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- May 2010 (Revised May 2011)
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Kent Thiry: "Mayor" of DaVita
By: William W. George and Natalie Kindred
Kent Thiry, CEO of dialysis provider DaVita, is considering how to integrate employees from recently acquired Gambro Healthcare without damaging DaVita's robust, unconventional internal culture. When Thiry joined DaVita in 1999, breaking an important promise to his... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Experience and Expertise; Employee Relationship Management; Leadership Style; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Personal Development and Career; Integration; Health Industry
George, William W., and Natalie Kindred. Kent Thiry: "Mayor" of DaVita. Harvard Business School Case 410-065, May 2010. (Revised May 2011.)
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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog
Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Crafting Your Life: The First 10 Years Post MBA Leslie Perlow Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) Ryan Raffaelli Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Mastering Consulting and Advisory Skills (also... View Details
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FAQs - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
encourages and supports innovation within the participant-centered learning model. We believe that while our resources are developed with case method instructors in mind, skills that promote effective and rich classroom discussions can be... View Details
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The Panama Canal
The Big Ditch is the first quantitative economic history of the Panama Canal and its effect on Panama, the United States, and the world economy. It makes three general arguments. First, that the Panama Canal was very important to... View Details
- 18 Jul 2023
- Interview
Jeffrey Rayport on Product Market Fit, Profit Market Fit and Whiplash, and More
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Doug Levin
This episode of "Lessons from Startup Life" podcast features Jeffrey Rayport, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Jeffrey specializes in teaching and researching growth-stage technology ventures and their scalability. Prior to... View Details
Keywords: Scaling And Growth; Start-up; Diversity; Equity; Inclusion; Technology; Business Startups; Product Marketing; Business Growth and Maturation
"Jeffrey Rayport on Product Market Fit, Profit Market Fit and Whiplash, and More." Lessons from a Startup Life (podcast), July 18, 2023.
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thai Lee, MBA 1985
and books her own travel. "Thai has always worked hard. That's just who she is," says Celeste Lee, her younger sister whom Lee persuaded to attend the Harvard Kennedy School. Celeste now sees her sister's skills in action regularly in her... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- March 2022 (Revised May 2022)
- Case
Winning Business at Russell Reynolds (A)
By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco
In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting–and... View Details
Keywords: Compensation; Collaboration; Executive Search Firms; Consulting Firms; Compensation and Benefits; Restructuring; Human Resources; Human Capital; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Talent and Talent Management; Consulting Industry; Employment Industry; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America; South America; Oceania
Bernstein, Ethan, and Cara Mazzucco. "Winning Business at Russell Reynolds (A)." Harvard Business School Case 422-045, March 2022. (Revised May 2022.)
- 01 Sep 2006
- What Do You Think?
Are We Ready for Self-Management?
may work well when team sizes are small and there are limited personality conflicts." Ashutosh Tiwari, while questioning whether self-management could "prove its effectiveness in the long run," concluded that it might work "where View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Sep 2022
- News
The Beauty Guide
this is all about: positioning the next group of Latina women to rise to their roles—not only with the skill and knowledge of the business but also with the empathy, understanding, and fearlessness to be themselves along the way. View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 02 Dec 2010
- What Do You Think?
Making Right Choices: Art or Science?
service alternatives or provide incentives in order to facilitate customer choice with fewer regrets. According to Iyengar, " choosing helps us create our lives. We make choices and are in turn made by them. Science can assist us in becoming more View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
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Ethan Li
operating." And it opened up new questions for Ethan. "I realized there may be something limited about my skills and the way I think about things," he says. "I was developing breadth, but I wanted depth, too. I thought... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
jobs." Mills's introduction to government service came while she was still working in New York but living in Brunswick, Maine, with her three sons and husband, Barry Mills, the president of Bowdoin College. In 2007, she was asked by Maine's then governor John Baldacci... View Details
- 25 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse
and suddenly old doubts emerge. "You never really were top at that and now it's really showing up." If it's a personal situation it may be old feelings of anger, shame, self-doubt. It's not just a career skills aspect; when I... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
about world poverty. They want to move social marketing beyond mere sales and promotion. They insist that eliminating poverty requires all the complex skills the marketing profession can bring to bear. In this interview with HBS Working... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dwight Raiford
years, but only recently have they truly come together. “My life is finally aligned,” says Raiford with a warm smile and easy laugh. After a successful career in finance — including twenty years at Citibank — he is now using his business View Details
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Artful Leadership | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
hypothesis through field studies, projects, and in the HBS classroom.” It proved correct. Named executive director of Boston Ballet in May 2014, where she and the company’s artistic director lead a staff of 750, Hodges continues to call on her MBA View Details
- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
cautious about accepting jobs in highly politicized environments where only those who are very skillful at handling difficult work relationships can prosper. Those early in their careers can glean important self-insight through careful... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
- October 2015 (Revised November 2024)
- Case
A Challenger's Strategy: Pinar Abay at ING Bank Turkey
By: Paul Healy, Gautam Mukunda and Esel Çekin
In 2013, Pinar Abay was appointed as the CEO of ING Bank Turkey. At 34, she was the youngest bank CEO in Turkey's history. Her appointment raised eyebrows because of her youth and because her career at McKinsey had given her no day-to-day bank management experience.... View Details
Keywords: Challenger's Strategy; Culture; Innovation; Performance Management; Talent Acquisition; Differentiation; Growth; Emerging Country; Banking; Digital Banking; Alternative Channels; Leadership; Change Management; Talent and Talent Management; Organizational Culture; Emerging Markets; Transformation; Banks and Banking; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development Strategy; Banking Industry; Turkey
Healy, Paul, Gautam Mukunda, and Esel Çekin. "A Challenger's Strategy: Pinar Abay at ING Bank Turkey." Harvard Business School Case 116-023, October 2015. (Revised November 2024.)
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John H. McArthur | About
complex stakeholders. By the time he became dean, McArthur had a reputation as a skilled negotiator with a talent for resolving thorny conflict, and a tough-minded but rational decision maker who worked with others in considerate and... View Details
- 30 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Finding Pride
years. Last October, I was in the hospital for a few weeks, and Bob would come every afternoon to spend the day with me. I’d introduce him around as my husband; no one batted an eye. I never imagined we’d see this happen. —Paul Raeder (MBA 1979) 1980s “Any leadership... View Details