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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
questioning go hand in glove. Innovators observe things, then question why. If you want to be an innovative person, when you see things, you have to pay attention and then wonder why. A good illustration of observing and questioning is... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
thought that was a great starting point. So, if you peeping into my window is illegal for you to do as a human, a drone shouldn't be allowed to fly up and peer into my window. So, I think that there are things we could do to have smart... View Details
- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) was at HBS, she started managing bands, mainly as a way to stay involved in an industry that she loved. It was right... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
actually put wheels in motion—and they didn’t jump up and down,” she says. The experience stumped Hoffman, and as she began to have more similar encounters over the next few years, she began to see politics, as she puts it, get in the way... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
at MCI, and circled the globe as a senior executive for IBM before launching a tech start-up, sold in October 2007. Along the way, he discovered a love for horses and foxhunting, although he didn't love how horses beat up the grass and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
related real estate from Anheuser-Busch for $150 million, they didn’t only buy a baseball team. Just as the Boston Red Sox enjoy (or endure) the attentions of fans across a wide swath of New England, the Cardinals are a focal point for... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
possible that the kinds of ideas women are pitching—like diapers, clothing, and underwear—can help them stand out to VCs. “We are coming up with ideas that maybe men wouldn’t, and that’s a good thing.” Pelluru cited another study by... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
demarcation. Now the workers are on the floor, delivering orders or helping customers with the new kiosks; Karavites has updated his employee training to include a focus on customer interaction. Average customer count is up at this... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
can be an inflationary influence if a committee feels pressured to raise its own top executive's pay in order to keep up with the competition. In addition, the sample companies favored the inclusion of stock options in CEO pay packages as... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
people, trying to get them to trust you. And the more authentic that bond is, the better leader you become. And it's that simple. You don't have to come up with any other fancy formula. And as soon as I internalized that, it totally... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
discontent for many American families. Bundled up in chilly homes, they see their heating bills cutting deeply into the rest of their household budget. Lowering the thermostat, they wonder when keeping warm became a luxury in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
the Arctic. There are multibillion-dollar mineral reserves — copper, zinc, gold, diamonds, lead — as well. Most people don’t know that FedEx and UPS have very large hubs in Alaska and that most of the world’s international air cargo now... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
community. The council became the bridge between business and government during the New Deal, helping coordinate business and government relations, clearing up misunderstandings, and restoring confidence....With an engaging personality... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
As a girl growing up in Riverdale, New York, Ivy Ross (PMD 68, 1994) was surrounded by modern design — and disliked it. The home she lived in and the furniture she sat on reflected the avant-garde sensibilities of her father, an... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
consumer-driven health-care reform. Wrapping up the conference, representatives from each of several breakout meetings summarized their take on the implementation of a consumer-driven health-care system. The consensus seemed to be built... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
tables in their residence hall lobbies. Dressed very properly in suits, sipping coffee, quietly eating breakfast, these very professional, very reserved, and very formal executives rarely looked up or acknowledged me as I made deliveries.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
when he signed up as a volunteer teacher with Nativity Prep in Boston, a tuition-free Jesuit middle school for boys from low-income families. After just two years of teaching, he moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts, to cofound and serve... View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
every week. Truthfully, I was not the person or the leader I wanted to be. And I ended up having a snowboarding accident, which put me into physical therapy for about a year. It was in that year that I really came to realize that not only... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
count up my profits every day, and there’s always cash in the cigar box.” The owner’s loan application was attached to the case as Exhibit 1. Some other financial data showed what rents cost for comparable shop fronts and typical hourly... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
inept or complacent management drew the attention of raiders. "I give credit to that 1980s movement as a whole for having created the profit machine that we see in the 1990s," Hayes says. "We now have an M&A; movement driven by strategic... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry