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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
possible, then a change in your business model may be necessary. Go local: pre-sent choices to customers only from local suppliers so that the delivery and logistics is managed by the seller, but monitored and guaranteed by the e-commerce... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
alumni and their spouses who are moving into a new career phase). This committee is looking at possible additions to these programs and how best to manage them given existing faculty and space resources. It is particularly interested in... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
to hearing his executive participants vow to review cyber security safeguards and procedures once they return to their companies. As Austin tells his students, only senior management has the authority necessary to implement the... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
creating a scalable business. According to Wired magazine, there are currently 2,500 Navy SEALs in the country but four million Americans who claim online to be a Navy SEAL. The challenge for TroopSwap was to create software that was secure enough for View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
Mills and General Foods), and brand management (with Procter & Gamble). During his five-year career as a naval officer prior to entering HBS, Charron served for one year in Vietnam. « Back George Harad began... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 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 especially popular. Explains... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
measurement tool, the Total Motivation Factor, enables managers to measure the strength of the company culture and track improvements over time. They explore their original research into how Total Motivation leads to higher performance in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
offering occasional remote workdays—they will redesign every aspect of how work gets done, from defining how they measure organizational success to training their managers to make it happen. How the Future Works offers a blueprint for... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Cold Call Horror Stories
of alums who excitedly told us about how they managed to avoid this—some of them for their entire tenure—we’ve collected some of our favorite stories from those who actually faced the experience, and lived to tell the tale. READ MORE My... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
collisions with other trains, loose rails, and fires in wooden cars occurred with some frequency in the first decades of the railroads. But the industry soon grew more organized and invested in extensive track and bridge construction. Road View Details
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
handwritten checks. They had burned it all down. And now they needed someone to help them rebuild it. In hindsight, Rothrock says, the answer to Sony’s break-in was to isolate and treat the affected area, not tear it all down. But he gets it—executives and View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
aspirations. Through purposeful steps, bold action, and an unleashed imagination, she built her new life from the ground up. Now she is the CEO of her own multimillion-dollar lifestyle brand and ready to share the steps she took with... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
with one of my coworkers, a manager from a different department. He and I had had a wonderful relationship as I was growing up in the business, but now that I had come back and joined the business and had been promoted to manager, I felt... View Details
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
with some of firms’ highest-achieving employees often ended with questions about how to manage the demands of parenting and work. Much of the information she found was long on platitudes and short on practical, actionable advice—so she... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
Issue Focus: The Global Manager GETTING ORIENTED: On his first evening in Cape Town, South Africa, Jan Dolezal (HBS 2013) and his FIELD 2 team explored the city's bustling waterfront. Photo courtesy Jan Dolezal Learn about hosting FIELD2... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
Mahindra (MBA ’81), vice chairman and managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra, a $3.2 billion manufacturer of cars and farm equipment with divisions in IT, infrastructure, auto components, and finance. He cites a confluence of factors... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
it far because there’s a lot of air you’re moving around,” he explains. “This is very much a local business.” Consumer preference for plastic and the marketing trend toward rejuvenating a brand with new packaging designs have been pushing... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
both inside and outside the School. For the past four years, he has managed his family's $1.4 million real-estate and service business, successfully turning the company around by restructuring debt, stabilizing the firm's tenant base, and... View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
weekends in a row. He spoke with associate editor Julia Hanna about everything from his approach to a film’s business plan, to the challenges of managing internal growth on his teams—and how the Lego Movie is like The Avengers. READ MORE... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
When hotel manager Alessandro Benedetti worked for Kempinski chain locations in Spain and Switzerland, morning meetings were a time to go over the numbers and discuss strategy for the days ahead. But ever since Benedetti moved to Havana... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North