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- 16 Mar 2018
- News
Enabling The Pursuit of Entrepreneurial Dreams
AwesomenessTV was sold to NBCUniversal, the timing was right. “I was wearing many hats at the studio — from business development to finance to marketing and operations. I learned a lot on the job, but thought an HBS education would elevate the View Details
- 29 Jun 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered: How do I build my business in this environment? What should leaders... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- April 1984
- Supplement
Dexter Corp. - Worth Loomis, President: Question & Answer Session with Advanced Management Program Participants, Video
By: Francis Aguilar
Aguilar, Francis. "Dexter Corp. - Worth Loomis, President: Question & Answer Session with Advanced Management Program Participants, Video." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 884-528, April 1984.
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
appointments go wrong Let’s begin by taking a look at three examples of poor leadership at public companies and addressing what went wrong. Then, I will recommend five ways boards can ensure they appoint the right leader as CEO: General... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 08 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
We’ve Now Been Asking “What Do You Think?” for 20 Years
This month marks the twentieth anniversary of the beginning of my “What do you think?” column. The Working Knowledge website was the brainchild of a faculty and staff committee organized in 2000 by then Dean Kim Clark to communicate the results of faculty research to a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Go Team!
January cohort students attempt to swish ten free throws as one of many tasks in a "treasure hunt" that took place in February as part of Technology and Operations Management's Project Management module. The hunt involved student teams in a campus-wide search for clues... View Details
- 28 Aug 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: History Matters
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered How can business history influence current practice? What can the work of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones & Anthony Mayo
- 05 Jun 2013
- What Do You Think?
Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’
Two-year average annual client defection rate 37.8% 48.4% 31.7% Two-year average annual operating profit as a percentage of revenue 13.3% 3.7% 22.5% This data suggests (without proof of cause and effect) that significant improvements in performance can be associated... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 May 2019
- News
Leading Questions
lesson she learned from Professor Boris Groysberg in an HBS classroom: “The most important leadership skills in the future aren’t going to be analytical or diagnostic skills. The thing that will make the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Knowledge Integration Rules at Yale
boundaries. Driving the change was the growing feeling that the traditional MBA program was not fulfilling its mission of preparing students for leadership positions in modern organizations. To accomplish its transformation, Yale designed... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
the numbers are accurate Widely criticized for his by-the-numbers approach to the Vietnam War as US Secretary of Defense, Bob McNamara’s pioneering use of statistics during World War II and leadership skills... View Details
- 03 Apr 2013
- What Do You Think?
Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?
Summing Up How Important is Leadership Gender in Influencing the Way We Work? Any attempt to describe behaviors on the basis of gender runs the risk of stereotyping, generalizing, and generally oversimplifying. As Susan Chipman said in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Stanford Lets Students Customize
leads off with a quarter of required “Management Perspectives” courses designed to provide students with an integrative overview of management challenges and to develop soft leadership and communication skills, including courses in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
What I Do: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002)
that, not just because it’s the work that we’re doing, but also because I’m able to bring some of my skills from Google to help us run a user-growth campaign to reach people by using some reasonably basic tools of technology.” “A lot of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Sunny's MBA
In 1986, as a 26-year-old with a degree in agricultural management and little business experience, Sunny Verghese (AMP 115, 1994) was newly employed by a venerable Indian conglomerate to oversee a textile mill in Nigeria. A foreign exchange crisis was making it very... View Details
- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
Lagace: As you teach MBA students and Executive Education participants, are they describing new pressures that weren’t there before? Hill: Leadership is truly getting more demanding. I don’t think anyone ever succeeded by him- or herself... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
You Won't Make It If You Fake It
fields. Can you imagine doing brain surgery without proper training? Or playing the cello at Carnegie Hall or tennis at Wimbledon without years of training and practice? Just as you cannot learn these skills solely in the classroom,... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- September–October 1994
- Article
Regaining the Lead in Manufacturing: How to Integrate Work and Deepen Expertise
Leonard-Barton, D., H. Kent Bowen, Kim B. Clark, Charles A. Holloway, and Steven C. Wheelwright. "Regaining the Lead in Manufacturing: How to Integrate Work and Deepen Expertise." Harvard Business Review 72, no. 5 (September–October 1994): 121–130.