Execution - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Jul 2020
News

Locally Grown

usage and reductions in emissions. The company, founded in 2008, was making slow but steady progress retrofitting heavy fleet vehicles until the fall of 2017, recalls Fenwick-Smith, who sits on the board as executive chairman. That was... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2018
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Alumni Are Integral to HBS

haven’t had for years,” he says, “which is why I’m looking forward to doing it again!” The Boardroom MBA students and alumni during a session of The Boardroom. The Boardroom is a daylong exercise designed to put students in the shoes of View Details

01 Sep 2018
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Turning Point: Power Outlet

next morning, they seemed to be talking about the same story, but now they were reporting from Minnesota. When I realized they were discussing a different case—that of Philando Castile, executed in his car while his girlfriend’s... View Details

13 Jun 2018
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The First Five Years: Momchil Filev and Ben Faw (both MBA 2014)

that category and got the executive summary with no condemnation.” Momchil: “A seamless experience that enables you to avoid the paradox of choice and make a confident purchasing decision.” View Details

01 Mar 2007
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Courting the Poor

while reading the New York Times. An article on the front page of the Business section about an innovative Brazilian retailer prompted an immediate e-mail to Gustavo Herrero (MBA ’76), executive director of the School’s Latin America... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; department stores; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

19 Jul 2011
News

Brightening the Future

Ayala: With solar lantern in hand, kicking off a campaign to light the rural Philippines. Photo courtesy Jim Ayala After a successful corporate career that included two decades as a senior partner at McKinsey & Company and, most recently, five years as chief View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Jun 2025
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Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward

With Harvard navigating an array of pressures, Jana Kierstead, Executive Director of the MBA and Doctoral Programs and External Relations, spoke with Dean Srikant Datar about how HBS is responding to new challenges while maintaining its... View Details

31 Jan 2023
News

Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups

start.” Taking care of your physical and mental health while launching a company is just harder, said Garg, who advised founders to get the support of an executive coach or therapist if they can. Saigal added that she has joined a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2010
News

Ilene Lang

of executive officers are women. That’s a very wide gap. The women’s movement is over forty years old now. Why hasn’t there been more change? There has been undeniable change. But there are still unspoken assumptions about what women want... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; interview; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

18 Jul 2018
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Ensuring HBS Remains a Dynamic Community

expressing my opinions and making presentations,” Lien explains. After HBS, Lien returned to Morgan Stanley, rising to executive director of mergers and acquisitions. She then moved to San Francisco, eventually leaving investment banking... View Details

01 Mar 2017
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Research Brief: Lost in Translation

In an increasingly global business world, English is the lingua franca that tethers companies and their investors together. Executives without a deep fluency in English could be costing their companies more than they realize. According to... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

01 Jun 2007
News

Delta’s Flight from Bankruptcy

aspiration has been very clear: We will be the most profitable airline in the United States,” said Whitehurst, who media reports speculate is one of the senior Delta executives currently under consideration to be its next CEO. View Details

Keywords: Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Dec 2003
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Christine Fairchild to Head External Relations

528150a8b80a2637fd6896e3fe5228e5 Christine Fairchild, who has played a key role in HBS alumni relations for the past fifteen years, has been appointed executive director of External Relations, with overall responsibility for alumni... View Details

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

01 Sep 2003
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The Levitt Brand

international renown with the landmark article ‘Marketing Myopia.’” That Harvard Business Review article (published again in a 1975 HBR “classic” version) posed the famous question that has been pondered by generations of students and View Details

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

01 Dec 2010
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Faculty Books

Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution by Robert Simons (Harvard Business Review Press) Professor Simons presents seven key questions managers must continually ask to excel at execution: Who is our main customer? How do our... View Details

Keywords: business proposals; financial regulation

01 Dec 2003
News

Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

relentless innovation and laser-eyed attention to detail are the primary drivers of success. And despite, or perhaps because of, those demands, these manufacturing executives also describe the sense of deep satisfaction their work can... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2013
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Sizing Up Social Impact

level," notes Ebrahim. "It doesn't disappear into other government agencies. The reasoning is that you can't achieve results without an accountable, locally embedded authority directly championed by the country's executive leadership. In... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music

intense pricing wars by electronics chains and discount department stores destabilized account bases." Some record executives have admitted to losing touch with their audiences and to alienating consumers by relentlessly pursuing and... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

16 Dec 2021
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A Global Alumni Response to the Pandemic

numbers of people, providing meals to the impoverished, and giving groceries, clothes and school materials to those who have lost their jobs,” says Anjali Raina (AMP 174), executive director of the HBS India Research Center, based in... View Details