by Walter Kiechel - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove on the Confident Leader

Christensen and Walter Kiechel, editorial director of Harvard Business School Publishing, to discuss these and other questions confronting business leaders today. Kiechel: You've spoken of high-tech companies, Intel included, moving... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kiechel; Technology

03 Jan 2014
News

Book Review: 'Fortune Tellers' by Walter Friedman

01 Oct 2001
News

A Janus-Faced Reflection

businesses. He had a long association with the Literacy Volunteers of New York City and currently serves on the board of the Volunteer Consulting Group. Kiechel lives with his wife, Eugenia Dunstan, and their son in Hoboken,New Jersey;... View Details

Keywords: Walter Kiechel; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Portrait Project

Walter Frye

will put my family first, and treat my friends like family. And, I will honor my predecessors – who championed civil rights, battled discrimination, and made ultimate sacrifices – by exploiting every opportunity to learn, every... View Details

13 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Create Winning Streaks

Frontiers of Management. In 2001 she received the Academy of Management's Distinguished Career Award, its highest award for scholarly contributions, for her impact on management thought, and in 2002 received the World Teleport Association's Intelligent Community... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel

Walter B. Wriston

Soon after assuming the presidency, Wriston built Citibank into the nation’s second largest bank in terms of total assets. He was instrumental in the convergence of Citibank and the First National City Corporation (Citicorp) which by 1976... View Details

Keywords: Finance

Walter S. Gifford

to 28.5 million. In 1927, Gifford launched his firm’s overseas operations and by 1948, 72 foreign countries were linked by wire and radio with Bell lines. View Details

Keywords: Communications

19 Mar 2015
News

Walter Salmon Remembered

time when Professor Malcolm McNair invited him to do so, despite Walter not having yet been appointed assistant professor at least that is the way I remember my attendance that day in the second-year elective course, Retailing. I was... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

Walter R. Young, Jr.

allowing the company to make some strategic acquisitions, and this growth has continued throughout Young’s term. By 1996, Champion was the number two company in both the mid-size motor coach and manufactured housing industries. View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

06 Aug 2001
Research & Ideas

Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?

Ever wanted to judge a Harvard Business Review case study? Here's your chance. In its June issue, Harvard Business Review published an account of the fictional company, DataClear, authored by Harvard Business School associate professor... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

17 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs

A few years ago anyone could become an entrepreneur. All you needed was a half-baked idea and a phone to hear offers from salivating venture capitalists. Now the environment is much more difficult. Question: Do you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur in this new... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

08 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad

World View: Global Strategies for the New Economy is a collection of Harvard Business Review articles edited by Jeffery E. Garten, Dean of the Yale School of Management. At the dawn of the new century, says Garten, "globalization has... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

09 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’

book excerpt Forecasters From the introduction of Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's Economic Forecasters By Walter A. Friedman This is a book about a group of entrepreneurs who, like Evangeline Adams,... View Details

Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

The Knowledge Coach

"Deep smarts," as Harvard Business School professor emerita Dorothy Leonard and collaborator Walter Swap see the term, is the intuition, judgement, and knowledge, both explicit and tacit, that is stored in the heads and hands of... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

The 85-year-old Business History Review, published quarterly by Harvard Business School, is the acknowledged leading peer-reviewed journal in the field. (BHR has recently been made available online through Cambridge University Press.) So... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Gurus in the Garage

and growth. That triumph can be attributed to the Valley's distinctive geography, history, and culture. Why The Triumph Viewing the valley from the flight approach to San Francisco International, one is struck by how small the region is.... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

01 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

John H. Patterson and the Sales Strategy of the National Cash Register Company, 1884 to 1922

cash. You change a coin or bill. Am I right? Now, sir, this register* makes the entries. The indication* of the transaction shows through this glass.* The amount* of the last recorded transaction is always visible, and the records are made View Details

Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman

25 Jan 2021
Book

In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded

How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing

19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Birth of the American Salesman

Walter A. Friedman's new book Birth of a Salesman chronicles the rise and development of modern sales management from the 18th century to the present day. Its fascinating cast of dynamic business figures and academic leaders includes John... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard