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Georges F. Doriot

strategy for supporting the war effort earned him the rank of Brigadier General. He was an outlier who believed deeply in innovation, disciplined analysis and future focus. He refused to use HBS’s vaunted case method, preferring to... View Details

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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Doriot held seven positions in four divisions of the Quartermaster Corps and eventually rose to the rank of brigadier general. Thereafter referred to as "the General," even in civilian life, Doriot proved tremendously adept in bringing... View Details

01 Jun 2006
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One-on-One with Tom Oreck

grounding in every aspect of the business. “I like to tell people that I rose up the ranks through the sheer force of nepotism,” he deadpans with self-deprecating humor. He made HBS his last training stop before taking over as president... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Sep 2020
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Reinvigorating Democracy: A Vote for Change

primaries with a single, nonpartisan primary that uses the same ballot for all voters. The top five finishers then advance to the general election. The second step involves implementing ranked-choice voting in the general election. By View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan

01 Dec 2002
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GE's Jeff Immelt

judge.” When asked about the sacrifices he's made to rise through the ranks at GE, Immelt admitted that he hasn't been able to maintain as many close friendships as he'd like. All of his free time is spent with his wife and daughter, he... View Details

03 Sep 2014
What Do You Think?

Who Should Choose Your Boss?

case, the entire organization has been structured to create a kind of talent marketplace in which employees are "buying and selling" ideas, jobs, and associates. At W. L. Gore & Associates, manufacturer of Gore-Tex, "there are no View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Food & Beverage

25 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University

expectations with them. With the support of ambitious university presidents, they strove to make their new academic environments like those from which they had come. This internal drive was reinforced by external systems for accrediting, classifying, and View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring; Education

03 Mar 2010
What Do You Think?

To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?

both measures, the U.S. ranks low relative to other countries, particularly those in the Middle East. In responses to this month's column, Kamal Gupta believes one explanation is that "societies range from 'deal based' to... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?

four categories: An offshorability index of 100 to 76 was ranked as "highly offshorable," or Category I; 75-51 (Category II) was "offshorable"; 50-26 (Category III) was "non-offshorable"; and 25-0 (Category IV) was "highly... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library

Lehman Brothers opened offices overseas, and the firm served in a financial advisory capacity in U.S. and foreign transactions. By 1966, Lehman Brothers, described by Time magazine as “a diversified department store of high finance,” View Details

01 Jun 2002
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Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life

break to earn his MBA (with distinction), and then continued up the ranks as submarine squadron commander and finally deputy oceanographer of the Navy. After retiring from the Navy, he took an assignment with the Defense Advanced Research... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 1, 2008

rankings even after changing employers: women. Unlike their male counterparts, female stars who switched firms performed just as well, in the aggregate, as those who stayed put. The 189 star women in the sample (18% of the star analysts... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

October 2010
Journal Article

The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Corporate Hierarchies

By: Maria Guadalupe and Julie Wulf

This paper establishes a causal effect of product market competition on various characteristics of organizational design. Using a unique panel-dataset on firm hierarchies of large U.S. firms (1986-1999) and a quasi-natural experiment (trade liberalization), we find... View Details

Keywords: Business Ventures; Product; Markets; Competition; Organizational Design; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Rank and Position; Organizational Structure; Decision Choices and Conditions; Change; Trade; United States

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November – December 2011
Article

Most Likely to Succeed: Leadership in the Industry

By: Robert C. Pozen and Theresa Hamacher

What is the critical factor for success in the U.S. mutual fund industry? Is it top-ranked investment performance, innovative products, or pervasive distribution? In our view, it is none of these factors, despite their obvious importance. Instead, the best predictors... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Success; Investment Funds; Rank and Position; Performance; Investment; Innovation and Invention; Product; Distribution; Forecasting and Prediction; Asset Management; Governance Controls; United States

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01 Sep 2020
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Maintaining a Resilient Democracy

country. “On a scale of 1 to 10, only about 30 percent of US respondents born since 1980 ranked it at 10,” he shares. “That concerns me. “Ours isn’t the first contentious chapter in US history,” Moss elaborates. “But when we’ve put the... View Details

Keywords: Deb Blagg

04 Sep 2019
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The School that Donham Built

array of challenges: HBS courses were taught in classrooms scattered across Harvard Yard; faculty and student ranks had been severely depleted by the Great War; finances were precarious; and the curriculum—focused on industry-specific... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka

work. They met in 1990, when they were both new to the firm, having recently returned to Tokyo from Boston, and rose through the ranks of partnership together. He watched Oishi risk everything to build something new. “Kanoko saw that... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

The Challenge of the Multi-site Nonprofit

highest affiliation organizations; Planned Parenthood and Outward Bound were high autonomy organizations; SOS Kinderdorf ranked lowest on the autonomy scale, and about in the middle for affiliation.) The point isn't whether an... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

panel data. Expressive Voting and Its Cost: Evidence from Runoffs with Two or Three Candidates By: Pons, Vincent, and Clémence Tricaud Abstract—In French parliamentary and local elections, candidates ranked first and second in the first... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2011
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Extraordinary People

he founded in Sanliurfa. One of Turkey’s most successful business leaders and philanthropists, Hüsnü Özyeğin is a self-made man. After working his way through college and business school — including running the Gallows Grill in Gallatin Hall at HBS — he rose through... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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