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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Transforming the IRS
traditional services on the telephones and in local offices, and offered new electronic services for filing, paying, and information. Why did you change the way the IRS measures employee performance? Performance measures have an enormous... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
others.” Cenedella recalled the first day he walked into his company and was greeted by an employee he was certain he’d never seen before. Recognizing that leading a company of 200 or 300 people would be a different challenge than leading... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- News
Startup Talk in Chicago
(MBA 1995), senior vice president of marketing, loyalty, and sales; and Ralph Lopez, vice president of IOC Operations, hosted the group in the airline’s massive command center and spoke about the critical importance of taking care of their View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes
The Choices, Systems, and Behaviors that Drive Effective Selling, Frank V. Cespedes laments the fact that sales and strategy rarely make a joint and complementary appearance in MBA classrooms or academic journals. Professors stick safely... View Details
- 22 Feb 2019
- News
Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders
invoicing of other services. Mallory says the kids would shop at each other’s companies, but only “after the company was operating and employees were paid.” In the weeks prior to JA BizTown, students get instructions on how to start and... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- News
How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft
At an executive retreat in 2015, Hood lectured senior leaders on the need for more internal and external metrics to keep employees on a measurable path and communicate better to investors. Nadella and Hood hatched a plan to refocus... View Details
- 17 Apr 2015
- News
A Driving Force for a Sustainable World
launched her own fund in 2012 with Ecomobilité Ventures. The firm’s investments have included Ouicar, a French car-sharing business, and Ridepal, a San Francisco–based company working to redefine commuting. It provides real-time, shared bus services for workers whose... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
lunchtime, we’re back in Boulder. Sausage, steak, and veggie burgers sizzle on a grill in the parking area behind GoLite’s corporate headquarters in a nondescript business park. Employees sip beer and chat under a blue canopy set up for a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
who has worked in London with United Technologies (in a department whose fifteen members represented seven countries) and in Paris with Bain, is currently in Moscow with BCG. “People are willing to adjust their behavior to facilitate... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
it. So the first is when companies identify top performers for us, right? And a lot of times we work with finance companies or technology companies where, unfortunately, their employee set is not very diverse, and there are top performer... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
laptops, cases of champagne, and other kinds of recognition to individuals who in some way had distinguished themselves. When a faculty secretary finally made a long-anticipated visit to her ancestral home in Italy, he gave her a camera and asked her to bring back... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Faculty Books
How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations by Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind (Harvard Business Review Press) How can leaders make their big or growing companies feel small again? How can they recapture the “magic”—the tight strategic... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- News
The Right Thing to Do
of the fraud, few people at Enron ever admitted to knowing about it. This episode tells the story of the company’s rise and fall and of one Enron employee brave enough to take her concerns straight to the top. “The Run Coal Memos,” the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
experience at Harvard, to address a variety of child-rearing challenges. Instead of control and discipline, this approach aims to help children to think for themselves, own their behavior and choices, and develop confidence from a young... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
Hear From Ukrainian CEOs on the Ground Thursday, April 7, 2022, 12pm to 1pm, Virtual program Ukrainian CEOs are going to extraordinary measures to keep their companies viable and their employees safe, not to mention meeting critical and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
and teaching assistant-led problem sessions to multiple team projects and classic problem sets. Crimson Greetings One of the more memorable aspects of Foun-dations may have been Crimson Greetings, a large-scale behavioral simulation... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
Department at Gibbons PC In Newark, led a conversation about the responsibilities of managers and companies when an employee has been named in a complaint. Panelist Kenna Baudin (MBA 1994), head of U.S. private equity at executive search... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
a pioneering program at Uber to help thousands of employees prepare to succeed and lead. Back in 2001, having just completed her third year of teaching at HBS, she wouldn’t answer to “Professor Frei,” encouraging students to use her first... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Steady as She Goes
120,000 employees came to work concerned that best-available safety protocols would not be enough to protect them from a little-understood novel coronavirus. “But now it has evolved into a real moment of pride for us,” Weckert reflects.... 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