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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A Continuum of Innovation
As senior associate dean and chair of the MBA Program, Matt Weinzierl has a running list of questions that he and Jana P. Kierstead, the executive director of MBA and Doctoral programs, always keep in mind. They range from the curricular...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 25 May 2011
- HBS Case
QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off
group of retailers is challenging this notion of an industry built on the backs of crummy jobs, very prosperous companies that include Costco, Mercadona, Trader Joe's, and QuikTrip. What do they know that their competitors don't? In a new...
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- 04 Apr 2011
- HBS Case
Reinventing the National Geographic Society
recalls the remark about magazine piles. "That has come back to haunt us," Fahey says. "People today don't want clutter." It turns out that many things that made National Geographic one of the world's top brands during...
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
roof and when it’s time to start saving for the next one. With that frame of reference, Kennealey listened to his friend over dinner and realized the systems he was having to replace weren’t lemons. They had simply run up against their...
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Online Management Course | HBS Online
course. It is much more than just about managing the people. Samir Ghosalkar Chemical Engineer at Norbrook Laboratories Professor David Garvin is so sentient and poignant in his discussions of process and decision-making. The case studies of significant historical...
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- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
when life goes back to normal. Forward-thinking leaders can run better organizations by creating conditions that allow customers to be more helpful. When service provision is a true partnership and...
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by Dina Gerdeman
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HBS Startup Bootcamp and Founders Unfiltered - MBA
Startup Bootcamp scheduled for the January term. The aim of the program was to provide both practical tools and hands-on guidance to help us bring an idea from inception to MVP (minimum viable product) in a short period of time. We covered things like View Details
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business
To succeed in today's fast-moving economy, traditional corporate structures are holding back companies, even great companies, from being creative enough and speedy enough to compete effectively. What's needed, argues Harvard Business...
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by Kim Girard
- 04 Apr 2024
- News
The Making of a Medical Milestone
and were shipping tons of equipment every year. I completed a year of residency afterwards, but I realized that what excited me the most about medicine was not direct patient care, but the potential to run medically associated...
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Margie Kelley
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
And Tuesday is the day that you solve for trust. So you run the experiments on rebuilding trust with the stakeholder at the center of your problem. Wednesday, we ask you to do things that adults generally don't like to do, which is to...
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Software Tools - Research Computing Services
NoMachine/Gnome Applications menus: Application > Other > Set Defaults Run the set defaults script at /usr/local/app/scripts/set_user_defaults.sh . Follow the menu prompt to set one's one defaults, reset to system-wide defaults -- erasing...
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- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
problem: how the business was run ran completely counter to what he’d learned as a child working alongside his entrepreneurial father in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Traveling to New York as the company’s representative, Schwartz had a moment of...
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first job;
leadership;
life experience;
career lessons;
Finance;
Oil and Gas Extraction;
Mining;
Retail Trade
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
as full-blown panic hit in 1997, causing a run on Thailand’s uninsured banks. Overnight, the family lost everything. Sityodtong’s father eventually abandoned his wife and two sons, forcing them to move to a concrete-floor shack found...
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- 24 May 2017
- News
John J. Brennan, MBA 1980
charitable arm. He spends several days a month at corporate headquarters, working out of a small, cluttered office that belies the deep influence he’s had on the firm. “I always assumed that today was my last day here and that I had to earn the right to be invited...
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Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
retail stores sell their products online. Rather than rely on outside investors, Mikitani funded Rakuten with his own money, taking a significant personal risk, and recruited his wife, Haruko (an IBJ colleague), to run the View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?
business is business,’ is an important statement of Milton Friedman in this context. The criticism on Harley would be worse if they did not run their business in the most cost-effective way, including offshore manufacturing.” JimHBS89...
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- 07 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Art of Haggling
show our cards and the other side doesn't reciprocate, then we run the risk of losing the whole pot. Some negotiation professors sidestep this dilemma, however, and only address the value-creation side of the question. Such teachers may...
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by Katie Johnston
- 07 May 2014
- What Do You Think?
How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?
one's labor only serve to make fruit salad for everyone else?" Gerald Schultz commented that democracy "is the only way to bring back equality The problems are being identified. Voters will make changes happen eventually. I hope...
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by James Heskett
- 25 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Is Baseball Ready to Compete for the Next Generation of Fans?
While football and basketball are now the most popular and financially successful of the four major professional sports leagues, Major League Baseball appears to be rallying. Last week, MLB said revenue for the 2022 regular season, which featured an American League...
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- 01 May 2020
- Blog Post
5 Reasons to Join a Club at HBS
post-graduation. In addition to putting leadership in practice, leading a club is also a shared experience that lends itself to developing deep relationships with other students during EC year. Aaron Hancock (MBA 2021): This Spring, I decided to View Details