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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
customers, in other words — and its position vis-à-vis competitors. If an enterprise had different lines of business, it might view these in historical terms — “First we got into radio, which led us into television” — or as a capital... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
plastics. “We’re trying to get our customers to covet this product that will help change their lives in a positive way—and make the world a better place too,” says Kauss. The world is literally drowning in plastic: Research indicates that... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
help grow the brand. “The trade-off was that the investment resulted in their having a majority stake in the company and ultimately taking control of it,” Philp says. “For me it was a positive experience in the sense that we launched a... View Details
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
conditions become most advantageous. Zetta takes an equity position and funds further strategic development of the patent. The patent holder retains significant equity in return for ongoing assistance with development and marketing.... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
ability to think about more than one thing at a time," says Hodgson, who held positions at Deloitte Consulting and Nextera Interactive before coming to HBS. "There's a balancing act involved between the bottom line and the social mission... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Entrepreneurship at HBS
in this area in both our MBA and executive education programs. For a quarter of a century, our Owner/President Management Program has set the standard for educating entrepreneurial managers for leadership positions around the world. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
“Surely you don’t want me to hire somebody for a job that doesn’t exist?” The reaction from callers has been very positive and very respectful. Months of bad press after 9/11 must have crushed morale. How did you turn that around? Through... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
boards, including those of UAL (the parent company to United Airlines), Liz Claiborne, and St. John's College. Part of that transition includes his position as executive- in-residence at Columbia Business School, where he teaches... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
Crest and Pampers, for example, have regained market share after losing their number one positions in the United States several years ago to Colgate-Palmolive and Kimberly-Clark, respectively. Crest won back the top spot recently by... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
with asked tough questions that made us think about the critical issues and figure out if we had a viable business.” “John Deighton was — in a very positive way — a healthy skeptic,” says ZEFER’s Tjan of his faculty advisor. “He helped us... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
them. In other words, Cuba was open for business. Cuba Educational Travel (CET) was perfectly positioned to take advantage of the opening. Founder Collin Laverty had first visited Cuba on a family trip as a teenager, later completing an... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
results—in terms of worker satisfaction, client satisfaction, and improvements in work processes—were so positive that within four years, over 900 BCG teams from 30 countries had gone through similar exercises. So this was a team-by-team... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
can impede the progress of their creative teams. One of our strongest findings is that to be creative, people need to feel good about their work. Pride in accomplishment and positive feelings about oneself and one’s colleagues give a... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
have won the Nobel Prize, but when these brilliant young people pass through our program, it’s not my doing. I do have the view that the key thing with doctoral students is to offer positive reinforcement and encouragement.”On the day the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
down a gratitude helps your visual cortex “replay” the positive experience. For example, today I wrote: I will let go of...comparing my podcast to Tim Ferriss’s podcast. I am grateful for...pulling a Kleenex out of the dryer and... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
a player at the beginning of his career, is another surprising success story. Here’s someone who looks like the kid from next door who mows your lawn, and he played like a veteran in a pivotal position under the toughest pressure in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
wanted a wicked problem. And this was it.” On a temperate October day last year, Eamer, 67, with a white beard and curly white hair, is standing on the side of the road, positioned at the nexus of four forces—environmental, provincial,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
constituency is girls ages five through seventeen, Hesselbein says, "we realized our financial planning needed to put us in a secure position where we could serve these girls, as well as new members - not just today, but as they grew with... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
their mirror position on the other side of the room. This included dress, hairstyle, mannerisms, voice, and style of comment typical of the person in question, and, of course, we traded namecards. Our professor rolled with it quite well,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
Group. Photo courtesy TAJ Lands End Already, the immersion experience has had a positive effect on classroom discussions, says Moon. “After we returned, the students in one class had a case set in India. In the past, students from India... View Details