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- 01 Apr 2002
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Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
rampant turmoil within the sector also surprised us. During the course of our research, there were dozens of significant mergers and acquisitions. Many leading firms went public. After decades of relative stability, most professional...
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- 13 Nov 2020
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Insatiably Curious
experience was exactly what she needed. “I was drinking from the fire hose,” she says. “At MIT, I learned how to problem solve. At HBS, I got a framework that allowed me to see the bigger picture.” The School also facilitated her career transition—from technology to...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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In My Humble Opinion: Status Update
celebrities, developers, and news publishers. She also leads mergers and acquisitions. “Facebook’s mission is about giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together,” she says. “In the short time I’ve been in...
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Julia Hanna
- 26 May 2016
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W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
find its way forward after a series of mergers and acquisitions, high-profile ethical missteps, and some tough business challenges. His job was to build on strengths, connecting what was good with what could be better. “Boeing had...
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- 01 Jan 2003
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Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
primarily based on a narrow definition of 'good business,'" says Vasella. "If you can improve the way medicine is practiced, I believe you will also make money." With sales up 21 percent to $5.7 billion in the first quarter of 2003, Novartis-the Basel-based...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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Ready for Takeoff
she has to educate, Sender has to mesh two geographically and culturally distinct companies into one functional unit. The merger process began in June 2012, when LAN, Chile's largest airline, and TAM announced a merger, with the resulting...
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- 01 Dec 2001
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Reaching Out
1960s. Nundy attended boarding school in India and later worked there during college summers. Her years in India have caused her to reexamine her priorities. "For me, closing a billiondollar merger transaction between two large corporate...
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- 01 Oct 1999
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The View from the Pit
Harvard's School of Public Health since 1976 and has spent much of her professional career applying corporate and industrial models to the health-care field. Her research activity at HBS focuses on the current trend of hospital mergers...
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Judith A. Ross
- 14 Dec 2015
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A Leader’s Call to Action
industry. That’s why I stayed— and why I came back!” In 2000, Nick took a role as assistant to the CEO at WPS Resources (formerly Integrys Energy Group, now WEC Energy Group) and that’s where she learned the ins and outs of corporate boards and View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2003
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Books
practices — strategy, execution, culture, and organization — and at least two of the secondary practices — talent, leadership, innovation, and mergers and partnerships. Thus, the “4+2” formula. The authors give detailed examples of...
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- 25 Jun 2019
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After the Storm
of a merger with supermodel Petra Nemcova’s Happy Hearts Fund. The organization is volunteer-driven and prides itself on showing up early and staying late in the wake of natural disasters, working closely with local agencies to provide,...
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Paul Flannery
- 01 Mar 2008
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Innovation, Inc.
R&D lab, increased its mergers and acquisitions of companies that had synergies with the company’s businesses, and formed a small venture capital fund for exploratory investments. Komori also initiated a reorganization that created six...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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A Class Act
beard, his vast knowledge of finance, and particularly his caution about business getting too big for effective management. If he were alive today, he would find many supersized mergers to be concerned about. S. Francis Nicholson (MBA...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2022
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December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Pilgrimage to the Museum: Man’s Search for God Through Art and Time By Stephen Auth (MBA 1985) Sophia Institute Press In Pilgrimage to the Museum, author-curator Stephen Auth takes you on a colorful journey through the history of...
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- 01 Feb 2000
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The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
there will be entities that claim they are human because they will be copies of human thinking." As humans, he said, "we will put devices in our own brains to expand our own thinking so there will be a real merger of biological and...
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- 01 Mar 2006
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Drive-In Nation
(or maybe the Big 2, after Chrysler’s merger with Daimler) continue to dominate the U.S. market, they are beset by falling sales, staggering financial obligations, and the relentless pressure of globalization and foreign competition. GM,...
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- 01 Dec 1998
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Managing the Business of Life
1996, and she moved back to the States, taking a job as vice president of operations with Warner Brothers Television in Los Angeles. "What I missed most about America was the attitude that you can be anybody and still get ahead in the world," she says. In the View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
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A Life Transformed
says Parija, who later became head of corporate banking following a merger that created a much larger institution. "My contribution to the bank's income was significant, and I was rewarded with company-paid business education," he says....
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- 01 Jun 2018
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June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
And his afterlife: “When three-headed Cerberus greeted him / Socrates replied: ‘I won’t need / an attack dog, thank you. I married one.’” Mergers and Acquisitions: Integration and Transformation Management as the Gateway to Success by...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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MBAs on a Mission
of Nature & Science, Jennifer Houston’s (MBA ’05) large-scale project is the construction of a new $185 million home for the museum, which came into being in 2006 with the merger of three of the city’s respected cultural institutions —...
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