Accommodation - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2015
News

Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed

that to happen is for the Fed to allow the economy to improve. Since the financial crisis, the Boston Fed’s leadership has been consistent—and correct—in arguing that policy could be accommodative and patient in moving off that stance. View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance

03 Jun 2015
What Do You Think?

Is the Time Right for Self-Management?

hours. When the meal-time rush hit, each associate moved to a job at which he or she was most accomplished-something they called "Aces in Your Places." Within minutes productivity rose 60 percent to accommodate the rush. Sales... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

06 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows

One Acre Fund, leading operations serving nearly 1 million farmers. Her most recent responsibilities included building a stronger ‘know your customer’ process and credit score model to better assess and accommodate the risk associated... View Details

07 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Green-tech Entrepreneurship in India

international products often fail to accommodate the local nuances of climate, traffic, and regulatory dynamics. Log 9's commitment to customizing battery technology for the extreme heat and humid conditions common in India’s environment... View Details

01 Jun 2024
News

Crash Pad

blocky, mid-20th-century towers that represent the toughest cases. In the decades after World War II, as air-conditioning and fluorescent lighting became standard, floor plates grew to proportions that would accommodate trading floors and... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford; illustrations by Kathleen Fu; building coversion; housing crisis; innovation; real estate; Real Estate

01 Dec 1998
News

A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill

the country, which would exchange students every few months, broadening the opportunities for hands-on, community-based learning. O'Neill and others at the school are at work refining its business and educational model to accommodate this... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Oct 2001
News

HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions

of the full-time workforce. Others wanted to develop personal strategies for finding or creating meaningful work that would accommodate their new priorities. The program, which was led by HBS professor Myra M. Hart and included Professors... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Professional Services

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Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity

your conversations and observations and ultimately contribute to your bottom line. Becoming aware of the ways we’re impacted by our environments is key. Developing a kind of metaempathy that holds space for perspectives beyond your own makes us better able to tackle... View Details

10 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Women at Work

employers make an investment in you," and it behooves them to be accommodating so they can realize the value on that investment. She attributes her success to having excellent support. "I'm lucky enough to be able to afford a... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild

18 Apr 2011
News

Capitalism Meets Conservation

Adams: A market-based solution to conservation. Warren Adams (MBA ’95) is making conservation a profitable business in Patagonia. Adams, who sold his pioneering social networking startup PlanetAll to Amazon for $100 million in stock in 1998, is co-director of Patagonia... View Details

Keywords: Accommodation; Accommodation; Accommodation; Accommodation

01 Dec 2021
What Do You Think?

How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?

long ago that live streaming was thought to be a luxury possible only when the capacity of the internet could be expanded to accommodate storage and uploading capabilities demanded by the new services. Now it’s commonplace; we take it for... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Feb 2022
News

Charlotte Club Hosts Webinar to Mark 100 Years of the Case Method

excitement for what the next 100 years of the case may hold for HBS. Vera says the club is planning to repeat the event for alumni clubs overseas to accommodate various time zones. The technical logistics for the event were handled by the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

13 Jul 2016
Blog Post

How To Hire A Millennial

between companies seeking affordable consultants and millennial MBAs looking for looser, more accommodating working relationships. Rather than fighting the “gig economy,” companies should embrace it. That might mean bringing in some... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

July 2017
Supplement

Centerbridge Partners and Great Wolf Resorts (B)

By: Josh Lerner, John D. Dionne and Amram Migdal

The case examines the aftermath of the March 2015 Centerbridge Partners acquisition of Great Wolf Resorts, a North American family-oriented indoor water parks and hotel operator, from a private equity (PE) competitor, Apollo Global Management. View Details

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Purchase

01 Sep 2013
News

See You There

Ruzwana Bashir (MBA 2011) has carved out a valuable niche in the travel-and-leisure business—one of the world's largest industries—with her online company, Peek. The start-up has earned Bashir plaudits as one of this year's "100 Most Creative People in Business,"... View Details

Keywords: Accommodation; Accommodation; Accommodation; Accommodation

26 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?

intersection of economics and social behavior in developing countries. Rather than wait for government policymakers to decide how to accommodate and assist refugees, executives should consider how they can help them integrate through... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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Other Student Organizations | MBA

individuals bring to every academic, professional, and social setting – and we seek to create more space for their voices to be heard and celebrated. In pursuit of this goal, we aim to work closely with the administration to ensure easily accessible View Details

01 Apr 1998
News

Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International

was so successful we had to establish it as a regular commercial bank to accommodate its growth. Today, BancoSol leads the Bolivian banking system in profitability and makes 40 percent of the system's loans; it has 76,000... View Details

01 Oct 1998
News

A Long and Winding Road

deal with change, turmoil, the unexpected? All too often we have been surprised by our lack of foresight close to home. The traditional family structure has broadened to accommodate divorce, single parenthood, common-law partnerships, and... View Details

Keywords: Wayne R. Vibert (MBA 1973)

07 Sep 2007
What Do You Think?

Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?

like. The French term of 'cadre' may best accommodate the reality of business practitioners in a modern world." Respondents also provided some possible remedies. Osbert Lancaster suggested that what is needed is an injection of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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