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- 24 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class
Soo Current role: Chief People Officer, Stitch Fix Jevan Soo came to HBS and HKS with a goal of using his degree to build a career in human capital. As the Chief People Officer at Stitch Fix, a company with over 8,000 employees, he is... View Details
- 01 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault
should be honest when answering these questions if they want to figure out how to fix a job. Their answers will vary from job to job and organization to organization, depending largely on the goals of a particular position in relation to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
what assets to protect and which people to move? We all hope Al Gore and Greta Thunberg fix everything, but if they don’t, then homeowners, businesses, universities, and governments will have to do something.” If the pandemic laid bare... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
achieving the complete elimination of all waste in pursuit of the most efficient methods.” The system is based on two principles: automation with a human touch, and each process producing only what is needed for the next process in a continuous flow. According to... View Details
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
who don’t realize there is a cost for Facebook’s “free” service. Miki Saxon recalled that “Tim Cook once said, ‘If it’s free, then you are the product.’ It seems that Americans are just waking up to that fact ” Malcolm Harper commented,... View Details
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
more than it charged light users. The original basis for pricing telephone service, including both a fixed monthly charge and a usage charge, represents the same kind of thinking. The person who chose to price advertising services as 15... View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Beans, and Mandan Squash—the “Three Sisters” of Native American lore that thrive when planted together—Sacred Seed is modeling a different approach based on agricultural practices that are thousands of years old. Cornstalks provide a natural climbing pole for beans,... View Details
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Professor David Moss explores what’s happened, what it means, and what can be done, drawing especially on the history of democracy, democratic capitalism, and past democratic breakdowns to help make sense of this tectonic shift and how it might be reversed. Move Fast &... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Business Change and Adaptation BIO The environment needs fixing — but by whom? At the onset of the COVID pandemic, a narrative emerged that, as we would pass through the experience of it “everything would change,” this without much... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
not an option, this process helped companies share implementation costs and leverage each other’s competencies to discover new ways of doing things. Some companies took more extreme measures to support their ecosystem, for example... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
one’s pre-tenure years when the opportunity cost of time seems especially high,” he writes. Colleague David A. Moss concurs. “The first priority should always be to identify truly important problems to work on,” says Moss, the Paul Whiton... View Details
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
medicine. They do not know if they received good value for the money. Partially as a result of this lack of transparency, increases in employers’ health care costs have outstripped inflation and workers’ wage increases for decades.... View Details
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
clients' campaigns. This practice was institutionalized by an arrangement known as the "recognition system" between agencies and publishers, and administered by a set of trade associations. Among other things, the system supported standards for granting of credit to... View Details
- 13 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Shouldn't Delay Software Updates—Even After CrowdStrike's Flaw
disclosed and a fix was available, the research says. Is it all about costs? The authors found evidence that one of the main drivers of the delays are the costs associated with software updates, both in... View Details
- Web
Choosing the Right Student Loan | MBA
Direct Graduate PLUS Loan. Both of these loans have fixed interest rates and several repayment options. While the maximum you can borrow in Unsubsidized Loan funds is $20,500, you may borrow up to the Cost... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
What I Do: Keith Cerny (MBA 1991)
“We want to serve the surrounding community in the most diverse way possible.” “Needless to say, an orchestra is not a factory. But thinking about fixed and variable costs and capacity utilization is... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
Sustainable Farming in the Arid World
operate sustainably. “I started Sundrop Farms about four years out of the MBA program. Most people don’t know but agriculture consumes about 50 percent of your operating costs are related to fossil fuels. Agriculture uses about 70 percent... View Details
- Web
News Coverage - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
(August 2014) Utah Hospitals Try the Unthinkable: Get a Grip on Costs USA TODAY Julie Appleby (June 2014) Retooling Hospitals, One Data Point at a Time KAISER HEALTH NEWS Julie Appleby (June 2014) Fixing The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Rent Out Your Ride
CLARK: A bright idea for utilizing untold idle capacity, America’s privately owned autos. It’s estimated that a privately owned midsize car costs about $8,000 a year to own and operate. In cities, it also spends most of its time parked... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
prices across the board, instituting price-match policies with online retailers, or accepting that they will lose sales to customers who are showrooming. In all of these circumstances, either because of price reductions or fixed View Details