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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
behavior. HBS professor Kenneth Andrews, a close colleague of Christensen’s at this time, once observed that this tendency “led to much closer study of company situations. The strong appeal of his cases and of his writing about them is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
Case Study Illustration by Corbis/Matthias Kulka Sometimes, a company's history contains more drama than a Russian novel. A recent case, "LEGO," explores how the toy maker grew to global dominance from humble beginnings, the mistakes that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
with the briefest of utterances. But it wasn’t always that way. Al-Naimi was born into abject poverty as a nomadic Bedouin in the 1930s, just as US companies were discovering vast quantities of oil under the Arabian desert. From his first... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
Get What You Pay Them Case: Lincoln Electric Company Written: 1975 Copies Sold: 284,826 With a tradition of innovation and technological leadership, the Lincoln Electric Company of Cleveland, Ohio, was the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
an unremitting love for company and conversation. Given the choice between being right and being memorable, Schumpeter never hesitated.” Each morning, after the elaborate ritual of dressing himself, Schumpeter would walk the six blocks to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
Alumni Books The Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth by James Allen (MBA 1989) and Chris Zook (Harvard Business Review Press) Based on their decade-long study of companies in more than 40 countries, the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
a dealer’s back lot, it will nonetheless embody a defining moment in a global race for supremacy. Manufactured by Toyota, this is the car that will propel the Japanese company ahead of General Motors as the world’s largest automaker, a... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
government, became his mentor and continued to support his studies through law school. Donham specialized in corporate restructuring as a vice president at Boston’s Old Colony Trust Company and won wide praise from both labor and... View Details
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History by Walter Mirisch (IA ’43) (University of Wisconsin Press) The producer of such film classics as West Side Story, Some Like It Hot, In the Heat of the Night, and The Magnificent Seven, Mirisch... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
devotes himself to several principal pursuits. In addition to the BSG/Concours Executive Forum, an invitation-only program for chief information officers (CIOs) of leading companies worldwide, he runs a six-month leadership development... View Details
- 02 Nov 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
Helping midsize companies achieve success was Donald K. “Obie” Clifford’s (MBA 1956) business specialty, but his passion was helping people understand their connection to the natural world. Clifford passed away in August 2017. Clifford... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
HBS Faculty Explore Ideas Around the World
Building an Evidence Base for Emerging Markets It’s one thing to research the history of companies in Europe, the United States, or Japan, where libraries, archives, and public records are abundant. But what... View Details
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Research Brief: As the Wind Blows
To better understand the prospects for future entrepreneurial success in sustainable industries, Professor Geoffrey Jones looks to the past. In his chapter in the new book Green Capitalism?, for instance, Jones delves into the history of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) Taylor Gibbs chronicles more than 200 years of her paternal family’s history and highlights their contributions to the civil rights movement in the United States. The Human Element: The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Executive Pay: Onward & Upward
1984 To discourage “golden parachutes,” a controversial pay innovation at the time, Congress imposes a special tax on such payments valued at more than three times an executive’s average pay. Rather than curb golden parachutes, the tax cap becomes a target View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
Chairman, President & Chief Executive, The Procter & Gamble Company Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION Hamilton College, 1969 A.B., History LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "The case... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
A Century of Birthday Candles
resident. “The View From 100” recounts how Duff was 6 years old at the beginning of the Great Depression and just finishing high school when the United States entered World War II. Most of the boys in her class were drafted; not many came home. Doris got a job at an... View Details
- 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
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Righting the Ship
could do it.” What are three pieces of advice you might give to those who are focused on leading companies through an economic recovery? First, be thoughtful about how you treat all your stakeholders, because the actions of those in power... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
James E. Burke, MBA 1949
than you are and learn from them. Remember that being a business leader is about giving-not taking-and that you can and must make a difference." Recently named by Fortune as one of the ten greatest CEOs of all time, Jim Burke recommitted Johnson & Johnson to a credo... View Details