Corporate Performance - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2006
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One-on-One with Jeff Hicks

content that hopefully powers the marketing of companies. But is that advertising? A lot of the work we do for our clients involves media not on a rate card or in a typical distribution unit. Is producing the telephone “hold” music for Burger King’s View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2005
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Do You Speak Business?

general, world-class companies facing global competition do appear to benchmark themselves with global best practices and performance standards.” He defines those aspired-to benchmarks as sound corporate... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2005
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Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

totaling $375 billion. Nine are large enough to be listed in the S&P 500. Wall Street goes shopping. Wall Street surveyed the mountain of defaulted S&L loans taken over by the federal Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) and saw an... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate

11 Dec 2017
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Growing from Within

locations in the US, and counts consumer experience, increased sales, and sustainable profits among his charges. We asked him about the pros of corporate ownership, the data that drives his strategy, and—naturally—his regular order.... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

01 Oct 1996
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The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson

president and served for one year on the School's faculty. There's a lot of talk these days about corporate responsibility. What are a company's obligations to its stakeholders? A company's stakeholders should expect that the company will... View Details

10 Mar 2021
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

companies in South Africa and abroad, and sheds a light on the harsh realities of corporate environments. Drawing on her years of experience and research, the author argues that many young Black professionals struggle early on in their... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Mar 2019
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Building a Movement

Business schools also have to think carefully about their curriculum. We’ve been talking about the need for corporations to adjust to a changing environment, increasing pressures to dial down the single-minded pursuit of profit and to... View Details

07 Aug 2019
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“The Star of the North”

employees, a long-view strategy, and keeping the family businesses home. For Bauerly, owning and growing Minnesota businesses made perfect sense. If you compare states across the country on a scatter plot, you tend to see an increase in View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Apr 2002
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Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms

investment banking, law, and management consulting firms — are unique in that they have no products, manufacturing plants, or distribution systems. Their financial success depends entirely upon the capability and performance of their... View Details

Keywords: professional service firms; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2002
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Books

might easily convince anyone that the old adage is true: “Business ethics” is a contradiction in terms. But ironically, says HBS professor Lynn Sharp Paine, it may well be the steady rise in expectations for corporate behavior that has... View Details

01 Dec 2001
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Reaching Out

the bakery's finances." For her part, Nundy, an intern in the HBS Nonprofit and Public Management Summer Fellowship Program, was equally energized by her experiences during her twelve weeks of service in India. She spent the first six weeks View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2013
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Five Bright Ideas

participating school district. Public education is thus able to benefit from corporate America's annual $150 billion in advertising expenditures. It's a positive marriage of the corporate sector and public... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Oct 2001
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Making a World of Difference

comes from ticket and concession sales, compared with the standard 50 percent of most performing arts organizations. With numerous public outreach programs, the Big Apple, adds Slifka, "is both an incredibly successful View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Jan 2004
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Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963

Former Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, Hazleton Laboratories Corporation Former President, Seattle School Board Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION University of Washington, 1960 B.A., Business... View Details

01 Jun 1998
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Diversity and Community

first annual Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership to IBM CEO Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (MBA '65) and Levi Strauss CEO Robert D. Haas (MBA '68). The two chief executives received the newly established award on behalf of their companies'... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2004
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Retirement's Changing Face

to balance my life,” he states. “I’ve reallocated, just as you would an investment portfolio.” Snoey’s most recent position was at Harley-Davidson, where he was president and COO of the company’s Transportation Vehicles Division and a View Details

Keywords: Personal Services

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

plant in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, to introduce a new pilot project designed to enhance the motivation and performance of a group of 200 employees. A rare female manager at Frito-Lay, Johnson finds that her youth, inexperience, and... View Details

01 Oct 2000
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Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney

practice designed to "bridge" the gap between the seemingly disparate worlds of corporate management consulting and nonprofit organizations worldwide. Tierney, who serves on the Board of Directors of the Associates at HBS, is also at work... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

28 Sep 2017
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Alumni-Founded Aerospace Pioneer Orbital Acquired for $7.8 Billion

capital supplied by maxed-out credit cards, Orbital Sciences Corporation launched in April 1982, the first corporate entrant at the prime contractor level in nearly three decades. According to Bloomberg, the... View Details

01 Dec 2012
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The Billion-Dollar Question

reinvented ourselves: The engineer became an investment banker, the consultant became an entrepreneur, the corporate tool became a vagabond. But years later, how many of us have the courage to disrupt our lives again? How many of us... View Details

Keywords: Advice; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

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