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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
range from Fortune 100 and start-up companies to not-for-profits and municipalities. He has helped position Bangkok, Thailand, as a global fashion capital and FootJoy as the number one shoe and glove brand in golf. With FootJoy, he notes,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
scientific knowledge into commercial applications. For HBS participants, an overriding goal was to gain a better understanding of how the School might best contribute to this effort. “To maintain a leadership position globally, the United... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Q & A: Pat Russo - Focused on the Future at Lucent Technologies
years before Lucent Technologies was born. At AT&T, she held executive positions in strategic planning, marketing, human resources, and operations. In 1992, Russo assumed the View Details
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
Tulip, a four-star hotel in Festac, into a position as a telephone operator at the Radisson Blue Hotel in Victoria Island. WAVE is expected to train 25,000 people by 2019. “We have to start leveling the playing field. It should matter... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
unchallenged position in the marketplace until Japanese firms such as Hitachi and Fujitsu flooded the market with less expensive alternatives. In a bold opening move, Gerstner slashed the price of mainframe systems and pushed the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
energies to worthwhile causes beyond our jobs and our families. That is what's driving a lot of us to branch out into social and community activities beyond our business life. Jerry Ostrov: My impression is that there is a widely shared belief among us that significant... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change
contending with fallout from the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989. “As a general manager you’re going to get letters from organizations that say do X, Y, or Z,” Oberholzer-Gee observes. “How should you think about them? There are a number of View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
remote-work models for years, focusing on what he calls “the geography of work” in organizations as diverse as the US Patent Office and open-source collaboration platform GitLab. In this conversation, he and Chandrasekar discuss the View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
that can greatly improve local governmental services without costing taxpayers more. They discuss incorporating outcome indicators into strategic planning and budgeting; building a local government’s budget with cost drivers; expanding... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
"Today's top management needs to move beyond its focus on strategy that defines a rational product-market position to a sense of purpose that captivates employees' attention and commitment," Bartlett asserts. Managers, he says, "need to... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
which was expanding its model there. At KIPP—another network singled out by the 2013 Stanford study for positive learning gains—that meant recruiting strong management talent, building evaluation protocols for teachers and administrators,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Juicy Story
2005, that figure increased again to over $4.5 billion. “This is a case where you can focus on strategic success as well as strategic failure,” Yoffie notes. “There aren’t many instances where you have both... View Details
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
around constantly smiling at everybody, not kind of a cartoonish idea of it. Life has emotional ups and downs, but it's having that solid emotional well-being and foundation that carries us through the good times and the tough times. From taking classes in View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Faculty Books
collection of Professor Porter’s articles from the Harvard Business Review is arranged by topic. Parts I and II present the well-known frameworks addressing how companies, nations, and regions gain and sustain competitive advantage. Part III shows how View Details
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
team, and through that experience had the opportunity to also share my own personal story at health care conferences and public settings, really advocating for the power of genetic information. I was there for nearly two years when they ended up going through a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
opportunities to travel and meet new people. Maintain a sense of humor and share your true self. Make sure you have close friends with whom you can brainstorm and complain in private. Be positive in the job environment, but be sure that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
shoulder. “What the hell’s the Navy doing here?” asked one American airman as five more men emerged. Despite Green’s uniform, the men weren’t there under the auspices of the Navy, but instead at the direction of the Office of Strategic... View Details
- 20 Dec 2024
- News
Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024
To Boost Communities, Alumni Clubs Send Nonprofit Leaders to HBS For one week every summer, nonprofit leaders from across the globe convene on the HBS campus to sharpen their leadership skills and expand their impact through the Strategic... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 May 2025
- News
If I Knew Then
strategic orientation, it’s collaboration and influencing. And the things that you can potentially do to build a compelling story around results orientation, how you’ve transformed a division of an organization or how you’ve launched... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
sustain, the role of co-ops in a Rwandan village was more than just helping farmers improve their income. Looking closer, I saw that the co-ops would give farmers a common sense of purpose, an incentive to want to work together and achieve a View Details