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- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
and teaching on risk management, we identify three categories of risk and elaborate on the ways companies can identify and mitigate them, with particular emphasis on strategy execution risks. Managing the Multiple Dimensions of Risk—Part... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
organizations and as a society. Yet, what is well understood within the organizational literature is that such changes are difficult and are usually met with resistance. Sustainability is no exception; executives and organizations have... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
relationship. Combining our strengths will be profitable, both politically and economically. What’s the toughest thing you’ve had to do in your job? When I first joined M&M Ltd., I had to dismiss some very senior executives who had... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
preregister patients? Or maybe something fashion-related? How long does it take people to get dressed in the morning? Is choosing what to wear stressful? Is an interactive app the answer? That fashion app idea has been rattling around in Foalea’s head for a while, but... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
Alumni Books The Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth by James Allen (MBA 1989) and Chris Zook (Harvard Business Review Press) Based on their decade-long study of companies in more than 40 countries, the authors demonstrate how applying... View Details
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
slowed to 18% in 2015. Beighton was convinced that ASOS's strategy was right and that the company needed to improve its execution to recapture its historical success. Some analysts were not so sure, and the stock price still had not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
taking risks." Click to watch. Eleven years later, that bet is more than paying off. As chief strategy and knowledge officer, Fenton is part of an executive team that has seen NLNS expand from training 13 aspiring principals in two cities... View Details
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
satisfy the growing American consumer demand for lighting, appliances, and consumer electronics in the 1910s to 1920s as well as in the 1950s and 1960s. GE's top executives have shown a clear understanding of the leadership and managerial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
and it's kind of just a checkbox. And I was on the hunt to understand unlocking growth in companies. That was the question I’d been studying for much of my career. And I’ve always bucketed understanding growth into two buckets: building the right strategy and having an... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
customers; selecting the right entrepreneurial marketing path; getting from the early stage to the mainstream in the market life cycle; and executing effective sales and marketing strategy in a dynamic environment. Former student Patricia... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
next generation must be formally groomed to ensure we remain globally competitive.” As a group, the Chirchirillos have attended the weeklong HBS Executive Education offering Families in Business. Daughter Trisha (OPM 36, 2007) and son... View Details
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
central planner who can structure work and then expect individuals to execute tasks in a prescribed order. In many settings, however, workers have discretion to deviate from the assigned order. This paper considers the operational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
We plan on bringing them all back as soon as we are allowed to reopen, but for now they have no income from the company. Many in our industry laid off their employees, we did not.” “How to keep executives motivated who were asked to take... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
recommend that actually for most people. I'm John Fitzgerald, Class of '97. So my first job out of business school was executive assistant to the CEO of my old company. And really interesting, actually, because when I went in to interview... View Details
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
We plan on bringing them all back as soon as we are allowed to reopen, but for now they have no income from the company. Many in our industry laid off their employees, we did not.” “How to keep executives motivated who were asked to take... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
new executive who valued her ability to engage and develop new ideas, and together they pushed efforts that encouraged participation and grassroots idea development to further quality improvement. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
as a developer of technical products for Fortune 500 companies, an executive of cutting-edge startups, and a venture capitalist for eight years. This case study also reviews how private equity investment works, the private equity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
investors, and experienced entrepreneurs. The challenges fall into five broad areas: the need to formalize organizational structure, executive transitions, the need for management systems/processes, evolution of the board of director's... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
course of action). It shows that persuasion and authority are complements at low levels of effectiveness but substitutes at high levels. Furthermore, the principal will rely more on persuasion when agent motivation is more important for the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
said, look, I just had to do lots of tough stuff. And let's say in 2015—14 or 15—my executive assistant, who's a woman named Cathy Lorenz, she moved with me from Milwaukee to Connecticut. We'd worked together for almost 20 years. She... View Details