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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Online Fashionistas
only a day or two) of a single designer’s clothing line or a small group of brands, all at discounts of up to 70 percent. Having “revolutionized the fashion world” (Forbes.com, June 15, 2010), the company is expecting revenues of $400 to... View Details
- 02 Jul 2024
- News
The Beauty Guide
of their careers.” It’s a matter of nurturing empathy, notes Freyre, and encouraging others—men and women, leaders and coworkers—to do so as well, especially as the pandemic has blurred the line between personal and professional.... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
employees created a group called “Amazon employees for climate justice” and they staged a walkout. They walked out of the Seattle headquarters. When they did, they were joined by View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Innovative Course Brings Students and Alumni Together
general manager. After failing to find appropriate materials through traditional sources, Garvin went directly to the front lines for relevant information: to HBS alumni who had recently made just such a... View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner; photo by Joshua Lavine
- 11 Feb 2021
- News
Retraining for a Post-COVID Workforce
Many of the low-income employees who lost their jobs when white-collar workers stopped commuting may never get those jobs back, according to some economists, who point to COVID’s lasting impacts on the labor market. Now a national... View Details
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
human-powered version of that very same race. You're covering almost a thousand miles, either on foot, on bike, or by ski. Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In March 2024, Sunny Stroeer (MBA 2011) and six other skiers stood at the starting View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
innovations may have been -- whether it was Ray Kroc's refinement of franchise economics or Henry Ford's perfection of assembly line production -- every organization faced the key business problem of determining where to place the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
says of conventional farming. Instead, he rebalances the soil's content naturally, adding crushed rock that includes calcium, magnesium, and other essential minerals while letting cow manure, and Mother Nature, do the rest. "When people ask me how many View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
engineering. There she helped suppliers design and certify their systems for flight: new seats for an aircraft, for example, or a Wi-Fi system for the new Delta Air Lines plane. She was surprised to find that engineers relied on outdated... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
Tropical's Nick Castaldo: “When you see employees who take pride in what they're doing and long lines of happy customers, it's terrifically satisfying.” Nick Castaldo is CEO of Miami-based Pollo Tropical, a... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
support lined up, Tierney and Bradach faced a final hurdle, writing a business plan. “There was no analysis that could have been done that we hadn’t done,” recalls Tierney. “But it’s one thing to help somebody else write a business plan.... View Details
- 02 Feb 2017
- News
Growing and Competing at the Local Level
the backbone services to places like GE, Ford, and GM. “The impact that I’m hoping to have is to start aligning the resources that are focused on the economy, both within our state and nationally. Things are changing so quickly, and the folks on the View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Research Brief: Bankruptcy as a Better—Not Bitter—End
lenders and liquidating otherwise viable companies. As the theory goes, the deep-pocketed secured lenders at the front of the line have a bias toward shutting down viable operations, selling off the assets,... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Lego Stays on Script
interlocking bricks and figures: “He was talking to himself and telling stories. He had a much bigger adventure in his head than what was physically in front of him. I realized it would touch people universally if we could make a movie... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 28 Apr 2020
- News
Lessons from a COVID Survivor
to focus on physical health alone. Slow down and soak it in. Pausing to feel gratitude for those on the front lines of this crisis, as well as those who lead in quiet service every day—beyond this... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
impact on the success of employees and companies. “I came to the program on the late side, but I think I’ve found a set of research topics that thread the needle between relevance to real organizations and scholarly interest,” he... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
comes from headlines we’ve seen this year. The Economist ran a cover story on the supposed new majority standing of women in the professional workforce with a picture of Rosie the Riveter and the headline “We Did It!” The Atlantic published a feature along the same... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Turning Point: One Step at a Time
work just as well. Luckily this meant I had plenty of places to hide. I found a tree a few hundred feet beyond the starting line and ducked for cover. Then I spritzed myself with water to ensure that I was appropriately sweaty and jogged... View Details
Keywords: Christina Wallace (MBA 2010)
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Social Enterprse Forum Discusses Strategy
The gathering provided a unique opportunity for collaboration between those on the front lines of nonprofit organizations and those on the cutting edge of this nascent field in academia. About one-fourth of... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
Angie Hicks, MBA 2000
on the Angie’s List “campus”—a collection of buildings the company bought and renovated in Indianapolis— when an employee asks to take a selfie with her. While she has been the name and the face of the company since she cofounded it 22... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young