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01 Jun 2012
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Straight to the Heart

it’s like dating yourself. The energy and freshness come from being with someone different. I look for qualities in two people that will complement, not mirror, one another. When I begin with a new client, I... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; marriage; social media; matchmaking; Personal Services

22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

and Keep Customers in the Age of Disruption By Steve Dennis (MBA 1984) LifeTree Physical retail isn’t dead—but boring retail is. Remarkable Retail equips the savvy retailer with eight strategies to bounce back from the COVID-19 downturn... View Details

09 Mar 2021
News

Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity

furthering their education. Enright is seeing double the number of full-time participants attend CCRI right after high school. Because of the program, many CCRI graduates go on to jobs across the state that help to fill the middle-skills gap. In Rhode Island, nearly... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

07 Sep 2021
News

Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2

weekend meetings that would lead to promotions. And it struck me how feel-oriented and human some of these decisions that guided the future of such a massive business were. You know? And I wonder if you think that that approach, your approach to those decisions,... View Details

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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society

leverages the expertise of our faculty. Since the BiGS Fellowship launched in 2022, we have hosted 13 scholars from around the world. They have focused on issues including race, diversity, inequality, and climate change. You can read more... View Details

01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning

On a blustery late-December afternoon, sixty students sit watching a video case presentation in a darkened Aldrich Hall classroom. Participants in a special HBS orientation program for new international students,* they hail View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

16 Feb 2021
Blog Post

The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard

classmates and many of her teachers, and making it a challenge to find clothes that fit. In the years that followed, Girard grew into “the sixes” now standing proudly at 6’1’’ and the idea for the business she would one day start, a business that would give “Fashion... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products / Retail

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Research in Black and White | Baker Library

large-format cameras. This development was of special interest to professional photographers because the new commercial film produced, for the first time at Polaroid, reusable 4×5 negatives from which... View Details

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Three Steps for Crisis Prevention

between a true surprise and one that should have been predicted? Anticipating and avoiding business disasters isn't just a matter of doing better environmental scanning or contingency planning. It requires a number of steps, from... View Details

Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman

18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

wrongheaded notion of white superiority and creates an illusion of Black dependency on white largess. This false assignment of responsibility, while coming from an authentic desire to produce change, can create a View Details

10 Mar 2021
News

Next Normal

create a culture of gratitude and positive reinforcement of the values that members espouse. Reimert learned these lessons firsthand as a remote worker from the very start of her career. When she began at the high-tech firm, the job offer... View Details

11 Sep 2018
News

Bringing Government Up to Code

read "Go home Googlers." It was a daily reminder, she says, that something was broken. That this great technological revolution just wasn't working for everyone. Today, Ingersoll works as COO of Code for America, a San Francisco-based... View Details

16 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

the recognition that no matter how much technology we have, how many PowerPoint slides we have, how many knowledge management systems we have, the fact of the matter is that people learn from experience.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

26 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

Finally, performance pricers relentlessly communicate their value. An example is PACCAR, producer of Kenworth and Peterbilt trucks in a market viewed as a commodity by others. Throughout 70 consecutive years of profitability—a period from... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products

01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work

Stuart has even gone so far as to help design a "Leadership Circle," an intensive program for CEOs scheduled to debut this summer in New Mexico that will integrate current management theory with spiritual teachings View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Mar 2018
News

Making Sense of the Modern Startup

MBA course, in which he would combine then-emerging thinking at HBS about entrepreneurship with some new kinds of financial strategies he had been roughing out. Entrepreneurial Finance seemed like a logical name for the course. Almost... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)

05 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

virtuous cycles of exploitation and exploration by deliberately perturbing their own processes. We provide illustrations from Toyota and formulate testable hypotheses about the mechanisms of perturbation. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Mar 2023
News

Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria

form for their needs; earthquake victims looking for a new job may filter available job ads (in the same region or in a different region); and businesses willing to prioritize the employment of earthquake victims may post a View Details

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Online Digital Marketing Strategy Course | HBS Online

and Cohorted Self-Paced This course earns you a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online. What you earn . Overview Syllabus Enrollment Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Understand how marketing has evolved and what’s ahead based on... View Details

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Artist Support | Baker Library

include images from Polaroid consultant photographers and those in the Artist Support Program. (2) Adams also advocated for including “the finest examples of creative photography in all photographic media” by established artists as a way... View Details

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