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- 01 Sep 2010
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A CEO Goes Undercover
Before working for our aquarium, she had been homeless for eighteen months, sleeping with her son on the floor of his daycare center while she searched for employment. So what then was my takeaway? I learned the family culture our View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Slam Dunk
the 17 million American males who play basketball and have access to the Net -- you know, the electronic one. As its slogan suggests, the company is serious about its game: "If basketball is your religion, HoopsTV.com is your church."... View Details
- 27 Jun 2016
- News
Ulf Mark Schneider Has Plans to Make Nestlé Healthy
the company since 1922. A piece in Fortune notes that the appointment “could trigger a series of acquisitions by the Swiss food giant to further its ambitions in nutrition and medical foods.” Schneider comes to the foodmaker from... View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
Shibayama founded AG Holdings, a consultancy with a special focus on art and culture programs. Art was the last thing on Shibayama’s mind 35 years ago, when he started working at Mitsubishi Corp., one of Japan’s giant trading companies,... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Committed to a goal of 'zero harm' in the mining industry
we have a mining industry in which everyone goes home safely to their family at the end of the working day,” says Carroll, the first woman and non–South African to lead the nearly 100-year-old company. She used safety as a way to transform the View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Cyberposium 16
The company wasn’t running on fumes, the fumes were gone,” said Pandora CEO Joe Kennedy (MBA ’85), describing his first desperate days at the firm that has now become a wildly successful online personalized radio service with 65 million... View Details
- 27 May 2021
- News
History’s Future
Courtesy Amr AlMadani Courtesy Amr AlMadani Millennia ago, the AlUla region in northwestern Saudi Arabia was a thriving commercial and cultural center, a stop on the trade routes that connected the spices, silks, and other luxuries of... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
reject." To avoid generating only "a grossly ethnocentric set of values," continues Salter, explorations of performance hypotheses require a diverse student body. "We also need to be alert to the fact that different cultures place... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 25 May 2011
- News
Race to the Finish?
“alliance,” not a merger), he is the only person ever to simultaneously head two Fortune 500 companies. This “alliance” has brought together two companies that maintain their substantially different cultures... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
about does it make people happier, more successful? Does it make companies have greater retention, better recruiting? We need to get to the evidence in order to actually change the culture around this, to... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Investing in Scalable Impact on K-12 Education
their broader educational philanthropy goals to improve learning outcomes and also increase access to quality education. What we are looking to do is support entrepreneurs and invest in companies that we think can make a very scalable... View Details
- 17 Dec 2014
- News
Facilitating an understanding of business and society in Turkey and the surrounding region
Turkey, government officials, and prominent business leaders, laying the foundation for future research. Çekin also develops connections between companies in Turkey and HBS’s FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development)... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
the company anticipates this year will bring in double the $6.7 million in revenue it saw in 2016. New challenges: With rapid growth comes concerns about culture and scalability. “How do we preserve the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan
providing new opportunities for Japanese investors and wider access to equity capital for emerging Japanese companies. In short, Saeki is challenging the old-boy network and forcing Japan’s button-down business culture to change. “My real... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
Although empty and silent today, this bright new Olympic stadium - an architectural and cultural legacy of ancient Greece, plunked down in America's "New South" - will soon rock with the roar of 80,000 spectators as they cheer the world's... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Teaching Teachers
pace, Casado clearly relished her newfound role as student. “It was exciting to be among professors from different countries and cultures to discuss a common concern: the teachinglearning process,” says Casado, who has made a number of... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
Web-based technologies. Recent HBS research has focused on a number of companies led by these pioneering senior executives. The profiles that follow shed some light on the challenges they face and reveal the extent to which the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
Culture by Bozidar Novak (OPM 43, 2013) (Brodschneider & Kotnik) A collection of short essays centered on the topic of Maribor, Slovenia, a city of about 100,000 that was named one of the two European capitals of View Details
- 05 Jul 2011
- News
The Business of Champions
that this would not be a soft team, nor would it welcome soft individuals. My take-away: When leadership embodies and lives the desired culture, that culture is more likely to take root. I don’t think anyone will say the Bruins were the... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
good,” Blank said. “We would need more people if we expand money management, but software is more scalable.” “Nothing about this acquisition makes me excited,” said Goedertier, adding that Merrill Lynch is a company struggling to define... View Details