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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Making Strategy Work Using the Balanced Scorecard by Sanjiv Anand (AMP 163, 2002) (Wiley) This is a hands-on guidebook for making strategy work with effective Balanced Scorecard design, deployment, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
navigate life’s most difficult situations. The book is filled with stories of people facing a range of challenges, from going on job interviews to asking someone out; scientific research on how our bodies change our minds; and revolutionary View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship
Why make them wait to implement their vision? Helping Harvard - to which I feel a deep sense of gratitude in terms of my career and personal development - is especially satisfying and enjoyable for me at this stage of my life." When... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Jul 2013
- News
The Nature of Business
The nonprofit world required a change in thinking for Tercek. "At Goldman Sachs, goals and metrics were super clear," he said. "At TNC, it's not as black and white. All the work we do is important. But we have to be vigilant about focusing our limited resources on the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
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prevent them from implementing ideas to improve the way they work: avoiding controversy, poor use of time, reluctance to change, organizational silos, management blockers, incorrect information and bad assumptions, size matters, and... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
(the company that invented voicemail); Jane Fonda’s Workout; and Playboy TV/Video, my most instructive failure was during my year as product manager of Tostitos. Top management had decided that we would implement a “trial size” promotion... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
employees and from a variety of outside parties. We have, of necessity, been continuously involved at all levels, from setting and implementing strategy for the college and its place in Bhutan to negotiating... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
to serve as a director at York Street. “Also, I knew I wanted to come back and be part of what was happening in Sri Lanka.” A six-month strategy consulting gig the pair pitched to Sri Lanka’s Urban Development Authority, the government... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Capturing Human Capital
corporations rely on information planning and control systems and processes that are designed to help management make sound strategic choices and ensure efficient implementation of those decisions. "They do this by allocating scarce... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
matter if competitors know your strategy, says Senior Lecturer Frank Cespedes. The real question is, do your employees know your strategy? Research indicates that less than 50 percent of employees do. Companies that withhold strategy... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
defining value in different ways, or from LEAD about placing a strong emphasis on emotional intelligence as a core value in conducting business. I love the lesson from strategy about defining blue oceans instead of competing in red... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
Lavoie (MBA 1993) (Crown Business) In How Remarkable Women Lead, Barsh described Centered Leadership's five capabilities and the research that underpins it. In this book, Barsh and Lavoie provide a practical field guide for implementing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
taxes. This strategy was implemented by a handful of men over those fifty years, most important among them John Cowperthwaite, who ran the trade and industry department after the war and then spent twenty... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Future of Foreign Aid
Eric Werker You spent much of 2009 to 2011 in Liberia advising President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf while on leave from HBS. What did you learn from that experience? Good ideas and great strategies are cheap and easy; what's expensive and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Research Brief: Profit with Purpose—and Middle Management
purpose gets real,” says Serafeim. “Top executives must have a vision, but it’s the implementation by middle management—the space between where strategy gets formed and where it gets executed—that is so... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Nonprofits: Choosing a Path for Growth
conducive to protecting the organization’s brand and reputation and coordinating overall strategy and operations. A high degree of control might be particularly desirable when the program being implemented... View Details
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
Basketball Association was a recently launched, little-known organization, and Gelman had accepted a promising post-college job as a strategy consultant with the Mitchell Madison Group in New York. But her decision to defer the consulting... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
international firms, “corporate culture trumps national culture,” is in line with what other studies show. They indicate that as high-performing global companies implement transnational strategy and strive... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
dollars, the world’s institutions are making scant progress toward the promise of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The central cause: top leaders lack the means to construct and implement comprehensive diversity View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
(DBA 1972) (MIT Press) China is moving from a strategy of imitation to one of innovation, and western businesses need to prepare for a tidal wave of innovation from China The authors explain this transformation and propose View Details