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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2024 Commencement Remarks | About
and Mary are unapologetic about the reality that success in their industry requires it. Yet both also spend many hours mentoring subordinates, setting the next generation of leaders up for success. And they each display deep devotion to... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21
avoid information about their relative ability. August 2013 NBER Volume on African Economic Successes Evaluating the Effects of Large Scale Health Interventions in Developing Countries: The Zambian Malaria Initiative By: Ashraf, Nava,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details
- 14 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 14
Additionally, labor quality and the structure of demand and a long tradition of work in organizational behavior suggests that the successful adoption of productivity enhancing managerial practices requires complementary changes in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
manage to be where their feet are will grow, stretch, and emerge stronger, smarter and more prepared as we find peace and gratitude in the pause. In Be Where Your Feet Are, the former CEO of the Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Devils... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
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Drilling Down
business, if not exactly booming, is certainly looking up for these small yet significant players. According to Bradley W. Fischer (61st PMD), president and CEO of Houston-based CMS Oil and Gas, the consolidation of corporations such as... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
success in either strategy or implementation requires making trade-offs. In the absence of those trade-offs, you have a lot of mediocrity. RS: I would also tell the CEO that he or she needs to take a hard... View Details
- 22 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change
focused on climate, but now we are getting to the level of serious investment that reflect the nature of the threat demands. I am again in proud service to this country. Frank Yang (MBA 2006) Founder, President, CEO Liatris, Inc.The most... View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
C-Suite and the CEO what internal and external stakeholders are thinking and how this may affect corporate image in terms of credibility, confidence, trust, relationship, and reputation. In short, the new CCO must understand both the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
for any big company that would have me. I had no particular interest in trains or railroads, but the Chessie System happened to be hiring at the time.” Chessie and the Seaboard System Railroad combined to become CSX in 1986. In 2003, Ward became chairman, president,... View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
America’s energy trajectory will look like in the next decade. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717056-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-427 Hilti Fleet Management (A): Turning a Successful Business Model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007
from investors. CircleLending is a pioneer in the informal lending market, a largely unstudied and little understood consumer finance segment. Asheesh Advani, the founder and CEO of CircleLending, must evaluate the relative attractiveness... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 8
and allowing them to make riskier, more novel, investments. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-032.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsPatricia Gottesman at Crimson Hexagon Lena G. Goldberg and Mary Beth FindlayHarvard Business School Case 312-068... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
working for an organization that is contributing value to the world, that society benefits from the mission and strategy of their organization and its products and services. They need to understand how the success of the organization... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
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Casey Gerald
iconoclastic rock climber and founder of Patagonia. Rather than a focus on the wealth creation and empire building that drives most entrepreneurs, Gerald, the co-founder and CEO of MBAs Across America, is motivated more by the opportunity... View Details
- 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008
success made the question of how to balance the priorities of growth and the preservation of the culture that had made everything possible all the more important. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015
1970s–1990s era such as Hanson and BTR were also quite financially successful forms of business enterprise. The demise of many of them appears to owe at least as much to management fads as to serious financial underperformance. Download... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
education and employment systems,” says Misan Rewane (MBA 2013), a native of Lagos, Nigeria, and cofounder and CEO of WAVE. In its first three years, WAVE, which only charges a fee once alumni secure a job, has served more than 1,000... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
No-Nonsense Rules from the Ultimate Contrarian and Small Business Guru by George Cloutier (MBA ’69) (HarperBusiness) Having spent over thirty years guiding business owners, Cloutier, founder and CEO of American Management Services, offers... View Details
- 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17
almost half the offer that Microsoft had made in its acquisition offer in 2008. The depth of the challenge is underscored by the frequent CEO changes the company has had, culminating in the recent firing of the latest CEO, Carol Bartz.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne