Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

His book, Lessons from the Navy: How to Earn Trust, Lead Teams, and Achieve Organizational Excellence is loaded with advice to help all leaders aspiring to operate at the highest levels. After graduating from Princeton in 2001, Donovan Campbell wanted to give back to his country, engage in the world, and learn to lead.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

The overarching goal of most business schools is to train future leaders to lead. 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. Andy Roberts/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

Rational managers for the past thirty years have tightly focused on efficiency, cost cutting, and day-to-day execution — perhaps to a fault. For example, in 2001, IBM set up a permanent transformation organization designed to anticipate and respond to the increasingly unpredictable changes in its markets.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2016

In a PWC survey of more than 2,000 global executives, managers, and employees, only 54% of respondents said their change initiatives succeeded — and the most frequently cited problem (by 65% of those surveyed) was change fatigue. The more your change effort disrupts those things, the more people will resist or even rage against it.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

The insightful companies examine their own backyards… applying the discussions, uncoverings and applicabilities to how they will better manage in the future. Recommendations for crisis management and preparedness as part of macro planning are offered. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

More than half that reached the top quintile in terms of economic profit generation between 2001 and 2005 had been knocked off their perch a decade later, in 2010-15. Yes, some governments do give financial and other support to young companies, with the goal of helping them grow.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

In the 2001 recession, total sales for the S&P 500 declined by 9% from its pre-recession peak to its trough 18 months later—almost a year after the recession officially ended. Those behaviors can serve as the basis of training, reinforced daily by front-line managers. Automate account management.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. Our goal is to power all new data centers with 100% clean and renewable energy, relying more heavily on wind and solar farms. Our goal is to help lead the way and to bring as many people along as we can.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. Then it wasn’t.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

“We had to train harder, measure our goals better, and become a better team,” Bunge said. It is also a matter of having fun and fostering strong bonds between team members to help them reach their goals. The ambition was to double sales and have a 90% employee engagement rate within five years.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

I found that the companies that survive and thrive are good at aligning their organizations around three critical but competing activities : Box 1: Manage the present at peak efficiency and profitability. And yet without Box 2, organizations don’t truly transform; they persist in limiting ways of operating.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Even more tricky, they had to learn to articulate something that had been tacit: a shared understanding of goals, culture, and what it takes to succeed at Citrus Lane. We studied how Wyeth, the large Pharmaceutical firm (now part of Pfizer) made dramatic improvements in cost and quality across its manufacturing operation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

When your manager is also your parent, sibling, or another relative, how do you keep things professional? Be transparent and proactive about your expectations and goals for the future, especially if you would like to hold the top job in the future. Working in the family business can be fraught. ” Adopt an office voice.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

The same planning process that nurtures Crisis Preparedness can and must also accommodate for Crisis Management. Having done so put the city in the position of responding to the unthinkable on September 11, 2001. This is regarded as a premiere textbook case of quality crisis management. Product Contamination-Damage.

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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. It was not a top-focus item of the Agency’s senior management.

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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 Advanced Management Program. The goal is to bring value to customers in ways that are beneficial for them while also creating additional value for the company itself.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

They include years of 15% to 20% annual increases in labor costs without compensating productivity growth in manufacturing titans such as China, cheap energy in North America unlocked by hydraulic fracturing, and the increasing complexity and cost of managing global supply chains. Its medium-term goal — if its first U.S.

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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. It was very ‘old school’ (a management style that was 40 years obsolete), though it pretended to be ‘new school.’ When goals are only in financial terms, the company is disproportionately lopsided.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

When Agile software development was born in 2001, it articulated a set of four critical principles to elevate the craft of software development and improve engineering and product manager motivation. The goal of the pod is to drive collaboration. But at the heart of most of these models are two things: forming hypotheses (e.g.,

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