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09 Nov 2017
HBS Seminar

Alfonso Gambardella, Bocconi University

08 Mar 2024
Blog Post

History of the HBS Women's Student Association

for gender equity in the business world. Looking forward, the WSA continues to inspire and empower, signaling a bright future for women at HBS and beyond. Through its continued efforts, the WSA not only honors the achievements of past View Details

04 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 4

reorganization of the bureaucracy, and (c) an increase in monitoring by both the government and the general public. Correspondingly, we advance managerial implications that stem from these recent changes, illustrated by recent MNC and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Profile

Bridgette Slater

accomplishments, but I admire her humility and generous spirit most of all. What’s the best thing about your hometown? Growing up in Washington D.C., I always enjoyed how culturally diverse and international it felt. As the home of so... View Details

18 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Learning in Action

Bean, the U.S. Army's Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL), AT&T's Bell Laboratories, the Timken Companies and General Electric's Change Acceleration Process (CAP). L.L. Bean has long relied on inquiry as a source of learning to... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

23 Aug 2006
Op-Ed

The Real Wal-Mart Effect

the form of lower prices. There is general agreement that Wal-Mart prices are significantly lower than its competitors. Assuming that the company's prices are 8 percent lower—at the low end of the estimates from various studies summarized... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Ken A. Mark; Retail

04 Jul 2005
What Do You Think?

How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?

whether business schools in general have lost their relevance by following "the scientific model" of graduate schools of arts and science as opposed to "the professional model" of medical and law schools. The... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Portrait Project

David Chan

I am thoroughly convinced that business is best poised to solve what may be defined as the problem of our lifetime. And I believe the next generation of leaders will rise to this challenge. I certainly will. View Details

Web

Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services

priority score that might limit your work the more you compute, in order to allow others to run theirs as well. Jobs cannot exceed a maximum of 16 cores. long This queue is general purpose queue for all background, batch work and scaled... View Details

01 Jun 2001
News

Monsignor Frederick Dolan Finds a New Calling at HBS Club of Montreal

brown-bag lunches where members can generate ideas for club activities or participate in classes covering ethics in business. Dolan also wants to create a course offering the opportunity to explore spirituality in the workplace — an area... View Details

Keywords: Elena N. Berg; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Oct 2000
News

Carlos A. Saladrigas: Hardworking Optimist

line the shelves of Saladrigas's office. In addition to fighting corruption in local government, he was involved in last spring's negotiations between Elián González's Miami relatives and U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno. That task proved... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

13 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding

to generate fresh momentum and bring in independent perspectives. It is easy to decipher the purpose. The team in action, after all, is the team portraying the downturn. But how effective is Big C change in reality? The answer may lie in... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt, and Sebastian Flegr; Sports

01 Mar 2023
News

Step Change

At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

13 Jun 2011
HBS Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

hopping on a bus, the customer simply hits "send" to transfer the money to a family member's phone. "Then, ka-ching! The family member goes to an agent in her village and cashes the money from her phone," Rangan explains. Rangan says his students... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications

25 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures

the cutting edge. However, venture capital is only a piece of the puzzle. We invest relatively small amounts of capital into solutions that can be revolutionary, but may not be deployed for a decade or longer.” As a millennial, he hopes that his View Details

25 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout

the dollar losses were related to physician turnover and reduced clinical hours. The research adds to previous work showing how physician stress generates negative clinical and organizational outcomes. No studies have previously been... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

whenever possible. This will generate greater long-term commitment to organizations, she says. “Great leaders will share their own struggles about adjusting to their partners being on conference calls in the next room,” Austin says.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman