Producing Managers - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Jun 2013
What Do You Think?

Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’

commented, ''No Surprises Management seems pretty obvious. Why in the world would you want the people you're counting on to help you achieve your objectives to be blindsided?" Roger Studer added, "Take care of those who take... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jun 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015

Relationships edited by Susan Fournier, Michael Breazeale, and Jill Avery (Routledge) Senior Lecturer Jill Avery and her coeditors have produced a successor to their groundbreaking Consumer-Brand Relationships: Theory and Practice. It is... View Details

01 Aug 2002
News

HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive

FishLogic's Javier Segovia, Patrick George, Benjamin Vigoda, and Gonçal Pagan: producing programmable signal-processing chips that cost less and work faster. Lucas Klein, Matthew Mugo Fields, and Jason Green of BEST Education Partners,... View Details

01 Mar 2008
News

Classroom Legend

Graduate School of Business, the University of South Africa, and the Iran Center for Management Studies. His books on teaching, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership and Teaching and the Case Method, are studied by... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Roland Christensen; George Albert Smith; Fritz J. Roethlisberger; Richard Meriam; Edmund P. Learned; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Sep 2005
News

WATER Ltd.

In an age of global scarcity, water has become a valuable commodity in both the industrialized and developing worlds. With governments and communities increasingly unable to manage the complexities and expense of water treatment and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Waste Management and Remediation Services

01 Jun 2012
News

Made in the USA

that today accounts for more than 70 percent of Riverdale’s sales. When Knott launched Riverdale in 1980, virtually all US and foreign lobster traps were made from wood. Today, nearly 90 percent are Aquamesh traps, which are far more durable. The manufacturing process... View Details

Keywords: Blagg, Deborah; cheese; lobster fishing; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

01 Mar 2010
News

Lords of Strategy

John Weber In his new book, The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World (Harvard Business Press), Walter Kiechel III (MBA ’76) traces the rise of modern management consulting from the 1960s to the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

Laurence F. Probst, III

Probst turned Electronic Arts from a simple producer of videogames into a bona fide and consistent “hit producer.” With such mega-hits as Madden NFL Football, The Sims, and Harry Potter, Probst has created a sustainable franchise. Under... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

01 Sep 2012
News

What’s the Big Idea?

confronted with setbacks. Yet in a survey of 669 managers around the world, “progress” ranked dead last as a perceived source of employee motivation, falling behind more expected (but less effective) carrots such as bonuses and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Management; Management; Management; Management

16 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters

that our friends abroad cheer for America with foreboding and pessimism, the way sports fans nervously pull for a team whose lead is slimming and whose energy is fading. These outsiders recognize that the system of democratic capitalism that View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria

18 Jul 2014
News

Team Players

Olympic Park Legacy Company. Her education and experience complemented Blumkin's, as did her roots across the river in Mamaroneck, in New York's Westchester County. Blumkin immediately signed Lehrer as manager of communications and... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

01 Dec 2007
News

Rediscovering America

traditional American strengths you talk about in the book, and you link it to “kaleidoscope thinking.” What is that? If you look back in history, we’ve never been the lowest-cost producer of goods and services, but we have been smart... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

Charles Erwin Wilson

Despite his reluctance to produce military goods, Wilson was nonetheless an excellent manager during World War II and helped his company garner over $14 billion worth of military contracts. In the post war... View Details

Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

01 Jun 2017
News

Starting Lineup: Values Proposition

Illustrations by Drue Wagner The Company The Leadership The Pitch The News Saathi Cofounder and CFO Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014); Founded 2015 Almost 3 million women in India don’t have access to sanitary pads. Saathi’s environmentally friendly pads, made from banana fiber... View Details

01 Sep 2015
News

The Protagonist Goes Prime Time

Buell sprints from the Skydeck, his gray jacket flapping, to add another student idea to the slowly growing list on the chalkboard. The Managing Health Care Delivery Executive Education class is brainstorming ways to improve the customer... View Details

Keywords: April White

23 Oct 2019
News

Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method

participate in two simulations in the required Technology and Operations Management (TOM) course. The “Shad Exercise” provides a sense of the challenges of managing a complex process. In teams of 12,... View Details

Keywords: Educational Innovation

Jean Riboud

Riboud is credited with building the world’s leading oilfield testing company. During his tenure, he produced a 19-fold increase in revenue (to $6.4 billion) and a 44-fold increase in earnings (to $1.2 billion), often View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

01 Dec 2018
News

Trade Off

requests, and we witness periodic trade spats. The Catfish War is a famous example pitting the Mississippi Delta, where very poor people live off the catfish industry, against the Mekong Delta, where you have the same. The US producers... View Details

01 Dec 2013
News

Faculty Books

grading standards? Associate Professor Francesca Gino and colleagues investigate the phenomenon of the "fundamental attribution error." The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking Senator John Heinz Professor of View Details

01 Sep 2005
News

Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock

producing its oil, each of the five or six key field that are still around 90 percent of their production are in real danger of a pending production collapse. You might see the production from any one of these fields drop by as much as... View Details

Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

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