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Women at HBS - Alumni

The Women’s Leadership Forum Women on Boards HBS Women’s Association Academic and Campus Links Race, Gender & Equity Initiative Women’s Student Association Celebrating the 50th anniversary of women being admitted to the full-time MBA... View Details

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

Administration Robert S. Kaplan Senior Fellow and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus Shirley Lu Assistant Professor of Business Administration Mindy Lubber President & CEO, Ceres Mindy Lubber President & CEO, Ceres... View Details

23 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 23, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608091 Transforming Arizona's Health Care System: Developing and Implementing the Health-e Connection Roadmap Harvard Business School Case 808-072 Addresses the issues of View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Education More HBS LinkedIn: Alumni Executive Education Company Page Executive Education Participants Friends of Executive Education Harvard Business School View Details

05 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations

of their trustworthiness at the bargaining table. 1. Speak their language Some years ago, an airline that was seeking to go high-tech with its ticketing process invited a number of consulting firms to bid on the project. At the kickoff meeting with prospective... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Golden Age of Black Business

Building on the Legacy Thought Leadership Andrew F. Brimmer James I. Cash Jr. Linda A. Hill David A. Thomas HBS Faculty Members HBS Doctoral Students Alumni Profiles Research Links Essay on HBS Thought View Details

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Community | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

1959 Howard W. Goldsmith Fellowship Through the Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowship, awards of approximately $10,000 are given to 7-10 first-year MBA students who have exhibited leadership and an extraordinary commitment to working in the... View Details

09 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 9, 2015

allowed by health authorities. Yet caries remained a significant threat to public health in many countries, both developing and developed. As Suzan Harrison, Colgate's president of Oral Care, prepared to launch CMCP+SAN in Brazil, the world's third largest oral care... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2019 (Revised September 2020)
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SOFWERX: Innovation at U.S. Special Operations Command (Abridged)

By: Herman Leonard, Mitch Weiss, Jin Hyun Paik and Kerry Herman

James "Hondo" Geurts, the Acquisition Executive for U.S. Special Operations Command was in the middle of his Senate confirmation hearing in 2017 to become Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition. Overseeing acquisitions in one of the... View Details

Keywords: Open Innovation; Crowdsourcing; Prototyping; Navy; Entrepreneurship; Public Equity; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Acquisition; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Public Administration Industry; United States

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30 Nov 2007
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What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?

leadership to "involve people at all levels ." Pablo Lira suggested the importance of "facilitating calculated testing environments to evaluate and secure viability of new ideas." Other models for innovation were... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

03 May 2016
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First Look, May 3, 2016

for "big teaming": intense collaboration between professions and industries with completely different mindsets. To explore the kind of leadership required to build the future, Edmondson and Reynolds tell the story of an... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Jun 2020
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Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

International Rescue Committee HBS ACTIVITIES Section A Community Values Rep, Tech Club, Harvard Innovation Labs Venture Incubation Program Merve Ciplak Merve believes the combined JD/MBA degree best positions her for leadership in a... View Details

February 2004
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The Making of Verizon

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Douglas A Raymond and Ryan Raffaelli

Through a series of mergers, Ivan Seidenberg, Verizon chairman and CEO, successfully shared the co-CEO title twice while building the largest telecom company in the United States. The strong and complementary cultures of the companies that Seidenberg and a key group of... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Change Management; Transition; Leading Change; Organizational Culture; Risk Management; Telecommunications Industry; United States

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23 Sep 2022
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8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

North Carolina at Chapel Hill, write. To improve the odds for entrepreneurs and leaders, they offer eight strategies. “They’re equally challenging,” McDonald says. “You have to figure out which are the most salient to you, but the solutions are going to seem... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

10 Apr 2014
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John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business

toppled—in fact, he calls it "one of the most amazing innovations of the twentieth century." Instead, he wants executives to consider how their own companies formed and developed at a young age. "All organizations start with a structure... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

08 Oct 2020
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Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

executives motivated who were asked to take a 50% salary reduction. Because we are now closed and have no revenue, we asked senior staff to take a 50% pay reduction until we reopen. Our CEO took a 100% pay reduction.” On the positive side... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

07 Jul 2003
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4+2 = Sustained Business Success

products. Apply new technologies to enhance all operating processes, not just those dedicated to designing new products and services. Leadership Choosing great chief executives can raise performance... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, William Joyce & Bruce Roberson

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Alumnae Circles - Alumni

mindful of this distinction. LEADERSHIP Volunteers are integral to Alumnae Circles operations. While HBS staff support the Circles program, it would not exist without its dedicated volunteer leaders. We are grateful to our current Circles... View Details

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Online Business Strategy Courses | HBS Online

Certificate Strategy Execution Professor Robert Simons Gain the tools, skills, and frameworks to successfully implement strategy within your organization and drive impactful results. 8 weeks, 5-8 hrs/week Pay by September 11 $1,850... View Details

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C. Roland Christensen - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Leadership Skills, attended primarily by Harvard doctoral candidates and young instructors, and Teaching by the Case Method, which attracted professors from all of the Harvard faculties. Over the years, a host of participants, including... View Details

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