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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
goods across borders but in ways that maximize economic benefits for all. Sexy Women Eat: Secrets to Eating What You Want and Still Looking Fabulous by Divya Gugnani (MBA '04) (Harper) Forget about dieting; just eat! Gugnani shows how making small changes in one's... View Details
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
Staffing, risks, benefits, and regulatory compliance are all increasingly externalized, most often to parts of the world where need routinely trumps prudence. Rather than manage their own corporate assets, CEOs and other top executives of... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
Or in the lower right one? There we find what separates the extraordinary from the ordinary. In that HBS faculty meeting on the morning of September 12, 2001, the message Frances heard was: class is important. In this moment of tragic destabilization, View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Advance Racial Equity in the Office
Atlantic. To make workplaces a true meritocracy, leaders need to adopt the same kind of systematic approach that they apply routinely to every other area of the business—a process that MLT has outlined in its Black Equity at Work... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
José Royo
high-tech skills to college graduates. "It's an ideal job, because it will allow me to work closely with software developers, have a hand in marketing and sales, and play a role in the education of new employees," he explains. But don't ask for a plan that extends too... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Faculty Books
main challenges of responding to large-scale disasters, including discussion of the methods of organizing disaster response, preparing in advance for disasters, and distinguishing between routine emergencies and true crises. View Details
- 13 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
Hiding Products From Customers May Ultimately Boost Sales
Retailers routinely swap out the products they display to customers. It’s called assortment rotation, and it’s a popular business strategy for many brick-and-mortar and online stores alike. Retailing trends such as “fast fashion” (think... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
physical facilities were prepared for. So the team decided to reconfigure the twenty Atlanta branches into three alternative models: Five branches were redesigned as "express centers," efficient, modernistic buildings where consumers could quickly perform... View Details
- Profile
Brittani Rettig
in that they both require an insane amount of energy. To ensure that I can handle everything on my plate, I have developed a routine of prioritizing what really needs to get done. Another similarity between these jobs is that they both... View Details
- 10 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later
interplay. There were women in management, but they tended to be concentrated in the more routinized functions. And if you're in the more routinized functions, it's hard to break out, because you're not... View Details
Keywords: by Robin J. Ely
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
healthcare services is taking place from Asia to Africa. In India, the Avarind Eye Hospital provides routine eye surgeries to the highest quality standards at perhaps a tenth of the developed country price. A mass production approach to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
FIELD 2 in Accra
and tech-savvy efficiency" in a country where energy and optimism coexist with persistent poverty and corruption. He says the team came away with a more realistic view of the challenges, opportunities, and responsibilities that await a generation of MBAs whose careers... View Details
- Blog
Up Close: A Return to In-Person Executive Education Programs
achievement was how routine it felt once we got back into it," said Corsino. "Yes, people were wearing masks and the snacks were individually packaged, but the broad strokes were remarkably similar to what we normally do." Throughout the... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
faculty, he proposed a radical shift from lecture-style to case method instruction, which he knew well from his law school days. “All business not of a routine nature presents itself in the form of problems,” Donham posited. “Cannot a... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 17 Apr 2017
- HBS Case
This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly
overcome their shame, giving them a sense of purpose in the office that leads to better morale. Indeed, Turkasset has routinely made “best place to work” lists in Turkey, an unheard-of distinction for a debt collection agency. Total... View Details
- 17 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?
companies could tell managers they must hire greens before yellows, but within the greens they could hire anyone they wanted,” says Li. She also stresses these results occurred in hiring for a job position with fairly routine tasks—and... View Details
- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
incentives in influencing desired effort, especially if they are routinely expected and aimed at managers who may be relatively insensitive to added monetary awards. Any effort to inject long-term thinking into pay for performance... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Aug 2006
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?
"popularity curve" comprising the vast population of least-popular items, whether it is song titles, books, or little-known brands. Life in the Long Tail is a busy routine involving the downloading of anything digital from the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Women Negotiating in the New Millenium
it's possible that women have the expectation that men are better" at negotiation. Simmons College's Kolb, an authority on gender issues, asserted that people need to take another look at the routine interactions they have in their... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience
scenarios to ensure everyone on the disaster team knows their duties during a crisis. In particular, the team will need primary and backup responsibilities, and guidelines on decision-making. These areas of accountability will help keep the business running. Process:... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch