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- 01 Jun 2001
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Alejandro Ramirez: A Very Good Time for Mexico
social policy of the new administration. He was then asked to join the new government. He elected instead to return to HBS, a decision he does not regret. “I’ve been fortunate enough to do research with Professor Michael Porter,” Ramirez...
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- 01 Mar 2003
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“Culture Is Everything”
transforming IBM, talked about the key strategic decisions he made when he took the helm of the struggling company in 1993. Initially reluctant to take the top post, Gerstner, an outsider, determined that it...
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- 01 Jan 2012
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Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
male-dominated mining community. The first woman and non–South African to lead the 95-year-old company, Carroll, a native of Princeton, New Jersey, was hired as a change agent, and her combination of compassion, strategic vision, and...
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- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
key role business leaders have to play in confronting climate change—and the power of HBS alumni to make a positive difference. Jacqueline Adams (MBA 1978) President, J Adams Strategic Communications; co-author of A Blessing: Women of...
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- 02 Sep 2021
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Back to School
operations, drawing him to HBS. After receiving his MBA, Simmons took a job in Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont’s office as policy advisor and director of strategic initiatives, with a focus on education equity, workforce development, and...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn
3, a startup competitor—but was fired when his strategic recommendations for expansion didn’t align with upper management’s. At that point, Keen made good on his HBS application essay and joined Cherokee Nation Enterprises (now Cherokee...
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- 12 Feb 2021
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How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
about what to do and whether or not my ideas and hunches that I had in business school might well in fact apply, decided that the problem with the business really lay with strategic decisions being made at...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)
professors were doing what I liked to do, but with all the people in a section, the impact was multiplied eighty times," he observes. During his second year in the MBA Program, a research project on CEOs with Professor Nitin Nohria confirmed Wasserman's View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
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The Military and the MBA: Richard Kondo (MBA 1999)
hours later I was on a plane to Tokyo to advise the US-Japan Task Force. It’s very hard in chaos to make well-informed decisions because all the information is out there in small pockets. My first priority was to contribute all available...
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- 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
- 04 Jan 2016
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Taking Time Out for a Challenge
approved a strategic plan for the next three years, as Sierra Leone works to build more resilient systems.” Back at HBS for the 2015–2016 academic year, Manning says she’s grateful her advisors and the doctoral program office supported...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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Faculty Research Online
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6394.html. Conceptual Foundations of the Balanced Scorecard This article documents the precursors of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) strategic perfor-mance management tool and describes its evolution since its...
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- 17 Dec 2015
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Applying Strategy Concepts In Innovative Ways Through Technology
Part Monopoly marathon, part chess championship, “Strategic Brew” is a multimedia simulation that engages students in a fast-paced exercise in strategic decision-making. Working together in teams, students gain practical exposure to the...
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- 21 Sep 2016
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Leadership in Motion
For self-described compulsive worker Jane Veron (MBA 1991), the decision to step away from her marketing role at American Express some 18 years ago reflected the desire to put down roots with her husband and young daughters in Scarsdale,...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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HBS Students Negotiate a Victory
complete the third year of the four-year program. Describing the factors that contributed to their success, Chung credited tactics learned during the first year of studies in the classroom of HBS professor Max Bazerman, a negotiation specialist, as well as the ability...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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HBS Clubs and Associations
of the Juvenile Justice Fund in Atlanta, which provides resources and services for youth and their families who are involved with the juvenile justice system. “I was able to come back and, with my case studies and notes as a guide, retool our View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
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Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
expectations with promises of same-day delivery, the logistics industry is looking to completely new models, like crowdsourcing, autonomous technology, and on-demand delivery. Robert Reisner (MBA 1971), who led the Postal Service’s technology and View Details
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 1996
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New Releases
an eight-step process to help firms achieve the lasting organizational transformations essential for success in the coming decades. The Balanced Scorecard by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton (Harvard Business School Press) After years of cost-cutting and...
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- 16 Jul 2019
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The Making of a Movement
making decisions that could advance treatment options for patients with rare cancers. Neither of the Linns worked in science or medicine. A few years earlier, rare cancers had not even been on their radar. Now it was possible their...
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- 01 Jun 1997
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Blockbuster Deals
inept or complacent management drew the attention of raiders. "I give credit to that 1980s movement as a whole for having created the profit machine that we see in the 1990s," Hayes says. "We now have an M&A; movement driven by strategic...
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Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry