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- 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
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
as a celebrity CEO with a guru book of success lessons. Almost before the ink dries, the same CEO is mired in notoriety, a celebrity failure as it were. The reasons trace back... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
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The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears
Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)
From Denial: Why Business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Passing the Torch
Jeffrey Immelt In the closest thing to a royal succession business has had in many a year, last September Chairman Jack doffed his crown, bid farewell to his subjects, and ceded rulership of the kingdom of GE to his handpicked successor,... View Details
- 29 Oct 2019
- News
Is This Disney’s Next CEO?
A recent article in Bloomberg notes that Disney strategy chief Kevin Mayer (MBA 1990) might be positioned to succeed longtime Disney CEO Bob Iger. The article highlights Mayer’s recent initiatives at Disney, including a 2015 strategic... View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to Sink a Startup
Tim Westergren of Pandora and Evan Williams of Twitter. YouTube cofounder and former CEO Chad Hurley has called the book "an invaluable alternative to real-world trial and error." A past recipient of the HBS student-voted award for... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 15 Aug 2017
- News
The Category Kingmaker
learning new successful concepts along the way with each successive company,” says Krach, who until recently was CEO and chairman of DocuSign. Early this year he handed the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
for a Corporate Savior by Rakesh Khurana (Princeton University Press) Were it not for the years HBS assistant professor Rakesh Khurana spent researching this book, he would be in danger of being called an opportunist. The questions he raises about View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
At Cyberposium, Amazon's Bezos Debunks Internet Myths
Unable to attend this year's Cyberposium because of the impending birth of his first child, Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos delivered the February event's keynote address from Seattle. Appearing on a large video screen in Burden... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Juicy Story
In the context of the computer industry at large, Professor David Yoffie explores the ups and downs of a company that’s always been a bit different in “Apple Computer, 2006.” The case poses this question: Given its 2 percent computer market share, can Apple find... View Details
Harold Blancke
During his CEO tenure, Blancke embarked on a massive growth plan for Celanese. Believing that success in the petrochemical industry was predicated on size, Blancke acquired several competitors and grew the... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Cyberposium 16
The company wasn’t running on fumes, the fumes were gone,” said Pandora CEO Joe Kennedy (MBA ’85), describing his first desperate days at the firm that has now become a wildly successful online personalized... View Details
- 16 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist
help you become a better judo strategist. Rule One: Maintain A Deep Focus On Your Core Business Whether we are talking about Palm Computing, Intuit, or even big companies such as Charles Schwab, the most successful judo strategists have... View Details
Keywords: by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak
John R. Sculley
Leaving his position as CEO of Pepsi-Cola, Sculley’s first task as head of Apple involved cutting costs and cutting people, most notably, Apple’s founder and symbol, Steven Jobs. Though the firing of Jobs was difficult for many to digest,... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
The Weather Channel: The Impossible Rise of a Media Phenomenon, by Frank Batten (MBA '52) with Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (51st PMD), is the story of a cable network that succeeded when all the experts predicted it would fail. Former chairman and View Details
- 15 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?
achieve their goals. I've been especially interested in the pattern of succession in many entrepreneurial firms—specifically, that many founders are replaced by "professional" CEOs early in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
revenues were less than $750 million. In short order, he became CEO and chairman. When he retired at age 59 in 2001, the company employed 28,000 and revenues exceeded $6.7 billion. George attributes the company’s View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Faculty Books
The CEO Within: Why Inside Outsiders Are the Key to Succession Planning by Joseph L. Bower (HBS Press) Professor Bower explains how companies can develop internal candidates for the View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Alan F. Horn, MBA 1971
Download Alan F. Horn profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1943 Born, New York, New York 1964 Earns BA, Economics, Union College 1971 Earns MBA with Distinction 1971 Joins Procter & Gamble 1973 Joins Tandem Productions, later Embassy... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up for Grabs
WHITMAN: After a successful career at eBay, going for the gold in California. Making her biggest bid in a career built on bids, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman (MBA ’79) threw her hat into the ring in September... View Details