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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
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone
Healthcare Alumni Conference Marks 25 Years The HBS Healthcare Alumni Association (HBSHAA) hosted its 25th Annual Conference at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge on November 7, and once again offered an exclusive agenda that was jam-packed with industry thought leaders... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
the Uyuni salt flats, the largest salt flats in the world. And I got into an exceptionally deep, sandy area and I'm very skilled in all conditions, but this sand was quite daunting. So I literally just... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
to reduce our costs through lean manufacturing and automation so we could get investors to buy into the business. It also required salesmanship to get people interested in the equine business, which is not... View Details
- Profile
Brittani Rettig
blogging has led to other opportunities to share my healthy tips and inspirational stories on major media outlets like Good Morning Texas, Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In online community, and on Greatist.com.... View Details
- 02 Oct 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?
Summing Up What's the Future of the Authority Figure In Leadership? Leadership involves the effective management of tensions characteristic of all organizations. Are such tensions exacerbated by today's need for increasing speed and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Health Is Wealth | The Path To Creating A Venture
Rachel Sanders (MBA 2017) started her professional career working in healthcare focused investment banking. After spending four years working at Raymond James focused on middle market transactions, M&A, and the intersection of... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
We all know how political influence works: company X donates money to politician Y, and then that pol leans on regulator Z to go easy on his new best friend. In economic parlance, that circle of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
—Christian C. Johnson (MBA 1993) Got a case? To take part in a future “Case Study,” send an outline of your company’s challenge to bulletin@hbs.edu From Baker Library: Rethinking the direction of your firm? Discover research by HBS... View Details
- 03 Apr 2006
- What Do You Think?
Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?
other disasters in one part of the world. Operating a lean organization in a global economy, the argument goes, results in more use of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry
facing and as I interacted more with startups, investors, national labs, and universities, it became clear that there's much more going on outside. In order to be an active participant in this community, it... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
entrepreneurship has taught me to lean into surprises. Between border shutdowns, lockdowns right before launch, and other unexpected turns, I’ve learned to adapt, iterate, and persevere amid uncertainty. Though solving health care... View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
Clubs News Clubs News In a first-ever result, all of the winners in the 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition (ANVC) hail from the same HBS class: the MBA Class of 2022. The ANVC finale, held virtually on March 22 and 23, brought eight global regional winners together... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
through consolidation than to excel on your own merits. Sadun: That may be true. I’m also starting to think that there might be some intentionality. Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle is famous for having done a View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray
to spot potentially underpriced stocks, and major stock indexes and institutional investors lean on the metric as well. Yet, in an examination of thousands of stocks over a period of nearly 40 years, Wang... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
reduced wait times in salauno clinics by using Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to change clinic schedules, optimize operational flow, and improve communication. These practices have resulted View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
rest in his book-lined office, the shovel he used to break ground on the school’s dormitory renovation project leaning against the wall. One of the lessons that Marietta learned is that there is no... View Details
- 13 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists
classic feet on desk, hands behind head; then, standing and leaning on one's hands over a desk. Those in the low-power group were posed for the time period in two restrictive... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
performer, she mouths notes, her face at times mournful, menacing, or ecstatic. Prieto, positioned next to her on stage, seems to lean in to coax notes out of her violin—much the way a lead singer of a rock... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
In the beginning there was the microprocessor. The mass market availability in the early 1980s of this revolutionary piece of technology — which shrank the computer from an unwieldy Goliath of a machine to a... View Details