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- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
alongside global brands. Retailing and distribution remain largely local. And American consumers show a desire for increasing cultural variety in their life experiences, eating more often at ethnic restaurants and vacationing more often... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
forced to vacate and moved to student housing at Ft. Devens in Shirley, a forty-mile commute. The B-School wanted to expand, which it did quite rapidly, filling up the field completely. At the time I had a 1937 Hudson Big Boy automobile,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
one hundred grocery and department stores. Kohl focused on philanthropic activities after selling the business in 1979 and purchased the NBA Milwaukee Bucks in 1985. Elected to the Senate seat vacated by William Proxmire (MBA '40) in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 14 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021
dance partner became my best friend and roommate. We kept our pace, pushing each other to achieve our respective goals as true equals. We talked jobsite safety while cooking, built vacation Gantt charts, and stole the show on any... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
DVD to catch up on world cinema. I collect antique maps of India from the days of the British Raj and am also finding time to indulge in still photography and play the occasional game of tennis. What’s your favorite place to vacation or... View Details
- 01 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?
and for a broader audience than just theoretical economists. Both, of course, lived to see the age of ninety and then some. And despite their sharply contrasting views of political economics (Friedman regarded Galbraith as a socialist), the Friedman's occasionally... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
As the technology wave breaks over us, some think the Internet looks to many about to wash out the established order of everything from vacation booking to the nation-state itself. But hold on a minute, Debora Spar cautions. We've seen... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection
Zaltman. "That's important, but there's a much longer journey for which the store is just a way point." For example, he says, when a person is shopping for luggage, he's thinking about the vacation he's taking the luggage on.... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
kids on vacation with tobacco company money, you know? And so yeah, I do feel, I do feel good about that. DM: So Richard, we've been speaking a lot about what business leaders, what firm leaders can do. They see this big movement ahead of... View Details
- Web
A Culture of Innovation | Baker Library
to produce polarized materials, Land was counting on a new initiative to reenergize and propel the company’s growth in peacetime. 8 Land conceived of instant photography in 1943. While on vacation with his family in Santa Fe, New Mexico,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
for 23 years. We're having a great life together with our three sons. The family takes two interesting vacations together every year. I'm also involved in some nonprofit activities, including the Fish House Foundation, which raises money... View Details
- 26 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees
says. “That is enormously satisfying to them—and it motivates them to work even harder.” Also, research shows that employees who take time off are less stressed and more engaged, more creative, and more productive. Give the gift of time, not just through generous View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Nietzsche said it first: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. There’s a reason that saying has legs, nearly 140 years later. We all, at some point... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand what they were saying. Her father and his brothers were... View Details
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
and which one gets the biggest slice of the pie. The issue of pricing perfectly captures this tension. Ideally, you'd like to price your goods high while your complementors price theirs low. Airlines, for instance, would be happy to see View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
seasoned workers. Viana continues to talk while casually squeezing his SUV into an impossibly tiny spot along one of the narrow streets in Bayeux’s historic center. His last real vacation with his wife and three children was three years... View Details
- Profile
Marcela Sapone
undergrad ever hired by the famed management consulting firm. She spent two years at McKinsey before being transferred to its Paris office. There, she realized she had taken a career misstep and when she spent her August vacation back in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
local produce available to locals, and to revitalize the town’s Main Street, a modest collection of struggling businesses. Reade’s “retirement” after a successful career in the investment business was gradual and accidental. Seeking a View Details
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Commencement 2012 Address | About
generously? The second story stems from a conversation I had while on vacation in the Caribbean over Spring Break—where I half expected to run into some of you, to be honest. Over the course of a few days I struck up a friendship with the... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
He needed the kind of break that the typical American vacation week couldn’t offer. So in 2017, he took a sabbatical—which included a ten-day silent meditation retreat followed by a six-week walking pilgrimage in Japan. The experience was... View Details