Business management
U.S. Medical Centers Need a New Model for Drug Discovery and Development
China’s faster, more efficient model is forcing U.S. competitors to rethink how they innovate.
Apr 28, 2026
14 results for "Selwyn M. Vickers"
Case Study Reprint
Sarah Vickers-Willis: Career Decisions (A)
Sarah Vickers-Willis, HBS MBA 1999, faces a critical career decision: Does she redirect the Internet start-up she helped found or join in shaping a for-profit...
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Procter & Gamble’s Lean Innovation Transformation
Can a new leader guide an established company, like P&G, through disruptive transformation from within?
Cold Call• Episode 151 - Strategy
Why the Yale Model of Investing Doesn’t Work for Everybody
Big investors around the world have soured, FT columnist Gillian Tett reports, on what she calls the “Harvard or Yale investment model.” It’s really the Yale model, since it was Yale and its longtime endowment chief, David Swensen, who led the way. But I guess the Harvard name has more global cachet, so Tett included […]
Apr 09, 2010
Case Study Reprint
Sarah Vickers-Willis: Career Decisions (B)
Supplements the (A) case.
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How to (Gradually) Become a Different Company
Five tips for shifting your core business.
Oct 15, 2014
- Leadership and managing people
Many Best Ways to Make Strategy
“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases,” observed Carl Jung in Modern Man in Search of a Soul. Jung wasn’t thinking about strategic management when he wrote that passage. But he could have been. Managing a multibusiness organization means managing the relationship between executives […]
- Business and society
Debating the Future of Europe: An HBR Event
Sir Michael Rake, chairman of BT Group, and Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s former communications director, sat down with editor in chief Adi Ignatius at the launch of Harvard Business Review’s London office.
HBR IdeaCast• Episode 268 - Entrepreneurship
Can the “Cummings Way” Live on After the Founder Retires?
After billionaire and philanthropist Bill Cummings retires, the management team at Cummings Properties must determine how to move the company forward.
Cold Call• Episode 120 - Economics
Does Privatization Serve the Public Interest?
For decades prior to the 1980s, governments around the world increased the scope and magnitude of their activities, taking on a variety of tasks that the private sector previously had performed. In the United States, the federal government built highways and dams, conducted research, increased its regulatory authority across an expanding horizon of activities, and […]
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Exchange-Traded Funds at Vanguard (A)
Vanguard Group management, led by CEO John Brennan, was considering whether to launch exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in early 2000. ETFs, first created...
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Exchange-Traded Funds at Vanguard (B)
Supplementary material for 311-134
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The Founder's Dilemma
Why do people start businesses? For the money and the chance to control their own companies, certainly. But new research from Harvard Business School...
- Business management
Better Marketing at the Point of Purchase
The retail point of purchase represents the time and place at which all the elements of the sale—the consumer, the money, and the product—come together. By using various communications vehicles, including displays, packaging, sales promotions, in-store advertising, and salespeople, at the point of purchase (POP), the marketer hopes to influence the consumer’s buying decision. Partly […]
