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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Turning Point: On the Line
Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Day 116 was bizarrely poetic. Or poetically bizarre. And not just because I was an HBS grad participating in his second strike. To that point in last year’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
A Better Way to Go on Strike
W hen President Clinton imposed a cooling-down period in the American Airlines pilots' strike, he recognized that a strike would impose huge costs on those not involved in the labor dispute - from travelers... View Details
- 10 Apr 2013
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The Happiest People Pursue the Most Difficult Problems
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Imagine an Economy Without Wall Street
Photography by Bryce Vickmark In a recent opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, HBS Dean Nitin Nohria made a strong statement in defense of Wall Street and the financial system. Recalling his youth in India, Nohria related the story of his father, a successful... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Global Perspectives
globalization, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Following the immersion, Shih reflected on key learnings from the experience, which HBS’s Division of Research and Faculty Development and the Global Initiative’s Asia-Pacific Research Center’s Singapore office helped to... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
that chance. What are some of that story's highlights? One striking aspect is that by the mid-1980s, the United States had almost entirely lost both the computer and the consumer electronics industries before it recovered in computers... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sweet Deal
was really hard to put a deal together. Despite that, all the creditors, the management team, the board, and 11 of the 12 unions either approved the deal or agreed not to oppose this deal. And it was one union with bad information and bad judgment that really led a... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Deals For Sale
stint at Procter & Gamble, he became president of Yahoo! Marketplace, a joint venture between Yahoo! and Visa. As head of that Santa Clara, California, firm, he conceived its strategy for an Internet guide to consumer shopping. His success inspired him to return to... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
Who Benefits from Bonuses? Over the past decade, senior corporate executives have been earning record-high bonuses in record-high numbers. What accounts for this striking increase? Do bonuses motivate executives and enhance organizational... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
of the 1930s, because it’s the economic crisis against which all others are typically compared. Importantly, one of the most striking things about the Depression, according to observers both at the time and since, is that economic... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
government agency bonds.) From America’s point of view, meanwhile, the best way of keeping the good times rolling in recent years has been to import cheap Chinese goods. Moreover, by outsourcing manufacturing to China, U.S. corporations have been able to reap the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
positive picture, I’m afraid. Michael Kaufman: In 2019 the industry had 15.3 million employees; the forecast for 2020 was 15.6 million. I don’t know that we’ll see those levels in the future—as of early May, 8 million of those jobs have been lost. I do think the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
(Addison Wesley) Strike from the Sea: U.S. Navy Attack Aircraft from Skyraider to Super Hornet, 1948-Present by Tommy Thomason (MBA ’70) (Specialty PR Publishers & Wholesalers) Teaching Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Building on the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
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New Exhibit Highlights Turning Point for American Business
a long workweek it was and how extraordinarily controlling companies were in the early days before the labor movement." In subtle contrast, a striking 1933 portrait of a woman cotton warper at the Shelton... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2024
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The Exchange: Chance Encounters
remotely and how productive they were. It was striking to see that people thought they were much more productive at home. But they also used real numbers to measure productivity and saw the exact opposite in the non-subjective... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
HBS Alumni Angels team hopes to replicate. “Of course we want to present another conference,” says Kovacs. “This one was really amazing. Can lightning strike twice?” The organizers worked steadily with HBS, Stanford and the conference... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
however, and protest strikes in response to a law proposed by Labor Minister Myriam El Khomri, under President François Hollande, that would make it easier for companies to fire workers and extend the number... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
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Up by the Roots
establishing a platform for building relationships among the relevant actors—to be a replicable model of ecosystem development that could be applied anywhere, and to any industry. (At the moment, she is attempting to strike gold twice in... View Details