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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
Have you heard the one about the minister and the stockbroker waiting in line at the Pearly Gates? St. Peter smiles and says to the stockbroker, "My son, take this silken robe and golden staff and enter the Kingdom of Heaven." Then he... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
to illegally hack into the phones of select individuals. That these hackers seem not to be News of the World employees illustrates the Russian nesting doll model, which contains the seeds of moral hazard, since it allows for the... View Details
- 20 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews
racial clues. The researchers then created email accounts and phone numbers for the applicants and observed how many were invited for interviews. 'Whitened' resumes produce more job call-backs for African Americans Blacks get more job... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
included fax numbers. Cell phones did exist, but they were rare, heavy as a brick, and available only to a privileged few. States — and in some cases entire U.S. regions — had just one area code. Numbers-crunching was done by hand with an... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
Made in America: Lessons from the Front Lines of Global Commerce,” piqued my interest, so I ended up reading the entire magazine, not just the Class Notes. Imagine my shock when I saw the “The Scene” photo of twelve singing tycoons in... View Details
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
rise in leased lines and corporate intranets would lead to a rise in centralized decision-making at the top of the corporate ladder. Enabling Micromanagement In the past, communication often depended on faxes, overnight delivery services,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
Trade Center, Lhota and the others went to 75 Barclay Street, formerly a Merrill Lynch office, searching for working phone lines - "communications meant everything at that point, and cell View Details
- 31 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Not to Trust Your Gut
diagram. If you don't believe us, trace the top of either table on a piece of paper. Now line up your tracing over the other table. As you will see, the two surfaces are identical in size and shape! Just as intuition biases your vision,... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra
- 26 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition
individual glass of wine). During events like this I got to meet my teammates’ children, partners, and pets, which made me feel like I knew these people even though we’d never met in person. Walking the Walk Towards the end of my internship, I got a View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
after, but there is still plenty of clean business they can." Their experience is supported by companies including GE, Statoil, and Fluor that have drawn a bright line internally against paying to play in foreign countries and that... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness
line and realized that all the significant pieces used to make Kodak's digital cameras—lens, shutters, electronic screen displays—were manufactured far from the factory floor in Rochester, New York, largely because American companies had... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
When I reached the animal, I grabbed his collar and he started swimming over me and past me (just like a drowning human) to shore through the path that I had made through the ice. As we got closer, someone in the crowd accurately threw a View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Every year, HBS selects a small handful of outstanding alums to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. This year's recipients work in finance, politics, biopharma, and... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- Op-Ed
'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year
more of an excuse to spend your hours at the office, lining your workplace's pockets at the expense of your life. It's human nature in this day of "stay at work to show your worth." Thanks, but no thanks! I do my own cooking and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2017
- HBS Case
This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly
of both their consumers and regulators. “Usually, with debt collection, the object is to dial for dollars—collect as much as you can in the first phone call, and then outsource the work to the legal system,” says Campbell, whose research... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
fundamental behavior — how they read. Eager to earn its first revenues, E Ink searched to find a customer that could use an early form of the technology. In 1999, JCPenney placed an order for four displays for use in its shoe departments. While limited to just two... View Details
- 05 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition
individual glass of wine). During events like this I got to meet my teammates’ children, partners, and pets, which made me feel like I knew these people even though we’d never met in person. Walking the Walk Towards the end of my internship, I got a View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
The silver lining in all of this is that people have realized the emperor has no clothes. For decades, we’ve recognized that healthcare innovates dramatically slower than other industries. Some of that is for good reason, because people’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
free to initiate their own changes. An employee at one of our Seattle hotels said, “I just noticed that they’re delivering all these phone books on a huge palette. Do we need those?” No, we don’t. You save a lot of trees if you eliminate... View Details
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
operations into four countries, and Digital Chocolate was one of the top developers of soloplayer games for standard mobile phones and iPhones. In 2009, Hawkins was eager for Digital Chocolate to start developing new types of mobile games... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace