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- 05 Apr 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should We Brace Ourselves for Another Era of M&A Value Destruction?
Summing Up In the end, M&A is about buying more volume. It is a flawed process, invented by brokers, lawyers, and super-sized, ego-based CEOs." With this comment, Ellis Baxter summed up the thinking of the majority of those... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Advancing Change
haven’t they been solved? My answer, in part, is that we need new approaches and new solutions. We need advanced leaders who are focused on the entire ecosystem, not one organization. We need people who think outside the building. View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
the last quarter century, not only in terms of entrepreneurship but also in the dynamics of the free-enterprise system itself. In 1975, venture funding in the United States totaled about $50 million. Today, it is somewhere between $50 and... View Details
- 02 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Pursuing A Passion in Health Care
and eventually drafting up the business case (where I get to apply my net present value and weighted average cost of capital skills from first-year finance classes!). I’ve enjoyed the exposure to the Danaher lean processes and kaizen-based View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 18 Jul 2019
- News
Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins Reflects on the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing
like all of sudden I was lying on my back one night looking up into the night sky and, bingo, next thing you know I was on the moon,” Collins told the magazine. “It was a very long, stair step system of progression.” The interview also... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charlie Williams (MBA 1939, DCS 1952)
aboard the cruiser USS Topeka in 1945 when the ship received President Truman’s announcement of the dropping of the atom bomb. As the ship’s announcer, I read Truman’s words over the PA system to the entire crew. When I finished, there... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data
other words, if a retailer only gives the manufacturer warehouse stock information rather than actual sales data, or if the data is sent by fax instead of electronic transfer (which can be more efficiently verified), VMI may not pay off. To the degree the View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
strokes" to quickly mobilize the organization, with initiating a "long march" that changes systems and habits. Leaders must start by building credibility and confidence in the organization through small wins. This can occur... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
generation ago—and a system he hopes will ensure those happy faces spread from the factory floor to the market and the boardroom. From Baker Library: A recent New York Times article examines how companies have begun incorporating... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
come to an end. It has been replaced by a system of fragmented markets and relatively unstandardized products that has led to intensified competition, a more unstable economy, and greater business uncertainty. This rising uncertainty, I... View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
market for any electronic product. Historically, Apple was trying to sell to its installed base of Mac users, and that base has never been large enough to amount to a hill of beans. Q: What do you think of what Jobs calls the BMW strategy... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
delivery systems take advantage of new approaches for interacting with patients. Historically, telemedicine has been seen by many health care systems as a source of competition; my hope is that more View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Reforming Company Boards
Solutions for Better Corporate Governance (Bloomberg Press) emphasizes accountability, transparency, performance measurement, and a strong system of checks and balances in its practical approach to reform. Why did you write this book?... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Services
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
Partners — touched on several systemic problems that hold the green tech industry back. One is a failure to think about the interrelationship of resources: You can grow great biofuels, for example, but only... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Adapting to Meet Changing Needs
program participated in an intensive summer seminar on systems engineering before beginning their first-year studies in the MBA Program. HBX Course Development Stretches and Energizes Faculty In developing new Leadership courses for the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
health, morality, and fairness, it is high time, she says, to consider how to bring order to this chaotic arena. Is this really a “market,” and if so, how big is it? We don’t like to think of children as economic objects, and yet over the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Paulson Advocates Regulatory Reform
will look not at the trees, but at the whole forest.” He also called for new government power to impose an orderly liquidation of any failing financial institution. Lacking that authority, Paulson said he had to use “duct tape and baling wire to keep the View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
On The Case
Professor Linda Hill first met Tom Mihaljevic (GMP 15, 2013) when he came to campus to participate in a fireside chat that Hill unexpectedly wound up facilitating. At that time, he was the CEO of Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, and the pair found they had a lot to talk... View Details
- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
for"outcome-based" funding — a process based on nonprofits achievingcertain goals. "It comes down to people questioning the system inwhich we've invested hundreds of billions of dollars and asking, 'Is itworking in an... View Details
Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Beantown as a Beacon
30-year low, stagnating middle-class wages, and a political system seemingly incapable of agreement. "So what happened—and what are we going to do about it?" asked Porter. These questions were the impetus behind HBS's US Competitiveness... View Details