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- 18 Apr 2011
- News
Capitalism Meets Conservation
provide Patagonia’s isolated inhabitants with English education, preventative medical care, conservation and conservation education, and sustainable economic development. The for-profit company also sells carbon offsets—reductions in... View Details
- Web
Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement
support from their existing providers, and a sense of isolation — all reaching a crescendo at a time when the burdens of their professional and family lives felt heaviest. This topic, which might have seemed esoteric at first blush, is... View Details
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Shana Hoffman
overall power of the HBS experience,” Shana says. The courses, too, complement her plans, with The Entrepreneurial Manager proving especially helpful in its ideas for creating practical revenue models. “I just wouldn’t get this complete tactical framework in View Details
- 04 May 2020
- Blog Post
Crisis Leadership with Nikhil Patel: The Critical Importance of Trust
immediately ahead. “I had to figure out how to set up isolation and quarantine sites for two to three thousand homeless people, sheltered and unsheltered,” he says. “I made epidemiological models to estimate the number of rooms we needed,... View Details
- 29 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 29, 2007
construct a generic model of a refugee camp economy. Camp economies are influenced by host country policies, such as restrictions on refugees' movement and work, as well as by the physical and economic isolation of the site. Moreover,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Affinity Groups | Employment
community for employees who share similar backgrounds or experiences. Affinity groups often provide staff with opportunities to connect, meet, and network with staff members they might not otherwise engage with in their day-to-day roles. These connections can mitigate... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
emotionally and felt isolated from the world. Talking to Hall helped him cope, not because of the words spoken but because of the contact itself. "If you connect veterans with more people who honor their service and thank them for what... View Details
- 31 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Decade of the Investor?
carry out their responsibility to represent the best interests of investors, who will?—James Heskett But Dr. Leslie Levy suggests that before we jump to conclusions, perhaps more information is needed. In particular, we should isolate the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Whence IT Value?
workers is a recipe for disaster. Why does this not seem to be true with enterprise systems? Perhaps it is because their massive, centralized databases and embedded business processes provide another means to interconnect people within the company who were previously... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 29 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Virtual Networking Tips from HBS Career Coaches
Networking Works Murphy notes that the isolation and disconnectedness we are experiencing right now is exactly why professionals can and should be networking. “We are in an altered state, missing the chatter of colleagues in the office,... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
Benefits of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
group of 30 people with a deep interest in technology is extremely interesting to me. I occasionally felt isolated as a developer at HBS, and I definitely could have used that community. I think the capstone project looks incredibly... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
recentinterview. Yet tacit knowledge is often the unquantifiable advantage that makes an employee so valuable and leads to creativity and innovation within an organization. Are there ways to capture something that is so difficult to View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Does My Résumé Work?
cautioned Davis. “Don’t isolate career decisions from other factors in your life.” During a job transition, she said, “It’s wise to put all your cards on the table.” Should I take this job offer? Radtke said he answers this question by... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
largely isolated from one another, and an inward focus among managers. Perpetual restructuring had created a culture of fear and had reduced employee initiative. When the new CEO asked executives individually to name the three people in... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
supplies, food, and other essential commodities. They’re doing everything from providing critical funding to donating space for medical services, as the ICCP Group did when it offered its property, the World Trade Center Manila, and worked with the Ayala Group to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Web
Responsibilities and Acceptable Use - Research Computing Services
Usage and Policies Responsibilities and Acceptable Use 3ms The HBS research computing environment, composed of a number of servers and services, is a large, shared resource that is often at significant capacity and stores confidential and sensitive research data. The... View Details
- 12 May 2016
- News
Food Rescue Is on a Mission
fill their own cars with fruits, vegetables, meat, and bread from Coles or other supermarkets and drive to their churches, where they cook a meal for neighbors in need. “A lot of the people in shelters have had mental illness and breakdowns. They become disempowered... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 29 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Being a Mom and a Founder at HBS
you go, know when to take advice, and when to follow your gut. Figuring out an internal confidence that doesn’t get shaken when you mess up or miss something can be isolating and lonely at times – both entrepreneurship and motherhood... View Details
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
in-person gatherings resume, Wu has one message for developers who are struggling with the all-important decision about what platform to adopt for their projects: go. “Software development can be an isolating activity,” he says. “There... View Details
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
across complements can offset horizontal competition between substitutes. In this paper, we isolate the offsetting price effects and show how they operate in large (as well as small) clusters. We argue that it is possible in principle for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace