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- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Fereshteh…
at HBS, I was offered an entrepreneurial position as the Client Relations & Business Analysis Manager for the Canada & Bermuda Region. In this role, I was able to learn about the retail business from a merchandising and client... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
financial world demands steady if not increasing margins. Disruptive innovations often promise lower margins than sustaining innovations. It is extraordinarily difficult for good managers to pursue worse... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
universities. Based on a national survey the company undertook on the assumptions college students hold about sex, relationships, and sexual assault, the program is conducted in a group setting to encourage roommates and classmates to discuss these View Details
- 17 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often
million emails and 80 million meeting invitations. Shortly after a new CEO takes over, uncertainty among employees dampens communication within a company. However, after about five months, internal chatter sharply intensifies as managers... View Details
Keywords: by Ami Albernaz
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Star Search
retailer Wayfair. “They want to know, ‘Do I feel like I can add value and make a difference?’” Gulliver manages a 300-person team at Wayfair dedicated to helping the growing e-commerce company recruit and retain talent. Her role is... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 13 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
Following My Dream: Launching a Venture
data and insights gained, this summer has been an amazing learning experience: I recruited an extraordinary and diverse team despite only being able offer them an idea and vision, I’ve learned how to be a better manager (including having... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
that we’re smart in the things we’re attacking, and to try to solve real-world problems that make an impact.” Watson General Manager David Kenny (MBA 1986) adds: “The tech sector tends to reward short-term thinking.” But Watson is... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 14 Feb 2018
- News
A ‘Hopeaholic’ Promotes Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality in the Workplace
demonstrate how they can be more innovative and successful by fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce. Coleman, who previously was managing director of the Nobel Peace Prize–nominated Feminist Majority Foundation, believes diversity... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
students with the opportunity to role play these difficult yet important performance-review discussions. It is suitable for Sales, Marketing, Organizational Behavior, and Entrepreneurial Management courses.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
of the benefits associated with a diverse workforce. While it is critical for managers and researchers to understand the processes and outcomes associated with diversity, much work remains to be done in this important area of scholarship.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
while higher-level management interaction with international departments was common, its day-to-day management style was localized and gave limited international exposure to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 02 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Leading Professional Service Firms
separates professional service firms from other businesses is that the employees are their most important assets. Yet professionals in any field — independent-minded, creative individuals—can be difficult to manage. In LPSF, we use an old... View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Joe…
cleantech start-up. I had no prior experience in investing whatsoever. After learning more about finance in my course work and interacting with my classmates with investing backgrounds, I became attracted to a potential career in venture... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 03 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?
of moderating controversial content of all kinds. How much do users trust tech companies? The coauthors relied on a mathematical model to study strategic interactions, testing outcomes under different scenarios and rules. “It’s difficult... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
HGSE and would like to formalize the network of PELP participants to facilitate continual interaction and knowledge-sharing." Reflecting on the project's progress, Allen Grossman is struck by the increased activity around education View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
technologies on the health-care industry. A highly rated teacher, she is also an acclaimed public speaker, board member, and policy adviser whose expertise on health-care management has influenced private- and public-sector... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
careers. As alumni returned to campus last fall for reunion, we asked them to tell us about their first jobs and what those experiences taught them. READ MORE Dan Biederman, class of '77. I took a job in the Systems Consulting Firm, American View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
incredibly complex. When a phone is designed in America and assembled in China with supplies from 30 other countries, where is it from? By trying to manage trade flows in any specific product through tariffs or barriers, you will affect... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
- 17 Feb 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco
for Silicon Valley, brandishing signs that read "Stop Displacement Now!" "The incident brought to the surface the values and aspirations of long-standing residents and the challenges they were facing," says Clayton S. Rose, professor of View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
For Education Reform, PELP Is on the Way
“Leading and managing in the complex and dynamic environment of an urban K–12 school system is an incredibly difficult challenge,” observes HBS Dean Kim B. Clark. “One of the toughest problems is that... View Details