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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

Company, 1955–1966 Robert L. Johnson Black Entertainment Television, 1980–2001 Robert W. Johnson Johnson & Johnson Company, 1885–1910 Jesse H. Jones Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 1933–1939 Reginald H. Jones General Electric Company, 1972–1981 W. Alton Jones View Details

• 06 Sep 2018
• Blog Post

How to Thrive in an Unstructured Environment

and ingenuity was still highly valued. I loved working in an environment that combined these elements, and I wanted to take a deep dive into the chaotic world of startups to see if I could thrive in an environment with significantly less... View Details

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• 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

inclination to take offense that often attends the close juxtaposition of art and commerce, which was very much in evidence at that AoM symposium in Philadelphia, the interests of art, artists, and business can be best served if more commerce enters into the View Details

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• 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008

so the happiness gains that they experience, whilst not permanent, can still be relatively long-lasting. Finally we study a cross section of nations in 2005 from the World Gallup Poll and find that the past 45 years of economic growth... View Details

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• 11 Jun 2024
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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024

As the vacation season looms, Harvard Business School faculty members share recommendations for a little light reading. Spoiler alert: Lessons in Chemistry tops two of their beach-read lists. For those whose brains can’t—or won’t—turn off, HBS faculty also suggest some... View Details

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• 26 Apr 2024
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Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory

subordinates feels micromanaged, which is bizarre.” It’s a leadership approach focused on self-discipline and personal accountability, one that might be considered refreshing in a business world often bogged down by managers who... View Details

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• 13 Nov 2007
• Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

of opportunity, America could instead be closing it down—unless we create a positive agenda to renew the American spirit," she writes in the book's introduction. Kanter believes America at the start of the 21st century has lost its way both as a beacon to the... View Details

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Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research

take steps to improve the quality of conversations and to establish structures and rituals that will help teams assess their progress in building a psychologically safe environment. About the Unit As the world of operations has changed,... View Details

• 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

company, with a focus on changing relationships between manufacturing technology and R&D between the mid-1940s and the mid-1960s. Pfizer first moved into pharmaceuticals through participation in the U.S. government's penicillin effort during View Details

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• 19 May 2015
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First Look: May 19

urban development at the national level and in three cities in a single Chinese region. The study reveals that the initial liberalization of land was reversed after China's first contemporary real estate bubble in the early 1990s and that... View Details

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• 2015
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The Role of Multiplier Firms and Megaprojects in Leading Change for Sustainability

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Martine Haas, John D. Macomber and Tiona Zuzul

In both the private and public sectors, organizations around the world face increasingly pressing questions about how to stimulate and manage change for long-term environmental, social, and economic sustainability. The purpose of this chapter is to highlight the roles... View Details

Keywords: Blueprint Logic; Learning Logic; Megaprojects; Multiplier Firms; Leading Change; Environmental Sustainability

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Edmondson, Amy C., Martine Haas, John D. Macomber, and Tiona Zuzul. "The Role of Multiplier Firms and Megaprojects in Leading Change for Sustainability." Chap. 11 in Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective, edited by Rebecca Henderson, Ranjay Gulati, and Michael Tushman. Oxford University Press, 2015.

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Understanding a rapidly changing, Dynamic world Global Research MBA 2025 Guangzhou City, People's Republic of China Ken Zeng 38% of our Class of 2024 MBA students are international. The MBA Experience Regional Activities Africa Asia... View Details

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precise location. Search by job title: Filter your search to find alumni in a specific position. For example, try searching for alumni who self-identify as a CEO located in New York City . Again, click on the “View as Map” link to see... View Details

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Podcast - Business & Environment

Claudine also describes innovative insurance products such as parametric and catastrophe insurance that are emerging to address natural disasters that are exacerbated by climate change. For resources and other episodes visit climaterising.org Building Climate -... View Details

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September 29, 2015

Learning By: Zuzul, Tiona, and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract—This paper theorizes a relationship between legitimacy building and learning for new firms in nascent industries. We conducted a longitudinal study of a new firm in the nascent smart View Details

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