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- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
hard decisions about returning to the market. Here’s a common prediction: Social distancing forces people to do more buying online and communicating through social media, thus accelerating a permanent, big shift after the crisis to more...
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by Frank V. Cespedes
- Portrait Project
Sanjayan Manivannan
I want to make magic happen. The same magic that I felt when I saw an airplane take off in the distance as I nervously waited for mine to do the same. Winter's first snow in Boston and the searing chill I felt on my bare feet. The...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Safari Beauty
elevation from top (7,600 feet) to bottom (2,000 feet). Surrounded by crater walls and driving on a dirt road, we saw a buffalo in the distance and took dozens of pictures while our driver waited patiently. With sixty people, there were...
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- 02 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship in General Management
through cases, learning from industry leaders at conferences and case protagonists in class, and working abroad in FIELD 2. Having some distance from day-to-day work has also granted some much-appreciated...
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Consumer Products / Retail
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Maasai Village
That night we learned from Harvard professor Caroline Elkins that these nomadic people have one hundred words to describe the cows that are their livelihood. In addition to providing most of the food for the Maasai, whose diet consists of...
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Hospitality
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Dean Jay Light Takes Charge at HBS
people in their 30s. It alternates on-campus modules with return-to-work periods that incorporate distance learning and team exercise components. Plans also are under way for a March research symposium in...
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- 20 May 2020
- News
Keeping Families Connected
When millions of Americans started social distancing due to the spread of coronavirus, Caribu co-founder and CEO Maxeme Tuchman (MBA/MPP 2012) didn’t hesitate to lift the paywall on her company’s interactive video-calling platform, which...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
devotes himself to several principal pursuits. In addition to the BSG/Concours Executive Forum, an invitation-only program for chief information officers (CIOs) of leading companies worldwide, he runs a six-month leadership development program for future CIOs, using...
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- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
world that you have only the spark of your intellect to tell you that there must be something more, the distance seems even greater. Akshay Kumar Parija (AMP 172, 2007) describes growing up in Balidhip in the late 1950s and early 1960s:...
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- 12 May 2015
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship in General Management
packaged goods company that makes some of the country’s most well-known brands, I learned how to approach a problem from a marketing perspective. I feel that the additional granularity this gave me is a great complement to the strategic...
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Up Close: A Return to In-Person Executive Education Programs
needed to fine tune them and learn the ins and outs and details. There are so many things we share even though we're very different operationally." The living groups in Tata were slightly reconfigured—the eight-person capacity in each was...
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- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
and connected and OPTIMISTIC in appropriate measure while so many have so many competing personal and business and health and family issues right now.” Meanwhile, cost-cutting, uncertainty, and the necessities of social distancing...
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- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
and connected and OPTIMISTIC in appropriate measure while so many have so many competing personal and business and health and family issues right now.” Meanwhile, cost-cutting, uncertainty, and the necessities of social distancing...
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- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
performance? What are principled choices its leaders must make if they are serious about building such a firm? What are the means for changing an average company into a HCHP company? What are the key design features of such a firm? In our email Q&A, Beer reflected...
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by Martha Lagace
- 11 Jun 2020
- In Practice
Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?
strain. They had a robust configuration that enabled new purposes, new software deployments, and new coordinated routines across teams. The best can use this as an opportunity to experiment and learn where technology can deliver service...
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by Danielle Kost
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
Life was hard enough for the one-third of Americans who had wrestled with anxiety prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the disease that has killed almost 100,000 in the United States, left millions unemployed, and socially distanced many...
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by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Students craft their post-HBS lives
learned since they graduated, the students hosted roundtable discussions at reunions, sought feedback from the Alumni Board and the Board of Dean’s Advisors, and conducted one-on-one interviews. “They talked to and gathered data and...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
cherries grown by KZ Noir, the Kaizen affiliate that acquired the Rwandan washing stations. Now instead of being shipped to Europe, East Asia, or North America, some of those bags are traveling a shorter distance to Nigeria. Dozie’s Café...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
advantage of time alumni have already scheduled to be on campus. The committee is not limiting its sights to campus-based programs; it will be researching distance learning opportunities and how to augment...
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Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- Web
Brand Name Management - The Art of American Advertising
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership...
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