transitions - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2005
News

Last Look

rowdy. Reports Golding, “This annual event took place in the spring, usually early May, and involved a transit of the waters between the Weeks and Larz Anderson bridges (and back) in craft that were entirely homemade. That means wood,... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 1998
News

Project outreach

Devon E. Winey (MBA '98) prepares to paint a hallway at Second Step Transitional Living Center, a home for victims of domestic violence. Three students plant flowers at Boston Senior Home Care. A group of enthusiastic students spent the... View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

HBS Community Reaches Out

transportation for the elderly. All photos courtesy Project Outreach. Kensuke Tojima (MBA '00) gets a little help landscaping Cambridge's Jefferson Park Volunteers prepare to start their day painting at the Second Step Transitional Living... View Details

8 AM – 5 PM EST, 02 Mar 2016

Career Reboot Camp in Chicago

Career Reboot Camp is coming to Chicago! Led by Professor Tim Butler and facilitated by HBS career coaches, participants will work through exercises to reflect on their key career interests, what's important to them in work and life, and create a plan to move forward... View Details

Career Coach

Cheryl Rousseau

transitions of all kinds: On-Boarding; Inter-Company Movements; Succession/Planned Exits; Out-Boarding; Job Search; Boards Seats. Cheryl has an MBA in Finance and Strategy (Kellogg ’87) and gained first-hand executive knowledge in a... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Health Care; Retail

27 Feb 2020
Blog Post

Taking the LEAP into the Case Method

courses related to leadership offered by HBS, based on the idea that "we challenge you to think differently." It is designed so that students can achieve the transition from the understanding of leadership in class to the skill... View Details

January 1998 (Revised May 1999)
Case

General Scanning, Inc. (A)

By: H. Kent Bowen, Sean McClenaghan and Charles Tillen

General Scanning, Inc. was founded by Jean Montagu and Pierre Brosens, two MIT mechanical engineers with an interest in developing innovative products based on the early application of lasers. They invented proprietary technology for laser beam positioning and scanning... View Details

Keywords: Transition; Entrepreneurship; Management Practices and Processes; Product Development; Strategic Planning; Research and Development; Risk and Uncertainty; Commercialization; Manufacturing Industry

Citation

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June 1995
Case

Polaroid Corporation: European Distribution System

By: Janice H. Hammond and Afroze A Mohammed

Describes distribution operations in Polaroid Europe. In the late 1980s, Polaroid senior management in the United States proposed moving from a system of 12 decentralized warehouses to a centralized distribution system in which all inventory for European retailers... View Details

Keywords: Distribution; Operations; Risk Management; Distribution Channels; Logistics; Transition; Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Industry Structures; Consumer Products Industry; Europe; European Union; United States

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Educators

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Profile

Lauren Booker

management, and supervising people." Transitioning into investing and economic development While her work at Goldman was satisfying, Lauren "wanted to transition within financial services to... View Details

01 Feb 1997
News

Conversing in Cyberspace: Students and Alumni Talk Management

find that the boss isn't interested in their suggestions? These are very real questions for anyone making the transition from functional to general manager. Last October, in Professor David A. Garvin's elective course General Management:... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

Profile

Rob Casper

experience; a creative way to build things by helping others become better and more efficient.” Making the transition from Marines to MBA is not always easy. “I’d never taken an accounting class before,” Rob says. “But the summer... View Details

Web

Terror at the Taj Bombay: Customer-Centric Leadership | Information Technology

Josh Coval, Denise Han, Ruth Page, Dave Habeeb Leadership, Culture, and Transition at lululemon Professor Michael L. Tushman, Ruth Page, Tom Ryder Terror at the Taj Professor Rohit Deshpande Lupoli Companies: Riverwalk - Making an Impact... View Details

03 Jan 2017
News

Using Technology to Tailor Learning to Each Child

now, we’re cramming so much technology into schools and we’re not really leveraging the power that the internet can bring to connect students to all sorts of experiences and to invite us to redesign how a typical classroom and class day feels. Ready to Blend is working... View Details

01 Jun 2001
News

Donella Rapier to Head External Relations

where she taught the first-year MBA accounting course, Financial Reporting and Control. Since making the transition to CFO, Rapier has overseen and managed all aspects of the School’s finances, including long-range financial planning,... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Mar 2006
News

HBS Reverses Policy On Grade Disclosure

transition back to our original policy can be managed — with careful consideration of the implementation issues many of you have raised — to minimize any such adverse effects.” HBS allowed students to disclose their grades until 1998,... View Details

Keywords: grades; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Portrait Project

Sylvie Tran

companies to help enable enduring positive impact on developing countries. I want to help the world transition to clean and efficient energy by convincing everyone in my community to buy hybrid cars. That afternoon in the leper village, a... View Details

06 Jun 2017
News

Many Rivers to Cross

highways versus 5 million in the US—is a significant barrier to economic growth. His advocacy for developing a South American Riverways System to facilitate trade and transit in Colombia and neighboring countries dates to the mid-1990s,... View Details

01 Mar 2006
News

Whitehead Urges MBAs to Become Lifelong Leaders

public, somebody is always opposed. But that’s the exception. On other occasions, consensus is worth striving for.” Asked by a student about moving from the private to public sector, Whitehead said, “I found the transition much easier... View Details

09 Apr 2020
News

“Raise the Line”

it. We went into high gear in mid to late February and now at least 50 percent of the company is focused on COVID-19. Osmosis was built from the ground up with a distributed work force, so we’ve seen less disruption than some companies that have had to View Details

February 1997
Case

Enron Development Corporation: The Dabhol Power Project in Maharashtra, India (A) (Abridged)

By: Louis T. Wells Jr.

A large, lucrative power plant is negotiated for construction/operation by an American power company in India's evolving privatized power sector. The process of incorporating the project is captured in this case. The American company will own and operate the plant in... View Details