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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs
can adapt it to their situation,” she observes. “It’s a question of managing the projects and assembling strong groups of volunteers to achieve quality output for each project.” Twenty–seven volunteers staffed five projects for the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Greater Than the Sum of its Parts
One Harvard: The Power of Collaboration For years, centuries even, Harvard has been an institution made up of distinct (and distinctive) schools conducting research and educating students largely independent of one another. As society becomes more global and challenges... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
firms find it so difficult to adapt in the face of change—to innovate? In the past 10 years, the importance of this question has increased as more industries and firms confront disruptive change. The pandemic has accelerated this crisis,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
within this virtual format. April: I imagine that like most of us, you have been on a lot of video calls since the beginning of this crisis. What are some of the smart and useful ways you've seen people adapt to this new work environment?... View Details
Keywords: Zoom
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
International. Saturday's discussion panels examined four main themes: restructuring and economic reforms, humancapital development, industry adaptation in Asia, and multinational corporations and entrepreneurship. A plenary panel on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
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Reimagining the MBA
frameworks, business and organizational contexts, and the decision-maker’s point of view. At the same time, you also need to think about ways of adapting the case method to make it more skill-based and reflective.” (see sidebar, page 40)... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Shop Talk, Different Avenues
You launched in 2007, and 2008 was one of the worst years ever for retail, so you had a good deal of unsold inventory to offer customers. How did you adapt as the business environment became healthier and you saw a decrease in what was... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19
startup, which is led by Sophia Richter, Tina Beilinson, and Julia Cole (all MBA 2020), quickly adapted its affordable online offerings to include classes geared to birth and postpartum challenges associated with the coronavirus. Hikma... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A CEO Goes Undercover
about John Briggs as he adapted to his new, unfamiliar job. In fact, I was eager for the undercover experience because I’d never worked the frontline jobs in the theme-park industry and didn’t want any CEO-type special treatment. Plus, I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
team, how to measure progress, and more. The Virtual Manager: Cutting-Edge Solutions for Hiring, Managing, Motivating, and Engaging Mobile Employees by Kevin Sheridan (MBA 1988) (Career Press) As more and more jobs can be performed from home, managers must learn how to... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
instructor." Skills related to reading, writing, listening, and speaking at HBS are just as important as becoming proficient in English, says Light. She also believes that issues of adaptation involve the whole person. "It's too easy to... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
health care management and policy, leading through crisis, adapting your business, leveraging technology, and work life. Faculty members have shared their ideas and offered practical solutions through working papers, articles, op-eds,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Maintaining a Resilient Democracy
republic was failing,” says Moss, the Paul Whiton Cherington Professor of Business Administration. Moss is the author of the acclaimed 2017 book Democracy: A Case Study, which grew out of a popular Harvard course he created on the history of American democracy that was... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
key impact and operational milestones will need to include the ability to adapt your strategy as you learn more about what is actually creating impact and what will appeal to future rounds of funders. Private philanthropists will often... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Faculty Research Online
Marissa Mayer Should Bridge Distance Gap with Remote Workers Mayer's decision to bring work-at-home Yahoo! employees back to the office has set off a firestorm. Assistant Professor Lakshmi Ramarajan writes on how to mitigate the problem. See... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
initiatives in information technology, international research and development, entrepreneurial management, and lifelong learning, Clark outlined the School's strategy for adapting its historic mission to the 21st century. "I welcome your... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
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The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
of the World Wide Web, closed out the conference. Acknowledging that "we haven't yet made an information sandbox," he said that the Internet is still at a primitive stage where information does not yet flow freely enough, due in part to software differences. He urged... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
gain perspective; and reframe the question to open up new possibilities. Molly Waldo! A Young Man's First Voyage to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, Adapted from the Stories of Marblehead Fishermen of the 1800s by Priscilla L. Moulton and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Education: Investing in the Next Generation of Workers
Business needs to care about the performance of students in the public education system, from preschool through college. It is the primary source of future employees for every business. It’s also where the vast majority of teachers of their future employees will come... View Details
- 23 Apr 2016
- News
Tipping His Cap to Open Source
As COO at Delta Airlines, Jim Whitehurst (MBA 1994) helped bring the legacy carrier back from the brink of bankruptcy in 2006 while fending off a takeover bid by US Airways. That feat accomplished, he moved on to lead Red Hat, which builds open-source software products... View Details