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- 01 Jun 1996
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Initiative at Arthur Andersen, in their new book, Broken Promises: An Unconventional View of What Went Wrong at IBM. Based on interviews with IBM executives, company records, and surveys of the company's customers, Broken Promises is a cautionary tale of View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
Geography, Location, and Strategy. (Advances in Strategic Management, vol. 36) edited by Juan Alcácer, Bruce Kogut, Catherine Thomas, and Bernard Yin Yeung (Emerald Publishing Limited) Changes in both... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Stanford Lets Students Customize
EXCHANGING IDEAS: HBS Dean Jay Light talks with Stanford Dean Robert Joss. Stanford describes its new MBA curriculum, launched last fall, as a “revolutionary change in management education.” It aims to remedy what the school viewed as a... View Details
- 04 Feb 2020
- News
In Harmony
One spring day in 1983, Mark Weinstein (MBA 1981) sat down in his Watergate Tower office at Strategic Planning Associates in Washington, DC, looked out at the Kennedy Center, and worked out a strategic plan... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
The War for Talent, by Ed Michaels, Helen Handfield-Jones, and Beth Axelrod, presents a strategic view of what managers must do to hire and keep the best employees. Drawing on five years of research, including surveys of thirteen thousand... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
leadership position in the Northeast through the strategic use of new technology, marketing savvy, and a management style that encouraged staff to invest themselves in their work. In 1996, BayBanks merged with Bank of Boston to form... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Porter's Paradox
In his pathbreaking 1990 book The Competitive Advantage of Nations, HBS professor Michael E. Porter emphasized the strategic importance of clusters, which he defined as "geographic concentrations of interconnected companies, specialized... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Books: Brand New
visionaries shared an ability to anticipate the significant shifts in consumer needs and desires being generated by changing times and mores. Koehn draws from diaries, correspondence, interviews, and official business records to tell the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
The Long View
PROFESSOR DAVID MOSS As a graduate student in history and economics at Yale, John G. McLean Professor David Moss struck up a friendship with the late Nobel laureate James Tobin that changed his perspective. Again and again, Professor... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Research Brief: The Power of Could
question unwittingly locks you into a tradeoff, upholding your moral principles in one way but breaking them in another. Instead, strategically asking yourself what you could do often generates an array of new solutions that might satisfy... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
male-dominated mining community. The first woman and non–South African to lead the 95-year-old company, Carroll, a native of Princeton, New Jersey, was hired as a change agent, and her combination of compassion, View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
The Well-Healed Athlete
research and action in this type of underfunded effort, what Clara Wu Tsai calls the “white spaces.” She notes, “I believe in being strategic and bold and in trying to fill the gaps, funding high-impact ideas and visionary leaders that... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
has collected the best of her wit and wisdom on management thinking and practice. Looking back across the changing landscape of business, Kanter helps reveal what has worked, what has not, and what businesses still need to learn. She also... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
HBS Posts Strong Results in 2008
to analyze the crisis and adapt the curriculum to reflect changes in the culture of how business is done. “We have begun this important work already,” he added. Operationally, Light said the School “will continue to ensure that our... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
competitiveness. Transformation at this scale will take longer than the typical two-year political cycle, Ballou-Aares says, but already the organization is seeing the first wave of results. Its members are helping drive change in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
perfect set of slides to convince investors to back you and your venture. The authors, veterans of the startup world, show you how to create a compelling pitch deck and how to plan and execute a fundraising road show to garner financial support for your business. The... View Details
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
operations, drawing him to HBS. After receiving his MBA, Simmons took a job in Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont’s office as policy advisor and director of strategic initiatives, with a focus on education equity, workforce development, and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Faculty Books
to breakdowns in strategic outcomes, and where top management can intervene to shape desired results. They show that a company’s realized strategy emerges less from formal statements of corporate strategy and more often from the pattern... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
A New Path for Alumnae
that. What is more typical of HBS alumnae? Although they all wanted meaningful full-time employment, their goals had changed substantially over the years: Money was important, but not the primary motivator. Organizational purpose and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Better than Cash
Somerville, Massachusetts, needed advice on how to make the nonprofit more cost-effective, he might have considered attending business school. But he didn’t have to. Harvard Business School came to him in the form of alumni who have helped him develop a new View Details