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22 Mar 2022
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look at business development and values, management practices and ethics, and their roles. And that’s all well and good, says Lim, in that CEOs typically walk away renewed and clear-headed about their next steps View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

04 Sep 2019
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Putting the Game Within Reach

you listen to the fans, you’ll wind up sitting with them. But what if a generation of fans has been brought up to game plan like coaches and build rosters like general managers, with skills honed by playing video games and fantasy sports?... View Details

01 Jun 2005
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Marked Managers

Baxter people worked first as assistants to senior managers and then were put into project-based assignments where they learned about different parts of the company. Within a... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Career Imprints; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

23 Mar 2021
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Managing Future Growth at an Innovative Workforce Education Start-up

01 Jun 2017
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Research Brief: Profit with Purpose—and Middle Management

management. “For the past decade, middle management has taken a beating—often portrayed as an unnecessary resource inside an organization,” Serafeim says. “But [this research shows] that when you can... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

01 Apr 2001
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The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less

Management Déjà Vu,” by asking his audience about their concerns, as owners and operators of small businesses. A number of issues were voiced: sales and marketing; cash flow; hiring and motivating employees;... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Jun 2013
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Building a Better Brazil

programs have a long-lasting impact on the progress of their workers, their companies, and their countries, and have done so in particular in Brazil," said Esteves, who visited the HBS campus in March to deliver the keynote speech at... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Oct 1997
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New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence

and to take action quickly on less data, which is probably a result of studying so many cases and testing some of the principles on the job." Next year, TGM's administrators hope to attract more clusters of general View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Jun 2008
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A Binary Formula

strategic thinking in terms of how you manage these types of projects, how you manage investors’ expectations, and how you manage partners. “I see View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; science; research; Management; Management; Management

19 Feb 2020
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Running a Decathlon

Patton, who was definitely not an A student in his high school class in Normandy, Mo., a level of accomplishment he attributed to his focus on the golf team rather than schoolwork, would have loved such an... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

27 Mar 2023
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A Sporting Chance

in fall 1994. Coming from an engineering background, he found the School's approach of building broad general management and leadership skills a bit foreign at first but has come to rely on those practices... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

01 Mar 2024
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Giving All Stakeholders a Voice

For John Wu (MBA 2000), “Web3” means more than technological innovation. “It’s a mindset,” he says of the movement toward a decentralized internet that accelerates innovation and gives end users greater collaboration with businesses. “It’s a transformative shift in... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2019
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Building a Movement

was a concern by people in business when they first got engaged in social enterprises—when they participated on boards, for instance, or gave money, or mentored people running these organizations. They looked at the capacity View Details

01 Oct 1998
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A Community Investment

HBS to recognize social enterprise as a field of study? Clark: As government shrinks, a greater role will have to be played by the private sector. As the world becomes more complex, community-based View Details

01 Sep 2010
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Becoming a VC Insider

is the carry divided within the partnership?” If the carry is divided equally among senior and junior partners, that speaks to a firm where everyone has a voice on decisions.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Sep 2008
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Building a Better MBA

management careers and management problems were carved up by function,” he continues. “A typical manager would spend his entire career within one... View Details

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

01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era

but rather as a portfolio of flexible and interlinked roles and relationships." While the outmoded top-down management structure of corporate divisions gave managers tight... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Jun 2015
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Leadership on a Global Stage

for example, became Jefferson’s adopted home following his surgery and recuperation. As a White House Fellow working in the Department of Commerce, he organized the historic first trip of the White House... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 Sep 2018
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Case Study: A Good Fit

apps allow, the team discovered a way to guide people through behavior changes with results that stick. Individuals using Gain Life’s weight loss apps achieve results that double the one-year benchmark for other methods, Eldridge says.... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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