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- 23 Jul 2015
- News
Work Schedules: The False Tradeoff Between Fair and Productive
- 14 May 2012
- News
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
- 01 May 2019
- News
Boeing and the Importance of Encouraging Employees to Speak Up
- 13 May 2014
- News
Arianna Huffington's Tips on How to Feel Better and Get More Done
- 02 Nov 2023
- News
Seeding Startups
window into the young online-software market. He saw a need for a product similar to Hotmail that was tailored for businesses, a web-based email solution with calendaring and scheduling capabilities. “I... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s smallest book on the world’s biggest... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
expanded into other parts of the country, added four production facilities, and saw sales top $7 million. In 1960, Barford sold his share of the business to his partners and returned home with his family to Toronto. The following year, he... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
control of people’s schedules could be achieved without negative organizational consequences. So was it relatively easy to get team members on board with this? Not at all! Remember, this was totally counter to the intense work culture at... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
Illustration by Fabio Consoli Illustration by Fabio Consoli The co-CEOs noticed it right away: Early in the pandemic, staffers at the online children’s clothing company Primary.com were struggling when they logged back into Zoom on Mondays. People were not recharging... View Details
- 21 Sep 2018
- News
HBS Association of Southern California Boosts Support for Startups
productive workshop.” Creighton Taylor (MBA 2014) pitched his pilot-stage company, Compass, to get guidance on investors, while Noemie Delfassy (MBA 2010) was there to refine her pitch to investors for her food company, Frecious. Sam... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
purchase monthly shares by weight, rather than à la carte, resulting in a fulfillment process that is “relatively complex and pretty unique,” Cummings says. Every order—with 5 to 30 items, selected from 100 products stacked on a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Adapting to Meet Changing Needs
students, and it’s also stretching the faculty to think more broadly about how we translate research into teaching.” —Joshua Margolis, James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Professor of Business Administration Scheduled for rollout early 2019,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
to ‘Dr. Famous,’ who was booked for 17 weeks out, while brand-new doctors only had 30 percent of their schedules filled.” Inspired by the efficiency that companies like Travelocity brought to the airline industry, Gardner created Kyruus... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
“I realized that it’s not about the idea; it’s about the team,” Medina recalls of those early days. It was a revelation that would serve him well. Medina soon joined forces with product designer Andrew Kinzer and enrolled in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
Above: The Ario Lamp parallels the sun’s schedule. (Courtesy Ario) Ario is a smart lighting company in the Bay Area whose lamp changes light direction and color dynamically throughout the day, promoting better health. The shifts in lighting mirror the patterns and... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
because of—the challenge: “It was basically a small manufacturing company but with an output of one product each time, because every unit we process is unique,” he says. “With each garment, there are 20 opportunities for us to screw... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
refreshing their product lines and extending their brand to more affordable items. Pressure to innovate is intense, says HBS professor Nancy F. Koehn, a business historian and author of Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers’ Trust... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fiscal Year Ends on Upbeat Note
Executive Education — typically contribute more than half of the total budget. But both units are vulnerable to economic downturns, and demand for HBP products and programs offered by Executive Education were projected to suffer from a... View Details