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- 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
- 13 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
Mobile Banking for the Unbanked
The answer is in the sheer number of registered M-PESA customers,some nine million as of January 2010. More than $600 billion has been transferred through the service, which has garnered revenues of about $100 million—and would have 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
- 23 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming Nervous Nelly
A colleague is out sick, and suddenly it's fallen on you to deliver a crucial client presentation. The saliva dries up in your mouth, your heart races. You briefly consider heading home sick yourself, before moving into the conference... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
business history conferences around the world, the touchstone of the profession is Alfred Chandler. What Max Weber and Emile Durkheim are to sociology, Chandler is to business history. He has decisively influenced scholarship around the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer
according to the working paper Do Management System Standards Indicate Superior Performance? Evidence from the OHSAS 18001 Occupational Health and Safety Standard. To earn the voluntary certification, workplaces need to demonstrate that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 17 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups
players tend to be the same race.” The data does show that those preferences generally go away after three years, as a coach has repeated contact with a player. That effect, however, only applies to that particular player, and not to other players of that race in the... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Enron’s Lessons for Managers
reckless gambling of assets. Its hubris was to attempt to commoditize electric power, water, and broadband, despite what Salter called critical points of difference from natural gas. (Electric power and water are politically sensitive at... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 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
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
government-backed fund that saw one of the country’s first exits in 2011—an ISP called Link.net. That was one of an accumulation of tipping points, notes Ismail. “In 2012, 2013, we started getting the first attempts at incubators,... View Details
- 08 Feb 2021
- Book
How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect
back to your community? Share your insights in the comments below. Book Excerpt Better, Not Perfect: Preface By Max Bazerman In 1993, when I was on the faculty of Northwestern University, I gave a talk at a conference on behavioral... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 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
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit
Clubs News Clubs News Crossroads Forum Explores Future of Gulf Region More than 1,300 public and private leaders convened in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on January 30 and 31 for the Crossroads GCC Future Impact Forum, co-hosted by the HBS Club of the Gulf Cooperation Council... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley