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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The New Rules of E-Commerce
(Palgrave Macmillan), he has succeeded with a contrarian view about e-commerce. While other online markets focus on the end customer, Rakuten's mission is to support the vendors who sell to those customers. His rewrite of the rules of... View Details
- 19 Jul 2013
- News
All in Good Time
focused on creating social equity and economic self-sufficiency, Silbert has a simple take on what ties her career together: "I'm a problem solver. I love digging into an issue and the analytical rigor of doing a scan of existing research... View Details
- 02 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
ALUMNI WORK TO REVERSE BIAS THROUGH PHILANTHROPY
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- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
If the COVID-19 crisis lasts four months, 65 percent of small retailers say there’s a good chance they’ll be forced to close permanently by the end of the year. Among restaurants and bars, 70 percent expect to go out of business if... View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
to move away, while the other rejects farm life to pursue a bigger payday smuggling drugs over the Canadian border. It’s a tough but touching story with a very un-Hollywood ending. Yet, for Jared Simon (MBA 2008), the making—and marketing—of the film turned into a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
members agreed to shed their titles and hierarchical way of working to eliminate what she regards as impediments to group cohesion and creativity. Participants were left to organize themselves and set their own schedules. And at the end... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning
organize into effective teams and have the chance to work on a problem for several days, as opposed to the length of an Aldrich class period. They also have to think about how to communicate their recommendations in a sensitive way and in... View Details
- 22 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
School’s efforts to recruit Black students as “painfully insufficient.” He also cited the same inadequate results for recruiting Black faculty and staff. He might as well have been talking about most major business schools; the problem is... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
tendency to prefer poor agents as they are easier to monitor. More generally, we describe the basic problem of choosing agents and monitoring consumption with the aim of reducing corruption and discuss features of the practical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2005
- What Do You Think?
What are the Lessons of New Orleans?
practical ends in mind." Dennis Crane added that "true leadership does make a difference." Related to this was Yuko Nakanishi's observation that "any ambiguity in terms of responsibilities . . . must be eliminated... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Dec 2022
- News
LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums Expand; 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition Is Underway
the bell curve. "If you imagine your life as a bell curve, on one end there is the five percent of issues and problems people typically don't share but that need resolution," he says. "On the other View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 29 Jan 2015
- Op-Ed
The Fall of Greece
and, in any case, did not manage to reform the country in a fast enough pace. Driving from Athens to Thessaloniki in 20 hours is hardly an achievement—even if there is a lot of traffic. Moreover, I am happy to see old faces go: I am a big... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
means I was doing a renovation. Every time I take time off, I end up renovating and that’s why my wife is like, you need a job. So I did not get the call for the job. This is the first time I actually got a role through a recruiter. There... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
those fears with some of these kind of analytical approaches but I find, generally speaking, people want to sensationalize things and they want the scary stuff to emerge. So, even if you counter it, we don't get quoted as much in those things as the people who are... View Details
- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Get Off the Dime!
articles had been sent to the execs about the good and the bad aspects of the existing systems. A small team of people had focused carefully on the economic analysis, looking closely at our current software programs, in particular. At the meeting, they presented their... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
- 25 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
economic construct; it’s a psychological construct—the happiness one gets by being close to family and friends—and it needs to be taken into account.” By giving workers the flexibility to take vacation time when it is most meaningful to... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- Web
Africa - Global Activities 2020
matters most for me is having the chance to help solve the ‘brain-drain’ problem plaguing many African countries, where some of the best talent ends up staying in Europe and the US after graduate school... View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
end in itself may prematurely rule out all kinds of businesses that could otherwise prove successful—businesses like his own Mesken, a direct-to-consumer website that sells custom window treatments manufactured in Bahadir’s native Turkey.... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 04 Dec 2020
- News
Hour by Hour
When Morris was in high school, his mother was given an ultimatum: Switch your nursing shift from afternoons to mornings or find a new job. “She wanted to keep her job,” says Morris. “So I ended up taking my little brother to school every... View Details
- 18 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry
to come to HBS, specifically to be in Boston. What HBS resources have been most helpful to you in exploring your career options? Simply talking to people from different backgrounds and having open dialogues about this problem and what... View Details