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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
request from a florist that finally clarified the concept: “Beautiful products,” the florist said, “but do you do bulk rentals?” “It suddenly made a lot of sense to me. People want access, not necessarily ownership, and nothing like that... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
In 2001, Monisha Kapila (MBA 2005) went to India to help its people emerge from the devastating Gujarat earthquake. As she worked with artisans to reach new crafts markets, she knew she had found a perfect way to use her business skills... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
Standing in a swirl of tourists that includes a gaggle of teenage girls, clusters of road-weary families, and a nun in full habit, Ted Hustead (OPM 30, 2001) appraises a mechanized Tyrannosaurus rex as it raises its enormous head, roars, and blows clouds of smoke View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
step-by-step, room-by-room guidance on how to create a welcoming and functioning space that expresses your unique individuality. Breaking Through: Leadership Disciplines from Top Performing Staffing Firms by Mike Cleland and Barry Asin... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Action Plan: Whole Sale
personality.” But today’s consumers are looking for real commitments from companies, he cautions. It’s not enough to make small, surface changes; you have to look at the whole value chain, advises Balbale: “To be a diverse retailer, you... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Planting the Seeds of Positive Growth
Rufer, who offered her some advice: “Start with the farmer.” Rufer knew from experience that a tomato processing business can’t be successful if the farmers don’t have the tools to produce consistent tomato harvests at a reasonable cost.... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Mary Quin: A Life-Changing Story
president and general manager at the time, Quin has since seen her life change as a result of her terrifying ordeal, and she is currently taking time off from her business career to write a book about the incident. While on a two-week... View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
"My wife says I flunked retirement," says Julian Earls (PMD 37, 1979) with a laugh. Maybe so, but he clearly has never flunked anything else. The holder of 10 university degrees, including six honorary doctorates, the recipient of government service awards View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Brand New
“A lot of times, people have preconceived notions about how military leaders lead. They think it’s yelling, screaming, and staunch discipline. But one of the most critical leadership lessons I learned as a junior lieutenant was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors
School over the course of 2004. I am pleased to share our plans and our progress to date. Let me begin by reporting that the Global Leadership Forum Committee, with direction from its new chairman, Jean-Marc Daillance (MBA 1984), is... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
characters that sort of embodies one of those themes, Buddy Bolden. [MUSIC] Tell us a bit about who Buddy Bolden was and what entrepreneurs can learn from his story. Eric: So Buddy Bolden is born in New... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
project is chaired by Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin, who are joined by a team of HBS faculty together with thought leaders from other institutions. It aims to inspire alumni, other business leaders, and policymakers to take... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
It's a long way—a very long way—from the village of Balidhip, in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, to Cambridge, Massachusetts. When you grow up without roads, electricity, or running water, when light and darkness control the rhythms of your life, and when you are... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
customer information. But now, conveniences such as Web browsers and "smart cards" (which today are used to store electronic money in several European markets and, in the future, could record an individual's daily transaction information) are shifting the balance of... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
BULLETIN: We should probably begin with the most obvious question: Is the job turning out to be what you had expected? CLARK: I'd have to say yes, but more so. I assumed there were many things I had to learn about the School and its... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
prison. Studies by the US Bureau of Justice Statistics show that nearly seven out of 10 former inmates reoffend and return to prison within three years. The Reset Foundation tries to break that cycle by diverting people from the penal... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
Dan. I actually did take the test. And what was very interesting is that at the beginning of pymetrics we didn't have any career matches. The way we develop a career match is we have lots of other people play the games, and then from the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: A Fair Share
sharing economy as opposed to trying to repress it. Daimler and Volkswagen, for example, now have their own car-sharing services. Companies should be trying to frame the conversation in terms of “This is changing, it’s going to change whether you want it to or not, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Good as Our Word
is one of those corners of finance that is very useful to understand, whether or not you work in finance,” he says. In 2008 and 2009, when the field of ratings seemed ripe for upheaval, Becker learned of several planned rating agency... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Ink: Miami’s Dark Neon Era, the Language of Success, and Getting Psyched Up
if it were their own. Only by learning to communicate—with words and culture—can we go forward, into the future world and work of global business.” —Associate Professor Tsedal Neeley in The Language of Global Success, her extensive study... View Details