Strategy Execution - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2018
News

What I Do: Clare Reichenbach (AMP 185, 2013)

a media executive with 20 years of experience in strategy and business transformation who joined the foundation in February. “In AMP we talked about finding our North Star,” she says. “I’m fortunate because... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Peter and Maria Hoey

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Gallery - The Art of American Advertising

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details

17 Nov 2016
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Rent the Runway Sets Up Shop at Neiman Marcus

110-year-old department store, which will see new Rent the Runway shops open inside of existing Neiman Marcus locations. (Rent the Runway opened its first physical store in New York City in 2014, and now has a total of seven locations.) The Journal offers some insight... View Details

01 Jun 2015
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Ink

Valley to Swaziland: How One Couple Found Purpose and Adventure in an Encore Career Quoted (iStock) “We’ve now surveyed thousands of executives at hundreds of companies, and they’re always shocked to see how poorly their View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Apple; Microsoft; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

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Impact Stories | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Filter Results: (52) Submit People Alumni Executive Education Faculty MBA Students Topics Business for Social Impact Impact Investing K-12 Education Nonprofit Strategy & Governance Public Sector Social... View Details

16 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters

headquarters. Theoretically, it's the job of the executives upstairs to coordinate the activities of the various arms of a company to row in the same direction. "What corporate-level strategy is about... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

19 Mar 2019
Blog Post

Leadership Fellow Ming Min Hui: Figuring Out Her Mission

Program job posting at Boston Ballet gave her a chance to explore it as a reality. Executive Director, Max Hodges (MBA 2010), was seeking a Chief of Staff with a business background and MBA skills in View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

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History | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Citizenship. HBS convenes Consumer-Driven Health Care conference. 1997 HBS convenes Business Leadership in the Social Sector. 1996 New Executive Education program Governing for Nonprofit Excellence (GNE) . HBS convenes Nonprofit View Details

01 Oct 2002
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Directors of Research Centers Share Global Perspectives

Last May, executive directors from the School's global research centers came to campus for a daylong retreat hosted by the HBS Global Initiative. The event marked the first time that executive directors... View Details

Editorial

Elon Musk's Unusual Compensation Plan Isn't Really About Compensation at All

By: George Serafeim

Earlier this year, Tesla shareholders approved likely the largest compensation package ever awarded to a CEO—for a CEO who clearly doesn’t need the money. Elon Musk is already incredibly rich and also doesn’t seem particularly motivated by further wealth. So why do it?... View Details

Keywords: Tesla; Elon Musk; Innovation; Investor Communication; Investor Relations; Short-termism; Long-termism; Disruption; Executive Compensation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Communication Intention and Meaning; Mission and Purpose

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01 Apr 2001
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Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer

relevant’ to our list of qualities, so that if you aren’t reading HBR, you are missing out.” Tell us about the recent changes at HBR and what inspired them. The house wasn’t on fire, that’s for sure — our numbers were excellent, and our readers were satisfied — but we... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations

At the HBS Executive Education program Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations (BCAO), executives charged with leading and building operations and manufacturing View Details

Keywords: by Staff

10 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

How Numbers Talk to People

problem) to examine a major change in an organization's strategy or business model. It tends to be a longer story with a greater degree of analysis over time. Sometimes Eureka stories also involve other analytical story types, just... View Details

29 Aug 2018
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The Value of Valleys

American woman and she said, "I wanted this job to be yours so badly, and you're obviously smart. You're well spoken, but you lacked executive presence." And I sulked about it for a while. I internalized it. And when Sodexo called again,... View Details

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Forest L. Reinhardt | About

he has written numerous classroom cases on these and related topics, which are used at Harvard and elsewhere in MBA curricula and in executive programs. Professor Reinhardt chairs and teaches in Harvard Business School’s Agribusiness... View Details

Jon Staff

inclusion in Crain’s inaugural LBGTQ Leaders & Executives list and is the author of Getting Away: 75 Everyday Practices for Finding Balance in Our Always-On World, a guide to unplugging and reconnecting with what really matters on a daily... View Details

02 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Where Does Apple Go From Here?

investment. "Now, obviously, the company is doing much better since Jobs returned to the CEO job; but having said that, it has not yet reached the value that it was in the early 1990s," Yoffie points out. Yoffie, whose book Judo View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2016
News

@Soldiers Field

Readiness (CORe) program and the Disruptive Strategy course the opportunity to meet faculty—including professors Bharat Anand, Jan Hammond, and V.G. Narayanan—and classmates in person. Events included a full day of faculty-led case... View Details

09 Sep 2016
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Marla Malcolm Beck’s Path to CEO

In a New York Times piece that asks “How to Become a C.E.O.?”, Marla Malcolm Beck (MBA 1998) is highlighted as an example of the entrepreneurial path one can take to the chief executive position. Malcolm Beck, the founder and CEO of... View Details

01 Dec 2009
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Awards Recognize Excellence

Four HBS professors have received the annual Charles M. Williams Award for outstanding teaching and contributions to student learning. The recipients are David Moss for his Creating the Modern Financial System course; Jan Rivkin for his View Details

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