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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
admissions office to develop and implement new strategies for attracting more students from the continent. Both always knew they would ultimately return to their home country to try to address hunger and build Nigerian enterprises. The...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
weighed in on the current economic crisis but quickly moved on to advocate for energy independence and cross-sector cooperation between business and government. The panel featured John Doerr (MBA ’76), Jeff Immelt (MBA ’82), Anand...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
work that our HBS colleagues have done illustrates this very well. Rosabeth Moss Kanter has written a piece for the project titled “Enriching the Ecosystem.” Her argument is that many of the untapped, rich opportunities for greater US competitiveness lie in getting...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
engage in global cooperation to get these planes done. Another lesson was IT systems. We lost visibility of the supply chain because our systems weren’t good enough to keep track of manufacturing activity. It’s essential to maintain 24/7...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era
"Today's top management needs to move beyond its focus on strategy that defines a rational product-market position to a sense of purpose that captivates employees' attention and commitment," Bartlett asserts. Managers, he says, "need to...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
gentrification and daily quality of life,” says John Peters (MBA 1986), who worked on two separate projects for the Mayor’s Office for Civic Innovation (MOCI): the Strategy Project, focused on clarifying the MOCI’s vision and mission; and...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
to form the Cleanliness Institute, whose primary function was cooperative sales promotion to teach the American public the importance of keeping clean. The use of the term “institute” emphasized the seriousness, indeed national...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
most complete contemporary picture of MBA education. “The level of cross-school cooperation was unprecedented,” Datar said afterward. For Datar and Garvin, the two-day session was a “thank-you” to the participants for their generous...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency
Ask fund managers covering the Hong Kong market about smart technology plays in these days of crashing dot-coms and you’re likely to hear one company name repeated often. Li & Fung has become the firm to watch for post-frenzy investors. Stock pickers say the trading...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
short-term “fixes” to move up in the rankings rather than focusing on long-term educational quality. As tensions rose, HBS and Wharton declared in 2004 that the media rankings were “meaningless beauty contests,” and they would no longer View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
section focusing on the startup phase (taught by Professor Patrick Liles) and the other on operational problems and strategies (taught by Professor Dick Dooley). Dooley went on to pioneer the Smaller Company Management Program (now the...
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- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
matter if competitors know your strategy, says Senior Lecturer Frank Cespedes. The real question is, do your employees know your strategy? Research indicates that less than 50 percent of employees do. Companies that withhold strategy...
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- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
circle to promote innovation, collaboration, and overall behavior change. Henderson explained that businesses attempting to cooperate pushes regulation, which in turn creates incentive for innovation. Hwang offered a call to action:...
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- 01 Jan 2005
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Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
company's long-term viability. The strategy paid off, with sales jumping well over 50 percent in the first year alone. Under intense scrutiny, Gerstner then reversed a plan to split IBM into independently operated "Baby Blues," choosing...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams
to serve as a director at York Street. “Also, I knew I wanted to come back and be part of what was happening in Sri Lanka.” A six-month strategy consulting gig the pair pitched to Sri Lanka’s Urban Development Authority, the government...
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- 13 Jun 2017
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Finding Common Ground
of the corporation, he observes, cooperative solutions are possible. “The mission really appealed to me,” Crespin notes. “Now it’s our mission in life, to accelerate collaboration between companies and governments and nonprofits.”
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Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
sent support. "In cooperation with the American embassy in Kuwait, we opened a new charity account to receive donations from those who believe in the power of altruism and contribution." Kamran Kashani (DBA '74), from Lausanne,...
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
“we-dentity” and the power of community in the face of an inefficient, sometimes corrupt, local government. Santa Ana del Valle, for example, provides many of its services (such as policing or maintenance of the church and museum) through a labor View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work
balance between work and home life, and expressing oneself using theater exercises. At Coopers & Lybrand and Goldman Sachs, consultant Benjamin Zander, for example, conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, has used music and...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
embrace opportunities to make this an environment in which everyone's learning is enhanced." Fungai H. Ruwende (HBS '98), a student from Zimbabwe, feels that the process is working. "I've found that my classmates are very cooperative and...
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Eileen K. McCluskey