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February 2008 (Revised May 2008)
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Lincoln Financial Group (C)

LFG reorganizes its business in order to improve customer intimacy. However, to implement the strategy, they need to effect significant changes in the skills of their salespeople. This case series straddles human resource management, corporate strategy, and sales... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Salesforce Management; Customer Focus and Relationships; Financial Services Industry

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30 Mar 2012
HBS Seminar

Matthew W. Emmens, Executive Chairman,Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do About It

The United States patent system has become sand rather than lubricant in the wheels of American progress. Such is the premise behind this provocative and timely book by two of the nation's leading experts on patents and economic... View Details

Mellon Hall | About

construction of Harvard Business School's original campus . The building was named for Andrew W. Mellon (1855-1937), who was appointed treasury secretary by President Warren G. Harding in 1921 and continued to serve under View Details

ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

33 In 1946, Doriot became president of American Research and Development Corporation (ARD), the first publicly funded venture capital firm and one of the first modern venture capital companies established after the war. Located in Boston,... View Details

25 Jan 2024
News

Alumni Gain Insights on Nigeria’s New Government; Taipei Alumni Host Faculty Guest

Clubs News Clubs News HBS Alumni in Nigeria Discuss New Government’s Fiscal Policies To better understand the economic and policy direction of Nigeria’s newly sworn-in government, the HBS Association of Nigeria hosted a hybrid program on December 14 featuring Taiwo... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

its new President Laurie Patton faced the challenge of students calling for divestment from fossil fuels, trustees opposed to it, and a series of day to day administrative challenges that demanded her immediate attention. How does change... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

Case Study: Staking a Claim

Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

15 Dec 2023
News

Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

and president of OceanCycle, a social enterprise focused on solving the ocean plastic problem by assisting businesses in making large volumes of products out of ocean-bound plastic. They work with companies to provide end-to-end solutions... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

22 Sep 2022
News

The Beauty Guide

Courtesy Michelle Freyre Courtesy Michelle Freyre When Michelle Freyre (MBA 1997) was a brand manager at Neutrogena, Michael McNamara, global president of the beauty brand at the time, asked what she wanted to do with her career. She... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

Wyss House | About

rooms; maximum use of natural light; and energy-efficient heating and cooling. About the Name Hansjörg Wyss (MBA 1965), Chairman & Former CEO, Synthes, Inc Originally named for John Sherman (1823-1900), secretary of the US treasury under View Details

31 May 2023
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2023

north: “I was raised in Dayton, Ohio, by my single mother and my grandparents. We had all the basics money could buy and everything it couldn’t: love, honor, respect, values, and faith. That was the foundation, as was education.” Level up: “In 11th grade I had a 4.0... View Details

Keywords: leadership; management; work-life balance

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

organizations. We can learn vicariously from their experiences. Consider the example of one manager who was about to undergo a critical transition in her career, only four years after first becoming a manager. When she was about to step into an executive role as senior... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

Morgan Hall | About

establishment of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and served as its president from 1904 to 1913. At the time of his death, Morgan’s art collection was valued at $50 million. View Details

04 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life

price most observers found generous. The debacle cost both the chairman and president of Quaker their jobs and hastened the end of Quaker's independent existence (it's now a unit of PepsiCo). But that's not the end of the story. In... View Details

Keywords: by John Deighton; Food & Beverage

Dean’s House | About

Baker’s insistence. A prominent financier, philanthropist, and president of the First National Bank of New York, Baker was an extraordinary business leader. At the age of 23, he invested $3,000 to become an original shareholder in the... View Details

01 Mar 2010
News

John Crowley’s Extraordinary Measures

had actually gone out and bought, or made, the exact outfits we were wearing in those pictures.” That was when Crowley, president and CEO of Amicus Therapeutics, first got a taste of how it would feel to be the subject of a movie.... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

Partners & Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

W. Goldsmith/Richard L. Menschel Service Leadership Fellow Andwele Lewis, Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC), Richard Lumpkin Service Leadership Fellow Maria Rivas, President of Nicaragua/PRONICARAGUA, MBA Class of 1973 Fund... View Details

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By: Vincent Pons

Professor Pons studies questions in political economy and development with the goal of understanding how democratic systems function, and how they can be improved.

He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details

24 Sep 2019
Blog Post

Launching a Career in Clean Energy

myself, this seems like one of the most pressing problems of our generation—if I want to have an impact on the world, this is it. You worked at Ameresco for seven years and served as vice president at Patriot Energy Group. And now you’ve... View Details