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- 01 Mar 2007
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The Joy of Work
treadmill pressure, where people feel urgency to attend to a variety of unrelated tasks each day and are constantly forced to shift from one to another. That kind of time pressure definitely has a negative impact on creative thinking. On the other hand, time pressure... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
money leads to increased sustainability and voice for the people we serve, to make sure that the flow of money doesn’t equal power.” “Our job is to make sure that the distribution of the money leads to increased sustainability and voice... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
citizen, which equals about $490 billion in spending power. That’s an opportunity that many people don’t recognize. Our free-trial-to-conversion rate was above 80 percent for a long time; the industry average is about 33 percent. We think... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
At Your Service
competing on; determining how to fund excellence in these areas; designing management systems that help employees to succeed at their jobs; and training their customers. To be a great service company, do you have to be equally good at all... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Clark Bids Farewell to HBS
creation of new knowledge. In the last ten years, I think there’s been an integration of this commitment to teaching with an equally strong commitment to building new knowledge. Academics tend to blanch when someone brings up the word... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
has invested over $1 billion in laying 2,000 miles of water lines and building 33 wastewater treatment plants while returning strong profits for shareholders. Equally important, the company has emerged as a model for integrating financial... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
microfinance into an industry. The distinction is important, he argues. While foundations, governments, and NGOs all play significant roles in pioneering social-good organizations, such funding can never equal the dimensions of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
sovereign lands on the ocean floor — at least the size of California and rich in resources — to add to the territory of the United States. In fact, after acceding to the treaty, and completing our mapping of the coastal United States, we anticipate adding to U.S.... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
current HBS students? “HBS can provide so many different, but equally transformative experiences. I would recommend thinking carefully about what one wants from HBS and then being disciplined in pursuing it. Given the approach to thinking... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
to the spirit of equality that infuses the company. Oishi wants employees to feel like they’ve landed on an island, she says, “and everyone should have their own vision of the city they want to build on it.” She entertains any idea with... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 19 Feb 2021
- News
A Playbook for Progress
critical moment in history. The first woman and the first woman of color has been elected vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris. And over the past year, there has been significant unrest around equality and rights, whether... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
not-so-new phenomenon. Simply put, it’s the act of buying things to make us feel better. Part of the experience is finding and purchasing that just-right something, but an equally important component is the thrill of the chase — the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
Graduate School of Design and who later became an adjunct professor at HBS, he wrote more than sixty cases, created two new courses focusing on real estate, and developed a new conceptual framework for the study of real-estate management. View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
equally beautiful photography will transport you to Dishoom's most treasured corners of an eccentric and charming Bombay. Read it, and you will find yourself replete with recipes and stories to share with all who come to your table.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
panels. Instead, the panels would need to come from Asia — a considerable challenge for an eighty-employee company based in suburban Boston. Sharpe’s response was equally direct. ET partnered with a company based in Singapore and shipped... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
for the work to be done. What are the steps the School is taking to further racial justice–related scholarship that will benefit HBS students and course participants, and the world at large? We recently launched an important component of the plan, a Race & View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
composition of their footprints changes as personal spending changes in this time. I personally can give my own data as an example. Previously, about 50 percent of my carbon footprint was travel and then food, home, and shopping were about View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
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Higher Returns
social side, that talks about your relationships with employees, suppliers, and clients, and the communities in which you operate. So labor standards, employee relations, local community impact will be another one. Equal employment... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
way of lifting people up and limiting the damage—and preventing the current economic crisis from getting dramatically worse, or triggering a financial collapse. But equally important, in my view, is investing as much as we possibly can to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
injection of venture capital, at least an equal number of entrepreneurs has probably turned to other resources such as savings, "angels," or even dear old Mom and Dad. Consider, for example, the tale of Thermo Electron's George N.... View Details