Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

But how well schools meet this goal, and to what extent their teaching influences their students’ leadership, is an open question. This changed after Peter Dolan (Dartmouth, 1980) took the helm in 2001. The overarching goal of most business schools is to train future leaders to lead.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Clarke painted a picture of how computers would change our way of life by the year 2001. More than 80% of our work is done by teams of consultants and staff who operate out of their home offices. As a result, our teammates voluntarily design new practice areas, conduct cutting-edge leadership research, and write books.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Early in the 2000s it made a bold bet: buying photo sharing site Ofoto in May 2001. As the decade wore on and its core business continued to deteriorate, Kodak brought in a new leadership team, downsized its core operations, and began placing bets on even more radical ideas , such as a line of printers with low-cost ink.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Take Anne Mulcahy, who stepped into the CEO role at Xerox in 2001, during a particularly tough time in the company’s history. He labeled the summit with his ultimate goal, “zero footprint,” and called his transformation effort “Mission Zero.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Levine talked with HBR about her firm’s sustainability efforts as part of the Future Economy Project, an HBR initiative that shares real-world lessons on sustainability leadership. When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2016

But in a world where most companies don’t operate on the frontiers of digital transformation, and most employees aren’t tech geeks or app developers, our appetite for unconventional talent strategies should probably extend to more conventional parts of the economy. Turnover is absurdly low.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

In contrast to “transformational” and “authentic” leadership, which has been criticized for being fuzzy and wishy-washy , “fitness leadership,” as we refer to it, offers a more concrete approach. During 2016, employee engagement increased by 3%, to 75%.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. At Harvard Business School’s Program for Leadership Development and Owner/President Management Program. Executive education students at Harvard Business School. Join the conversation. Weatherhead, Jr.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

And yet without Box 2, organizations don’t truly transform; they persist in limiting ways of operating. ” In his characteristic style, Welch blasted the Elfun Society at their leadership conference. So, how do you build Box 2 muscle? How do you build a company that’s able to routinely toss what no longer works?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

” Toby did everything his father asked, joining The Bozzuto Group in 2001 as a development associate. ” Early on, they also attended a weeklong seminar at Harvard University that focused on leadership transitions. He credits Bayard’s no-nonsense leadership and advice with helping to inspire him. ”

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Having done so put the city in the position of responding to the unthinkable on September 11, 2001. If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

I’ll give a few examples, starting with his first HBR article but mostly concerning later work. (A But the article aimed higher, arguing that when corporate leaders invest with short-term results in mind, they put long-term performance at risk. Sound familiar?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

They operate as lean organizations, using cloud and internet-based infrastructure, and launch and distribute products more quickly than did firms that competed with factories, warehouses, inventories, and suppliers. retains its leadership in technological progress.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. To learn more about how Harvard Business School can help you prepare for the challenges of global leadership, visit the program website. Executive education students at Harvard Business School.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Leadership then specifies a plan that it believes will position the company to win in this predicted future. This mindset focuses leadership on making near-term decisions with the longer-term destination in mind, but it doesn’t presume that there is only one path from here to there. Webvan was forced to cease operations by 2001.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

A recurring theme in those interviews was bemoaning major changes in R&D strategy that occurred as a consequence of new, often outside, leadership. This means all R&D is subtracted from operating income in the year it’s expended, while the payoffs to R&D don’t occur until future periods. This is not a surprise.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

May 2 marks the fifth anniversary of the operation that killed the world’s most wanted terrorist, Osama Bin Laden. His death was the culmination of a global manhunt that lasted more than a decade and assumed extreme urgency after the September 11, 2001, attacks. The trail had gone cold. He had deep knowledge and credibility.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

According to another , “GM has said the issue was discovered as early as 2001, and in 2004, a company engineer ran into the problem during the testing phase of the soon-to-be-released Chevrolet Cobalt.”. In an article on the recall in The New York Times , Barra claimed she didn’t “know the serious nature of the defects until Jan.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

For example, Carbonite now operates several directly-owned or reseller-owned data centers deployed across Europe. Strong encryption sustains these thriving industries and defends technological leadership on the global stage. That was in 2001. That’s despite the significant measures my company and others have taken.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor. Capitalization is stretched beyond limits, and operations advance in a cash-poor mode. Executives never stayed long.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

This article was written by Jennifer Horn for the June 2016 issue of Strategy Magazine. The change in management, which included Bell and Powell, meant a big change in how the company would operate in the following decades. Nabob, you’re a feisty fella. Desperate times called for desperate measures.

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