Transition - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Apr 2018
News

The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)

important? “Almost 4 million American military veterans served in the post-9/11 era, and many of them have successfully transitioned into school or the labor force. However, a 2011 Pew Research Center study showed that 44 percent of the... View Details

05 Jul 2006
First Look

First Look: July 5, 2006

transitional government under Bizimungu (1994-2000) and the first Kagame government (2000-2004) to restore and build the economy. Rwanda: National Economic Transformation provides detailed economic and social data as of 2004, allowing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities

from Asia, for example, requires weeks for transit alone, not even considering coordination time. Product cycles are shortening, and less lead time allows companies to wait longer to make decisions on quantity, features, style, and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

31 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

the company's two-decade transformations. 3 In many ways, however, Welch is an exception: Very few top executives have been able to transform themselves from being analytically driven strategy directors to people-oriented strategy framers. Yet for a traditional company... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Race Does Matter in Mentoring

and design assignments. The education facilitated his transition into management when he was finally promoted two years later. Once in middle management, Williams's career took off; he was charged with coordinating the engineering,... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia

Economic links with the west were few. All three were relatively advanced economically compared to other nations in the former Soviet Union, so they seemed best prepared to make an economic transition to independent statehood. None of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Jul 2024
Op-Ed

Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty

GE’s transition from Jack Welch to Jeff Immelt. In 20 years at the helm, Welch had grown shareholder value from $14 billion to $400 billion and Fortune had named him “Manager of the Century.” Immelt, meanwhile, went on to preside over the... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

08 Nov 2024
Op-Ed

How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis

as insurance against a starter who may get injured. Co-benefits are tangible and financeable. Health improvement and time savings, for example, are real benefits. We rode the new bus rapid transit (BRT) system in Dakar, Senegal. Local... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Green Technology; Energy

09 Feb 2017
News

Turning Disorder into Opportunity

within the organization,” says Fieldhouse. “We built a manager’s training course; individual development plans that focused on adaptive and executive function skills; workplace performance scales; and transition and career movement... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

Profile

Vivian Scalfi

challenges Vivian liked what she found at Diageo and decided to pursue an MBA to help her consolidation in the industry and her transition into leadership: "I wanted more management skills – how to lead, how to inspire people,"... View Details

Keywords: CPG

18 Oct 2024
Blog Post

The Benefits of Living in a Dorm at HBS

I was away from Boston. The dorms are only 9-month leases, which gave me the summer flexibility I wanted and helped me save money as a byproduct. Plus, returning residents get free summer storage, which made the transition into my second... View Details

01 Dec 2012
News

Commemorating a Milestone

you'll meet alumnae who transitioned from the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration into the MBA Program between 1960 and 1965 and hear from some of the eight women in that first two-year Class of 1965. Naturally, the hope... View Details

Keywords: Meta

Profile

Stephanie Tilenius

to follow your dreams.’” Blazing new trails – out west “I’ve never looked back,” Stephanie says of her decision. “HBS marked my transition from finances to the operating side – to the building side.” Yet even at HBS Stephanie continued to... View Details

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Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement

myriad needs of women navigating the menopause transition with access to evidence-based virtual care, education, and community. Applying a lesson from my MBA days, I knew going digital meant needing data. In our world of information... View Details

May 16, 2016
Article

Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

By: Dina Gerdeman and John A. Quelch

Chipotle Mexican Grill’s ongoing struggle to win customers back months after a contaminated food crisis highlights the challenges companies face with keeping food safe.

Chipotle has seen its shares tumble and recently reported its first-ever quarterly loss... View Details

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Carlos Coto

April; by June, Julia had an offer from iProspect in Boston, which made the transition easy," Carlos says. Julia now works as a controller at iProspect, and is co-president of the Partners Club at HBS. HBS has challenged Carlos' way... View Details

27 Sep 2019
Blog Post

HBS Alumni and Students Take On the Climate Crisis

effort to help businesses transition to cheaper, cleaner, more reliable energy solutions through improved efficiency, better data, and optimized pricing. In this blog post she talks about how she embarked on a career in clean energy. View Details

01 Dec 2013
News

Climate Change as Must-See TV

scientists to investigate human causation of climate change. Video Embed Dan Abbasi (MBA 1998) hopes to enlist the HBS alumni community in the political movement for climate change. He calls his fellow alumni "probably the most powerful network I belong to." Abbasi has... View Details

Keywords: videos; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Broadcasting (except Internet); Information; Arts, Entertainment

04 Jan 2016
Blog Post

Motherhood and the MBA

all. Before coming to HBS, Katie spent 7.5 years as a Surface Nuclear Warfare Officer in the US Navy. After making the transition out of the Navy in late 2012, she welcomed son Lincoln (now aged three) into the world. Katie was able to... View Details

09 Apr 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: JSW Steel

energy intensity required to produce steel. In the case of steel, there is a transition challenge because it is such an established industry with known processes. However, it is also a massive area of opportunity, because the demand for... View Details

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