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- 12 Mar 2012
- News
Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
The CEO and the Functions of Leadership
In a working paper presented at the June colloquium, HBS professors Michael Porter and Nitin Nohria consider the CEO’s role in the large, complex organization that is typical in today’s global economy. An excerpt follows: “CEOs must ensure that the View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business
"As different cultural traditions meet in the marketplace and inside organizations, managers face tough choices about the values that they and their organizations will live by," HBS professor Lynn Sharp Paine told participants at an HBS... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
Future Management
- 31 Jan 2012
- News
News & Trends in Management
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
They became skilled at watching the bottom line, managing scarce resources, and forming relationships with government and business organizations outside the company. At Abbott, young MBAs most often were placed in sales. As a result, they... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- News
Every Company Needs a Growth Manager
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
advertising savvy are but two of the myriad skills that are required of today's museum manager. Traditionally, museums have been run by academics who worked their way through the curatorial ranks, but more and more museum trustees are putting their faith in people with... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Management Update Launched
Managers trying to make sense out of a continuously changing business environment should check out the latest from Harvard Business School Publishing (HBSP). Management Update, a monthly newsletter launched... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Managing the Map
Celera completed its "rough draft" of the genome first. Whatever the outcome of the genome's public-private ownership squabble, managing an organization in this fast-paced, highly specialized environment presents several unusual... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The New Global Business Manager
function of today’s global manager? We used to think of the CEO as being the grand strategic architect. Now the world is so complex and fast-moving that the general manager’s role is less about managing... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
interview, we catch up with the group for another update. Not surprisingly, much has changed over the past decade in their households and in their careers. In the profiles that follow, our protagonists once again candidly discuss how they are View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
increasingly must make sophisticated financial decisions. Last November, Robert C. Merton, the George Fisher Baker Professor of Business Administration at HBS, discussed this problem and elaborated on the importance of risk management in... View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Conversing in Cyberspace: Students and Alumni Talk Management
general manager. The project came about after Garvin's search for teaching materials on the distinction between the job of a general manager and that of a senior functional View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit
strategic and general management issues facing service organizations as well as the management of service in manufacturing companies. The multidisciplinary unit focuses on three View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
skills, as HBS faculty and recent alumni explain in the following course profiles. Entrepreneurial Management Associate Professor Amar Bhide keeps a slide rule tacked above his office desk. "Although I don't use it anymore," he explains,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
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New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence
As general managers advance through their careers, they are often asked to bring their skills to bear on a new level of responsibilities. For the recently appointed country or business-unit manager of a... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
Spend a day or two in Chattanooga, Tennessee, asking longtime residents about the city’s history, and it’s sure to come up: that less-than-wonderful moment in 1969 when America’s beloved news anchor, Walter Cronkite, proclaimed it to be the “dirtiest city in America.”... View Details
- 05 Jul 2016
- News