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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
problems we’re now facing, including unfunded pension obligations. It has done nothing to stop corporations from making promises to their employees and shareholders without the resources to back them up. Extensive reform is necessary. To... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
A Better Way to Go on Strike
costs at $200 million a day. What's more, a strike would cost the pilots and other employees their salaries. The airline would lose tens of millions of dollars daily and risk losing market share to its competitors. Yet the pilots were... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Class Day and Commencement 2001
employee in a new division, to Killick, who intends to launch his own start-up: "Being the first employee with a company with lots of money behind it is a pretty good deal; it's a little different than being... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
it happen in practice. That’s on the private market side. On the public side, the question is how you can influence the behavior of a company to reflect your values, or protect the long-term value of your investment—or both—while only... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
declared. “That caused the credit markets worldwide to seize up. The system went into a state of shock.” With Lehman’s abrupt demise, Thain suddenly faced the possibility that his own troubled firm, Merrill Lynch, could be next. “To protect the View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
Educational Travel, now with 25 employees in Cuba and in the United States, is a true family business. Gordon is a managing director, along with Michael and Collin Laverty and one of Collin’s college friends, Adam Linderman. In the early... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
any student support for the employees, and the employees themselves were thrilled.” Twenty-five years later, he frequently testifies before Congress on behalf of labor’s agenda. Between staff phone calls, an unflappable Silvers weighed in... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
cyber-security and analytics. “These employees have found errors, faults, and gaps in IT systems that have gone undetected for years,” Fieldhouse says. “This even happened in the first week after their on-boarding.” In a video produced... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
and a culture that values employees above all and empowers them to excel. Unlike its competitors, Dreyer’s has always insisted on delivering ice cream to grocery stores with its own trucks and drivers to ensure product quality. Early on... View Details
- 30 Jun 2019
- News
Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
“Before his talk, Professor Shih toured three Moog factories in the Buffalo area,” says Sherrill. Moog Inc., which is currently headed by CEO John Scannell (MBA 1999), is a leading aerospace manufacturer, producing critical components for both commercial and military... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
reluctantly admits inspired the New York Times to dub her “Hazel,” Moore asked employees to clean out their offices and storerooms for a flea market where all employees could pay $10 to fill up a shopping... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
practices that will allow people to flourish - the key to organizational success. Do Lunch or Be Lunch by Howard H. Stevenson (Harvard Business School Press) According to HBS professor Howard Stevenson, most of human history and much of human View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Making Finance Personal
solutions, he has aggressively implemented the notion that customers, through their implicit choices or explicit actions (what Cook calls a “user contribution system”), and his brainstorming employees (in small groups within the company... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
that say? People associate more so-called male behaviors with leadership, even though there is no evidence that these qualities are exclusively male. The underlying issue is that stereotypes put people into boxes that tend to favor some... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
others.” Cenedella recalled the first day he walked into his company and was greeted by an employee he was certain he’d never seen before. Recognizing that leading a company of 200 or 300 people would be a different challenge than leading... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
Illustration by Ken Orvidas/theispot.com In the search for culprits in the global financial meltdown, bloated executive pay and the excessive risk-taking behavior it fueled stand out as prime suspects. Of the two, pay dominates the... View Details
- 17 Apr 2015
- News
A Driving Force for a Sustainable World
launched her own fund in 2012 with Ecomobilité Ventures. The firm’s investments have included Ouicar, a French car-sharing business, and Ridepal, a San Francisco–based company working to redefine commuting. It provides real-time, shared bus services for workers whose... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
big part of it is actually a tangible barrier rather than a behavioral one. If you're in a lockdown or if you’re nervous about going out and being around other people, you’re less likely to go out and shop, to consume, and this directly... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
Hear From Ukrainian CEOs on the Ground Thursday, April 7, 2022, 12pm to 1pm, Virtual program Ukrainian CEOs are going to extraordinary measures to keep their companies viable and their employees safe, not to mention meeting critical and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
impact on the success of employees and companies. “I came to the program on the late side, but I think I’ve found a set of research topics that thread the needle between relevance to real organizations and scholarly interest,” he... View Details