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- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
enable efficient response; and an infrastructure for daily management and continuous improvement of the chain's performance. Furthermore, we find that employees on the service delivery unit spent 12% of their day compensating for internal...
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Carmen Nobel
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
professional growth? An artist may start out as an artist. Then do I promote them and properly train them to be head of story? The next position could be to become co-director and eventually to the director of a movie. So in the case of...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
way—flexible work. But flexibility means a lot more than a day or two a week to “work from home”: 93 percent of your employees want more flexibility in when, not just where, they work. They want choice and they are leaving their roles to...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
training and practice as a medical doctor. She worked in modern facilities in Durban, but also treated much less privileged patients in rural South Africa. “There would be fifty or so patients waiting, all of whom had to be seen in the...
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- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
no one passes up the opportunity; 91 percent of those accepted started class this fall, a yield unmatched by any rival. HBS MBAs are in high demand in the job market. So where's the rub? “Conventional MBA programs train the wrong people...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
Tuesday tumbled into Wednesday, CEO Neal Keny-Guyer hosted a town hall meeting; apologies were issued. Jacobs remembers the week as “unlike anything I’ve experienced,” he says. “On Thursday, what felt like all of the employees at our...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
value of its philanthropic giving. The foundation recently raised a $120 million Growth Capital Aggregation Pilot fund that is investing in only three social sector organizations, including Youth Villages. The Decade Ahead IDEAS RULE: With 170 View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
employees have spouses or partners who are also employed, compared with 66 percent in 1988. Nearly half of all workers have children under age eighteen who live with them at least half time. Seventy percent of all parents feel they do not...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
the norm for health care than the exception. They may not have ever taken a management course, despite the challenge of overseeing dozens of employees across a variety of functions. They’re responsible for their unit’s financial...
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- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
case of Lisa Sherman (A) describes a highly successful executive at Verizon struggling with whether to reveal her sexual identity. Having attended a diversity training workshop in which participants expressed extremely negative views of...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-061.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsProntoWash: Washing the World's Cars to a Tango Beat Harvard Business School Case 108-037 ProntoWash management considers whether franchising and the Balanced Scorecard could be combined to help...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
responsibility of business leaders increases. We also document that both sustainable development and employee training become a higher priority for companies and that corporate governance improves....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
may be the most important environmental objective, and in others it may be reducing the amount of water used. Racial and gender diversity can be a priority, but so too is ensuring some minimal amount of training for all View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
process, helping to train networking professionals to design, build, and manage more complex networks. Aware of just how much was riding on the success of the learning platform, Beliveau-Dunn needed to decide whether to invest heavily in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and...
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- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
then used to communicate the common vision to all alliance employees and establish a governance process that keeps everyone focused on achieving the alliance's strategic objectives. Read an excerpt:...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
explaining the success of various training and education programs. We use these distinctions to structure the landscape of strategic decisions that both organizations committed to organizational development and providers of executive...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
marketing, and strategy. Getting those various individuals, each with their own expertise, to speak to each other comfortably is a necessity. “The inherent training and the day-to-day lives of people inside of each of those verticals are...
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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
heading a services company that provides end-to-end technology solutions to over 150 Fortune 500 clients. With 28,000 employees located in 54 countries, Satyam, founded in 1987, had revenues of $1 million when it went public in 1992. In...
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Julia Hanna
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
morning with guns drawn. They seized every server and desktop computer. They are telling us nothing. Not only is our website down—it is in federal custody.” Holy s#$@. With no clue as to what was going on, the company was toast. Why would any investor, business...
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