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- 18 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
How Much is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
pointing to the mobile shift-swapping app used by employees of clothing retailer The Gap. The company piloted the app in its Old Navy stores and expanded it to all brands in 2018. The app “creates value,” says Oberholzer-Gee, by helping... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic
them across catalog and online channels. I'm currently in charge of Gap Online and the Banana Republic catalog. Soon we will bring Banana Republic and Old Navy online. What will the Web bring to Banana? Having a presence on the Web will... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
to make the changes that are needed. I don’t have the same fears about making those changes that most people do. It may come from my experience as a Navy officer on a ship during the Vietnam War. Once you come through a war, your... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
The Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee and several other interagency committees are now looking at issues arising from a newly accessible Arctic Ocean; the Navy and Coast Guard also have a fresh focus on the region. The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
thousands of young professionals and hundreds of interviews with the world’s top business and nonprofit leaders (among them Virgin’s Richard Branson, Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, Third Point Advisors’ Daniel Loeb, and US Navy SEALs’... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
http://hbr.org/search/613080-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 213-024 Porto Adriatico In March 2012, Jack Dawkins is in the early stages of leading the development of an old navy yard in Croatia into a mixed-use waterfront community... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Art Nature Business
part of the artist's American Reclamation series, which chronicles and examines the American recycling industry, in this case a Spruance-class destroyer in the United States Navy re-purposed to create an artificial reef. The USS Arthur W.... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
the School had made a strategic decision to become more diverse. There were also a number of international students and people from West Point and the Navy Nuclear Sub program. I had a lot of respect for the military people and shared... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
ideas, 1983. Seated in his office decades later in HBS’s Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, Howard Stevenson is reflecting on the start-up version of himself. Born in 1941, he moved frequently as a child to follow the military postings of his father, a View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
opportunity often lay in the problems that they and their peers faced in their personal lives. Take Michel, for example. A naval flight officer prior to attending HBS, Michel joined a Navy reserve unit in California after graduation.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
worked after serving as a Navy lieutenant in Hawaii from 1969 to 1971. There were early signs of his interest in the Thoroughbred industry, however — a thesis on the economics of the business written as an undergraduate at The College of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
David's first challenges, outlined in detail in the Bulletin, was the overcrowded campus. With four Army and Navy training programs at Soldiers Field in addition to the MBA Program, more than thirteen hundred students were living in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
expertise as well as money, and thus the venture capital industry was born. Among those joining AR&D in 1947 was a returning U.S. Navy veteran named Bill Elfers. Just four years later, he became vice president and was soon the number two... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
military significance of wireless technology, especially at sea. It was essentially the creation of the U.S. Navy and a General Electric executive named Owen Young to serve a combination of commercial and security purposes. RCA was a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Warsaw, Poland Admission by Proxy I want to share an inspiring counterpoint to the grim events we are all enduring these days. Upon my discharge from the Navy in January 1946, my new wife and I bought and refurbished a used house trailer... View Details
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
excel in small firms, where they can set a goal and then empower others to work toward it. Navy and Air Force officers, who operate expensive, complex systems, such as submarines and aircraft carriers, are trained to follow processes to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and the UN Global Compact. None of this is news to Smith. A former US Navy aviator who worked at Bendix Aerospace and Booz Allen Hamilton before running (and eventually selling) an advertising... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
about dressing up? Raiser: Well, costumes create a sense of otherness. If you're wearing a navy blue suit, and flat shoes, and a white shirt, you feel kind of corporate. And if you're wearing butterfly wings and a tutu, you feel a lot... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
September 2014. Last summer, taking advantage of a small window of cooperative weather, Royal Canadian Navy divers worked in shifts to provide near-constant examination of the Erebus. Balsillie can’t share what they’ve found until... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
the world are changing, and where they are likely to go in the future. Using the most up-to-date data and analysis, Ghemawat provides a clear view of the most critical issues facing policymakers in the years ahead. Cold War Navy SEAL: My... View Details