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- 01 Jun 2003
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Books
regulation, consumer preferences, or technology change, managers in successful firms often respond with more of what worked in the past — a trap the author refers to as “active inertia.” When new realities call for new approaches, some...
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- 23 Sep 2021
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Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies
business education for the purpose of the betterment of our society. HBS has a very important role in that regard.” Kawasaki says the club selected Professor Serafeim to be the inaugural series speaker because measurement is crucial in...
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Margie Kelley
- 06 Dec 2021
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December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
what matters most; facing conflict, adversity, and ambiguity with decisiveness and confidence; setting uncompromising standards for behavior and performance; and selecting and developing great people. Be Where Your Feet Are: Seven...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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All For One
question was how to do it. At Indian electronics firm HCL Technologies, incoming CEO Vineet Nayar inherited a once-great technology company that had lost its way by the time he took over in 2005. The company had steadily lost market share...
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- 18 May 2017
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Pioneer Spirit
came when it was selected to build custom-designed consoles and workstations for the Military Air Lift Command’s Crises Action Area at Scott AFB. That led to building all the consoles and workstations for the Strategic Air Command’s...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning
working for a U.S. government- funded venture-capital firm in Slovakia, Kubicova gained the necessary baseline work experience at home before joining McKinsey & Company in Prague and Cleveland. Kubicova now works in London as an associate...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Sep 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
Airlines. Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation Are Changing Life on Earth by Juan Enriquez (MBA 1986) and Steve Gullans (Current) The authors survey how humans are changing the course of their evolution,...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Business Deep Purpose offers a compelling reassessment and defense of purpose as a management ethos, documenting the vast performance gains and social benefits that become possible when firms manage to get purpose right. Few business...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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New Ventures New Gains
now a SVP of Greenlight.com, which recently merged with CarsDirect.com. “It moved quickly from class project to religious quest,” adds Nussey, the former CEO of e-business consulting firm iXL and current president and CEO of Silverpop...
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- 28 Mar 2018
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Fueling the Future
recruiter and marketing director to head of innovation. Today, she runs Fueled for Growth, an innovation consulting company, which assists financial firms with due diligence in the energy and industrials sector and helps companies solve...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
human competition—and even the future of humanity itself. Featuring select interviews from the biggest names in the industry, The Book of Esports weaves tales of trust, betrayal, and superhuman reflexes into predictive frameworks,...
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- 20 Dec 2019
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The 19 Musts of 2019
of podcasting public benefit corporation RadioPublic, Podfund, and Matter.vc; former CEO and cofounder of PRX MUST DOWNLOAD Curio “Curio selects articles from leading publications including the Financial Times, the Economist, the...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
Barksdale Group and former CEO of Netscape; Hank Barry, CEO of Napster; Irwin Jacobs, chairman and CEO of QUALCOMM; and Carl Yankowski, CEO of Palm, Inc. Representatives from top venture-capital and consulting firms joined a diverse mix...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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My HBS Eureka Moment
as much as $10,000 per year. That conversation stuck with me and it was my goal from that moment to go to Harvard Business School. Have a Long-Term Strategy Jose M. Faustino (MBA 1963) I WAS AMONG THE FORTUNATE MINORITY that Professor Roland Christensen View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
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Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
employees, rapidly rising health-care costs, and the likely loss of existing protection against lawsuits for pain and suffering from medical events. She then disclosed the results of a 1999 KPMG survey of CEOs and consumers about consumer-driven health care. The View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
Light noted. The current crisis, he continued, inevitably will lead to “an entirely new financial system with a new set of regulators, a new set of regulations, and frankly, a new set of firms quite unlike what we’ve seen before. These...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards
Illustration by Dan Page In a company as large, complex, and prestigious as Lehman Brothers, one would expect to have found seasoned, astute, well-informed directors to oversee the managers and the risks the firm undertook with...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand
was an exception. Selected from 3,000 applicants, I learned that there is always a way if you never give up. A lack of role models did not bother me. I love doing things my way without being bothered by precedent. After HBS, I worked in...
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- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
chairman emeritus of the Bajaj Group, announced that the firm would be donating Rs 200 crore (~$27 million) to address the “on-the-ground challenges” resulting from the surge in coronavirus cases in India. As noted in the Business...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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Ilene Lang
her well at Catalyst, the 75-person nonprofit global research and advisory firm she joined as president in 2003 (Lang was named CEO in 2008). Committed to breaking the proverbial glass ceiling once and for all, Catalyst, founded in 1962,...
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