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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
the government took so long to move could have been as simple as structure. “There are lessons to be gleaned from how the war on terrorism played out, post–9/11, where there were all these fiefdoms that sprang up,” says Josh Lefkowitz...
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work
at the end of his Moral and Spiritual Inquiry Through Literature course, Scotty McLennan goes one step further. "I ask students to think about the lesson of Tolstoy's character Iván Ilych, who realizes that what he has been missing is...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2001
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Books: Judo Strategy
this lesson with examples from new- and old-economy firms that have learned to “push when pulled” and leverage their opponents’ assets. The authors discuss in detail how the leaders of three companies — Palm Computing (and later...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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South Asian Women at Work
that the interviewer was complimenting her sari, Aly responded with a “yes.” The interviewer’s expression said it all. She went shopping, bought a pantsuit, and was hired at her next interview. “So the first lesson I learned as a South...
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- 01 Feb 1998
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Not Your Typical Business Conference
goals, well armed with our Harvard MBA, let's not fall into the trap of letting our careers and our MBA define us. . . .I was fortunate enough to learn a critical lesson from the most important role model in my life, my mom: Work hard in...
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- 01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning
At the conclusion of the session, McCormick inquires, "So, how did this case method discussion feel to you?" "Frustrating," comes one response. "There are so many ideas and not enough opportunities to discuss or express them," says another. "There isn't one View Details
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Apr 2002
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Dot Vertigo
lessons from companies such as Cisco and drugstore.com and powerhouses such as Charles Schwab, Merrill Lynch, and Ford that have networked their organizations to a strategic advantage. The book ends with a discussion dispelling what Nolan...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
lessons or definitive answers. But somewhere in the two-day span we spend talking with villagers, sharing their food, and sleeping in their homes, perceptions shift. It’s one thing to read a newspaper article about the impact of...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
leap that we’d hoped for, and it will still keep us far ahead of our competition. It’s the best-selling airplane of all time during the preproduction phase. And we learned a lot of things that we won’t do next time. Do some of those View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
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Bounce Back from a Blunder
the assurance that you’ll share the hard truths quickly. “It ultimately catalyzed them to have more trust in me because they knew I’d be honest.” Victoria Montgomery Brown is CEO and cofounder of the digital media company Big Think. Her new book is Digital Goddess: The...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Innovation as P&G’s Key
Charan (MBA ’65, DBA ’67) team up to show how P&G has reconnected with customers and primed a sustainable innovation engine. Charan contributes cases and lessons from companies he has worked with, including IDEO, Nokia, Shimano,...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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3-Minute Briefing: Angela Ruggiero (MBA 2014)
to evolve and grow. Right now I think I’m in an ideal place—applying management lessons from work to my duties for the IOC and Women’s Sports Foundation and using my experience in sports at the largest hedge fund in the world.
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- 01 Jun 2011
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Faculty Books
Economics of Crime: Lessons for and from Latin America edited by Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Edwards, and Ernesto Schargrodsky (University of Chicago Press) Although crime rates in Latin America are among the highest in the world,...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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New HBS, KSG Joint Degree
program,” said KSG professor Robert Stavins, who cochaired the Joint-Degree Faculty Task Force with HBS professor Carl Kester, deputy dean for Academic Affairs. “In developing a truly integrated joint-degree program such as this,” Kester added, “students will be able...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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Racial Bias Pervades Health Care
have serious ailments unnoticed during primary care exams. White learned the lesson early on. As a young medical student in Memphis, he watched a black woman being operated on for uterine cancer, a procedure botched by the white surgeon...
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- 01 Oct 1998
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Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
identification with your job and the company are other important factors. Besides creative talents and the gift of logical thinking, you also need the best and most competent professional training in the world." Also in the article, Andresen - sharing a View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
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The View from the Pit
of the lessons continue to resonate. "They taught me to view the enterprise as a whole - and as something that was subject to lots of conflicting pressures and constraints from customers, investors, and em- ployees," says Baldwin. "Now...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 1999
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Joel Bines
Joel Bines has a knack for inspiring others to take a chance on him. Time and again this hard-driving member of a close-knit Boston family has found himself succeeding in jobs for which he's had no prior experience. In each instance, he has drawn strength from the...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Apr 2000
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Marketing Muscle
Edwards's role in making Yahoo! one of the most recognized names in the Internet economy taught the industry a lesson in the importance of brand-name recognition. Shunned no longer, marketers are "the new rock stars of the Internet,"...
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- 11 Jul 2013
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Making Lives Better
motivated. You have to understand how and why people are motivated so that you, as a leader, can help them do their best work," she says. The lesson has translated profoundly at the research-focused AFS, where Tepper Singer manages a...
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