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28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

product's price per week. "The cost of obsolescence has gone up." Bulges In A Balloon Although obsolescence is a risk inherent in maintaining inventory, many potential causes of supply chain disruption are risks inherent in minimizing inventory. They're View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

12 Sep 2018
Blog Post

Optimizing the Coaching Experience for Midcareer Professionals

organizational culture, what have you learned about the places where you work and where you would like to work? "Often, you've learned the hard way that culture has an enormous impact on your job satisfaction. As you gain experience,... View Details

20 Apr 2023
News

How Joe Hinrichs is Getting CSX Back on Track

customer of CSX—which offers him a unique perspective. "I've been very vocal inside CSX about what it's like to be a customer of the railroad over the years," he told the paper. "They want us to do what we say, to do what we commit to do,... View Details

Keywords: Rail Transportation; Transportation

08 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad

language and cultural barriers. One senior R&D manager in the United States notes, "We wanted to learn firsthand what was going on in centers of scientific excellence in Europe. Being present at a center of scientific excellence is View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

04 Sep 2015
Blog Post

4 Tips for MBA Students with Families

HBS is a diverse place – and not just in terms of the countries our students hail from; some students are single, some come here with partners, and some bring the whole family. In the past we’ve discussed what it’s like to be a partner... View Details

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Megan Maloney

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? I prayed about it a lot and went with my gut. Like so many, I want to positively impact the world. It felt like a good time to come up for air and surround... View Details

07 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 7

Quality Competition? By: Buell, Ryan W., Dennis Campbell, and Frances X. Frei Abstract—When does increased service quality competition lead to customer defection, and which customers are most likely to defect? Our empirical analysis of... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

Web

Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity

incidents involved sexualized conversations and remarks. Women up and down the organizational hierarchy experienced similar levels of harassment. At the junior, mid, senior, and even C-level, about half of alumnae cited harassment at their current workplace. Women of... View Details

29 Jan 2024
News

On the Road to Recovery

first company while still at HBS and recently sold his investments, was intrigued by the opportunity. Travel nursing got its start in the 1980s, and its biggest player had recently gone public, revealing a wealth of data about the sector. “To me, it looked View Details

12 May 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team

COVID-19 has made virtual work the new normal. In a few short weeks, meeting tools like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, and Slack have gone from a useful supplement to the primary enablers for daily interactions with co-workers.... View Details

Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley

10 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

2000. At current growth rates, 2015 purchases via the Internet will likely exceed $250 billion. Online sales tend to be highly concentrated in several categories, and are so significant that it is increasingly difficult for physical... View Details

Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail

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A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

people. And I really liked the media space; it’s competitive and interesting – especially when you really believe in the content they make.” Mizuho spent her internship summer deep in reflection, “struggling to move out of finance and... View Details

08 Feb 2021
Book

How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect

own group. “The big story here is that people do favors for other people who are like themselves,” he says. So, Bazerman decided he would meet with prospective students only after they received their admission decisions to avoid... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

07 Feb 2019
Book

How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption

young, entrepreneurial companies come on the scene and sweep away large incumbent enterprises. He famously wrote in 1939 that big companies become, in his words, like old men, losing their innovative vitality as they age. We have seen the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

Despite widespread investment in entrepreneurship in cities across America, venture capital-funded startups still tend to be founded by white men in Silicon Valley. In contrast, businesses led by women are 63 percent less likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

13 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Career Journey: Karan Khimji, Co-Founder of 44.01

or from the smokestacks of industrial processes and eliminate it by mineralizing it in peridotite. To do that, we combine CO2 with water and then inject it into seams of peridotite deep underground. There, we can control variables like... View Details

10 Apr 2023
News

Leading the Way

"Within two years of meeting him, I had two internships on Wall Street and was accepted to the HBS 2+2 program. It was like a light switched on for me and everything changed." Trujillo grew up in a poor Hispanic neighborhood in South... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Erin Kaivan

day," says Erin. "My section is filled with the warmest, most supportive community of people. When I was pregnant and needed help with things that were unfamiliar to me, like finance and accounting, everyone was so generous with... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

13 May 2019
Blog Post

The Many Facets of Becoming a Mother at HBS

faculty providing personal experience as a mom in the business world, fellow moms helping me navigate school and day-to-day responsibilities, and my section mates celebrating and loving on my baby like family. I couldn’t imagine a more... View Details

03 Jul 2015
Blog Post

What is HBS Bridges?

professional front, we heard from industry veterans about what it means to re-enter the workforce with a powerful degree but still realistically, only limited professional experience. No doubt we will all charge like a bull at a gate in... View Details

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