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- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
investigate corporate conduct standards around the world. But what started as a seemingly straightforward search soon grew into a major undertaking that required a dedicated server to process multilingual data from thousands of employees... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
committed to buy hundreds of millions of doses of successful vaccines, providing a guaranteed market for the shots. "I couldn’t be on the front lines treating patients. But at least I could try to help with... View Details
- 27 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Summer Fellows Respond to COVID-19
response. The Social Enterprise Initiative connected with some of the fellows to hear more about their work this summer and going forward. WHAT ARE YOU WORKING ON THIS SUMMER? Christine Keung and Reggie Smith (MBA 2020), Small Business Administration: The SBA is on the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Research Brief: Bankruptcy as a Better—Not Bitter—End
lenders and liquidating otherwise viable companies. As the theory goes, the deep-pocketed secured lenders at the front of the line have a bias toward shutting down viable operations, selling off the assets,... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 27 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leadership Lessons From Outer Space
Asked for leadership advice, Terry Virts thought for a moment, letting his microphone float weightless in front of him before responding. "You have to adapt your leadership style to the situation you're in," he said. Nobody... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Social Enterprise Forum Discusses Strategy
The gathering provided a unique opportunity for collaboration between those on the front lines of nonprofit organizations and those on the cutting edge of this nascent field in academia. About one-fourth of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Get Companies to Invest More in Low-Wage Workers?
force of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reminds us again how badly those on the front lines, particularly the men without four-year degrees who make up two-thirds of American workers, have done in relation to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
Employee well-being. CEOs were concerned about their employees: their safety on the job; overall well-being; and their own task as leaders of “keeping up morale and managing people’s fears.” Having to make decisions under uncertainty... View Details
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Read excerpts from DENIAL
The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears
Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)
From Denial: Why Business... View Details
John W. Brown
by 2004, and the number of employees increased from 325 to 15,000 during the same time period. Brown steadfastly expanded the company’s product lines and introduced an effective decentralized management... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
Kristin S. Rhyne, MBA '99, would have loved to have the problems of reconciling employee priorities and juggling financial plans. Late last May, a year after incorporating Polished, she was still struggling to open its first unit. The... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 14 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Recruiting During Uncertainty: How to Meet Students Where They Are
will I hear back? The key to managing this uncertainty is transparency. Including hiring timelines within job postings, sharing information about the number of open positions with Career & Professional Development, and keeping open View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 20 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All
and jerk of your carry-on up to the overhead. An inelegant flop into the middle seat completes the journey—until the passenger in front shoves her seat back, removing your kneecaps. But new research shows that—in addition to these... View Details
- 07 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat
the quality of the resulting information. Later in the afternoon, Herzlinger led a session in which participants analyzed government's role in a consumer-driven system. In a far-reaching discussion, those on the front View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Renter’s Market
street. He looks for positive signs such as strong rental demand from city employees and blue-collar workers; a mix of rental and owner-occupied properties; successful local businesses; city revitalization projects; and informal... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
An Electrifying Tale
into an operation that now boasts 135 employees and anticipated 2003 revenues of $45 million. As Boston’s Big Dig, a prime revenue source, winds down, City Lights is expanding to other parts of the country. The company has also launched a... View Details
- 31 Oct 2014
- Op-Ed
Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness
it is self-limiting. It is chiefly a disease of caregivers for that very reason. In that regard, we must give the doctors and nurses on the front lines credit for being willing to take significant risks to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Jen Wong (MBA 2004)
to the front of the line in VR.” Take the meeting: “I spend a fair amount of time talking to new early-stage companies that have interesting technologies we want to test. Some of these start off small, and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
of organizational alignment—the primary focus of this book—the enterprise must also align its employees and management processes with the strategy. Having aligned and integrated strategies at all organizational units yields little if... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Climate Change as Must-See TV
Susan and Steve Mandel (both MBA 1982). The series includes Don Cheadle, Matt Damon, Harrison Ford, Olivia Munn, and Arnold Schwarzenegger as on-the-ground correspondents who visit ordinary Americans on the front View Details