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- 18 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 18, 2008
existing businesses, raising the question of whether NBI had simply become a way for existing divisions to off-load budgetary risk. The case examines what worked, and what didn't, and the challenges posed by transitioning new ventures...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Mar 2023
- News
Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
attracted alumni in various career transitions seeking clarity on their next steps. According to Bernstein—who has a JD/MBA and DBA from Harvard and served as HBS Club of Toronto president from 2006-08—until recently, job seekers focused...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
illicit money that flows out of developing and transitional economies. These sums — corrupt, criminal, and commercially tax-evading in origin — are staggering, estimated at some $500 to $750 billion annually. The biggest part of this is...
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- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
from Asia, for example, requires weeks for transit alone, not even considering coordination time. Product cycles are shortening, and less lead time allows companies to wait longer to make decisions on quantity, features, style, and...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
Supplement 411-002 The Dow board made a bid for Rohm and Haas Company in order to transition its portfolio away from commodity chemicals towards specialty chemicals. Purchase this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
essentially the government’s HR department, handling everything from hiring to retirement benefits. OPM traces its history to the Civil Service Act of 1883, which took aim at the spoils system of political patronage. Appointed director by...
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- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
assist with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s transition team at the Pentagon. After shoring up new leadership, he moved to the US Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance and helped to create the Global Development Alliance, an agency...
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Jill Radsken
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
student at the right time, and transitioning from one point to the next—that are critical to success in case-method teaching. The cases Christensen developed over the years elicited candid discussion of some of the thorniest classroom...
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- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
privately financed project that will provide enough desalinated seawater to provide drinking water for 300,000 San Diegans. The propriety of having private companies provide a public good like water may be controversial, but the economics are not. As for View Details
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
308-038 Still Leading (B3): Gerry House—Impact of a Different Scale Describes how Gerry House made the transition from head of a large school district to leader of a small nonprofit. Purchase this case:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
understanding, especially of my peers,” Johnson says of the experience, which in the end was a resounding success. In the case, Johnson privately wonders if she can transition from the intensity and engagement of “defending freedom” to...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
be interesting to see how much their balance sheets have swelled when they start reporting their financial results. Let’s talk about the medical workforce, where we’ve seen medical students being called up early and doctors coming out of View Details
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
commercialization and adoption. Emerging opportunities must be nurtured, and the transition to high growth must be managed. Once breakthrough innovations catch hold, growth must be funded and managed to exploit the full value of the...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
firms will have a new CEO within the next four years; your company could very well be next. Senior executives know that a CEO transition means they're in for a round of firings, organizational reshuffles, and other unwelcome career...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
of directors of Medtronic, Inc., a company known for its commitment to effective corporate governance, must prepare for the departure of Chairman & CEO Bill George and the retirement of four long-time directors. The company had...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
prepare managers for the transition to a postwar economy. In 1945, Kidder, Peabody & Company titan Albert H. Gordon (MBA '25) contributed a prescient essay on the economic impact of peace. Gordon predicted "a major reorientation of...
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Deborah Blagg
- Web
Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
window and trying to have a longer term perspective on where markets are going and the role that they want to play in those markets. Because you need a North star, you need something that's guiding you over time with that transition and...
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- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
underwent to successfully make the transition from an ODM, founded in 1997, to a leading branded manufacturer (7% market share of smartphones in 2010), with the adoption of the tagline: "Quietly Brilliant." Significant...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
Cash By Christopher Kawaja (MBA 2004) and Shannon Matthiesen Independently published Most of us know how to balance the immediate needs of a checking account or to invest long term for our retirement plans. But financial advice falls...
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2014
ManageMentor as it shifts from packaged software to a subscription service model. The impacts of this accounting transition are expected to begin gradually diminishing in fiscal 2016. Executive Education revenue is forecasted to be...
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