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- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Agenda: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963)
to the CAB to approve taking cigars and pipes off the plane or coming up with a different low fare. And you also had an environment where airline managers were put under pressure in the marketplace from a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
prescription instructor telling her how she would sit in a cafe near one of her stores to hear what customers were saying about Mercadona's products and service. Information regularly moves up the chain from customers through employees to... View Details
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
not, multinational brands have taken up the mantle of responsibility, establishing codes of conduct that their suppliers are—theoretically at least—obligated to adhere to. Often, the brands also monitor their suppliers’ performance with... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing
examine early sales data to estimate future demand for various products. They conduct this analysis for every product at predetermined periods in its sales cycle. And the merchants follow through, immediately reordering items that look as though they may end View Details
- 03 Mar 2010
- News
Last Look - March 2010
one wonders what the sign, carefully held up by Collins, was for. It reads, “Scholars under the Baker Foundation,” with the words “Non Hokum sed but Veritas” circling a shovel. If they’re not suffering a fit of existential ennui, this may... View Details
- 10 Apr 2008
- News
The Sum of Our Own Greatness
Group: Tom Ryder, David Habeeb, and Ruth Page. Inspiration for the title came from a Theodore Roosevelt quote: “We cannot do great deeds as a nation unless we are willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.” For... View Details
- 11 Sep 2009
- News
I Network, You Network, He, She, It Networks…
road would pick up his or her office mail (and any snail-mailed thank-you notes) in a timely fashion. Others wondered at her advice to mention personal interests that had come up in conversation (maybe the... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
China IFC: Global Access, Global Perspective
and their management teams.” The Business of Going Global, China-Style, one of six IFCs in the MBA Program’s Elective Curriculum in 2016, was designed and led by two faculty members with extensive knowledge of the region. Willy C. Shih,... View Details
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
people likely contracted the virus several days (and up to two weeks) before showing symptoms and, thus, would have been in contact with other people (solid line in Figure 1), unknowingly spreading the virus. Quarantining an infected... View Details
- 19 Feb 2008
- News
The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen
Clayton up this weekend for seven Academy Awards. (Any predictions out there on the winners?) Samuels drew an analogy between the real estate industry and filmmaking. “I look at a movie script the same way I look at an empty piece of... View Details
- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
manufacturing company, managers can stress the importance of speaking up in order to create the best product possible for customers. Model vulnerability. It’s powerful for employees to see bosses admit when... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards: Honorees and Victories
earlier, Dean Jay Light had presented five HBS graduates with the Alumni Achievement Award, the School’s highest honor. Now they were being asked, metaphorically speaking, to pull on their basketball jerseys, tie up their sneakers, and... View Details
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Yiwei Li
Yiwei Li (he/him) has come a long way. The globe-trotting HBS doctoral student grew up in China, went to the UK for his undergraduate degree, then to Canada for his master’s—both in economics. With his MS in hand, Yiwei next traveled back... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
be successful doing that and also be the kind of mom that I grew up with, which was a stay-at-home mom. So, we came up with the bright idea – actually, my husband encouraged me – to buy a small business. And... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
board of Mexico’s National Symphony Orchestra. His father, world-renowned cellist Carlos Prieto, a frequent Yo-Yo Ma collaborator, often hosted musicians at the family home. Prieto took up violin at an early age and would continue to play... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
employ to successfully return to the Red Planet. The case, "Mission to Mars," looks at changes the space agency has made not only recently but also over several decades as it followed a faster, simpler approach to program design. MacCormack's findings may... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
knows, maybe never.” Did you ever consider declaring the business a total loss? As bad as it was, and as great as the uncertainty was, there was never a question about whether we were going to get up and running. No one on the View Details
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
China, commit to localization efforts, and continue to introduce products like Ninjago that have global appeal. When Mikes followed up with LEGO, she realized that the managers "were largely moving in... View Details
- 02 Feb 2007
- What Do You Think?
Is There Too Little “Know Why” In Business?
Summing Up The central debate among respondents to this month's column was joined early when the first respondent, Aaron Tice, commented, "Without the execution of business objectives in the pursuit of that purpose, the purpose will... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 26 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
Make Work from Home Work For You (And Your Team)
appealing, but it is not the ideal long term solution. Therefore, it’s important for managers to check in with their teams, and for individuals setting up their own work from home spaces to create an area... View Details
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