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Jillian Dorans
challenge to make the career switch without HBS. Though formal MBA recruitment in hospitality is much less prevalent than in traditional MBA industries such as finance and consulting, HBS opens doors. Through cultivating such... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Business Suits You: Experimenting with Professional Identity
junior professionals in consulting and investment banking firms. She found that these individuals had various methods of discovering how to create an effective image for themselves as senior managers. The most prevalent form of... View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bringing the Environment Down to Earth
For every winner in a zero-sum contest, there is a loser. Thus if the environment wins, the company loses, and vice versa. That view is prevalent in part because it fits with the widespread perception that environmental problems are... View Details
Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt
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Note on January 6 Events at U.S. Capitol | About
and democracy have been prevalent for a number of years. Yet the issues have taken on new urgency. Today, we must recommit ourselves to enhancing the role business plays in serving society—by increasing the prosperity of its people and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Outsourcing for Radical Change
were transformed by outsourcing were also more prevalent overseas. If I had to guess why, I would suggest that the approach to partnerships in other countries tends to be more collaborative and less adversarial. It may have as much to do... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Uncovering The Secrets of Mittelstand Success
companies prevalent in German-speaking countries—has long captured the attention of global business practitioners and scholars. Why are these firms so competitive globally, particularly in emerging markets, and how have they managed to... View Details
- 06 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Cheers to the American Consumer
identifying the Joneses like you. Immigration. The prevalence of immigrants among America's successful entrepreneurs is well documented. But the same curiosity and openness to new things also characterizes consumer demand in the American... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
How to Close the Health Gap
In developed countries, tuberculosis has been nearly eradicated, thanks to good nutrition and antibiotics. But those remedies are not available to 90 percent of the world’s population, and 1.7 million people die each year from the disease. Malaria and HIV/AIDS are also... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Into the Light
these small villages, Poindexter has seen both simple inconveniences and economic hardship that result from the lack of power. Although cocoa farming, which is prevalent in the region where Energicity launched, doesn’t require... View Details
- 22 Jul 2014
- News
Hungry for Change
matter of helping people see the prevalence and consequences of hunger as well as the possibilities of a solution." An HBS Leadership Fellow at Mercy Corps, Zeaske has also worked at Jumpstart, a language and literacy organization that... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
a Highly Elusive, Marginal, and Illegal Practice" will be published in a forthcoming issue of Sociologie du Travail. Sean Silverthorne: What are homers and how prevalent is the practice? Can you give some examples? Michel Anteby:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Q & A: Gustavo Herrero
like to help the faculty identify management issues, such as privatization or post-stabilization volatility, that are prevalent in Latin America (and perhaps elsewhere) but are not commonly experienced in the United States or Europe. A... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
handed to them. Because such mechanisms are much less prevalent in the nonprofit sector, the role of boards is so much more important. The Four by Four Report can help them fulfill that role." — Margie Kelley The Four by Four Report will... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 05 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?
motorists represent the prevalence of “consumer inertia” in the retail gas market. Consumer inertia is the tendency of some customers to buy or continue buying a product, even when superior options exist. Companies that can accurately... View Details
- 16 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025)
community. These MBA learnings have framed the way I approach my work at CHAI. By investigating the various forces at play behind malaria prevalence and incidence, I am better able to help colleagues and partners develop nuanced,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Judith R. Haberkorn, 111th AMP, 1992
leadership is the prevalent theme for me. It has been proved in my business and my life repeatedly. Situations that many view as hopeless and beyond rescue have been transformed by a committed leader." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "People... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data
packaged-goods companies indicating that VMI is more prevalent where retailers deliver detailed demand data via highly reliable transfer methods. In short, manufacturers should think twice about implementing VMI if retailers are supplying... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 18 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Coming to HBS after Military Service
in a high stakes environment forced me to be comfortable with analyzing information, deciding on a way forward, and implementing a course of action. The opportunity to gain these soft skills at a relatively young age is prevalent among... View Details
- 31 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World
whether or not a post had a "popular" tag, which in turn was determined by the total number of page views of blog posts containing that tag in each month. The results seemed to back up the prevalent criticism by media scholars,... View Details
- 27 Aug 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Guts, Gall, and Good Luck: What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur
Literature This paper brings together recent findings in the academic literature on the prevalence of various personality traits among entrepreneurs and their impact on venture performance. Self-Employment Dynamics and the Returns to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne