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- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
train in the sport that had taught him the rewards of continuous physical, mental, and emotional self-improvement? Most of the gyms he toured were “dark and dingy, behind a noodle shop in Chinatown,” mirroring martial arts’ marginalized... View Details
- 28 Jun 2022
- Book
The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose
How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 05 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors
time with them in their actual environment. This may mean spending time with consumers by observing them in their homes, on shopping excursions, at social functions, or at their jobs. Insights from this approach can be used for improving... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips
this period, allowing firms to keep the benefits of cost reductions for themselves. I think there’s also a lot to be said for changes in consumer behavior over this period, and, John, I’d love to get your thoughts on that, too. In the past 20 years, to what extent have... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
roles, products, processes (assembly, equipment maintenance and repair, materials logistics, training, system redesign, administration, etc.), and hierarchical levels (from shop floor to plant manager and above) that in TPS managed... View Details
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset
Debates on urban sprawl and so-called new urbanism are the rage among developers and academics. Grayfield debates concern what to do with all of those old shopping malls and parking lots in infill locations. (One friend told me the... View Details
- 04 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
Reapplying to HBS
time, however, my perspective was much different. Since graduation, I had spent significant time in more than a dozen manufacturing facilities working with both plant management and shop floor employees. I had presented a recommendation... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Action Plan: To the Letter
the point of the v, the elegantly cupped serifs of the i, the soft curve of the r: It was clear that, on this street, you would find a high-end shopping experience. “It instantly conveyed elegance to me,” he recalls. Chacko hasn’t always... View Details
- 18 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Relocating to Boston with Your Partner
convenience to grocery shopping or going out to dinner. However, it can be easier for partners to join campus talks, activities, and events - and run into HBSers when living on campus. We really enjoyed our time in Soldiers Field Park,... View Details
- Web
Selected Digital Historical Resources – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
various shop departments, including the telephone apparatus, cable, rubber, and insulating operations, and the rod and wire mill. Many of the photographs show factory employees at work at their stations. Western Electric News . New York,... View Details
- 13 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores
healthier campers if we eased up on the cooking, scrubbing, and grocery shopping and instead threw a little money at these problems. “We feel like we don’t have enough time to do everything we want to do, and that makes us feel like we’re... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Dec 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock
boutiques? (Nanda stuck with small museum shops and specialty catalogs at first, in spite of all the advance publicity.) Is it better to partner with an American product design firm and risk prohibitive expense, or to team up with a... View Details
- 16 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Turning a Moment into a Movement: Interview with Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders Kenneth and Kevin Chenault
leadership, and a willingness to change. “We started as a GoFundMe, and when we reached the point of either closing up shop or launching an organization, we knew we weren’t going to be day one experts,” noted Kenneth. “But getting... View Details
- 17 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers
Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
bookstore; small, privately owned shops were the predominant model for bookselling throughout the United States in the early 1970s. That was the original model for Borders, which also opened in 1971 with a small stock of used books in a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Apr 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Making the Move to General Manager
interconnections across the organization. The second is transitioning from the role of a doer to the role of managing through other people—and that's a big change. "As a new GM, you will be one step away from the customers or one step away from the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
business. An eight-year veteran with the prominent New York venture capital firm of J.H. Whitney & Company, he launched his own shop backed by $8 million from the Bass brothers. Seven Honeywell engineers in Boston had come up with a... View Details
- 20 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle
participants a description about a consumer named Matthew who shopped at either an upscale grocery store or instead used grocery-delivery service Peapod. Though Whole Foods was perceived as more of a luxury brand, the participants rated... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Real Wal-Mart Effect
employed in the business—would be completely wiped out if Wal-Mart's million-plus employees were to receive a $2-per-hour pay increase, modest though that sounds. And since such a scenario would be unacceptable to Wal-Mart's shareholders, the millions of Americans who... View Details