Change Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jan 2005
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Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965

twenty years ago the company was unprepared for changes in the marketplace as competitors emerged that offered clients individual pieces of the technology package, such as a database program or storage device. This brought about increased... View Details

01 Feb 1999
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New Releases

which looks at the roles of three management groups: worldwide business managers, country or regional managers, and worldwide functional managers. A second new chapter, "Managing the Transformation Process," outlines the structural and... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Dec 2012
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Reimagining Capitalism In a World of Limited Resources

knows quite a bit about the topic. "Capitalism has traditionally been about driving wealth and productivity through efficiencies in capital and labor," says Henderson, who teaches the MBA elective Reimagining Capitalism. "But in the 21st century, we face a View Details

Keywords: Dalai Lama

01 Dec 2011
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Welcome to the Future

be adopted for all. “Perhaps the most fundamental change is that, whereas Aldrich is a half circle, we wanted to create a whole circle,” says MBA Program Chair Professor Youngme Moon. Managed by HBS... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Construction of Buildings; Construction

23 Apr 2018
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Sowing the Seeds of Leadership

leadership of the Costa Rica–based university in January 2017. To this most recent task, he brings his entrepreneurial mindset, global perspective, and firm belief in the power of young people to change the world. The innovative... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

30 May 2024
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Women’s Association Goes Nationwide; Connecticut Club Hosts Beshears

science of behavioral economics as it is applied to health care. Behavioral economics, which combines psychology and economics to understand individual decision-making and market outcomes, is the primary focus of Beshears’ research, and he collaborates with... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

12 Jul 2011
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Phone Fun

culture’s changing tastes, Braterman’s management style favors minimizing red tape and encouraging agile responses to the latest marketplace trends. “We can turn on a dime,” he said in the article.... View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

05 Aug 2014
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A Diversified Portfolio

Professor Janice Hammond, the Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing at HBS, was named to the fund's advisory board. "The Women's Venture Capital Fund was referred to me by two highly regarded HBS professors, and it was that referral—together with the impressive... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

17 Apr 2017
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Panera-bred Leaders Have Risen Throughout the Restaurant Industry

offer. Shaich will remain as CEO of the operation. “Most people [here], they’ve been pushed to think in ways they’ve never been pushed to think about before,” Shaich told the Globe. Though those lessons add up to good management... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

01 Dec 1999
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From the Editors

popular demand and voiced the hope that "no alumnus will be so overwhelmed with modesty that he will fail to send in items of interest about himself." Further changes were announced in 1941 when Assistant Dean Luther G. Holbrook (MBA '36)... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

27 Mar 2023
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A Sporting Chance

in fall 1994. Coming from an engineering background, he found the School's approach of building broad general management and leadership skills a bit foreign at first but has come to rely on those practices over the years. "I specialize in... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

01 Dec 2019
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What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?

Image by John Ritter Image by John Ritter An estimated $30 trillion in assets worldwide—including half of all professionally managed assets in Europe—are already evaluated through environmental, social, and governance (ESG) or impact... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Oct 2002
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John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger

food,” notes the low-key Batcha, who was raised on a farm in rural New Jersey and majored in horticulture at Rutgers before coming to HBS. “I believe hunger and famine would be much more widespread today without the changes the seed... View Details

27 Mar 2012
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One School at a Time

“We have a very small staff because we try to keep tuition as low as possible,” she says. “HBS gave me a great appreciation for the number of moving pieces that need to come together to create a successful organization. Schools are very organic. They’re alive. It’s a... View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019

psychology, and holistic health for answers when her own health crises struck. She now brings those solutions to moms everywhere. Mom Hacks gives you the specific smallest changes that yield the biggest impact for moms and their children.... View Details

01 Jun 2012
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Around the World

Issue Focus: The Global Manager GETTING ORIENTED: On his first evening in Cape Town, South Africa, Jan Dolezal (HBS 2013) and his FIELD 2 team explored the city's bustling waterfront. Photo courtesy Jan Dolezal Learn about hosting FIELD2... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2004
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Cyberposium: Pros and Cons of Outsourcing

The nuances of outsourcing — a swiftly growing phenomenon — are sometimes lost in a blizzard of headlines about IT jobs disappearing overseas. At the ninth annual Cyberposium conference, a panel of experts offered their perspective on a movement that is View Details

Keywords: cyberposium; cost; Corporate Services

20 Apr 2020
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To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual

look at this from a crisis management perspective. Our HBS training prepares us for this. I want to give a merged medical and management perspective and talk about best approaches, how we might identify... View Details