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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
managers are making strides toward finding new career models that better suit their reality. If not the "perfect answer" to the parenting/ career dichotomy, their approach at least validates their dual desire to care for their families... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
larger chains seem to be adopting some of the distinctive, personal touches that characterize boutique hotels like Kimpton. Yes, what was once a fairly small niche has become a legitimate segment of the industry. The big chains are adding more design elements to their... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
Rhenisch Rick Bern/Courtesy Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority A community organizer during the 1960s, Madelyn Rhenisch was a pioneering advocate for better medical care for the people of rural upstate New York. More... View Details
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
vision, guts, and a can-do spirit can transform weak institutions, invent wildly creative contraptions, build fantastic new markets, and conquer distant infidels. American men love the populist guy who stands against dominating... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
across the river at Harvard College and at other locations throughout the University. Speaking on behalf of Dean Kim B. Clark, who was in New Mexico and unable to return due to airline travel restrictions, longtime faculty member... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
Google, Microsoft, Airbnb, American Express, and Uber extending work-from-home policies well into 2021 and beyond, the reality of remote work is here to stay. Touching on issues of trust, productivity, and digital tools for connection and collaboration, Remote Work... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
your career choices. Be who you are everywhere. Finally, establish a female network and maintain it in spite of distance and demands on your time. When constructing this group, ensure that at least one member has the gusto to disagree with you. Why? As Jonah Lehrer... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
FBC project should look like. Rather, NASA forced its managers and contractors to invent new processes and procedures by imposing a set of budget, time, and weight constraints that could not be met using traditional approaches to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
On a blustery late-December afternoon, sixty students sit watching a video case presentation in a darkened Aldrich Hall classroom. Participants in a special HBS orientation program for new international students,* they hail from thirty... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
IMG people on "team Sharapova" are very selective when it comes to endorsement opportunities, and appear to give a great deal of thought to long-term endorsement portfolio management. Q: Did you uncover any trends in your... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
electric powertrains into 40 percent of its lineup by 2020, while the Volkswagen Group intends to launch more than 30 new electric models by 2025. “Within mainstream, old, dinosaur auto companies, there’s no lack of enthusiasm about... View Details
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
puzzling and frustrating when I had the sense that our team failed to make the most of everyone's input. As a project manager I had made sure we held a kickoff meeting in the beginning of each new assignment to acknowledge all members'... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
is that for the very first time Apple has a non-Macintosh product (the iPod) that has promise. Apple has tried many times, from the Newton to the Pippen, all of which failed. For the very first time they have created a new product... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
are invaluable for gaining a deep understanding of different industries and emerging market contexts, and are also a great source of new research ideas. Silverthorne: Has the project evolved in terms of your goals or methodology? Geoffrey... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
little hesitant about opening their doors to researchers, but when [we] called up the CEO without ever having met him, he was extremely open to learning from the research and to our spending a great deal of time at the company—sitting in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. On this episode, we’re featuring an excerpt from a new HBS podcast called Think Big, Buy Small. The show is hosted by Professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff... View Details
- 02 Oct 2017
- News
Radical Generosity for the Real World
thought about that and discerned, and then went out and did it. So here were a bunch of people given $500 to give away. And at the church, those of us who were in leadership said, you know, for some of you, really paying it forward actually means View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
Light noted. The current crisis, he continued, inevitably will lead to “an entirely new financial system with a new set of regulators, a new set of regulations, and frankly, a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
Life in modern India, despite all of the advances of the last decade, is still barely controlled chaos. On the crowded streets, camels and donkeys mix with handcarts, three-wheeled scooter taxis, massive Tata trucks, luxury cars, and pedestrians. The construction of... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
the AdSense business was on fire, and when I said how many new customers we added over the last couple of months, Eric Schmidt almost fell out of his chair, and he said, "What did you say? This is incredible. Do you need more marketing... View Details