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- 19 Jan 2023
- Blog Post
11 Ways to Reengage Employees in the New Year
plans. 2. Set Team Resolutions: Ease the stress of getting back on track after the holidays by coming together as a team to clarify your goals. Plan to discuss team resolutions that can be achieved together and lay out your project plans... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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An Emerging Entrepreneur | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
program for children, and VincuVentas, a tech-based talent agency for sales professionals. Bichara is quick to note the Social Enterprise Initiative’s backing over that summer and as he heads back to his... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Streamlining the Supermarket
full-time employees, slashing labor costs by 90 percent. Those two innovations are expected to add up to a net profit margin of three times that of the overall industry. “And that is really powerful,” Pedró says. “You can actually give those benefits View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
Thomas S. Murphy (MBA 1949)
approached him. “He said that he was going into a little crapshoot in Albany and needed someone to run a television station,” recalls Murphy. “That’s how in 1954 I became Capital Cities first employee.” Just ten years later, he was named... View Details
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
take in our first business model was that of a destination site, FairMarket.com. We would run a site and drive buyers and sellers to it. Our concept was to start on one vertical market segment and then expand to additional verticals.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Batteries Included
economy.” Globally, shipping transports more than 10 billion metric tons of cargo each year. According to Yale Climate Connections, almost all of these ships run on fossil fuels and emit carbon pollution. Maritime shipping causes about 3... View Details
- Profile
Damien Hooper-Campbell
of soul searching, "I realized what really drives me is people; that's the thread in my life." Even though he would have to accept a fifty percent pay cut, Damien joined the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone in Harlem, writing grants and View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
José Royo
General Management course, and he has conducted research with Assistant Professor Robert D. Austin. Royo credits his parents, who instilled in him a sense of responsibility about giving back to the community, for his ambitious... View Details
- 28 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
Nairobi Love: Heading Home
available from my own classmates running review sessions, tutoring through Student Services, office hours with professors, et cetera, has been wonderful. I thrived in classes like The Entrepreneurial Manager, and Business and Government... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
machine-learning algorithms running on massive on-demand cloud-computing platforms like Amazon Web Services. At the same time, a trifecta of trends—namely, the widespread reliance on just-in-time inventory management; the ongoing... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
Edify has assisted 1,100 private faith-based schools, loaning each a minimum $5,000. Founded and run largely by locals who grew up in these disadvantaged communities, these schools use the money for improvements (such as a computer lab)... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
After three years, the pair sold their portfolio to Sutter Hill Ventures, and Johnson looked for a company to buy. Instead, he ended up back in the venture business, founding Asset Management Company in 1967. Over the ensuing decades,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Action Plan: Casting Call
Bert Berkley (MBA 1950) calls it “the dumbest thing I’ve ever done in my life.” Having served in the US Army during World War II for three-and-a-half years, he was offered (and accepted) the chance to go home one day early if he signed up for the Army Reserves. Called... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Duncan M. ("Greg") Murray (MBA 1964)
join a groundbreaking urban redevelopment project and went home to Halifax in 1966. After the real estate aspect of the project was well along, I returned to the marine portion of my roots and became the first employee (and operations manager) of Halifax’s... View Details
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Jeff Bussgang
sciences, consumer marketing, e-commerce and energy, to name a few. In my judgment, Boston is the absolute best place to run a start-up.” As an MBA student, Jeff says, “I was able to plug into the entrepreneurial community – to talk to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
entrepreneurial business leaders in the Owner/President Management Program (OPM) that he also headed for many years, is inspired enough by what he has experienced at the Meadows to consider starting a company dedicated to building and View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
K.O. Chia: The Voice of Experience
Valley-based Walden International takes a hands-on approach when it backs new enterprises, insisting on monthly board meetings and close cooperation. Chia is well suited to this coaching technique. While most venture capitalists in Asia... View Details
- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
There’s no problem the business world can’t solve. That’s the thinking of Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2008), who believes companies—and the great minds who run them—can find sustainable solutions for humanitarian crises. “For whatever reason,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 20 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring Bryan Guerra...
wave of learning. That said, I never expected I'd get the opportunity to help build it. Personally, I'm very happy to be back on campus and living in Cambridge. It's great to see a new batch of students go through the HBS experience.... View Details
Keywords: Technology