Vision - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Steve Jobs Legacy

spurned because he is so harsh and demanding. He is in turn betrayed by his closest ally (John Sculley), but ultimately the clarity of his vision and charisma triumph, and he transforms the world. The transformation in communications he... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Computer; Technology

28 May 2019
News

The Physical Campus in a Virtual World

On the north wall of my office hangs a series of framed architectural drawings that date from the early 1920s. Each of these antique blueprints depicts a different architect’s vision for what would become the first buildings of the... View Details

Keywords: Nitin Nohria

18 Feb 2014
News

Stick with Plan A

persistence are must-haves. Find good local partners who share your vision and your business philosophy. "In terms of impact, there is an absence of legacy technology in many cases. An entrepreneur has far greater latitude in leveraging... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Waleed Iskandar (MBA 1993); Telecommunications

04 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

structural adjustment followed. Today several structural issues and the threat of external risks continue to cast a shadow on its otherwise remarkable recovery. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/718024-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 718-034... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

diverse backgrounds, had to develop an integrated organizational culture. Pedersen had just administered a new performance evaluation program for seventeen senior executives. This was the first time that they had been measured against competencies aligned with the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 1997
News

Blockbuster Deals

may end up feeling that executives from the other company have taken over. All of these human forces can destroy the potential economic value of the merger." Beer suggests that cross-company task forces be established to design the structures, systems, and processes... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy

assessment of the organization — nor has fear of retribution for such frank input ever been an issue." Once the task force has completed its report and left the room, the top team uses this information to reevaluate the organization and develop a View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

01 Mar 2012
News

Alumni Book Briefs

McConnell (OPM 18, 1992) ((CreateSpace)) Until Brazil (novel) by Bethe Lee Moulton (MBA ’78) ((The Glide Press)) San Diego’s Judge Mayor: How Murphy’s Law Blindsided Leadership with 2020 Vision by Dick Murphy (MBA ’67) ((Sunbelt... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

07 Sep 2021
News

Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania

receiving a Social Enterprise Summer Fellowship from HBS in 2021, DeBere received one in 2020, which enabled him to serve as a research intern for OpenUp, a civic technology company based in South Africa that shares Afya Pamoja’s vision... View Details

Keywords: April White

27 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Meet the PRIDE Club

Fantasy League. When class is out, he can often be found sashaying around Shad Hall, Barry's Back Bay, or stealing away to the K School (Harvard Kennedy School) to live out his wannabe policy-nerd dreams. Post-MBA, Dan plans on returning to mission-driven work in a... View Details

21 May 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: From Trash to Treasure: Inside a Waste Management Site in Mumbai

commitments don’t yet make that possible. Leaving the Dalmia facility, we were left with a sense of both hope and responsibility. There is a vision for a future where waste is not a burden but a valuable resource that feeds our production... View Details

25 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Hikma Health + HBS MBAs Crowdsource Largest County-Level COVID-19 Dataset

policies and piecing together the dataset one county at a time was often tedious, but everyone involved had a vision that has since become a reality and stuck with it. The fact that the project became a record-breaking crowdsourcing... View Details

Career Coach

Fran Davis

Fran has a Ph.D. in Psychology and has worked at Harvard for over 25 years. Over these three decades she has provided career coaching for MBA students, HBS Alumni, and in Executive Education programs and has taught psychology courses (including Positive Psychology aka... View Details

06 Sep 2005
What Do You Think?

What are the Lessons of New Orleans?

magnitude of the responsibility is incomparable. For example, the repair and maintenance of levees is a task requiring long-term vision and effort difficult to muster in a political environment in which deferred maintenance is an easy and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12

were looking to build the company into a sustainable health and wellness business, round out product offerings, upgrade ecommerce merchandising, and build out the team to support these goals,” says Peters. The HBS Advantage To make the View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

02 Nov 2015
News

Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans

Africans over the course of the next 30 years,” he says. It was a January 2012 New York Times article about a stampede at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa that helped crystalize Royster’s vision for Maarifa. Five thousand... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

26 Jan 2015
News

The Ingredients for Success

Carol Ahn Markowitz’s gambit was in trouble. It was mid-2013, two years after she and her songwriter husband had left their life in Los Angeles for New Orleans with visions of being part of the city’s post-Hurricane Katrina revival. But... View Details

Keywords: Tyler Bridges; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Educational Services

08 May 2019
News

Lessons from the Ashes

steps is first understanding how you're wired, which often comes through a crucible experience or refining moment. Then figuring out what's your vision, what's the vision of something you feel like can help people based on how you're... View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

The Way You See It

a giant in a way few have and redesigned what a major corporation can be," as one alumnus put it. Added another, "Welch's vision of a nonbureaucratic large organization makes GE the business everyone wants to copy or raid for talent."... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons. Data collection by Ericka Webb.

03 Oct 2018
What Do You Think?

How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace?

talent (in unlikely places), not a resume; define the core vision for the team or organization, and regard everything else as potentially open for innovation; believe that people you hire can and should do anything; and foster competition... View Details