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- 01 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Best Practices for Creating a Successful Virtual Internship
Development has gathered best practices from companies who crafted remote internships for the first time in 2020, and those who have managed virtual teams for years. Using these strategies and tools will help set your company up for an... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 21 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
When Your Classmate is an NBA Superstar (or Fashion Model, or Movie Actress)
Boston. Elberse is remaining mum on celebrities planning to attend the next session in order to protect their privacy. Participants sign up to learn strategies for launching creative products, managing talent, coping with advances in... View Details
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
Enter the concept of the "channel steward." The Real Wal-Mart Effect Critics are lining up to take shots at Wal-Mart's treatment of workers and a host of other alleged knocks against society. But the critics miss one big point,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
exploring the feasibility of canopy tours of the rainforest. “I was interested in startups and had experience in Latin America, so it seemed like a good fit after HBS,” recalls Skelly. “We wound up building what was essentially a... View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Selling Luxury to Everyone
Luxury is the new essential. Consumers know it and retailers are reaping the bounty. At a "Growth Strategies in the Luxury Goods Industry" panel on April 3 at the HBS Retail and Luxury Goods Conference, moderator Nancy F. Koehn summed it View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
revenue and growth, and every division’s key performance indicators on diversity roll up to the company’s balanced scorecard. Everyone gets paid out if the company meets its diversity goals. So if the... View Details
- 13 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview
hypothesized. The takeaway: Humblebragging is annoying. "It's as if you're trying to say something good about yourself, but then you cover it up with something else," Gino says. "And people don't like that." The second study looked at... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
manufacturing job. “The operations of a manufacturing business are very different from a capital business,” he adds. “Frankly, I’m still learning a lot every day.” And he’s putting that new knowledge into action. Last November, the company View Details
- 17 Jul 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence
"network effects"—the idea that the value or utility of a product goes up as more people use it. A telephone holds no value if there is only one in the world—but the technology becomes increasingly valuable as more people use... View Details
- 18 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Embracing Activism for Social Change
In 2020, the city of Detroit logged some 7,000 calls involving mental health emergencies—a critical issue, notes Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, who says, “When the mentally ill turn to the police for a response, the system is broken.” To fix it, the city View Details
- 11 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Opportunities in the Plant-Based Economy
a ton of energy that reassured my decision to pursue my career in the field. There is so much to be done in this sector that I am beyond enthusiastic to roll up my sleeves and get to work! Sutton: Before the... View Details
- 09 May 2013
- News
Road Trip
MBAxAmerica (mbaxamerica.com) by the students, it's more like a rolling summer job with an entrepreneurial focus and a dash of pro bono consulting, built around visits to seven high-potential companies in the American heartland. Making... View Details
- 24 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Dance to the Music: How Noa Torok Found Her Dream Job at SoundCloud
research, she spoke with various Entrepreneurs in Residence at the iLab. One of them, a venture capital investor, helped her get a handle on her ambitions by asking her a key question: “What are you most passionate about? When you wake up... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
business at the intersection of consumer electronics, media, and lifestyle branding. Skullcandy, which Andrus helped build with founder and former CEO Rick Alden, is expecting between $280 and $300 million in revenues this year. The Bulletin caught View Details
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
Many of us are sailing toward retirement with the hope that Social Security, personal savings, and money saved in an employer's 401(k) or 403(b) plan will add up to the magic sum required to enjoy our remaining years in reasonable style.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
doesn’t know how to do it, or doesn’t have the capacity to do it, even before you get into problems of corruption and so forth. So these entrepreneurs roll up their sleeves, and the heart surgeon Shetty is a... View Details
- 30 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Not Slowing VC Investment
researchers say. “The private equity firms have truly had to roll up their sleeves and become very, very active in their portfolio companies,” Gompers says. “And there's only so much time to spend in a given... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
eligibility had proved daunting. To participate, a veteran had to take his DD 214 in person to a Veterans Administration office and pick up a voucher. The procedure, inconvenient for some veterans and impractical for others who lived in... View Details
- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
of decision makers, options can slow things down considerably,” says Weiss. Bigbelly is swiftly moving towards a subscription-only model that, if it alienated some municipalities, would make up for that fact by speeding sales to others.... View Details
- 24 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers
commercial hub. Q: On the larger topic of Africa, which appears to have been left behind in the globalization movement, where do you see Africa heading over the next twenty years, in terms of economic development? A: Hopefully, the next few decades will allow Africa to... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell