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- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
tells readers how to analyze the development of these areas in the future. Read our Q&A and book excerpt. Podcast: The Authentic Leader The best leaders are not the "follow me over the hill" type, says Professor View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path
In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Robin Greenwood, the George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking and Anne and James F. Rothenberg Faculty Fellow, saw another catastrophe... View Details
Keywords: April White
- December 10, 2024
- Article
Is Your Company’s Problem Complicated? Or Complex?
By: Nitin Nohria, Bill George and Kayti Stanley
Complicated problems, which can be solved with systematic approaches, are different from complex problems, which require adaptive strategies and continuous learning. Many leaders conflate the two types, have more experience with complicated problems, and therefore may... View Details
Nohria, Nitin, Bill George, and Kayti Stanley. "Is Your Company’s Problem Complicated? Or Complex?" Harvard Business Review (website) (December 10, 2024).
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Class of 1975 in Review
question that often surfaces in conversations as we approach our 25th Reunion is: Did Harvard change us, or did we change Harvard? Well, certainly Professor Bill ("I never left HBS") Sahlman can say that he... View Details
Keywords: J. Hans Stumm
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
international reach were regular features, along with articles by faculty members and administrators discussing the School's changing priorities. Anthony's genteel editorial style and his devotion to HBS is apparent in this excerpt from coverage of View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- Web
Global - Global Activities 2020
Kominers, the MBA Class of 1960 Associate Professor of Business Administration, and senior researcher George Gonzalez. The case examines Zoom’s strengths and weaknesses, role in society, and potential to... View Details
- Web
Success Academy Charter Schools | Information Technology
vibrant and emotional way.” The multimedia components of the case make the students more invested in the issues because they really get a sense of who the people are and what they are trying to do. Robin Greenwood ; George Gund View Details
- Web
The Roundtables - Entrepreneurship
NeueHouse in Madison Square Park for customized discussions, a reception and dinner featuring a fireside chat between Professor Bill Sahlman and Brian Bedol founder of Bedrocket Media Ventures, Bluefin Labs,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A View from the Top
The Alumni Achievement Award is the School’s highest honor, first established in 1968 and bestowed upon only a handful of HBS graduates each year. That distinction, however, didn’t protect this year’s five winners from some tough questioning by HBS View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Corey, Lombard Remembered
42 years, passed away in May in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He was 84. In June, George F.F. Lombard (MBA ’35), who served HBS for 41 years as a professor of organizational behavior and senior associate dean,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light
integrative valuation and negotiation classes were used with all 900 students in the first year Finance course in the MBA Program. Dwight Crane, the George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Alumni Team Up to Fight Cancer
her work that last spring he presented the MMRF with a $4.8 million gift to further its pathbreaking cancer research. Commented HBS professor Bill Sahlman, who introduced Bowes and Giusti, “Their... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Nimble, Quick, and Adaptable
content around the entire process of starting a business,” says HBS professor Bill Sahlman, adding that the New Venture Competition continues to be a capstone event. Some alumni participate as judges of the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Jul 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?
Waterman), Level 5 Leadership (described by Jim Collins as centered around personal humility and professional will), servant leadership (defined by Robert Greenleaf in terms of service to others as a leader's most important role), and authentic leadership... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- March 2013 (Revised May 2013)
- Case
Omar Ishrak: Building Medtronic Globally
By: Bill George and Natalie Kindred
Omar Ishrak, Medtronic's first non-American CEO, aims to reinvigorate the medical device maker's growth by focusing on emerging markets, therapy innovation, and creative business models. In 2012, budget constraints in mature economies, the lack of new medical therapies... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Medical Devices; Medtronic; Globalization; Innovation; Reverse Innovation; Leadership; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Management Teams; Business Model; Emerging Markets; Global Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Acquisition; Innovation and Invention; Manufacturing Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; China
George, Bill, and Natalie Kindred. "Omar Ishrak: Building Medtronic Globally." Harvard Business School Case 413-065, March 2013. (Revised May 2013.)
- December 31, 2011
- Blog Post
Five Resolutions for Aspiring Leaders
By: John Coleman and Bill George
Keywords: Leadership
Coleman, John, and Bill George. "Five Resolutions for Aspiring Leaders." Harvard Business Review Blogs (December 31, 2011). http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/12/five_resolutions_for_aspiring.html.
- March 2008 (Revised August 2020)
- Case
Lisa Sherman (A)
By: Bill George and Jens Audenaert
Lisa Sherman is a successful executive at Verizon who is struggling with the decision to reveal her sexual orientation. After attending a diversity training workshop in which participants expressed extremely negative views about people in her community, Sherman wonders... View Details
Keywords: Diversity; Identity; Personal Development and Career; Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership; Organizational Culture
George, Bill, and Jens Audenaert. "Lisa Sherman (A)." Harvard Business School Case 408-115, March 2008. (Revised August 2020.)
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Sahlman Heads External Relations
SAHLMAN: Taking an industry-specific interest in alumni relations. As the new senior associate dean for External Relations, Professor Bill Sahlman, an expert on entrepreneurship, brings over thirty years of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences
York City discussing the post–Great Recession economy with investors Bill Ackman (MBA 1992), Ray Dalio (MBA 1973), and Stan Druckenmiller. The students were participants in an Immersive Field Course (IFC) led by Arthur Segel, the Poorvu... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
better across what historically have been silos. And she illustrates this in multiple settings, showing that when businesses work toward building more effective linkages, with other companies and other institutions, we can see important, positive results. In addition,... View Details