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- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
serving as a representative on the Cherokee National Council. During a meeting of its Environmental Resources Group, Senior Director Pat Gwin showed the group a photo of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault—a meticulously cataloged collection... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
displays, and insurance form services also contribute to an enhanced customer experience. Greenberg notes, "We're simply bringing in modern merchandising techniques to meet the needs of an underserved population." Take Good Care also... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
and Tchaikovsky since boyhood. “It is a huge advantage later when you have to do them because you’re not learning anything new. You are just kind of meeting a very old friend,” says Prieto. Conducting, he would learn, required certain... View Details
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
unobservable firm level characteristics. This enables us to circumvent the issues related to the use of manager fixed effects in the prior empirical literature. Efforts to incentivize individual employees to file and license patents did not View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
Ramana NandaHarvard Business School Case 812-168 Siddharth Kapoor, the Founder and CEO of ABC India Pvt. Ltd., reflected on his meetings as he walked out of VC Ventures' offices in Mumbai. After a few months of intensely pitching his... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
CEO of Credit Suisse Group, announced a new compensation plan for the bank. The announcement had followed quickly on the heels of the G-20 meeting the prior month where, in the wake of the financial crisis, the major governments had laid... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
concept in cybersecurity—the venue is just different. “Chief information security officers used to meet once a week for a beer and say, ‘Hey, are you seeing this?’ ” says Anne Bonaparte (MBA 1988), CEO of cybersecurity firm BrightPoint... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
quantity and quality. Performance data was always at the heart of those efforts, but it wasn't a leading factor. Q: What is your primary focus? Morino: Performance really starts with the leadership of the organization. I didn't set out to write a book, but in 2009 I... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
office products, building products, and paper, had expanded production capacity to meet the strong demand for paper in the late 1980s but bore the brunt when demand began to taper off in 1990. The company — which started up in 1957,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
promotions to control the flow of shoppers inside stores to meet social distancing requirements. Many started offering Black Friday deals in early November. Discounts appear to be larger than ever this year, likely reflecting soft... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
the war ended, Phillips was well positioned to meet the pent-up needs of consumers. His counterpart, Clarence Saunders, who founded Piggly Wiggly, was a consummate Mold-Breaker. He fundamentally revolutionized grocery shopping by... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
change. JM: Primarily all of my focus for the last 10 or 15 years has been in climate and sustainability and the impact that that technology can have as it scales to meet the size of the problem that we're facing in climate change. DM: In... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
I’ll look to take it on.” While Karsenti says he got his “first MBA” by going through the near-failure and ultimate success of his first company, he came to HBS to learn how to manage expectations, expand his perspective to a global view, and View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
flatware, and glassware. Choosing a pattern was a decision of great importance, since one had to live with that decision for some time. Today, the movement is toward settings that aren’t “matchy-match”; Steuben’s new lines of glassware work together and View Details
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
scrutinizing the behavior of customers, suppliers, and competitors to identify new ways of doing things; (4) Experimenting: constructing interactive experiences and provoking unorthodox responses to see what insights emerge; and (5) Networking: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
guy's trombone. My morning's planned down to the second: quick stop at Kinko's to print out my proposal, quick call to Maura to beg her forgiveness I sent her those Calyx & Corolla flowers, so hopefully we're all square and then off to View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
these actors to change established practices and entrenched behaviors within a short timeframe to help Unilever meet its sustainability targets and also to improve the operations of its partners in the value chain? By encouraging... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
had long wanted to wear a uniform in this war, but at almost 6 feet tall and not even 140 pounds, he didn’t meet the physical standards set by the armed services. When the 31-year-old registered for the draft in October 1940, his chest... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
network offers help on a range of issues, Walker says, from something as simple as how to buy groceries to something as serious as the emotional stresses of displacement and change in family life. "We also meet often with international... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
Authentic Leadership course, that Foster met Bill George, who's taught leadership at the School since 2004 and is now an executive fellow. Foster describes the experience of meeting George and reading his professor's bestselling book,... View Details