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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
J. Hughes Norton III
It's early on a June morning at the Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland, the day before the U.S. Open golf tournament. Only practice rounds will be played today, but already groups of excited spectators are trooping up the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
attracting new business from corporate and retail customers. The merger was therefore also viewed as a vehicle for increasing top-line revenue growth. Internal cost cutting alone would not have enabled either bank to achieve this second goal. Scott Paper's chief... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 04 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Consumer Data Privacy in an AI World
else will have to catch up. Investing in privacy early on is key, not just for protecting your company, but also as a strategy to gain a competitive advantage. Layne: One thing you do suggest companies do is get a chief privacy officer or... View Details
- Web
Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
College. Andy is also fluent in Japanese. Todd Krasnow (MBA 1983), Orchid Partners Todd Krasnow graduated from Harvard Business School in 1983. Following three years at the Star Market division of Jewel Companies, Todd joined Staples before it View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
25-50 percent even after restaurants are permitted to reopen. It’s still an open question how skittish the American public will be about returning to one of its favorite pasttimes. As a result, the restaurant industry that emerges from... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
Afghan female entrepreneur Kamila Sidiqi between 2009 and 2015. The case opens with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry praising her achievements at a State Department dinner in March 2015 for the newly elected President of Afghanistan,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2023
Top MBAs HBCU Tour - Atlanta
the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania invite you to learn about their MBA programs and the diverse community experience in business school and beyond. The event will feature a moderated panel discussion with admissions View Details
- 09 Apr 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Dark Side of Performance Bonuses
carefully, can open a box full of unintended consequences that ultimately harm rather than help the organization. The financial crisis of 2008 was partially fueled by origination bonuses paid to bank loan View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
How I Landed My Manufacturing Internship at HBS
technical skills with the business skills I was acquiring at HBS. Towa Adegboyega (MBA 2024) Having learned about the Career and Professional Development Office (CPD) during the summer prior to the fall semester, I reached out Kristen... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Counter Intelligence
When Pano Christou (AMP 195, 2018) was hired at Pret A Manger in 2000, the idea that he would one day run the entire company could not have been further from his mind. At the chain’s Carnaby Street shop, in London’s Soho district, the 22-year-old had enough work just... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
modernizing for the sake of modernizing, but modernizing for the sake of delivering better service to our customers.” Not screwing things up is pretty much her mandate. Tisch was sworn into office at a challenging time: The coronavirus... View Details
- 26 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises
delivers food to victims CEO Takeshi Niinami of Lawson, a chain of convenience stores, watched out his Tokyo office window as skyscrapers swayed. Just minutes before the tsunami reached the Tohoku shore, he sent an order to employees:... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Nov 2023
- News
From the Brink
Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
chain OXXO faced a threat from a formidable competitor, the rival convenience chain Extra. OXXO had embarked on an initiative to fortify its corporate culture and operating system, but the threat of Extra raised the question of whether they should focus on View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 03 Jan 2023
- Book
Confront Workplace Inequity in 2023: Dig Deep, Build Bridges, Take Collective Action
women earned only 83 percent of what men earned, while Black and Latinx women earned only 64 percent and 57 percent, respectively. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated challenges for women, particularly the many mothers who stepped back from careers amid school... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 08 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated
relationships and can leverage those. On the downside, the distance from colleagues and work friends is experienced as a possibly demotivating loss. Value collaboration and teamwork. There is also the issue that over the next 18 to 24 months some people will return to... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 23 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified
Francisco. Among the findings: The opening of a Starbucks—and cafes more generally—is a leading indicator of gentrification, and is associated with an increase in local housing prices of .5 percent. Gentrifying neighborhoods tend to spawn... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
opened a branch office in Chicago in the 1930s and another in Los Angeles in the 1940s. Manhattan: William Street, 1923. The New York Public Library Digital Collections. Digital Equipment Corporation.... View Details
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
officers and government officials, we found that, compared to non-leaders, leaders had lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol and lower reports of anxiety (Study 1). In a second study, leaders holding more powerful positions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Code of Change
Dunlap sold off several businesses, retaining for the time being the core consumer products business. He moved the head office out of Scott's longtime corporate building and into a much smaller building near his home in Florida. The... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria