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Mastering Strategy Execution

By: Robert Simons

Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details

  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

Alfaro Named Young Global Leader

HBS associate professor Laura Alfaro, an expert on international capital flows, foreign direct investment, and sovereign debt, has been named a Young Global Leader 2008 by the World Economic Forum. The honor recognizes the top 200 to 300 global leaders under the View Details
Keywords: Finance; Management
  • 01 Dec 2006
  • News

Stuart Wins Award

HBS professor Toby Stuart, an expert in the field of organizational psychology, has won the 2007 Ewing Marion Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship. The medal, which includes a $50,000 cash award, is given every two years to one scholar... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

    Jack C. Massey

    Massey founded Hospital Corporation of America in 1968 at the age of 64. Under his leadership, HCA went on to become the largest owner and operator of hospitals in the United States. A successful venture capitalist, Massey had the unique... View Details
    Keywords: Healthcare

      Howard R. Hughes, Jr.

      Hughes began his business career at the age of nineteen by taking over his father’s business, Hughes Tool Company. Hughes parlayed this small business into a highly successful and well-regarded aircraft manufacturing operation. Through... View Details
      Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
      • Career Coach

      Marc Herson

      Plattner Ventures (Partner); Softbank Capital (Executive-in-Residence); SONY BMG Music (Senior Vice President, Strategy & Business Development); Bertelsmann AG (Investment Director); Thurloe Finance (Founder of VC firm); Lawyer View Details
      Keywords: Emerging Markets; Entertainment / Media; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Social Enterprise; Telecommunications

        Donald J. Trump

        At the age of 25, Trump obtained his first property from a cash-strapped transportation company, and later sold it to the government for a substantial profit, as the future site of New York City’s new convention center. Trump’s other... View Details
        Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
        • 01 Mar 2012
        • News

        In Memoriam

        1950), a renowned sociologist and a member of the HBS faculty for 44 years, died in November at the age of 89. The School’s Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Organizational Behavior, Emeritus, and the author of 26 books, Lawrence was one... View Details
        Keywords: obituraries; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
        • 15 Dec 2024
        • News

        Agenda: Amanda E/J Morrison (MBA 2014)

        RIPPLE EFFECT “A woman gets a period around age 12 to 14, and then we tell her to go off in the world and not get pregnant.” “A woman gets a period around age 12 to 14, and then we tell her to go off in the world and not get pregnant.” For 15 years, the morning-after... View Details
        Keywords: Janelle Nanos; reproductive rights; health care; leadership; marketing

          Eugene N. Beesley

          The first non-Lilly family member to serve as president, Beesley joined the pharmaceutical company at the age of 20, and worked in a variety of positions before becoming an executive level manger. Under Beesley’s leadership, research and... View Details
          Keywords: Healthcare
          • 28 May 2021
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          Unspent Love

          that she would miss. She assembled two gift boxes, one for each of her two children. Inside Mailliard packed gifts and wrote letters for every birthday up to the age of 30, every graduation, driver’s license, college admission,... View Details
          • 01 Sep 2012
          • News

          Case Study Pioneer

          HBS’s first director of case development, Andrew Towl (MBA 1936), whose three-decade career at the School was instrumental in establishing the influence of the case method worldwide, died in June at the age of 101. Towl conducted... View Details
          Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
          • 01 Jun 1998
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          Wanted: Leaders for the New Millennium

          Top MBA Program seeks applicants from all industries and backgrounds. Minimum requirements: demonstrated leadership potential, high standard of academic achievement. Must be able to lead through others and guide an organization through change. Risk-taking a plus. No... View Details
          Keywords: Cindy Olnick
          • 02 Apr 2019
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          Remembering William Wilder

          William Wilder William Wilder William P. Wilder (MBA 1950), a steadfast HBS supporter and the namesake of Wilder House, passed away in Toronto on March 23 at the age of 96. A prominent business leader and philanthropist, Bill Wilder was a... View Details
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          Harvard Business School

          Baker Library Special Collections Exhibits More Exhibits Explore the Exhibit Student Pioneers The Value of Business Education The Golden Age of Black Business AASU Early Years & Influence AASU Founders Core Demands & Proposals Early Years... View Details
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          The Exhibition - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

          Genesis of the Collection 2. The Response: The Corporate Files 3. The Collection: Data for Case Studies 4. The Medium: Industrial Photography and the Machine Age 5. The Message: Confidence in Corporate America 6. The Product: Consumer... View Details
          • February 2000 (Revised May 2001)
          • Case

          BET.com

          By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Pauline M Fischer
          Black Entertainment Television, a leading cable programmer, is launching BET.com, an Internet portal targeted toward African-Americans. This case examines the challenges facing BET management as it defines its service offerings and target customer segments in a... View Details
          Keywords: Product Positioning; Ethnicity; Internet and the Web; Age; Race; Decision Choices and Conditions; Business Startups; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States
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            Samuel I. Newhouse

            At the age of 26 with $600 borrowed from his relatives, Newhouse bought his first local newspaper, the Staten Island Advance. Over the next five decades, Newhouse would amass a communications giant including a collection of 22 local... View Details
            Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
            • 01 Sep 2024
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            Action Plan: Yes, Chef!

            Wolfgang Puck (OPM 53, 2019)—aka the father of California cuisine, OG celebrity chef, and culinary empire-builder—began his career as a disgraced cook’s apprentice at a hotel restaurant. At 14, he’d been eager to take the post just outside his Austrian hometown: Not... View Details
            Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune
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            Harvard Business School

            Baker Library Special Collections Exhibits More Exhibits Explore the Exhibit Student Pioneers The Value of Business Education The Golden Age of Black Business AASU Early Years & Influence AASU Founders Core Demands & Proposals Early Years... View Details