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- 01 Jun 2007
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Up from the Ashes
also be — and, given the large size of some companies, sometimes had to be — performed by teams of people. Meanwhile, the continual infusion of... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
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Righting the Ship
creating one that did. The plan he assembled had three parts. The first was addressing the performance of CIP division managers by rating their execution performance. Here, Stuckey held fast to the familiar:... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
search for answers about the past and future of executive compensation and corporate governance. In recent conversations, they reflected on key issues. Edited excerpts follow. Brian Hall focuses his teaching and research on View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
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In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
career: Simon still writes music and plays jazz piano. “I’ve recorded nine CDs and at one point performed a couple dozen times a year around the country. I was able to put at least one of my kids through... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
employees, and improve business outcomes through a flexible work strategy. More Alumni Books The New Legions: American Strategy and the Responsibility of Power by Edward B. Atkeson (AMP 64, 1972) ((Rowman... View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
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Seeing a Way Forward
Daphne Leger (MBA 2012), director of continuous improvement for Mexico-based social enterprise salauno, uses her business savvy to bring affordable eye care to those who most need it. “I firmly believe that... View Details
- 06 Sep 2013
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More Seats at the Table
youngest person as well. That didn't sit well with her for several reasons. While equality was one of them, improving companies was another. So two years ago she started Trewstar, with one goal in mind:... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
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Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
focus instead on improving the performance of existing products - what I call sustaining technologies. For this reason, good companies have little difficulty succeeding in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
what all those employees, who call themselves "athenistas," will be doing: improving health care efficiency and quality by connecting doctors, hospitals, and patients. For decades now, EHRs—computerized versions View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
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David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
sanctions. Much of the southern improvement comes, not from oil production, but removing bottlenecks arising from sanctions. Improved underlying View Details
- 30 Oct 2020
- News
Billion-Dollar Valuations and Exits for Harvard-born Startups
2012. WHOOP, founded by Harvard College students at the i-lab in 2012, announced this week that it has raised a $100M Series E round at a valuation of more than $1 billion. "We will continue to make WHOOP the best product experience for... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
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Research Brief: May I Ask Your Advice?
online lab studies and a field experiment, all of which confirmed that asking for feedback produces more vague and limited responses, while asking for advice results in forward-thinking and actionable input. The difference boils down to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2012
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Social Investing Pioneers
high-quality transactions to the United States to demonstrate the promise of this instrument,” Palandjian adds. “Social impact bonds have the potential to improve social outcomes at reduced taxpayer expense;... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The HBS Fund
Business Become More Sustainable The notion of “doing well by doing good” is gaining momentum as business leaders and investors realize that social responsibility can improve the bottom line. That’s why HBS... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
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RX for Change
health-care reform in this country, we have to frame it as a managerial challenge. It’s not simply a policy issue. We won’t improve the system as a whole until we’ve improved the View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits by Leslie R. Crutchfield (MBA ’01) and Heather McLeod Grant (Jossey-Bass) What makes nonprofits great? The authors studied twelve nonprofits that have extraordinary influence —... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
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Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
most profitable products and customers and demonstrating how, when, and where to apply over twenty distinct improvement tools and techniques. Finally, it discusses how to embed the process and the tools into the ongoing operations View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
In Harmony
finance director of the New York City Opera. For the next 35 years, Weinstein made his way through arts organizations in roles as general director of the Pittsburgh Opera, executive director View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
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Classroom Legend
to emphasize a point. “His hands perform a rapid-fire ballet of encouragement: palms outstretched to reassure the uncertain student, wrists moving in quick circles to urge onward the confident,” noted a 1976... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
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What HBS Learned from West Point
how-to skills and the self-knowledge needed to be an effective leader. In short, business schools have excelled at teaching about leadership from a fundamentally analytical perspective. But there are things that every leader should be able to do: for example, lead a... View Details