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- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
generation of workers, just as it did after the Great Depression. Q: Maintaining a professional distance from work, a full life outside of work, and a sense of humor all helped the CEOs in your study. Could you discuss the inevitable... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Jun 2020
- In Practice
Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?
organizations, there should be fewer layoffs and product delays. While declining demand will remain challenging for everyone, social distancing can be achieved because disperse teams can build and distribute software from remote locations... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
Life was hard enough for the one-third of Americans who had wrestled with anxiety prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the disease that has killed almost 100,000 in the United States, left millions unemployed, and socially distanced many... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 23 Oct 2024
- News
Running Man
There aren’t many people on this planet—let alone septuagenarians—who can contemplate running 50 or 100 miles at a time. But for 77-year-old Eric Spector (MBA 1972), a retired entrepreneur and CEO in the tech, consumer retail, and media sectors, running long (long,... View Details
- 15 Jan 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Career & Life Balance
the people and society around them, while at the same time being dead inside. Leaders need the capacity to distance themselves from the pressures and seductions of success and to think and live for themselves. Am I Working Too Hard?... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 12 May 2015
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship in General Management
from industry leaders at conferences and case protagonists in class, and working abroad in FIELD 2. Having some distance from day-to-day work has also granted some much-appreciated time for reflection. View Details
- 27 May 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Thinking About Global
stock of differences as well. Key concepts include: Some indicators of globalization aren't increasing as many experts have claimed. Toyota and Wal-Mart are examples of companies that understand how to deal with distance in a strategic... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
chains, eliminating much of the distance products are shipped today. There will be great opportunities, especially in niches like cross-border shipping, for those who can use 3D printing to avoid regulatory constraints. What is less clear... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
cherries grown by KZ Noir, the Kaizen affiliate that acquired the Rwandan washing stations. Now instead of being shipped to Europe, East Asia, or North America, some of those bags are traveling a shorter distance to Nigeria. Dozie’s Café... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
advantage of time alumni have already scheduled to be on campus. The committee is not limiting its sights to campus-based programs; it will be researching distance learning opportunities and how to augment current club events, as well as... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
and connected and OPTIMISTIC in appropriate measure while so many have so many competing personal and business and health and family issues right now.” Meanwhile, cost-cutting, uncertainty, and the necessities of social distancing... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
and connected and OPTIMISTIC in appropriate measure while so many have so many competing personal and business and health and family issues right now.” Meanwhile, cost-cutting, uncertainty, and the necessities of social distancing... View Details
- 22 Mar 2018
- Blog Post
“Mission + Profit: What’s the Balance?” asks SECON 2018
Harvard Business School (HBS) and Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). Our team of 30 students from both schools were very grateful for the lack of snow and rain that weekend as we welcomed more than 1,500 people to our campuses. While some were only a walking View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Students craft their post-HBS lives
distance with you. The advice I received was so much more valuable than anything I ever could have asked him about my career,” adds Danziger. The fall 2020 offering of the course was one of the first to fill during registration. Perlow... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Answering the Call
The Reverend Robert Brooks's small, crowded office at Christ Episcopal Church in Kent, Ohio, is a long way from the executive suite that he occupied for nineteen years at the Philadelphia investment firm of Cooke & Bieler. He has moved a substantial View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
distance learning while supporting the development of Baker Library's Working Knowledge Web site (www.hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu). HBS Clubs Recognizing that clubs must "reinvent" themselves in order to stay current among competing... View Details
- 22 Oct 2013
- News
Pulling the Plug
buries his hands in his pockets. The screen lights up, of course. It always does. This isn't magic, after all: it's science developed by WiTricity's founder, MIT physics professor Marin Soljačić, and his team, who wirelessly lit a 60-watt bulb in 2007 from a View Details
- 01 Jul 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: Which Companies Are Transforming Work?
acceleration of certain trends in the workplace and workforce that were visible before COVID but have really taken off as a function of COVID. This includes everything from the growing prominence of the care economy and its impact on work, to View Details
- 18 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Words Get in the Way: The Failure of Fiscal Language
labeling conventions—representing, in the words of the authors, "an exercise in linguistics, not economics." Like Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, which concluded that concepts like time and distance depend on one's... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
herself, which is a very American thing to do. Bruce Llewellyn, an African-American entrepreneur of outstanding talent, also comes to mind. As a historian, my only advantage over other scholars in other disciplines is perspective. I have to wait until someone is no... View Details