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- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping
addition, since McLean's trailers were fully enclosed and secure, they were safe from pilferage and damage, which were considered costs of business in the traditional shipping industry. The safety of McLean's trailers also enabled... View Details
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Regional Winners - Alumni
Surgibox Safe surgery, Anytime, Anyplace Mike Teodorescu, DBA 2018, Founder & CEO Region: Northeastern U.S/Boston KEY DATES OCT 1 Tuesday October 1, 2024 2025 Application Round Opened DEC 5 Thursday December 5, 2024 Past aNVC Winners... View Details
- 01 Feb 2022
- Book
Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed
runs), and scaling (the development of a full-fledged new product or service). "Becoming a corporate explorer is not a route to a safe or easy career." The authors share the stories of influential explorers, such as retired IBM manager... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 20 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Language Wars Divide Global Companies
and employee reactions. Managers must prepare for the communications challenges brought on by a new lingua franca system and watch for coping aids used by employees to avoid embarrassment, such as not attending meetings. Create a safe... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 29 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?
messages that can come with these cash exchanges have deep roots in history. During the Middle Ages, feudal lords traveling beyond their territories would toss coins to beggars in hopes that these acts of kindness would ensure safe trips.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Profile
Rachel H Chung
up in a track suit and bringing my dad’s motorcycle helmet to school for Halloween. Don’t worry though, I’m a safe and tame driver on the roads of Cambridge today. What is your favorite childhood memory? When I was seven years old, my mom... View Details
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Our Values | About
that it continues today. We can and must start by making a difference at HBS. Antisemitism is insidious and we simply cannot allow it to persist in any form. We must ensure that our Jewish and Israeli faculty, staff, students, and alumni feel not only View Details
- 12 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities
refreshes and opportunities to take part in new product work or the chance to work with an industry luminary. Consider Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs when it comes to your employees: They need the basics (a desk, computer, etc.), they need to feel View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 16 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.
than recent economic crises and recessions such as the Great Recession of 2008 and the Mideast oil crisis, whose causes were financially driven. The fundamental driver of the pandemic is health and safety concerns and hence customer driven. Customers’ immobility and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
Jessica Tisch (JD/MBA 2008) has a problem. And she couldn’t be happier about it. It’s a chilly February morning in Lower Manhattan, and Tisch, who was appointed commissioner of the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) last April, has only hours to pivot the world’s largest... View Details
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Participation - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
tone of voice and body language can have a powerful effect on how safe students find the environment for participation. Experienced instructors may calibrate their interactions with individual students depending on the participant's... View Details
- 30 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
8 Reasons the Section Experience is the Best Part About HBS
imagine staying posted in one seat while different professors come in and out. Two weeks in, I “got it.” Today, when friends visit campus, I take them to the Section C classroom – my home on campus – the place we laugh, learn, and feel the most View Details
- 05 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations
contracts. Trust may develop naturally over time, but negotiators rarely have the luxury of letting nature take its course. Thus it sometimes seems easiest to play it safe with cautious deals involving few tradeoffs, few concessions, and... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
inform your design. 5. Integrate across whatever is not good enough. One critical decision firms face when creating an innovation-driven growth business is determining its optimal scope. Specifically, which activities need to be managed internally and which can be... View Details
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
(DBA 2018) Alumni Track Crowd Favorite Safe surgery, any time, any place. Business Track, 2021 Concord Materials Robert Lane (MBA 2021) Anthony Valente (MBA 2022) Business Track Co-Winner Integrated materials management platform for... View Details
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6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees - Recruiting
effectively discuss race, but if they approach it with a sense of openness and learning, they can play an important role in advocating change.” Managers must learn to create safe spaces at work to have these conversations and let... View Details
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In The Classroom - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Greenwood APR 2011 (REVISED APR 2011) | Harvard Business School Case 211-101 "Gold in 2011: Bubble or Safe Haven Asset? By: Robin Greenwood & Benjamin Steiner MAR 2011 (REVISED APR 2011) | Harvard Business School Case 211-095 View Details... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
before and after,” she says. The organization knew it would be critical to address children’s mental health care needs, she says, and it has contracted with practitioners like Zhyliak and Hevchuk, who were treating children who were scared and not feeling View Details
- 02 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When Goal Setting Goes Bad
nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth." Good goal? A: It was excellent for motivating behavior. It was a stretch goal that got us... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
power. Their findings suggest that there is significant heterogeneity in banks’ ability to capture value by manufacturing safe assets. See Mark’s other research here , Stefan’s other research here , and Adi’s other research here . More... View Details