Speed Of Adjustment - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 May 2019
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2019

Philanthropies: ‘If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.’ I think you need to have a vision of how you can make a real difference, and have confidence that it’s going to work. And if it’s not working, be willing to View Details

30 Nov 2017
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Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

definition of convenience—delivery, mobile ordering, curbside pickup. Whatever way its customers wanted to get their food, McDonald’s should offer it. “People want to control their own experience,” says Kempczinski. These new digital... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia

01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning

anticipation of international students' needs as they enter HBS. The School offers a comprehensive array of services for internationals, from help with class participation and exam preparation skills, to... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

04 Sep 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019

and Forever by Greg Hadley (OPM 5, 1981) Self Published Since we can only influence the current moment, now is the time to adjust our attitude, mood and connection to those around us. Hadley brings us a book View Details

01 Jun 1996
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Four Professors to Retire

Charles J. Christenson Chuck Christenson, the Royal Little Professor of Business Administration and a specialist in management control, has been a member of the HBS faculty for 39 years. Throughout his... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage

06 Mar 2019
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Making Sabbaticals Mainstream

with them. They had all sorts of concerns. What happened is they instituted a mandatory sabbatical policy. The senior partners had to get the junior partners and the junior staff up to speed on how to deal... View Details

19 Jun 2017
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How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe

players over, the biggest problem that most of them had, the toughest adjustment was getting by and not speaking the local language. One other thing I could tell you that's very different between... View Details

01 Jun 1998
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Diversity and Community

that IBM needs to make adjustments to improve its business performance relative to the DNG's constituent group. For example, a DNG of IBM employees with disabilities, aware that IBM possessed certain... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2012
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The Accidental Pioneers

adjustment for older faculty who had taught only in a single-sex classroom. "One senior professor was always hesitant to call on me until I spoke to him about it," says Wilkinson. "We got that settled." It was a new experience for many... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia

01 Feb 2001
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Drilling Down

developments of 3-D seismic data acquisition and horizontal drilling techniques that increase the speed and accuracy of locating and tapping pockets View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Matthew R. Simmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

01 Dec 1998
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Africa's Way

Each day the global economy becomes more and more like an African weaving - dozens of different, colorful, and previously isolated threads woven together, gradually becoming more tightly intertwined. Africa, newly rising from years View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

26 Aug 2020
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What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic

them to focus on. Recognizing that there's a lot of big wins people are making right now because their emissions are dropping because they're not going on those long trips that they had planned on doing otherwise and thinking more about... View Details

01 Jun 1996
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1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

speed of these changes, observing, "Nobody on the organizing committee had any idea, when the planning for this conference began several years ago, how central concepts such as interconnectivity and the... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Apr 1996
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Technology for Learning's Sake

determining what market research to buy to aid their choice of commercials. As data on the copy concepts from focus groups and customer surveys were revealed, many students found that they had to adjust... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig

01 Dec 2001
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September 11: A Community Reflects

everyone, and Steve Abernethy had published a list of individuals who had been contacted. The speed and caring with which this was done was overwhelming." Similarly, Laura Petrucci (MBA '80) reported that... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2018
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The Long Run

Jim Langford waits for no squirrel. On a clear January morning in Atlanta, driving with considerable speed and purpose, he barrels up the hill of the Carter Center campus in a 2012 Toyota Camry. He’s talking... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand

Related Links The Accidental Pioneers 50 Years & Counting Celebrating the Women of HBS W50 Summit Event A Daring Experiment exhibit Women's Student Association 2013 Dynamic Women in Business Conference Women at HBS: Events, Projects, and... View Details

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