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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: No Magic Bullet
can turn to for advice, feedback, and counsel (while offering the same in return). Who tells you the brutal truth—things you need to hear even though you may not want to hear them? Relationships serve as a powerful support and reality check. Reaching your potential is... View Details
- 17 Apr 2025
- Blog Post
From Tech to Coaching: Empowering Women and Minority Leaders with Yue Zhao (MBA 2013)
teams at Instagram, where our product decisions influenced billions of users globally. The weight of those decisions—and the opportunity to shape how people communicated, connected, and shared their lives online—was both exhilarating and... View Details
- 24 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on the Public Sector
around the weight assigned to ethical concerns, especially when they are judged against financial considerations. What has been the highlight of your HBS experience thus far? The students and alumni I have met so far are catalysts for... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
combination of technology, psychology, and human coaching, Noom is backed by more than a decade of user research and product development. Its platform includes two core programs: Noom Weight for weight... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Case Study: A Good Fit
apps allow, the team discovered a way to guide people through behavior changes with results that stick. Individuals using Gain Life’s weight loss apps achieve results that double the one-year benchmark for other methods, Eldridge says.... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 11 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP and the Bonus of Climate Educator Collaboration
weighted factor. One could say we’re embarking on a healthy model of coopetition and it’s how we all get better. At the baseline, we’re modelling collaboration. Such collaboration doesn’t have to be limited to the educator community. It... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
fiercely competitive market for outdoor wear and gear. GoLite’s mission sounds simple and logical enough — give serious trail runners, alpine athletes, fast-packers (backpackers who speed along trails), and even once-discouraged hikers like me the lightest View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Carving a Niche
Balsa, beech, poplar, flax, Kevlar, titanium, and carbon are all ingredients Faction uses in highly tuned recipes for just the right balance of weight and torsional rigidity—the degree of give that can make it easier to navigate deep... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 26 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why the US-China Tariff Standoff Hurts American Companies More
First companies, then consumers Large American companies are unlikely to buckle under the weight of tariffs. In fact, a National Bureau of Economic Research study released in March suggested that companies unaffected by higher import... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Action Plan: Casting Call
sure to find time for his passion: fly-fishing. It was on a work trip about 50 years ago that he was introduced to the sport. Using weighted line and an artificial fly (mimicking everything from a newly hatched mayfly to a grasshopper),... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
that provides incentives to employees while generating profits and growth.” The plan: Rechargeable batteries are a safe, clean, affordable energy source. Each battery has the size and weight of a brick and can be delivered directly to... View Details
- 12 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs
aircraft with a 25 percent duty, the applicable weight range of 15-45,000 kg meant that only 24 older-generation Boeing 787-800s would be impacted, not any of its newest 737 Max aircraft or any widebodies, where Boeing would be really... View Details
Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications
- 08 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy
portfolio of locations. Collis drills down into the many factors that can affect location and observes how companies typically assign each a weighted percentage: employee availability, sourcing, quality, and cost (40 percent);... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
2050 our oceans will contain more of it by weight than fish. Single-use petroleum-based plastics contaminate our water, pollute our land, and contribute to global warming. And given current rates of production and consumption—1 million... View Details
- 21 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Coming Out and Finding Acceptance at HBS
members of our section could sign up for 30-minute slots to tell us about themselves. Bravely, she kicked off the sessions by talking about her own experience with weight loss. Another section mate used the forum to talk about how her... View Details
- 02 Sep 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?
witnessed, but NO VIRGINIA, the business cycle is not dead.” Others cited forces that, by implication, appeared to weight more heavily as influences on expansion. They included continued reasonable increases in business earnings in... View Details
- 15 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
MBA Voices Blog: A Year in Review
Below is an excerpt from one of these letters. “Black students in our community have spent the last few weeks grappling with the weight of a devastating truth: that our country and society has undeniably and systemically failed Black... View Details
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Credit Flowing to Consumers in Need
modern-day doomsayers, referred to the specter of another Great Depression. This was not total hyperbole. While different analysts weighted the "fundamental" causes of the crisis differently, most recognized that the increased... View Details
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
straight and narrow. Washington looks at deregulation The research takes on added weight as Obama-administration regulation protecting financial consumers faces an uncertain future. The US Labor Department’s fiduciary rule, in the... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership
CEO, Muhtar Kent, for example, made strong statements at the United Nations climate change summit in Cancun in 2010, but has not been nearly as vocal in the US. In this country, corporate climate spokespeople are almost always lower-level executives, who simply don't... View Details