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- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
leading trainer of engineering apprentices. Babcock's leadership team believed that continued pressure on public spending would provide opportunities for double-digit growth in the UK for at least five... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Course Catalog
to change? Or, why does this constitute a viable growth opportunity for the company? Then we ask students to think about what needs to be done. What actions can management take that will predictably lead to... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office
as the faculty and the administration. The challenge is in keeping up with them." In addition to leading MICA through a period of growth and success, Lazarus has played a significant role in the Baltimore... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- August 2000
- Case
Developing Nurse Practitioners at the College of St. Catherine
By: Clayton M. Christensen and Sarah S. Khetani
Margaret McLaughlin has just begun her new appointment as the Dean of Health Professions at the College of St. Catherine in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. As an education leader, her charge is to develop Minnesota's health care workforce for the future. She is... View Details
Keywords: Trends; Debates; Decision Choices and Conditions; Higher Education; Teaching; Growth and Development; Technological Innovation; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Value Creation; Health Industry
Christensen, Clayton M., and Sarah S. Khetani. "Developing Nurse Practitioners at the College of St. Catherine." Harvard Business School Case 601-039, August 2000.
- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
Question: What patterns emerge from history that can help us better understand where we are today? Sophus Reinert: To many people, globalization is teleological, something that necessarily becomes stronger over time and leads to an... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
my leadership philosophies. I’ve been unhappy with many of the leadership books out there. They are not written by people who have actually been in leadership roles. What’s the central message of the book? My fundamental message is that there is a better way to View Details
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
interpretation of sarcasm lead to greater creativity because they activate abstract thinking. Studies 1 and 2 found that both sarcasm expressers and recipients reported more conflict but also demonstrated enhanced creativity following a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Launching Tech Ventures - Course Catalog
companies. Those who will join early-stage startups (typically in a product manager, business development, sales, marketing, or growth role). Those who will work at growth stage technology firms (in a... View Details
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
theory on this important workplace behavior. Findings also suggest a profoundly asymmetrical relation between the intrapersonal motivations for and against speaking up, leading to a novel theoretical explanation for the prevalence of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2017
- News
Panera-bred Leaders Have Risen Throughout the Restaurant Industry
to lead the operations of such popular chains as Friendly’s Ice Cream, Johnny Rockets, Pizzeria Uno, Smashburger, Wahlburgers (led by CEO Cedric Vanzura, MBA 1990), Pieology, and Upper Crust. Panera was sold earlier this month to Europe’s... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
negative outcomes in knowledge and technology transfer. Business enterprises emerge both as important drivers of international economic growth and as significant agents in the divergent patterns of wealth and poverty that have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Carol Lauson
then into more corporate development. She also was involved in a mergers-and-acquisition project with lead responsibilities for United Agri Products and Trimble Navigation, a high-tech company that created location-based technologies... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
capital markets and how entrepreneurial companies can access startup capital and growth financing; Professor Malcolm S. Salter will discuss the "modern industrial revolution" and the tools larger companies can use to ensure that they are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
built,” she stresses. Currently at work on a book based on her globalization study, Neeley teaches several Executive Education offerings and the MBA elective Leading Teams in a Global Economy. Her case study “Language and Globalization:... View Details
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From Concept to Product | Baker Library
Polaroid Corporation Administrative Records, b. I.464, f. 21. Over the next two and a half decades Morse would participate in Polaroid’s phenomenal growth as its employee numbers, manufacturing plants, and revenues from instant... View Details
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
companies was Pierre Foods, a producer and distributor of processed and precooked protein products that had experienced several years of promising sales growth and held a leading market position. Despite... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature
Despite its name, the Great Wall of China began as a series of smaller, isolated defensive fortifications. Those structures grew and were later unified into the imposing structure that exists today. The Great Wall is a great metaphor for the Chinese economy. By... View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
requires a significant initial capital investment, and she raised just over $10 million in seed and series A funding to get it up and running in 2011. Since then, Lin’s had plenty of opportunities to raise more capital. But the company’s View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Learning to Speak the Language of Business
Mikitani Main article: Where Innovation Rules Case study: Englishnization at Rakuten From Pinterest to Kobo, how Japan's Rakuten is building a global internet giant (Wired.co.uk) You might call Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA 1993) the Jeff Bezos of Japan. Both View Details
- 17 Jan 2007
- Op-Ed
Learning from Private-Equity Boards
quarterly earnings reports, reflecting the complexity of corporate restructurings and other long-term growth strategies. Lessons To Be Learned There are important implications of these differences for public company boards, even though... View Details