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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
Tushman and senior lecturer Mike Roberts, opens with Jamie Houghton (MBA 1962), the great-great-grandson of the company’s founder, taking over the corner office of his family’s firm. After a grooming process begun at a Corning lightbulb View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
segregation over time. We demonstrate that the return of racial establishment segregation owes little to within-establishment processes but rather stems from differences in the turnover rates of more- and less-homogeneous workplaces. Present research on employment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
sophisticated bells and whistles of contemporary marketing. Macondo has been eclipsed by a proliferation of gleaming office towers and high-tech factories in some of the world's greatest cities. Yet Latin Americans will tell you that amid... View Details
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
The current debate in the United States about how to regulate Wall Street focuses on laws, regulations, and monitoring. But lawmakers may want to look to history for guidance, to Brazil 100 years ago, when transparent governance and... View Details
- 22 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change
have ever seen. Within two months of the signing of the bill, we had committed to opening our first factory in the US and we are close on our second. All of our major growth plans are around renewables. We just can’t move fast enough. My... View Details
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/Levine-Toffel%20The%20Compass%202014-07-02a_151d5c1a-4fe0-4d2a-90f8-54a82b5bb4a6.pdf October 2014 MIT Sloan Management Review What It Takes to Reshore Manufacturing Successfully By: Shih, Willy C. Abstract—The data on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
Foundation, focused on building the organizational capabilities of nonprofits that served the disadvantaged youth in the United States, has recently been named an intermediary in the federal government's new social innovation fund (SIF),... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
the selling company's profitability. It emphasizes the collaborative aspects of buyer-seller relations over the split-the-pie aspects. The idea is to create more space between the value provided to customers and your cost. You can then enhance win-win aspects of the... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
increased their communication if teammates were also actively participating. Additionally, team performance is uniquely driven by the level of emergent interdependence, as indexed by the diversity of topics discussed and the temporal coordination of activity in short... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
real-time connections with colleagues, but will prefer to maintain their at-home work lifestyle. I suggest managers put some structure in place to ensure that time in the office is optimized for face time. For example, make a team schedule, so the days in the office... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
organizational strategy focused on attaining high performance, bring those elements into a coherent relationship with the strategy and each other, and help guide the actions of people throughout an organization in the pursuit of high... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
more demanding. Purchase this exercise: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208045 'Shad' Process Flow Design Exercise Harvard Business School Exercise 608-072 Provides detailed instructions to prepare for View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
profitability. He notes that Xerox Corporation, for example, is currently implementing a plan to reclaim its equipment, refurbish it, and resell it - without having any waste leave the plant in the process. "They not only hope to achieve zero product and View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
didn’t have a few months prior. One had lost her star software developer to a rival. This, Schultz thought, was the perfect framing: Take all of the historical entrepreneurs he was focusing on for his book and put them in a bar. Let them... View Details
- 18 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
SIPs in 2021
color), including EverlyWell founder Julia Cheek (MBA 2011), therapist and author Esther Perel, author Eric Reis, Tristan Walker of Walker & Co Brands, and Nina Vaca of Pinnacle Group. In a session focused on the co-founder... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
Network Groups (DNGs) organized around particular constituencies but open to everyone. At present, some 29 DNGs have been formed, focusing on networking, mentoring/coaching, and community outreach. DNGs are encouraged to consider the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
different approaches adopted by Presidents Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin and concludes with a vision outlined by Russia's third post-Soviet president, Dmitry Medvedev. The case focuses on problems of state authority, fiscal capacity,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
the moral compass to describe individuals' inner sense of right and wrong, we offer a framework to help us understand social reasons why our moral compass can come under others' control, leading even good people to cross ethical boundaries. Departing from prior work... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
than ever. The Bulletin spoke to a sampling of alumni to get a view from the factory floor of how they plan to meet the challenges ahead. While the companies vary in size and make a diverse range of products, these owners, chairmen, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
smaller groups for a full day of site visits, each focusing on a different track (water, microfinance, and retail, for example), with the goal of identifying a viable business opportunity to present to the group that evening. Intrigued by... View Details