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assistant buyer and rose to overseeing buying in Europe and Asia. He was one of the first Black executives at Macy's. Wilkinson later moved to the New York City Transit... View Details
- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
likes by the following day. Employers contemplating layoffs should take care to follow all legal requirements, recognizing recent changes in this respect. Many states have implemented temporary legal guidelines regarding employment that companies must follow during the... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
Jon Staff
Jon Staff is the founder and CEO of Getaway, a company that provides simple, unplugged escapes to tiny cabins outside of major cities across the United States. Getaway grew from Jon’s lifelong appreciation for the great outdoors, having... View Details
- 29 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on Social Enterprise
their journeys before and during the MBA program. Sandra Tsikor (MBA 2025) Where is your hometown? I was raised in Tema, Ghana and moved to New York City when I was 8 years... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
business. An eight-year veteran with the prominent New York venture capital firm of J.H. Whitney & Company, he launched his own shop backed by $8 million from the Bass brothers. Seven Honeywell engineers in... View Details
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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
assistance of Richard Kriebel, Land presented the science behind his invention in a series of engaging public forums. In 1936, the young entrepreneur introduced his synthetic light polarizing discs at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New... View Details
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Sebastian Velasco
pursuing capital, debt management. She took me on business trips to New York City; I got to know what the business world was like." The combination of his mother's influence and their business trips... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
and create cultural norms. Google built its New York City campus two years ago with the principle that employees should never be more than 150 feet from some form of free... View Details
- 07 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
7 Coming Out Stories from the HBS PRIDE Club
a conflicted Catholic from Ohio, I packed my bags and made my way to New York City at 18 years old. New city, new... View Details
- 06 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Bringing Music to the HBS Classroom: My Journey as a Nontraditional Student in the Summer Venture in Management Program
not only the business setting but life as well, whether it be in boardroom meetings with music industry executives or in personal catch-ups with loved ones over a shared meal. After SVMP, I returned to New View Details
- 29 Nov 2023
- News
A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway
discovering it had gone dormant following the retirement of its previous president. Shyam Ayengar (left) and Jon Weintraub are rebooting the HBS Club of Seattle “The club had no programming in 2018 and 2019, just before COVID,” recalls Weintraub. “I had moved here from... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education
Stewart McCulloch HBS 1917–1918 Clarksville, TX Harvard College, 1917 An alumnus of Andover Academy and Harvard College, Samuel McCulloch spent a year studying at HBS upon completion of his undergraduate degree. His career trajectory took him from Muskogee, Oklahoma,... View Details
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
manufacturing new mechanical or scientific instruments. And the city has always had a revolutionary streak, with movements for women's suffrage, antislavery, and the American Revolution itself all being... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
and kindness, to instill dignity and confidence. It’s not just writing a check. And as much as people say ‘Don’t take it personally,’ of course it’s personal. There’s so much at stake. For a founder, this is it: This is their life.” It’s personal for Enan as well.... View Details
- 29 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The History and Influence of Andy Grove
held against him the fact that he is an immigrant. Nor was he held back because he is of Jewish origin. When he graduated first in his engineering class at the City College of New View Details
- 18 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!
in the nation. Some communities have attempted other measures to reduce the public’s soda consumption, including New York City’s proposed cap on portion sizes and Berkeley’s one-cent-per-ounce tax on sugary... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
promotions was not my thing. I wanted to make great records, not promote bad ones, so I kept going until I got the opportunity to do the thing I came to New York City to do:... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50225 Harvard Business School Case 515-701 Wynton Marsalis & Jazz at Lincoln Center Under the leadership of artistic director Wynton Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) hosts performances and education events... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
down as chairman and CEO of the New York Stock Exchange following weeks of intense public criticism over the size of his $190 million compensation package. As chairman of the committee that oversaw Grasso's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
image of General George S. Patton stepping in front of a huge American flag to deliver a stirring speech, whether it really happened or not, is carefully staged theater. When he was commissioner of the New View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett