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- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
entrepreneurs, successful CEOs of other food service companies. If you look around the restaurant industry, you will find it populated with Dunkin’ executives who left us better than they found us, and went... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983
successful companies. While Nelson tries to keep a low profile, Providence, with offices around the world, competes with larger, global firms. With the success of the firm and $40 billion under management,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1886489 Determinants of Successful Frontline Process Improvement: Action versus Analysis Authors:Anita L. Tucker and Sara J. Singer Abstract Senior manager participation is a key View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
In a hypercompetitive global economy, creativity has never been more important for success . But how do you create a company that unleashes and capitalizes on innovation? For answers, writers at the HBS Alumni Bulletin turned to five HBS... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
us to hire consultants who have little interest in self-aggrandizement," he wrote last year in the Harvard Business Review. "We must hire people who are team players, who get more pleasure from the group's success than their own... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
made. For example, in my business (motion pictures), film and television product can deliver important climate messages without “hitting people over the head with them.” There is a balance to be struck and we must find it. Scott Jacobs (MBA 2007) View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
(PhDOB 2019) has studied the issues facing local papers from multiple angles. Now, as cofounder and CEO of the National Trust for Local News, she has developed a first-of-its-kind model to preserve local news as a public good. The premise... View Details
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
sitting on a rare opportunity, and they must be systematic in how they take advantage of it if they want to make positive changes," says George, a Professor of Management Practice at HBS and the former chairman and CEO of Medtronic,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2017
- News
Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973
Picture 1982 Joins Symbolics 1993 Joins Lotus Development Corp. 1995 Joins Digital Equipment Corp. 1996 Named President and CEO, AltaVista 2003 Joins Catalyst as President 2008 Named CEO, Catalyst 2015 Retires from Catalyst Retired President and CEO, Catalyst Clues to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
entrepreneurs from other candidates. To address that problem, Butler compared the psychological testing results of over 4,000 successful entrepreneurs and of approximately 1,800 business leaders who described themselves as general... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Enron’s Lessons for Managers
tragedy and a point of departure for thinking more carefully about the institutions humans have created to organize our economic lives, according to Salter. In a wide-ranging talk with Harvard Business School alumni on June 4, weeks before former Enron View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
Editor's note: Seasoned entrepreneurs know that a great idea for a new company is no guarantee of a successful exit. Startups fail more often than not, largely due to hubris-fueled mistakes by an inexperienced founding team. Alas, the... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
ramifications for Facebook’s long-term business success. But can Facebook avoid changing its business model? What do you think? Original Column Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, one of the most dominant firms on the internet... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
while “applied” research sets out specifically to address a practical problem, with the intent of solving it. That poses a potential dilemma for scholars who want to influence business practice and achieve the requisite journal publications for a View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?
this dynamic future for humanity.” Meanwhile, Blue Origin, under the ownership of Bezos—Amazon CEO and richest man in the solar system—is also pursuing citizen astronaut flights on its New Shepard rocket and space capsule. Weinzierl... View Details
- 04 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms
“The more similar you are to someone, the more likely you are to work with them.” That homogeneity, however, came with a penalty: a clear lack in financial performance. Partners who came from the same school achieved an 11.5 percent lower View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
to be a portfolio manager at Morgan.” Proudest moment: “July 17, 1996, when my husband and I got remarried after having been divorced since 1990.” Carl Ferenbach Ill Managing Director Berkshire Partners LLC Boston, Massachusetts After his first management position as... View Details
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
Despite these efforts, the authors stress that success is unlikely unless the people leading these initiatives truly commit to long-term improvement. Equality as a competitive advantage Looking forward, Ammerman and Groysberg envision a... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
bookstores found ways to stay in business. Then came Amazon. The internet giant got its start as a bookseller, taking its first order in July 1995. Its online-only model meant that Amazon’s inventory was essentially limitless, and its rapid View Details
Keywords: April White