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- 01 Jun 1998
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Diversity and Community
first annual Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership to IBM CEO Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (MBA '65) and Levi Strauss CEO Robert D. Haas (MBA '68). The two chief executives received the newly established award on behalf of their companies'...
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Garry Emmons
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
to Washington Hospital Center as a pair. Jeffrey Lurie enticed Joe Banner to join him at the Philadelphia Eagles. Dusty Baker brought a cadre of coaches with him from the San Francisco Giants to the Chicago Cubs. One person may have the...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
privilege to serve all of them in this role as the Chief Caregiver Officer. So this is like your Chief Human Resource Officer with other centers of excellence to really support the vision of the organization, and that vision is to be the...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
substitute teachers to school districts nationwide. The company finds itself at the center of ongoing debates about the nature of work—from hybrid staffing to automation, the skills gap, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). As more...
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- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
Sloan Management Review (forthcoming) Abstract Many people today in the information technology world and in corporate boardrooms are talking about "big data." Many believe that, for companies that get it right, big data will be...
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Sean Silverthorne
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2019
Publishing, Harvard Business Review circulation continued to grow (counter to industry trends), and products launched by the Corporate Learning and Higher Education divisions were well-received. Leveraging space in new and newly renovated...
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- 01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Corporate Innovation in the Fifth Era: Lessons from Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft by Alison Davis (MBA 1988) and Matthew Le Merle Cartwright Publishing Over the last 30 years a host of new technologies have begun...
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- 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008
Public Authorities Control Board rejects a $1.4 billion plan to build the New York Sports and Convention Center (NYSCC) on the West Side of Manhattan. If built, the NYSCC would have served as the home for the Jets and possibly the opening...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
biggest money center banks, had zero risk of loss. They did not fully disclose what was happening, and they did not put up enough capital to cover potential risks. Now, the FASB [Financial Accounting Standards Board] has overacted by...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
any discrimination at Goldman," Sherwood comments. "Because Lynne could also be a man's name, the corporate executives we called on didn't always know I was a woman. Sometimes they were astounded. But as long as I could show I knew what I...
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Hanna, Julia
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
commitment to building businesses made for a good fit," Gregory explains. "Dartmouth, Duke, and MIT also joined us, followed eventually by Princeton, Stanford, and Yale." Among the enterprises that Greylock has worked with for years is the Stryker View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
enough. Fisher had an opportunity; his successor had a crisis. What can leaders do before the depth and scope of their companies' crises come into focus? How can they initiate major transformations proactively? As researchers and managers who have been involved in...
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
6 I got to work in my basement on starting FreeMarkets. The first thing we did was raise some money, and then we built some software. We found some pilot clients and started to develop market-making skills, a supplier database, rules for the market, and a call View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Harvard Business School and we consistently hear is it not just workers, it's workers with certain skills.Moret: That's right.Fuller: Those that are most sought after and if you need them, it's much cheaper to go where they want to be, than it is to try to track them...
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- 01 Dec 2001
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Reaching Out
After researching the issue, including spending the better part of two days riding in taxis as an observer, Mukhtar came up with an idea. With drivers compelled by law to take their cars to special inspection centers every six months, his...
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- 14 May 2020
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What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
aspect of doing business must be completely rethought for both short-term survival and long-term advantage—and CEOs are profoundly aware of that. We want to share with you both high-level findings about the sleep-robbing concerns of View Details
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 19 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 19, 2006
low (-0.16 and 0.006) and decrease over time as network effects become increasingly important. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-035.pdf The Demise of Cost and Profit Centers Author:Robert S. Kaplan Abstract The...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2017
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The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
first thing you need to know is that competitive video gaming has been around a lot longer than you think. On November 10, 1980, five teenage boys faced off at the Warner Communications headquarters in Rockefeller Center in the middle of...
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- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
University. It also became a medical hub, driven by the brisk expansion of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. The education centers of Carnegie Mellon and Pitt attracted students from all over the world, and the city helped to...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
in a project-based way, which tends to be the work streams that have the biggest visibility inside the company. They're major transformation work streams. They are centers of excellence where they're trying to build up core capabilities...
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