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    Robert Simons

    Robert Simons is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. For over 35 years, Simons has taught accounting, management control, and strategy execution courses in both the Harvard MBA and Executive Education Programs. For 2024/25, he is teaching a... View Details

    • 22 Nov 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution

    Business leaders can't develop and execute effective strategy without first gathering the right information, says Harvard Business School professor Robert Simons. In his new book, Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better... View Details
    Keywords: by Robert Simons
    • 30 Oct 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

    In a recent Harvard Business Review article, professor Robert Simons wrote about how organizations can design jobs for maximum performance. In this excerpt, Simons discusses... View Details
    Keywords: by Robert Simons
    • 25 Jul 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    An Organization Your Customers Understand

    subordinate to the functions? Maybe you should organize by product, with separate units set up to serve specific markets. You play with the different combinations in your hands. How to decide ... This is the most obvious—and... View Details
    Keywords: by Robert Simons

      Simon Ramo

      A brilliant scientist, Ramo held 25 patents by the age of 30. He was responsible for much of the development of the Air Force’s ballistic missile, airborne radar, computer, navigation and armament control systems. He started his own... View Details
      Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
      • 28 Oct 2022
      • News

      HBS Announces New Sculpture on Campus, Sentinel (Mami Wata) by Simone Leigh

      • 03 Feb 2010
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Accountability and Control as Catalysts for Strategic Exploration and Exploitation: Field Study Results

      Keywords: by Robert L. Simons

        Norton W. Simon

        Capitalizing on his talents at restructuring, Simon gained control of Hunt Foods by force, accumulating shares in the company with proceeds earned from selling his previous enterprise, Val Vita Foods, to... View Details
        Keywords: Food & Tobacco
        • 17 Nov 2015
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Self-Interest: The Economist's Straitjacket

        Keywords: by Robert Simons
        • Portrait Project

        Jared Simon

        Sitting in my grandfather's garden as a child, surrounded by fig trees and tomato vines, I was in a state of wonder. In these moments, my world was in balance. Balance. The world in which we live is one of ecological balance. It is a... View Details
        • 24 Jun 2013
        • Working Paper Summaries

        The Entrepreneurial Gap: How Managers Adjust Span of Accountability and Span of Control to Implement Business Strategy

        Keywords: by Robert L. Simons
        • July – August 1996
        • Comment

        'Growing Pains' (HBS Case Study by Robert D. Nicosin)

        By: Myra M. Hart
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        • August 2019
        • Book Review

        Review of The New Turkey and Its Discontents by Simon A. Waldman & Emre Caliskan

        By: Kristin Fabbe
        Keywords: Turkey
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          Roberts Family Fellows

          As technical and societal challenges become increasingly complex and cross traditional boundaries, leaders who tackle such problems require more than technical skill – they require training in innovation and problem-solving techniques, and the ability to work on... View Details

            Robert C. Merton

            Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

            Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

            Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
            • Portrait Project

            Robert Schwartz

            will seek adventure. Far-away. Close-by. In-between. I will take a stand. Surrounded by a crowd. With a solitary few. All alone. I will listen and share. My dreams. Your dreams. Our dreams. I will longingly love. Her voice. Her smile. Her... View Details
            • Awards

            Institutional Investor. People of Power and Influence in Finance

            By: Robert C. Merton
            Profiled as one of the 40 People of Power & Influence in Finance during the Last 40 Years, by Institutional Investor magazine in its special May 2007 issue celebrating the magazine's 40th anniversary. View Details
            • 06 Sep 2008
            • News

            New book by Harvard's Robert Kaplan examines How to Execute Strategy

              Robert H. Hayes

              Robert Hayes is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, at the Harvard Business School. Prior to his appointment to the Harvard Faculty in 1966, he worked for I.B.M. and McKinsey & Company. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1966 from... View Details

                Robert J. Dolan

                Robert J. Dolan is the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester and began his academic career in 1976 as a faculty member at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago. He joined... View Details