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- 31 Jan 2019
- News
A Global Mission
DeFehr notes. “They were all organizational problems.” Today, DeFehr, 76, remains engaged around the world. He still serves as director of the LCC (Lithuanian Christian College) International University, in Klaipėda, which he helped to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Lydia M. Marshall: Gumption and Grace
admit that her leadership and organizational skills have helped the nonprofit's various constituencies work toward the common goal of increasing economic self-sufficiency and ending poverty. The exchange tells a lot about Marshall. A... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
It was a milestone to celebrate: Earlier this year, designations from FDA and European Union regulators moved researchers at the Boston-based startup Akouos, Inc., a step closer to producing the first-ever therapy for gene-mediated hearing loss. The product could View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
The rapid changes at Merrill Lynch and Citigroup highlight the problem many firms face as they consider succession. What we are seeing should be surprising and disturbing to us all: At investment banks of great importance, the board of... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
The following article is the ninth in a series on the activities and research taking place in each academic unit at HBS. The information technology (IT) industry, for which rapid change has been a constant for decades, has reached another... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
be deeply embedded throughout the organization.” These findings suggest that excellence in global corporate competition demands certain success-enabling organizational characteristics, attributes that of course must be introduced and/or... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside Modern HR
Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) (courtesy Matthew Breitfelder) Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) (courtesy Matthew Breitfelder) Young Hee Yoo (MBA 2017) (courtesy Young Hee Yoo) Young Hee Yoo (MBA 2017) (courtesy Young Hee Yoo) Once relegated to the back office, human... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
together an ambitious agenda for change and hired a charismatic leader named John Stanford, a former Army major general with no ed-ucation administration experience, to be superintendent. Stanford would die tragically of leukemia three... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
President, Brigham Young University–Idaho; former Dean, Harvard Business School “Today, 21st-century medical technology is delivered with 19th-century organizational structures, management practices, and pricing models.” —Michael Porter,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Lori Schock - Listen and Learn
manufacturing workers on a computer system used for data reconciliation. The assignment proved challenging. “I was a total outsider running a class designed to change the work patterns of an experienced manufacturing team,” she grimaces.... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Brill
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Leadership Project Codifies Elusive Traits
legacy (past), global, and emerging (future) — the initiative aims to provide cutting-edge research on the often-elusive topic of leadership. Led by Anthony J. (“Tony”) Mayo (MBA ’88), its seven affiliated faculty members are part of the View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
New Releases
evolution of the TOM unit, acknowledging that the strong reputation it holds - both inside and outside the School- must be constantly monitored due to the rapidly changing nature of the discipline. In what they call a "paradox of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
organizational health. Has the recent financial crisis permanently changed Wall Street? There were many fundamental causes and contributors to the crisis, and we all learned or relearned lessons. Some... View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
general manager in its Tokyo office, and later in New York managing multinational accounts. He’d later land in Houston, where he was sent to fix banks in trouble. “I used my skills from Professor Lodge’s Organizational Behavior course,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective
what's going on in business," Nolan noted. "We have never lived through anything like this." With that, Nolan opened his discussion of the profound changes that computers -- and now the Internet -- have wrought on the way business is... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
discusses how the United States can reformulate some of these ideas from China to foster much-needed change at home. Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy by Joan Magretta (MBA 1983) (Harvard... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
School's Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration and an expert on organizational behavior. "Quite simply, without a sense of purpose, we become alienated from our work and find it harder to motivate ourselves." Senior Lecturer... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
edge of a cliff, cast knowing glances and jumped. “There was that feeling that submitting the business plan was like jumping off a cliff,” says Tierney. “We couldn’t say after that, ‘Oh, we changed our minds.’” A Targeted Approach... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business
organizational values and business ethics, Paine has long focused on American companies engaged primarily in domestic U.S. business. But faced with an increasing number of questions from international students about whether U.S. corporate... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Class of 1975 in Review
the one I remember most vividly happened in Paul Lawrence's Human Behavior class. A distinguished expert in organizational behavior, Professor Lawrence was known for the intricacy of his blackboard diagrams. The idea of our game was to... View Details
Keywords: J. Hans Stumm