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30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

whenever possible. This will generate greater long-term commitment to organizations, she says. “Great leaders will share their own struggles about adjusting to their partners being on conference calls in the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2023
News

End Game

Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like Body Shop, Aveda, Tom’s of Maine, and Whole Foods—all founded... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2024
News

Firm Foundation

Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009) has been playing the long game as long as she can remember. The former Berkshire Hathaway executive grew up in a family business: Her father was a third-generation farmer in Manhattan,... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; private equity; Warren Buffett; career path; investment strategy; family business; Finance

09 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Building Community: Meet the HBS Latino Student Organization Leadership

encourage more Latino prospective students to apply. Lastly, we will leverage the power of the Adelante Conference, our annual Latino professional conference that brings together current and future Latino/a leaders. This will be hosted on... View Details

27 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution

the bias belted tire, claiming that it conferred significant performance improvements and launched an advertising campaign questioning the benefits of radials. Firestone, Uniroyal and General Tire quickly followed Goodyear's lead and... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation

27 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams

efficiency on a temporary team. What they call a team scaffold is fixed while individual team members flow through the structure. “The big 'aha' was how very little structure this is” The paper, published in the March-April 2015 edition... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

26 Jun 2023
Blog Post

ClimateCAP 2023 & ClimateCAP Fellowship

Another benefit of being a joint degree student is the flexibility to complete two summer internships in different fields during the 3-year program. Last year, I interned at a climate VC fund called KawiSafi Ventures in Nairobi, Kenya.... View Details

24 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

accounting scandals, companies have engaged in "earnings games," evidenced by widespread earnings restatements: Over the past five years there have been more than 1,000 restatements, reflecting a lack of board oversight. Many... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu

Profile

Melcolm Ruffin

for hours; I knew all the rosters, trades, and coaches. My brothers and uncle called me, 'The Walking ESPN'." When Melcolm attended high school, "I realized I wasn't going to make it as a player. But I discovered there was a... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment/Media

04 Feb 2016
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Tech Club

skills events, an education series called Training the Valley, a series of sub-industry highlights on fintech, edtech, etc., a mentorship program, small group dinners and socials within the club and with other tech clubs across schools... View Details

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

to have money of her own for a down payment on her EcoTech Visions building. One man, she says in the case, assumed that she must have earned her money as an adult entertainer. Another dismissed her because he didn’t understand the... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

15 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: November 15

Analyst Recommendation and Earnings Forecast Anomaly Author:George Serafeim Publication:Chap. 3 in The Handbook of Equity Market Anomalies: Translating Market Inefficiencies into Effective Investment Strategies, 63-91. John Wiley &... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food

which has been the focus of her research during her yearlong study at HBS. She’ll present some of her findings at a June 29 workshop called “Capitalism and the Senses,” which “brings together scholars from various disciplines, including... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Retail; Advertising

01 Oct 2000
News

Edward D. Bullard: The Personal Touch

man at a welding station. "How's your daughter?" he calls to Jane as she takes a break from her sewing machine. Bullard knows most of the names of the 375 people employed by E.D. Bullard, the privately-held safety equipment company... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

19 Jan 2022
Blog Post

From Retail to HBS: How I’m Building a Career Path at the Intersection of Arts, Culture, and Business

superlative for “Most Cold-Called” after our first semester.) More importantly, HBS also helped me expand my own knowledge of the sector. One highlight was participating in an optional Short Intensive Program called Moving Beyond DTC, led... View Details

24 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class

company to create better jobs,” shared Ari Medoff. “We’ve had 30 or 40 years now of growing wage inequality and we have community institutions that have decayed. I think that one of the core factors is the erosion of job quality which includes the opportunity to View Details

06 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

The Innovator’s Battle Plan

them to earn premium prices by reaching undershot customers. They view flight as a positive development. When there are large groups of undershot customers in the higher tiers of a market, incumbents can beat a long and profitable... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony & Erik A. Roth

20 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting the Marketing Mix Right

says. "There has been some talk at conferences where there seems to be an understanding that these models are too restrictive." Widening The View So the professors created a new discrete choice model View Details