn. Linda Rossetti (MBA 1991), managing director, golden seeds; blogger, novofemina.com, Boston, Massachusetts I've never... View Details