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- 08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work
1999), program manager, Strategic Decisions Group Diane and Peter Escher (both MBA 2009) Children: Hazel (4); Josh (2) Diane and Peter both work for startups in downtown Seattle, commuting to different floors of the same building. Diane...
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- 01 Jun 1997
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New Releases
satisfaction, and vice versa) constitute a service profit chain that can form the foundation for strategic service vision and help guide managers in their operations and marketing. The authors explain how any service View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
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How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
inward at their internal approaches to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces. April White: What has the response to the pledge been? Lisa Lewin: 08:34 The response has been remarkable. We have well over 1,000 signatures by senior executives across a range of View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
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Supplying Demand
all comers to date, however, only the three industry founders have survived: Staples, Office Depot, and Office Club (with the latter two eventually merging). "The entrepreneurs won," says Stemberg. "I'm proud of that. " Which is not to...
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Paul Michelman
- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
Leading Strategic Change in an Era of Healthcare Transformation edited by Jim Austin, Judith Bentkover, and Laurence Chait (MBA 1965) (Springer) This book focuses on how to lead transformative and strategic...
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- 01 Jun 2004
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Books
point out that the choices women entrepreneurs make often cause investors to classify their ventures as undesirable investments. The book includes chapters on the human capital component, financial savvy and risk propensity in women, the effects of View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
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What’s Next
mission to develop great general managers by capitalizing on the case method. In recent years, the School has added myriad initiatives that appear to celebrate complexity rather than strategic simplicity. Please draw these initiatives...
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- 01 Oct 1998
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Short Takes
Smoking Gun When impressionable teenagers light their first cigarettes, they initiate what all too often becomes a lifelong, life-threatening habit. The vast majority of smokers begin in their teens, yet the tobacco industry has...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2006
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Surviving Success
paradox in succession is that a founder who has been doing a good job actually increases the chance he or she will be fired,” observes Wasserman. “Lew fit that profile perfectly.” After developing Wily’s technology, landing some important sales, and leading a View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
healthcare is rationed, the retirement age is 75, and exit permits are required to leave the country. Univer-Cities: Strategic View of the Future from Berkeley and Cambridge to Singapore and Rising Asia. Vol. II. edited by Tony Teo (MBA...
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- 28 May 2019
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A More Perfect Union
started her career at Bain and then spent a decade building Dalberg, a strategic advisory firm, from a team of seven people to more than 30 offices globally. From 2012 to 2017 she served as senior development advisor to the Secretary of...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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More Faculty Honors
teaching and research. Professor Joseph Bower is the coeditor of From Resource Allocation to Strategy, which was named Best Management Book of 2006 by strategy + business magazine. A book coauthored by Professor Sunil Gupta, Managing Customers as Investments: The View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
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Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
being competitive on value,” says Kempczinski. “Our Dollar Menu clearly defined value for the industry for a good decade, and as we came off of that, we hadn’t really redefined what value meant to us.” Last year, McDonald’s launched a...
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- 01 Aug 2016
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Leading the Way for Dallas Arts Community
the city’s Office of Cultural Affairs. “There will be a strategic plan process,” she said of her first moves in office. “How do we structure conversations around what small groups and artists need? What do the larger groups need, the more...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams
So, for example, creating incentives for industries to move into designated areas rather than, as he would say, ‘spreading like a rash.’ He brought meaning to the process.” “You find that people with two different viewpoints begin to...
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- 04 May 2017
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Going the Distance
developed a clutch system and mounted our lawnmower engine onto my 3-speed bike. My top speed was 53 mph!” he says. With an engineering degree earned at Brigham Young University, Frey worked in the defense industry during the 1980s. When...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 2002
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The Class of 1977
commission rates. Strategic planning was the newest and the best management tool. A young HBS professor named Michael Porter was giving fascinating lectures on competitiveness. In those days before the kinder and gentler CEO came into...
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Desmond Wong
- 01 Oct 1999
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New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
In June, W. Carl Kester, the School's Industrial Bank of Japan Professor of Business Administration, was appointed senior associate dean and MBA Program chair (succeeding Professor and Senior Associate Dean Steven C. Wheelwright). The...
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- 01 Jan 2004
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Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
Pennsylvania. After earning her degree from HBS, Franklin worked in strategic planning for the Singer Company and later for Citibank, where she received a phone call from an HBS classmate working in the Nixon White House. He was looking...
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- 10 Mar 2021
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
Oberholzer-Gee, Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration Harvard Business Review Press Extreme market volatility, pandemic, industry change, supply-chain disruption. The list of potential threats and View Details