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- 01 Sep 2011
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Breaking Free from Fear of Change
understand the executives I talk about in this book very well because I share their predicament,” notes Tom DeLong, the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Management Practice at HBS and the author of Flying without a Net: Turn Fear of Change... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
Illustration by Mercedes McDonald. Orchard Gardens photo by Ed Quinn/Saba In many parts of the country, housing costs and shortages have begun to show signs of adversely affecting corporations, workers, and local economies. Affordable... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 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
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
attach the word ‘bridal,’ it makes it cost 5 to 10 times more,” says Leslie Voorhees (MBA 2015), who founded Anomalie with her now husband, Calley Means (MBA 2015). “It’s offensive to a woman who understands how things are manufactured.”... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
work-related benefits in the process. Are we literally taking our phones to bed with us? In a survey we did of 1,600 managers and professionals in various organizations across the globe, 26 percent admitted to sleeping with their... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
A wave of mergers is sweeping the country, activity that recalls the 1980s, the 1960s, and even, some say, the empire-building of a century ago. In the following article, nine HBS professors comment on the current M&As; phenomenon and how M&As; in general affect View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Searching for a Better Society
needs. That took me a long time to understand, and it cost me a lot of money. It is why I believe what I believe. I don't want to repeat mistakes." Dumon is more than someone with a formulaic approach to designing new products. He has... View Details
- 21 Oct 2010
- News
Hell? Maybe Not.
companies expect only one or two hires to come out of the process. “Our team works hard to provide a seamless experience, and we manage all the logistics and details at no cost to the employer,” Fitzpatrick... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
New Releases
Environmental Management, Associate Professor Forest Reinhardt argues that managers should treat environmental management as an integral part of corporate strategy rather than merely as an exercise in public... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
working for an investment management firm in Boston. He then served as the Chairman of the Board of the investment management company I started in Boston nine years later. Professor Salmon constantly amazed... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
that can greatly improve local governmental services without costing taxpayers more. They discuss incorporating outcome indicators into strategic planning and budgeting; building a local government’s budget with View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
European Computer Driving License, a basic requirement for any IT job in Europe, which otherwise can cost as much as $500 per course.) English language, computer skills, and business management curricula are... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
and conservation, looking at waste management and water quality. All of these things are cost savings by the way. Your natural resources and land use, right. And any issues with hazardous materials, as well.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
people at the beginning, items will stack up before person number three,” he says. Now Walden can easily increase staff, but per-order labor costs are rising due to losses in efficiency—more walking along the racks to fill orders, in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
next twenty years than it was for the past twenty. World demand for energy is only going to grow. And whether the market price rises or falls, the costs of environmental degradation and national security, two critical externalities, will... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Faculty Research Online From HBS Working Knowledge
disclosure. Women Find New Path to Work Recently retired professor Myra Hart’s New Path program helps HBS alumnae reenter the work world. Here is a look at what participants learned about life, work, and the rapidly changing world of business. The Office of Strategy... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
READ MORE An Orchestral Startup—Richard J. Lim (HBS'98), cofounder of Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra Managing a Master—Edward C. Arrendell (MBA'80) with Wynton Marsalis, "an unbeatable combination." Guitar Hero—Henry E. Juszkiewicz (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
diabetes and obesity that is engulfing the developing world. Jana Care aims to do so by building sensors and apps that can transform a mobile phone into a personal lab and lifestyle coach. The mobile phone as a key to diagnostics and health-care delivery. Photo... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
worrying about cost overruns, loans called in early by nervous banks, and credit-card debt. The company's woes strained the partnership, which ended in 1990, when Shafir took loans from his two Wall Street banker brothers to buy out... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
risk and if folks are then forced to bear the full cost of their decisions, that will help us build in the right places, right? So not just build in a safe way but decide where to build. And you know, the industry for a few years now,... View Details