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- 22 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
CEO Succession: The Case at Ford
someone who doesn't know a lot about the business. Is that another problem? A: Well, there are two different approaches. What's interesting is sometimes people go for great CEOs who come from what are called CEO factories, like GE or...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
Island native Jim McNerney (MBA ’75). Later, his résumé would include stints at blue-chip companies like Procter & Gamble, McKinsey & Co., and General Electric, where he led various divisions of the multinational giant (including GE...
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- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
short-term and long-term thinking, and craft emotionally engaging visions while staying focused on execution. In this article, we analyze how one organization, GE Money Bank in Switzerland, successfully created a new growth business...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
which is typically the method used for financial statements. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112051-PDF-ENG Ken Langone: Member, GE Compensation Committee Suraj Srinivasan and Lizzie GomezHarvard Business...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
managing very well. You did-- I believe-- have another psychotic break, is that correct? Switz: Yes, I went from HBS to McKinsey for three years and then, to GE Capital in a strategy role. And a couple of weeks after my wedding, had my...
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- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
September–October 2017 Harvard Business Review GE's Global Growth Experiment: The Company Pushed Cross-Business Collaboration By: Gulati, Ranjay Abstract—Like many other companies, GE under Immelt had to figure out how to balance serving...
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Carmen Nobel
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
performance is Jack Welch. But that would mean the future of American corporations is in cloning. Rather, people should ask: What are the systems by which a company like GE has, for more than a century, produced good managers? Systems...
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by Martha Lagace
- 26 May 2016
- News
2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
achievement-oriented and purposeful to a fault, although we’re good friends today.” “I worked at GE and 3M before coming to Boeing in 2005. When I arrived, the company had experienced some ethical challenges. Everyone likes to believe...
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- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
for the launch by an unknown start-up, considering the wisdom of taking a B2C rather than B2B approach with a novel technology, and using analogous products to forecast demand and sales for a new technology. Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
2000 respectively, GE Capital and Citi Financial both acquired Japanese consumer-lending companies. In 2006, when the Japanese Supreme Court rules that one of the big Japanese consumer lenders must repay a borrower for "excess...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
difficult. At least two American corporations, GE and Microsoft, have effectively combined their China and India strategies, allowing them to stay ahead of global rivals. Purchase the article:...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
Immelt: The Voyage from MBA to CEO Harvard Business School Case 307-056 GE believes its ability to develop management talent is a core competency that represents a source of sustainable competitive advantage. Traces the development of a...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
results of choices we made. GE Healthcare employees assemble magnetic-resonance imaging machines in Beijing. In 2011, the highly global company moved its x-ray unit headquarters staff to China-a major, rapidly growing market. Q: The US...
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Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
reasonable prices are in demand. One example: In health care, GE is producing a computerized tomography (CT) scan machine that is functional without a lot of bells and whistles. It was designed originally for the Chinese market where...
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by Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
they can relocate their headquarters to a hub, as GE recently did (but make them much smaller). A less expensive strategy is to create an innovation lab or corporate outpost in a talent cluster, as Walmart did with Walmart Labs. The most...
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Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
we had like something like 40 people from GE sign up in a two-week period. Then a bunch of people from J&J [Johnson & Johnson] from Pfizer, from all these huge companies, they would sign up for the marketplace. They would create an...
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- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
& Gamble, Tata Consultancy Services, IBM, and GE Healthcare have adroitly managed cross-border differences—as well as how other well-known companies have failed at this challenge. Inner Work Life: Understanding the Subtext of Business...
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Martha Lagace