Managing People - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 1996
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An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)

At the Cedars-Sinai Hospital complex in Los Angeles, patients, visitors, doctors, nurses, and delivery people stream up and down the hallways on a busy summer afternoon. The bank of phones in the lobby is fully occupied. On one of them,... View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick

01 Dec 2009
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Taking the Plunge

pursuing a strategy for the Washlet were “gung ho” and suggested a variety of tactics. Students liked TOTO’s “Clean is Happy” advertising campaign but generally agreed that the company needs to start by simply getting as many people to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2007
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KPMG for Mayor!

individual, a group of people, or some sort of board? Where would those people come from? New York? Nigeria? London? To my mind, it should be left up to the elected entity. If KPMG wanted to fly in a vice president from the Chicago... View Details

Keywords: Eric Werker; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

11 Jun 2014
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The First Five Years: Brittani Rettig (MBA 2010)

Your Twitter bio reads like that of a superhero ("Management consultant by day, fitness instructor & wellness blogger by night"). Can you tell us about your day and evening jobs? "By day I'm a manager at Deloitte Consulting. I work with... View Details

Keywords: fitness; wellness; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

12 Apr 2023
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Step Change

"Step Change" by Julia Hanna. At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo's former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

01 Sep 2010
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Leslie Gold

management for a couple of years. I loved P&G, but I don’t have a lot of respect for authority, and I don’t like answering to people. So I applied to HBS. Why HBS? I always had an entrepreneurial spirit, and I wanted to learn about... View Details

Keywords: Talk Radio; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

13 Feb 2020
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Not Throwing Away My Shot

they tend to be thematically the ways that really stand out in each of those periods. And then there's another set of innovations that are social and cultural in nature. They don't necessarily conform to the dominant narrative. Quite often they are View Details

01 Jun 2017
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The Exchange: Venture Forth

quite centrally and rapidly: The number of early-stage ventures that people were backing had exploded. Young, inexperienced teams were getting a chance to try their ideas in a way that hadn’t happened as much in the past. Why? Reading the... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2009
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A New Approach to Health-Care Reform

the coming decades, but rather on targeting innovations that will make health care both more affordable and more effective in the future. “Disruptive innovation” is a term you’ve used in your analyses of other industries, but what does it mean in the context of the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance

05 Aug 2014
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A Diversified Portfolio

funded. Dodi doesn't think VCs do this intentionally, "It's just that people invest in what they know and in who they are most comfortable with. When it's a choice between one team and another, they'll tend to fund View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Sep 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016

with the Wahhabi establishment, and its increasingly dangerous environment populated with a diverse set of enemies, he looks at the prospects for the survival of the monarchy and suggests ideas for reform. Managing in the Gray: Five... View Details

13 Nov 2020
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Countdown To Remote Learning

Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. When Harvard announced in early March that all instruction would move online after spring break, the clock started ticking. “HBS had just two weeks to select and... View Details

01 Dec 2013
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Case Study: Citizen Buffett

Berkshire Hathaway, would no longer invest in newspapers "at any price." "Very smart people looked at Buffett's offer and wondered what he saw in the declining industry that others did not," notes Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor... View Details

Keywords: Blagg, Deborah; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2002
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HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power

in Washington, D.C., October 11–13. “Bringing people together is an important objective,” said HBSAAA vice president Rena Clark (MBA '90), “but we also strive to present a highlevel perspective and in-depth understanding of the issues and... View Details

20 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

extensively about Native Americans and is one of the "good guys," Keen says. In the past, academics would sometimes claim to be more of an expert on indigenous populations than the people themselves. Keen says Walker was before his time... View Details

16 Jan 2018
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Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits

Photo courtesy of HBSASNE Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Association of Southeastern New England (HBSASNE) recently held its first-ever reunion of the local nonprofit leaders it has sent to the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2009
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Model Patient

Rhenisch Rick Bern/Courtesy Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority A community organizer during the 1960s, Madelyn Rhenisch was a pioneering advocate for better medical care for the people of rural upstate New York. More... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2023
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Action Plan: Casting Call

China, Tension’s recent annual sales totaled more than $300 million. In conversation, Berkley moves easily between Tension’s operations and his management philosophy (“hire high-quality people, consult as needed, and let them make the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing

22 Mar 2022
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Clubs Mark a Milestone and the Lunar New Year

Forums, and Community Partners. During the pandemic, the club managed to continue much of its programming virtually, which yielded a number of opportunities to connect with other clubs and host guest speakers from anywhere. “The virtual... View Details