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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Studying Japan from the Inside
Motor was turned around by Carlos Ghosn. Ghosn was sent from Renault, the French auto company, which acquired management control of the financially distressed Nissan in March 1999. Ghosn motivated Nissan’s middle management and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
and from other airlines, compress that data, and turn it into useful information," Carty explains. Other carriers have not been as successful at this, he says. "I still see airlines that haven't yet recognized the value of information and... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Health Care’s New Frontier
Bush Photo courtesy athenahealth Main article: Where Innovation Rules What do you do if your start-up turns out to be a little too far ahead of its time? If you’re Jonathan Bush (MBA 1997), you use what you’ve learned to jump-start a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
She’s Got Your Back
small—almost like an insurance policy.” Angie’s List has deep HBS roots. Cofounder and venture capitalist Bill Oesterle (MBA 1992) struggled to find service providers in Indianapolis to fix up his historic home, finally turning to Unified... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Uhlmann Award Winners Focus on French Retailer
failed in the face of an economic downturn in the United States and an onslaught of competitors. After a period of consolidation, the company is now looking for more opportunities abroad and has recently opened stores in China, Thailand, and South Korea. By the View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Silent Killers: Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Learning
implementing strategy are at the heart of an organization's leadership, they are almost never discussed -- turning them into "silent killers." CEOs and general managers can overcome these six natural stress points -- which exist in almost... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Maasai Village
where they usually keep their cows — marked by a circle of large sticks poking out of the ground — they took us into their huts and showed us where they cooked and slept. Then the older Maasai showed us their wares — mostly intricately beaded jewelry — and did their... View Details
Keywords: Hospitality
- 12 Jul 2011
- News
Phone Fun
culture’s changing tastes, Braterman’s management style favors minimizing red tape and encouraging agile responses to the latest marketplace trends. “We can turn on a dime,” he said in the article. Braterman, who attended HBS as a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
guiding clients through the intricacies of risk management. “In this market, even more than in a bull market, clients need a ŒSherpa' to help them navigate,” she explains. “And that's what I enjoy doing most.” When Erdoes wants advice, she often View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 21 Jun 2020
- News
Rooting out Racism
citizens differently than whites. Second-degree racism is the aiding and abetting that takes place when one turns their back on anti-racist efforts or demonizes those who try to tackle racist behavior. Take the NFL, for example, and the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Antoinette J. ("Toni") Rapone
she was born, says she believes the hardships faced by her immigrant family in Lowell, Massachusetts, "selected for qualities of stamina and determination." Indeed, Rapone turned out to be fit and feisty enough not only to survive but to... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Book Review: Hooray for the Huddled Masses
ferocious during the summer when the city turns into a concrete sauna. Outside my former office at Gulag Sachs, if you tilted your head at just the right angle and paid careful attention, you'd get a strong whiff of anxiety from desperate... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Bridging the Success Gap
he says. After HBS, Navarro worked at Hewlett-Packard, where he designed computer systems. Later, he moved to a small high-tech start-up, where he repositioned the company to product development. After he “retired” in 2000, he turned his... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Wide Screen Approach
platforms at once. “Nobody had streamed a service at that scale before,” says Wilson. “We were holding our breath, because we were basically betting our business that this was going to be a successful pivot.” It felt like a sharp turn not... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Career Peak
Stroeer left her job as a consultant in 2015 and converted a van to live out of as she ran, climbed, and hiked through the backcountry, she didn’t plan on turning her lifestyle into a one-woman business. But, she says, “I realized very... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Starting Now — Bruce Wasserstein (MBA 1971)
elaborate rules that turned the game of Monopoly into a battle of pint-sized real-estate moguls. "One of the most interesting things about this business is that you see people at their ultimate point of crisis." "One of the most... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Dan Fenn
Approaching Sound of Change"; and "The Myth of the Successful Businessman." As I thought about this piece, I recalled the many lively stories of interesting alumni: the publisher of the Old Farmer's Almanac; the uranium prospector turned... View Details
Keywords: Dan Fenn
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Lovepop Woos The Sharks
make sure you have answers. You have to be solid on your numbers. You can’t say “Hey, let me turn to page three here to see what our sales were last year.” It has to all be in your head when you’re in front of the sharks. But it wasn’t... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
How to Fix Wall Street
turning honest mistakes into ethical failures. But when people are acting as fiduciaries or when their decisions affect the lives and well-being of millions of people around the globe, reckless judgment becomes a matter of public concern... View Details