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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Courting the Poor
employees and customers alike,” Frei says. “I couldn’t think of a service business that fit that description in the United States. We’ve been unable to crack that code of ‘courting the poor’ in any systematic way, so I wanted to...
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- 17 Apr 2017
- News
Jeff Immelt Wants a Radical Transformation of GE
transformation that is as radical as it is methodical, as essential to the company’s survival as Steve Jobs’s iPhone was to Apple’s.” In overseeing the company’s transition to a lean operation more akin to a tech innovator, Immelt has View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
Christensen rhetorically intones, “How do you prepare to deal with the unexpected that’s coming up? Get there early, set the place up. Read every signal you can get. So it’s intuitive, but it’s also systematic.” Those two qualities — View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Advance Racial Equity in the Office
Rice (MBA 1992), CEO and founder of Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT). Unlike the in-your-face brand of first-degree racism, that of the third degree occurs when organizations and institutions fail to weed out the practices that...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Silent Killers: Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Learning
disciplined approach that systematically confronts each one. To begin with, Beer and Eisenstat recommend that the CEO or general manager create a partnership between their top and lower-level managers,...
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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
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business? Howard Raiffa, the Frank Plumpton Ramsey Professor of Managerial Economics, Emeritus, at HBS, is a pioneer in the development of decision and negotiations analysis. In Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions, Raiffa and his coauthors...
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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
company’s name. Clearly, all signs point to your firm’s continued success. Right? Not necessarily, says HBS assistant professor Donald Sull in Revival of the Fittest: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Managers Remake Them. Based on...
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
He’s got a superhero’s name, and he’s shining a light on enduring wrongs here at home while confronting challenges in the Third World as well. Meet Richard America, who sees policy analysis and quality management as keys to development...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Faculty Books
human judgment, the authors show how to secure a place for ethics in our workplaces, institutions, and daily lives. Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader by Linda A. Hill and Kent Lineback (Harvard Business Review Press) Becoming an effective...
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- 08 Apr 2021
- News
Real Talk
Standard Bank, the largest bank in South Africa with a conservative culture of white Afrikaner managers. The management team had already been through this with another consultant, and they had walked out on her. “So I made a deal with...
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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
edition, with a new preface by authors Michael L. Tushman and Charles A. O'Reilly III, reveals why short-term corporate success often increases the chance of long-term failure. Drawing on lessons from firms worldwide, this book provides View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
competent team of practitioners, analysts, and managers from around the world. And she fostered the development of an organization that engaged the talents and commitment of network leaders. "To create real networks, you have to believe...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
process more broadly to a variety of strategic challenges and at multiple levels throughout the organization. Teaching by Heart by Thomas Delong, Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice Harvard Business Review Press Teaching by...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Value of Difficult Conversations
scholarship isn’t overriding the years of systematic oppression of these communities. “That’s the sign of a great conversation, conflict but progressing the issues forward,” she says of her participation. McCray remembers thinking that,...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
Emory Healthcare sent a team of managers and clinicians to the Managing Healthcare Delivery program. From left, Dane Peterson, Dallis Howard-Crow, Bryce Gartland, and Susan Grant at Emory University’s School...
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- 11 May 2011
- News
In a Good Place
of Milwaukee (her father worked at the Miller brewery), Gehrke attended Northwestern University, where she was introduced to poster design while working in a print shop. From there she went to the Pratt Institute for a master’s degree in package design and discovered a...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
genocide, in which Hutus, the largest ethnic group, systematically slaughtered a million Tutsis in 100 days under an extremist Hutu government. This led to the displacement of millions of Rwandans, both Hutu and Tutsi, before Tutsi rebels...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
management is particularly relevant in a global business,” she adds. “I knew every single department store owner in every part of the world we did business in. I always took a special gift from Mrs. Lauder and sat down for a glass of...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
processes to achieve higher levels of organizational synergy. The Profitability Test: Does Your Strategy Make Sense? by Harborne W. Stuart Jr. (PhD, 1992) (MIT Press) This book teaches readers to understand profitability in a systematic...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
Olympic bids in their own cities. Act from Choice: Simple Tools for Managing Your Habits, Your Emotions and Yourself, to Be How You Mean to Be by Robert Goldmann (MBA 1961) (Clarity Publications Inc.) With the goal of training your brain...
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