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- 09 Sep 2024
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McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
drive-through restaurant with low prices that appealed to working-class families. “The company has built its brand around family dining, so that is especially important to its culture,” explains Paine. Despite its ubiquity, McDonald’s View Details
- 14 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021
circumstantial. Love is an action and a choice made with intention each day. Choosing to be in a long-distance marriage with me attending HBS and Stephen attending Michigan Ross was one of the hardest decisions we’ve had to make together. Our first semester apart was... View Details
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
happened in natural gas in the late 1980s and early 1990s. And, there's always money to be saved in industrial sourcing. If management really focuses on purchasing and puts effort into it, you can always save money by creating more... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
groups such as Boko Haram, which at least promise something to eat. Kola Masha Managing Director, Doreo Partners Masha's Babban Gona system turns subsistence farmers into commercial growers using a franchise model that provides everything... View Details
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
the difficult environment of late 2008. One of his first assignments is to review three companies in a partner's portfolio and recommend strategies for managing them. In addition, the partner also has an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
available to its customer-facing employees. In the spring of 2003, Bankinter introduced an Excel-based program called the Mortgage Simulator that helped branch managers calculate the price of a mortgage and estimate the customer lifetime... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
use loan-level data to study how the organizational structure of banks impacts small business lending. We find that decentralized banks—where branch managers have greater autonomy over lending decisions—give larger loans to small firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
one run, as we drop down from twenty thousand feet to release our bombs, the flak clouds bursting around us make me think of popcorn going off. That’s the closest I came to thinking I might get shot down. Landing back on the carrier is one of the most View Details
- 19 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating our Student Fathers
member of my section knows my son’s name and they’re so excited when he comes to section events. I’ve always said that being a student at HBS is slightly more difficult with kids than without, but HBS is the best place to be a kid! What... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
“Those interactions catalyzed a whole conversation and movement. If you can create a public conversation about something, that itself has enormous power. Today, transport is front and center of the megapolis, which hadn’t been the case.”... View Details
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
the General Management Program at Harvard Business School. In the discussion, conducted last August in Mumbai, Kapur reflects on some 50 years in the advertising industry, starting in the “Mad Men” era of the 1960s, experiencing the dawn... View Details
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
Business School Case 110-087 Continental Media Group has a series of business reviews struggling to achieve profitability. This case focuses on the use of management control systems to identify emerging opportunities and the formulation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray
identifying value stocks.” Wang teamed up with Ki-Soon Choi and Eric C. So from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management to author the new research, entitled Going by the Book: Valuation Ratios and Stock... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
then joined Answerthink, a West Coast consulting firm, where he continued as EVP and managing director while he earned his MBA as a Baker Scholar at HBS. Answerthink wanted Shumway to relocate to New York when he finished his MBA, but... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
United States, and as an alternative representative to the United Nations General Assembly. During that time, Franklin also started a management consulting firm and began serving as a director of corporations such as Aetna, Dow Chemical,... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
democratic history and an immediate, practical exercise for anyone looking for a way to strengthen our common civic commitments. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52134 2017 Academy of Management Annals... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows
& Company, where he worked on commercializing biologic therapies for autoimmune diseases. Leading market research and patient support program development gave Hunter a chance to interact with hundreds of patients and physicians who... View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine
with the convenience of an on-site facility, some busy Google employees found it difficult to stay active. Academic literature would suggest that they just needed the right cues and environment to help them establish a habit they would... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
However, the effects of professional isolation on job performance decrease with some face-to-face interactions and access to more communication technologies, such as video conferencing and dedicated voiceover IP lines. Even the perception... View Details
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
business unit structures in management thinking, except that healthcare is still stuck in the functional model. These forms of competition and organization have also been institutionalized in medical education and in physician... View Details