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22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS

Much like how disruptive technologies can threaten established businesses, the growing epidemic of AIDS has the power to blindside and possibly topple companies who choose to ignore the threat, participants concluded at a Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Sep 2010
What Do You Think?

How Transparent Should Boards Be?

Summing Up The dilemma posed by the HP-inspired vignette of a CEO allegedly failing to adhere to company values divided respondents to the September column. Two schools of thought evolved. One was that the CEO should be fired for cause... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Do I Dare Say Something?

As every company knows, employees are its greatest resource. It's more than a shame, then, that many workers are either not encouraged or afraid to speak up and communicate ideas at work. Employers are losing valuable knowledge and... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

22 Jan 2018
Blog Post

"Luxury, Technology, Integration"

the CEO allowed me to experience this growth first-hand, overseeing how rapidly the group is changing and the two originating companies are being integrated. My internship was also a great opportunity to experience how two distinct View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

01 Dec 2006
News

One-on-One with Jeff Hicks

programming, so you have to give me your attention. The reality is that you don’t have to give me your attention anymore. I have to earn it. What makes CP+B different? We don’t think of ourselves as an advertising agency in the typical sense. CP+B is a View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

09 Jun 2009
Research Event

Business Summit: Enterprise Risk Management

ServicesM.D. Ranganath, Chief Risk Officer, InfosysBarry Zubrow, Chief Risk Officer, JP Morgan Chase The global companies profiled in this session—Infosys, GE Capital Services, and JPMorgan Chase—highlight effective yet different... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan

01 Sep 2006
News

East to West

Issues surrounding corporate governance are a source of ongoing debate in the boardrooms of companies around the world — not just the United States. A new case, “Governing Sumida Corporation,” takes readers inside a Japanese manufacturer... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

largely isolated from one another, and an inward focus among managers. Perpetual restructuring had created a culture of fear and had reduced employee initiative. When the new CEO asked executives individually to name the three people in... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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Collection Highlights | Baker Library

Collection Highlights R.G. Dun & Co. Credit Report Volumes Credit reports created by America's first commercial reporting agency. This collection is an invaluable resource for understanding the business, social, and cultural world of... View Details

01 Mar 2023
News

Happy Monday

Illustration by Fabio Consoli Illustration by Fabio Consoli The co-CEOs noticed it right away: Early in the pandemic, staffers at the online children’s clothing company Primary.com were struggling when they logged back into Zoom on... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

25 Apr 2014
News

Fostering a synergy at work that benefits associates as well as customers

Ganesh Natarajan (AMP 169, 2005), CEO of Zensar Technologies, is cultivating a collaborative management philosophy and innovative HR policies to ensure its 7,000 associates help customers achieve their business needs. At the core of the India-based IT View Details

01 Dec 2020
News

Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match

to ‘Dr. Famous,’ who was booked for 17 weeks out, while brand-new doctors only had 30 percent of their schedules filled.” Inspired by the efficiency that companies like Travelocity brought to the airline industry, Gardner created Kyruus... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

Profile

Evgeny Koudryavtsev

international students to bring their partners." This summer, Evgeny will go to London where he will intern with Warburg Pincus, a large-cap private-equity firm. After graduation, Evgeny's goal is "to help bring companies in... View Details

01 Jun 1998
News

Short Takes

companies with such plans do not perform better financially. Further analysis prompted Beer and Katz to conclude that the real role of bonuses is simply to attract highly qualified executives to a corporation. "Companies are forced into... View Details

Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey

01 Mar 2004
News

The New Global Business Manager

Companies are finally recognizing that being global is about accessing scarce resources — and that the scarcest of all is the human resource, particularly management. The assumption that “all the smart, capable people were born within a... View Details

Keywords: Management

15 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Rethinking E-Leadership

Chuang, CEO of Aquent, an employment services company headquartered in Boston. In roughly half of the new initiatives Aquent has invested in over the last few years, Chuang estimates, "we have gotten too excited about a new product... View Details

Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni

01 Jun 2011
News

Student Teams Take on Real-World Innovation

What do thirty second-year MBAs know about automotive technology? When it comes to communications and infotainment systems, more than you might think. That’s why Ford Motor Company executive vice president Mark Fields (MBA ’89) welcomed... View Details

Keywords: Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation

relevant government ministers at the table in a culturally sensitive process. Instead, the company took innovative actions away from the table that significantly improved its negotiating position.... View Details

Keywords: by Anita M. Harris

July 1993 (Revised April 1999)
Case

ABB's Relays Business: Building and Managing a Global Matrix

By: Christopher A. Bartlett

Describes the development and management of the relays business area (BA) in ABB's global matrix organization. Focuses on three levels of management--corporate, BA, and operating company. Highlights the roles and responsibilities of individuals at each level as ABB... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Business or Company Management; Business Strategy; Organizational Structure; Managerial Roles; Management Practices and Processes; Employees; Organizational Culture; Success; Manufacturing Industry

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Educators

Purchase

01 Mar 2022
What Do You Think?

Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?

(iStockphoto/Sanja Radin) Increasingly, I hear and read about questions such as: Why are my best tech people leaving our great company to work on something called crypto and Web3? What are the strategic implications for my organization of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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