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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Marketable Skill
by the parents' associations of two West Side schools and the New York Council on the Environment, the market had outgrown its volunteer managers when Gehrke took over. She has since automated almost every aspect of the reservation and financial record-keeping systems,... View Details
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
From Bytes to Bites
keeping workweek hours to reasonable levels. While she’s put in long hours in recent months, Thomas has tried to maintain that balance in her own life, having recently completed a six-year board term for Meals On Wheels of San Francisco.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Ann M. Fudge
probably not surprised at her subsequent headline-making ascent in corporate America. “I learned how to balance and prioritize early on,” says the Washington, D.C., native, whose unique combination of determination, grace, and integrity... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
rejected Cook, and the balance from a private-equity firm, Charterhouse Group. “As a matter of principle” Charterhouse demanded that Rogers ante up $100,000 of his own money. “I told them it might as well be $10 million because I only had... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
more balanced energy menu. After examining the pros and cons of various energy sources, such as coal, nuclear, natural gas, wind, and solar, the book concludes that conservation (principally through energy efficiency) and solar energy... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
stories of playing shell games with credit cards, using one to pay off another when the money wasn’t coming in. Where successful entrepreneurs were able to execute, though, it seemed to include a combination of two things: first, View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
1971) launched into a treatise on income statements and balance sheets and generally accepted accounting principles, and that’s why there are auditors, and the sandwich shop is clearly losing money, losing even more than the bank manager... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Past Informs the Future of Work
changes in corporate culture needed to embrace innovation, and management of its 100,000-plus workforce, from retraining or relocating workers, to using AI to find candidates for newly created technology jobs. Balanced against these... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
services do not export well. During the past twenty years our balance of payments deficit has expanded to 6 percent of our gross domestic product, putting our currency in peril because our low savings rate requires us to finance our... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The Maestro and the Market
food manufacturers, and the launch of an elBulli hotel and a chain of reasonably priced restaurants called Fast Good. But what is the balance between leveraging the Adrià/elBulli brand and breaking its core meaning? In a classroom... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
readers to use ingredients more effectively, experiment with temperature and texture, excite the nose and palate, and balance all elements of an extraordinary meal. Know What You Don’t Know: How Great Leaders Prevent Problems Before They... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Learning to Lead
Many cases discussed by MBAs require students to project themselves into CEO-level situations that could be a number of years away. The opposite is true of “Tim Keller at Katzenbach Partners LLC,” which chronicles the dilemmas faced by a junior consultant in his first... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Health Industry Alumni Convene for Conference
in the knowledge-based biotechnology industry to forge balanced partnership deals with the financially much stronger pharmaceutical industry." A panel led by HBS associate professor Jonathan West discussed the issues raised by Klietmann,... View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Well Said
cultural heritage and you do not want people to hide their immigrant background. How do you balance those things? AL: Great question. So I truly believe that being an immigrant myself, that immigrants have special power, and that having... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
to problem-solve together, we struck this delicate balance and reopened the campus in the fall. Since then, we have used the metaphor of a dimmer switch as our guide—allowing for more on-campus activities, including hybrid classes, when... View Details
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
be. Whether it was was a separate issue. But needed to be. Morrell: Do you remember any of those specific things that you had to say? Eamer: Oh, I'll give you a short one right now. We're looking for answers that are good for everybody. When people talk of View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
geographic spread. We often receive inquiries about interesting projects but have to balance that with our capacity. We are also working to build a strong culture and set of values across our teams to ensure that IDinsight is a great... View Details
- 10 Feb 2014
- News
King of His Castle
Viking Mead—soon followed. "It's crazy and exciting," says Appling. Appling has been able to maintain work/life balance with his current job as president and CEO of Personal Communications Devices, a wireless accessories manufacturer and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
balance between nations on trade and tariff issues, as well as a more globally competitive US corporate tax rate. Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin, cochairs of the US Competitiveness Project at HBS, define competitiveness as “the... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Mobilizing the Public to Fight Bribery
Very consumer focused,” says Motte-Munoz. “Say you need a driver’s license; the app will tell you where all the DMV offices are and tell you their rating on a corruption basis.” “People know there’s corruption,” Motte-Munoz adds. “We’re interested in the situations... View Details