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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Strategy is About People
that are best for them, and get them to do the things they’re really good at — the things they really want to do, and the things that they’ll deliver on with the kind of passion that really enhances the chances of getting things done. “But at the same time, you’ve got... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The New Global Business Manager
function of today’s global manager? We used to think of the CEO as being the grand strategic architect. Now the world is so complex and fast-moving that the general manager’s role is less about managing content and more about managing... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits
STRATEGIC ADVICE: HBS professor Michael Porter took a question before his presentation. What happens when you bring over 450 CEOs and presidents of New York City’s leading nonprofits together for a daylong educational summit? Answer: a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
by Philip Delves Broughton (MBA 2006) (Penguin Press) Delves Broughton discusses his quest to find the world’s great wizards of sales, among them a Moroccan rug merchant who uses age-old principles to read his customers and Anthony... View Details
- 22 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Summit Explores Leadership for a Sustainable Future
to create value, either by lower costs, additional sales, or improved strategic value. What was the takeaway? “Top leadership needs to fully embrace this effort, set clear objectives, and engage their entire organization,” he says.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Combating Climate Change
If global temperatures rise by 6 degrees celsius by 2050—as they are on track to do—officials at the International Energy Agency say the changes would bring “devastating consequences for the planet.” And those consequences will extend to business: Storm-lashed View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
where he worked 13 years for Cisco Systems during its meteoric rise. His passion for engaging with customers led him to run a global support organization for Cisco’s biggest customers. While at Cisco, the company sent him to HBS’s... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Lego Stays on Script
marketing, Michael Moynihan (MBA 1993), has been with the company since 1996, long enough to remember its missteps in attempting to broaden Lego’s customer base by expanding into product categories such as action figures, arts and crafts,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
all those funnels, but we’re very focused on performance because performance is, if a customer doesn’t purchase, then we basically don’t have a business. And I think that really aligns user interests. So the ads have to be good enough... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Capitalizing Poetry
director of SG Barr Devlin, a New York firm that provides strategic and financial advice to clients in the electricity and gas industries. Barr, the foundation’s president and a poet in his own right, has published six volumes of verse... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Starting Off on the Right Foot
When business and career psychologist James Waldroop counsels young executives who are starting assignments in a new company, he urges them to act like anthropologists. “For the first six months on the job, your assignment is to understand the View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
She’s Got Your Back
Hicks Photo courtesy Angie's List What Angie's List Knows About Customer Reviews Main article: Where Innovation Rules Talk about a pain point. Shoddy roofing leads to leaking, causing your ceiling to fall in and damage the kitchen. Now... View Details
- 04 Jan 2016
- News
Taking Time Out for a Challenge
master’s degree in public policy from the Kennedy School in 2005. At HBS, she is pursuing a PhD in organizational behavior and sociology. Manning decided to take a leave from her PhD path and step in as acting CEO of Welbodi, providing... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
plastics. “We’re trying to get our customers to covet this product that will help change their lives in a positive way—and make the world a better place too,” says Kauss. The world is literally drowning in plastic: Research indicates that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
fundamental behavior — how they read. Eager to earn its first revenues, E Ink searched to find a customer that could use an early form of the technology. In 1999, JCPenney placed an order for four displays... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Alumni Luminaries Discuss Careers, Values with HBS Students
Internal Revenue Service. Senior advisor, The Carlyle Group. He upgraded technology and information systems and stressed customer service in a dramatic turnaround of the IRS. Daniel L. Vasella, M.D. (PMD 57, 1989), chairman and CEO of... View Details
- 25 Mar 2019
- News
Rent The Runway Joins the Unicorn Club
milestone, CEO Jennifer Hyman (MBA 2009), told Forbes that the company “has created a new consumer behavior of dynamic ownership and clothing rental has become an essential utility in our members’ lives.” Hyman goes on to say that RTR is... View Details
- 31 Oct 2019
- News
Business Success Means Community Success in Wisconsin; GNN Roundup
organizations—West Bend Mutual and the Milwaukee Bucks—to demonstrate how our strong leaders can come together to help their organizations make a real impact in our community,” says Galezewski. “As a statewide HBS Club of Wisconsin, an event like this hits all of our... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
The War for Talent, by Ed Michaels, Helen Handfield-Jones, and Beth Axelrod, presents a strategic view of what managers must do to hire and keep the best employees. Drawing on five years of research, including surveys of thirteen thousand... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
less likely to challenge our position as quickly as Russia or China. The book advocates an overhaul of American foreign policy based on a philosophy of “strategic independence.” What are the key features of strategic independence? We are... View Details