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- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job
examining what is said, how, and by whom—and how that shapes the outcome. This second module examines how to design a process that leads to high-quality conversation: Who should be in the room? What are the rules of engagement? The third... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
may end up feeling that executives from the other company have taken over. All of these human forces can destroy the potential economic value of the merger." Beer suggests that cross-company task forces be established to design the structures, systems, and View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
be unpacked, loaded, and repacked was reduced by simply delivering the parts to the cleaner in baskets that could be hand-dipped in the solution. As a result, cleaning costs dropped by 75 percent. “We looked at every step of our View Details
- 13 Jun 2016
- News
JetBlue Chairman on How to Handle Betrayal
“You’ve had a part to do with it. It could be that you trusted when you shouldn’t have trusted. You didn’t think about whether the person had high character, was competent and had the authority and therefore shame on you. We don’t like to take responsibility for that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
Singleton (MBA ’88). The trio look at what can be learned by stepping back and taking a longer term view of how some of the greatest business leaders of the last century built successful careers. The book draws on information from the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
that companies will increasingly understand a more subtle but equally significant benefit: embracing diversity helps revitalize and strengthen the organization. "The very act of incorporating diversity forces the organization to rethink itself, a View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
In just 10 short, accessible, and inviting chapters, Rethinking Investing: A Very Short Book on Very Long-Term Investing presents straightforward steps that ordinary people can take to better invest their money. This book dispels myths... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
A New Platform for Alumni Engagement
impact on both students and business leaders,” he says. Examples include conferences, webinars, and more SIPs, which offer access to cutting-edge research on a faster timeline than the traditional academic-publishing cycle enables. The first View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain
of information that she could not find elsewhere, she realized her research might help others as well. "The book is the collective wisdom of those who've been there, the anecdotal advice only a friend might tell you," observes Cohen. "Putting it all into a book was a... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
would need to hire a new CEO. “But we couldn’t bring someone on until we knew what we were looking at,” Kordestani explains. The board asked CFO Beth deHamel to step in as interim CEO, a role she filled for a year while the leadership... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
More at www.WineriesOfTheSierraFoothills.com. Gender Balance: When Men Step Up edited by Marie-Christine Maheas (GMP 8, 2010) (Editions Eyrolles) The business leaders interviewed for this book are categorical: gender balance is a tool to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
the research has been far slower than it should be.” Van Etten is committed to improving the process on the business and management side. He is promoting the concept of “team science” and trying to increase the sharing of data and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
the Racial Equity Plan (REP), which was developed last summer by members of the Dean’s Anti-Racism Task Force and launched in September. “There always have been people dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion at HBS, and the new View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
perfecting the process of entering a market. Take on only as many new markets as you can open while rigorously following your process to make sure you do it right. — Dan Wallace (MBA 1986) My recommended... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
home-care medical team would be nearby. On a Monday afternoon draped in mid-October grays, Dr. Komei Umeda and a nurse make the 20-minute drive from the clinic in Tokyo’s western Setagaya ward. They walk up the stone path, under a carefully tended canopy of grapevines,... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
campus in 1971, a campus which today is 115.5 acres. Clean-room standards became stricter. No more putting pizzas on top of diffusion furnaces to keep them warm. But the hair and shoes of people working there were uncovered. The smocks worn were not as clean as they... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
couple of hiccups on some other ones, which I won’t go into, but in fact, there was one I stepped off from because I couldn’t accept how it was being run. So you just have to do what you think is right for where you are going to play a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
Hamermesh continues. “The bad news is that the processes involved in delivering care haven’t kept pace with those advances.” “This is our way of having an immediate impact on practice,” says Professor Richard Bohmer, faculty chair of MHCD... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
processing techniques that have eliminated or greatly reduced hazardous waste contaminants. In recent years, for example, the company has invested $100 million to improve fundamental paper pulp processes and... View Details