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- 01 Mar 2008
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demanding clients, tougher competitors, and associates with higher expectations than in the past. The authors present a broad framework suited to such complexity and identify four critical activities for effective leadership of View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
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A Winning Formula
primarily the innovative leaders of midmarket, high-growth firms looking to take their organizations to the next level.” Ramos, who sees these innovators as being just as entrepreneurial as start-up founders, enjoys the diversity of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
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Faculty Books
show how Cemex, Toyota, Procter & Gamble, and other firms adroitly managed cross-border differences and how others failed at this challenge. From Higher Aims to Hired Hands by Rakesh Khurana (Princeton University Press) Associate... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
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Unexpected Advice from Am Ex’s Chenault
have an obligation to do things the right way — to conserve, renew, and enhance society’s resources, not just consume them.” A 26-year veteran of American Express, the last six as chairman and CEO, Chenault posed this leadership challenge: “I urge you to put View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
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The Latest Model
Cathy Barrera (PHDBE 2014), cofounder of the economic consulting firm Prysm Group, was looking for something new to do. She had just left a tenure-track position at Cornell, where her research focused on the intersection of economics and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Alumni, chaired by Edward F. ("Ted") Fischer (71st PMD), is addressing how best to connect with recent graduates and also how best to inform current students about the services and programs available to them when they graduate. The group... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
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Alumni Achievement Awards: Honorees and Victories
business as he rescued Big Blue, then a stumbling mainframe-computer giant, and rebuilt it into a powerful but nimble information-technology company. Judith R. Haberkorn (AMP 111, 1992) The retired president for consumer sales and View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Identifying why the path to the top for women and racial minorities remains elusive
While diversity in hiring has increased markedly among professional service organizations, the changes are not reflected at the senior-most levels. For example, in US law firms, women comprise 46 percent of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
When Bill George (MBA ’66) talks about leadership, people listen. And well they should. For a decade, he quietly grew a midsized Minnesota medical-device maker into a world-class medical technology company. When George joined Medtronic in 1989 as president and COO, the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
social impact. And the way to magnify that impact is to give away valuable knowledge to anyone who can use it. Bridgespan is unique in another equally important way. It is a pioneer in the application of data-driven strategy and consulting View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
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Lumry Chair Supports IT and Entrepreneurship
(FAS) will fund both the Lumry Family Professorship at HBS and the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center in FAS's Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Lumry's gift reflects his professional interests and expertise in technology... View Details
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Mark Fuller
globalization; they wanted help and advice,” says Fuller. Seeing an opportunity, Monitor opened offices abroad and hired local staffs. As Monitor grew, it developed its own unique culture. The firm is divided into a dozen units, each... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
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Martin V. Marshall Remembered
with the Owner/President Management Program, in which he began teaching in the late 1970s, when it was known as the Smaller Company Management Program. As faculty chair, he changed the curriculum after noticing that participants no longer represented just small... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
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Inside Executive Search
How do executive search firms work? It’s well known that most senior management, CEO, and board positions are filled by these organizations, but given the confidential nature of their work, they often conduct their business with utmost... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
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Profiles from the Class of 2006
immediately for active duty. Andreichuk managed to delay his service for a year after receiving a prestigious Luce Scholars fellowship, which took him to Hong Kong where he worked with an engineering firm... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
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The House that Howard Built
Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter and HBS professor and Baker Librarian Arthur Cole at the Research Center in Entrepreneurial History at HBS. Professor Myles Mace, back from military service in the Pacific where he found GIs eager to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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Faculty Books
institutions. These institutions represent powerful constraints on the ability of the government to fund reforms, of firms to write contracts, and of citizens to enforce their basic rights. Borrowing to Live: Consumer and Mortgage Credit... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
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Promise & Perils
firms to large capital-intensive enterprises, such as banking, telecommunications, mining, and transportation. By the late 1980s, many had developed a good deal of autonomy. Twenty-five years of economic reform have changed the structure... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
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A Student Plan Goes to Washington
of time and lack of knowledge. Their solution? Elevate board service to a profession by creating a nonprofit, public-private Corporate Governance College (CGC) to employ, train, and coordinate the placement of full-time View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
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…and They Will Come
At HBS this spring, the world-renowned architect A. Eugene Kohn is teaching Design, Construction & Development Risk in Commercial Construction, an MBA elective. Kohn is the founder and chairman of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF), a View Details