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- 01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era
hundred people, each of them looking at a different area. That process obviously takes longer to do," he notes, but is well worth the effort, because it "creates more understanding of why we've chosen a particular direction, as well as more readiness to View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
To create breakthrough strategies, harness creativity to the scientific method
team would generate options for implementation and then define what would need to be true for each option to prevail. Through identification of barriers and tests to see how they might be overcome, the team determines which View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Back to School
Campaign for Human Capital. He then oversaw the implementation of a variety of efforts, including a marketing blitz touting the benefits of teaching in Philadelphia; a recruitment event, “Rolling Out the Red Carpet”; leadership training... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
transactions—the metrics Karavites tracks most closely—are up at all his locations. Formulating a turnaround strategy required Kempczinski and his team—which included Kristy Cunningham—to get to the heart of what exactly had happened to... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
and the costs sometimes associated with implementing "green" strategies - strong government regulation at home and abroad will continue to be necessary in order to motivate many businesses to become more... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Making Finance Personal
use over engineering-driven solutions in the consumer-software space and showed that simplicity trumped bells and whistles, an important lesson for subsequent entrepreneurs in those early days of the computer and software revolutions. That cutting-edge leadership in... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
fully answered in advance. "Executives from each side may have different assumptions about which strategy and management practices will be best for the new company," Beer says. "These issues are often hidden and not discussed during... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
doctors, administrators, and finance folks, all trying to work through the nitty-gritty details of how to implement this patient-care innovation. “What does the transition plan look like to get from where we are now to a new model?” asks... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
Australia, and Wichita, Kansas. "Boeing Company: Moonshine Shop" - A case by HBS professors Robert Austin and Richard Nolan details front-line innovations implemented at Boeing by a small group of creative generalists. Sailing instructor,... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Mr. Coffee
from 45 to 60 percent.” Management method: “I’m a believer in situational leadership. I don’t approach businesses and teams with a playbook. Instead, I assess the situation by listening and learning what’s going on before implementing... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
struggles, which cause the demise of so many family businesses? The authors describe the practices that characterize entrepreneurial individuals, families, and organizations and offer detailed advice on how to develop and implement those... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship
Why make them wait to implement their vision? Helping Harvard - to which I feel a deep sense of gratitude in terms of my career and personal development - is especially satisfying and enjoyable for me at this stage of my life." When... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Jul 2013
- News
The Nature of Business
The nonprofit world required a change in thinking for Tercek. "At Goldman Sachs, goals and metrics were super clear," he said. "At TNC, it's not as black and white. All the work we do is important. But we have to be vigilant about focusing our limited resources on the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
Policy: Text and Cases (coauthored with Edmund Learned and William Guth DBA ’60) codified their thinking about strategy formulation and implementation and established the two as leading authorities in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
www.mindedge.com. Performance Measurement & Control Systems for Implementing Strategy by Robert L. Simons (Prentice Hall) "This book is built around a number of tensions inherent in all business," declares... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
executive with 25 years of experience, Viana (PGL 4, 2001) was tired of implementing strategies focused on short-term profit. He had been looking for a small technology company to purchase and run on his own... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
don’t think an Ivy League degree is going to help you in war, but it does,” he notes. “The leadership, operations, and negotiation classes that you take are extremely helpful. I would like to think I ran the best platoon in my company because I View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Rethinking the MBA
corresponding example of actual implementation. But we’re pluralistic, not rigidly prescriptive. We don’t say that every school must pursue every goal. Using the wide range of examples that we provide, they will all have to figure out their own View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
officials show no signs of changing course and backing away from further market reforms. But external criticism of the country’s uneven progress in implementing the trade agreement has grown stronger in recent months. U.S. manufacturers... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
prevent them from implementing ideas to improve the way they work: avoiding controversy, poor use of time, reluctance to change, organizational silos, management blockers, incorrect information and bad assumptions, size matters, and... View Details