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- 11 Oct 2023
- News
Soldier On
family, to live, to work, and to play. And so I tell everyone, I view the role of mayor as “I am the chief ambassador. I am the chief brand officer of my city.” The first thing...
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- 27 Nov 2006
- What Do You Think?
What’s to Be Done About Performance Reviews?
suggestions for how to improve them. Typical of these were Thad Juszczak's recommendation that "The process of performance feedback should be continuous." Continuous feedback is an antidote to Hany...
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by Jim Heskett
- Web
When Ideas Become Reality: Entrepreneurship at HBS - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Kumar Mahadeva
“What’s different about our business model is that we’ve leveraged the global talent pool, kept our costs low, and stayed on top of new technologies that can benefit our clients.” Mahadeva enjoys being an entrepreneur and is excited about...
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- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are You Supporting Your B Players?
nurturing B players—"enhancing human capital" as he called it—because doing so takes time and entails a certain degree of risk. Illustrating his talk with a simple four-quadrant model, he said, "The secret to the model is...
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by Martha Lagace
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
online versus face-to-face, so some form of redundant communication would be helpful so things don’t slip through the cracks,” Neeley says. 6. Move to more asynchronous work Given the disruption to the...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Exploring Career Passions through Short Intensive Programs – Moving Beyond Direct to Consumer
model” which caught many large incumbents sleeping. Brands came to market with the simple notion of relying on the internet to establish direct connections with consumers that bypassed traditional retailers....
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Eduardo Avalos
would run through the grape fields, ride the tractors, and eat strawberries from the fields in which they were grown. Having grown up in a city, I developed a fond love for the countryside, for the beauty of farming communities, and for...
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Our Values | About
and anguish so many of you have shared, I have debated whether to apply And Thinking to the moment we are facing now—it may be perceived as being too equivocal, or the wrong moment. But, not saying And has perhaps kept me from saying...
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- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
his History of American Democracy course. “We’re looking at history as not just a series of things that happened, but as a series of View Details
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April White
- 27 Mar 2017
- Blog Post
Should Entrepreneurs Get an MBA?
who had gone through this startup thing before, the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship put me in touch with entrepreneurs at every stage of growing a company: from seed ventures to those that have grown to $1...
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- 02 Mar 2021
- HBS Case
The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?
residents whose ancestors didn’t even live in the state at the time of the offense. “They say potentially paying for it will only exacerbate the racial tensions we live with every day, and the best thing we...
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by Michael Blanding
- 02 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Nikki Philip
is to consider how a 2+2 admission fits into an overall plan for your career and passion. One of the biggest benefits of the deferred admission process is the freedom it gives you to learn and pursue your...
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- 06 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge
couldn’t separate out features. “Just correcting these mistakes and providing another way of doing things seemed to explain a lot of that productivity improvement,” says...
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by Michael Blanding
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Joel Hurd
the porch of my cabin, closing my eyes, and listening to the wind blow through the pines. For all I knew that was heaven. What is the best thing about your home town? Home is all View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients....
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- 24 May 2017
- News
David G. Bradley, MBA 1977
made it out of the ditch if the Internet hadn’t come along.” “The Atlantic would never have made it out of the ditch if the Internet hadn’t come...
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Susan Young
- August 2018
- Case
Digital Transformation at Brazilian Retailer Magazine Luiza
By: Thales S. Teixeira, Leandro A. Guissoni and Tania Modesto Veludo-de-Oliveira
By late 2017, Brazilian retailer Magazine Luiza's CEO was convinced that the company could significantly grow sales and accomplish its aspirations of digital transformation. What was unclear in his mind was whether he should act as a tech company and grow as fast as...
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Digital;
Ecommerce;
Retailing;
Brazil;
Bricks And Mortar;
Pricing;
Customer Lifetime Value;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Internet and the Web;
Transformation;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Retail Industry;
Brazil
Teixeira, Thales S., Leandro A. Guissoni, and Tania Modesto Veludo-de-Oliveira. "Digital Transformation at Brazilian Retailer Magazine Luiza." Harvard Business School Case 519-009, August 2018.
- March 2021
- Article
Experimenting During the Shift to Virtual Team Work: Learnings from How Teams Adapted Their Activities During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Past research has focused on understanding the characteristics of work that are fully virtual or fully collocated. The present study seeks to expand our understanding of team work by studying knowledge workers' experiences as they were suddenly forced to transition to...
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Team Work;
Activities;
Virtual Work;
Digital Technologies;
Groups and Teams;
Health Pandemics;
Internet and the Web;
Adaptation
Whillans, Ashley V., Leslie Perlow, and Aurora Turek. "Experimenting During the Shift to Virtual Team Work: Learnings from How Teams Adapted Their Activities During the COVID-19 Pandemic." Information and Organization 31, no. 1 (March 2021).
- 04 Mar 2019
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?
information not addressed to anyone specific. As the saying goes, ‘The only thing free is the cheese in the mouse trap.’” Government was cited as both an antidote to surveillance capitalism and a threat because View Details