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- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
guidance on cash flow issues, SBA loan applications, and adaptation strategies. The nonprofit is providing comprehensive support to enable these businesses to recover and prepare to reemerge. TAP, which relies on donor support, recruits... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Comfort Zone
you’re relaxed and enjoying yourself,” Fraser says. To create peace of mind, airports should redesign spaces around what Fraser refers to as experience technology. “That means everything from space, materials, furnishings, equipment, sound—basically how you View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Shareholders' Value?
today's shareholders aren't quite up to making shareholder capitalism work. —Jay W. Lorsch is the Louis E. Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at HBS. Justin Fox is editorial director of the HBR Group. The preceding is adapted from a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
RoboCar, the Sequel
thinking about a people-moving system based on cars that could drive on roads but also attach to computer-controlled track networks. A version of his idea was adapted in the 1960s and is still in use at West Virginia University. That was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Pens Down
Illustration by Dan Page In May, on the eve of the HBS application season, MBA Admissions director Dee Leopold (MBA 1980) announced a change for Class of 2016 hopefuls. There would be only one essay question: In addition to your résumé, test scores, and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2005
- News
Seven Transformations of Personal Leadership
Keywords: David Rooke, William R. Torbet
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Two Presidents, One Goal: Building on the Club of Chicago
— the group has also adapted to the changing needs of its membership. “We have a large percentage of people who work either for themselves, or out in the suburbs, or are retired,” Mott notes. “Not everybody is on the train heading... View Details
Keywords: Amy Burton
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
says, came in adapting the culture of the workplace to accept the autistic employees. This was done through autism-awareness training sessions for all employees, and management training for workers engaging directly with the team, to help... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 29 Mar 2017
- News
Randy Day Named Perdue Farms CEO
Randy Day (AMP 165, 2003) has been named the new CEO of Perdue Farms, the fourth largest chicken producer in the United States. Day, only the fourth person to hold the CEO role in the company’s 100-year history, started with Perdue in 1980 and most recently held the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability
Image by John Ritter Is there a business case to be made for companies to act in environmentally friendly ways? Rebecca Henderson: If one can imagine that all business in the entire world was run by one person, it’d be pretty straightforward to make a business case for... View Details
- 07 Aug 2018
- News
DreamBox Learning Breaks New Ground
popular adaptive learning companies, specializing in math .Across the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, DreamBox serves nearly 3 million students and 120,000 teachers. Today, the company is announcing $130 million in growth equity funding from... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Leadership in the Digital Age
conversation was the urgency of adapting to this new era, even when that change is daunting. “It’s easier if you’re a startup,” Larizadeh Duggan says, “but if your company is 30, 40, 50, 100 years old—or in my case, 300 years old—that... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Staying the Course
3 million students had benefited from DreamBox's adaptive learning technology and its colorful video-game-style math lessons. Five weeks later—with an estimated 124,000 of the country’s K–12 schools closed to prevent the spread of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Easy Rider
authentically adapt it to the local market,” says Prakash. “Building up our team, dealers, and manufacturing capabilities from a clean sheet of paper was really rewarding.” After India, Prakash served in the same role in Canada and is now... View Details
- 21 Jan 2021
- News
New Menu
In 2018, Andrew D. Ive (MBA 1997) launched Big Ideas Ventures to find and support the entrepreneurs positioned to mitigate the effects of climate change and help the world adapt to the realities of a warming planet. The firm’s first fund... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Award-Winning Article Urges Companies to Loosen Ties that Bind
their companies: What business are we really in?" the authors write. "Their answers will determine their fate in an increasingly frictionless economy." Both Hagel and Singer are principals at McKinsey & Company. Their award-winning article was View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Inbox: From Das’s Desk
When most MBA students attend HBS, there is a general feeling that the contract they sign is to spend 18 months getting world-class exposure to cases and principles of business and management and then leave with a license to practice business, including the tools and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
adapt pieces of it to meet their reality. For instance, both Nike and IKEA are working on designing products that can be easily disassembled and recycled. “When you start seeing this approach not as a threat to the organization, but as an... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Meyers
- 18 Mar 2021
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Authentically Leading with Blind Ambition
authentically lead offers us a path forward in life, regardless of our circumstances. They will also review the journey, lessons learned and the tools Chad used to adapt and mold himself into who he is today, which he describes in his... View Details