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- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morell, host of Skydeck. In 2023, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 67% of two-parent families with children, both parents worked, which was up from 59% in 2013.... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Cathy A. Nichols
Hollywood theme park, home of the highly acclaimed City Walk, Back to the Future, and Jurassic Park attractions. Named chairman and CEO of Universal Studios Recreation Group in June, Nichols is back in Los Angeles on a July afternoon after a whirlwind View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
employees felt about the program and how they were using it. “We’ve never seen our employees answer a survey so fast. Usually it takes some follow-up, but we had results within 15 minutes,” observes... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
(Zoonar RF/Thinkstock; iStock) Sweet Kiddles is a new concept in center-based childcare. Unlike traditional centers where parents must commit to fixed full- or part-time schedules, Sweet Kiddles’ flexible scheduling allows families to use... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
Edited by Julia Hanna; illustrations by Fabio Consoli One year after the pandemic mandated an abrupt shift to working from home for millions of people, organizations are taking a long, hard look at how and where employees work—and why. In... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Lydia M. Marshall: Gumption and Grace
notes, "and it was very exciting to be a part of it." In 1999, Marshall decided to do something completely different. The result, VentureThink, is a start-up that aims to create, build, and manage e-commerce businesses. With the budding firm View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
Wes Hather. The would-be founders then went looking for “a big problem” and a tech-based solution. GroupTalent was born in 2011 to address the challenges of employee recruitment with an online marketplace. But two years later, the company... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
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Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
in their free time seemed too much like work, so we shifted to companies allowing employees to work on company time. We also began working with companies to align efforts to their core human capital and business development strategies so... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
instruction. The initial phases of planning and design have just begun, with construction anticipated to commence in the summer of 2000 and completion scheduled for late 2001. Hawes retired last year as chairman and CEO of Life Re... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
because of—the challenge: “It was basically a small manufacturing company but with an output of one product each time, because every unit we process is unique,” he says. “With each garment, there are 20 opportunities for us to screw up—maybe we didn’t View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
cyber-security and analytics. “These employees have found errors, faults, and gaps in IT systems that have gone undetected for years,” Fieldhouse says. “This even happened in the first week after their on-boarding.” In a video produced... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
uncomfortable territory in an effort to respond to their employees' deeper yearnings. While spirituality is a highly individual and personal matter, managers and employees alike seem to find common themes emerging when they begin thinking... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
Diego–based chain of more than ninety buffet-style restaurants serving fresh salads, soups, pastas, and breads, CEO Michael Mack has implemented a flexible system that allows hourly employees to change their View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
a pioneering program at Uber to help thousands of employees prepare to succeed and lead. Back in 2001, having just completed her third year of teaching at HBS, she wouldn’t answer to “Professor Frei,” encouraging students to use her first... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
as it passes. It’s probably obvious, but you could just replicate the old model and stamp it out. There are lots of regional micro-fulfillment centers that are closer to customers, all with seven employees on the line. —Casey Taylor (MBA... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
which can be challenging in a large company like ours. One thing I do is hold regularly scheduled "diagonal-slice meetings," which include people from all levels and all areas of the company. What's the most valuable lesson you've learned... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
a difference in the world," she says. "By that count, I definitely have it all.'" —Marguerite Rigoglioso How flexible is the worklplace? Forty-five percent of employees report having some say over their View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
the norm for health care than the exception. They may not have ever taken a management course, despite the challenge of overseeing dozens of employees across a variety of functions. They’re responsible for their unit’s financial... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
addition, Linear offered seasonal scheduled services, sold on a per-seat basis, between Nantucket, Boston, and New York City, and between Washington, D.C., and the Outer Banks of North Carolina. By 2007, Linear had six Caravans in its... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Illustrations by Andrea Manzati Prescription: Free the Data! On a bright September morning, on the expansive lawn outside the Watertown, Massachusetts, headquarters of the e-health firm athenahealth, city and state officials, company executives, and hundreds of View Details