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- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
faced another life-and-death experience when she was struck as a pedestrian by a car whose driver had fallen asleep. She lost both legs and today uses a wheelchair for mobility. "Bashert," she says, using the Yiddish word for destiny. "I was in front of the house of... View Details
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
cooking takes place in an open fire in an enclosed hut. Sometimes the smoke is used to cure foodstuff that hangs at the top part of the hut. So you can't effectively resolve issues until you see them in context. But at same time, that may... View Details
- 30 Sep 2024
- News
The Making of a Streaming Sensation
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: When the Netflix series Geek Girl debuted this summer, it quickly became the second most-watched show globally on the platform. Based on the young adult book series by author Holly Smale about... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Far as the Eye Can See: A History of Seeing by Susan M. Denham (MBA 1993) The History Press From the mastery of fire a million years ago, humans have repeatedly invented new ways to see their... View Details
- 17 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers
children. Volvo's latest goal is that no one should die in a Volvo car after 2020. Most firms just quietly test their products and services, receiving the blessing of Underwriters Laboratories, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, or the local View Details
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The Case Method | MBA
something about it. Jan W. Rivkin C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration Play Faculty Perspectives on the HBS Case Method video Play Video duration: 2:59 Alumni Perspectives You walk into work every morning and it's like a View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Joss Kent (MBA 1997)
Joss Kent’s (MBA 1997) first memories are of being on safari. “I remember the smoke rising from the fire to boil water,” says Kent. Safari was the family business: His grandparents and father founded luxury adventure-travel company... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
investors, or other members of development teams. Firing Back by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld (MBA ’78, DBA ’81) and Andrew Ward (HBS Press) The authors lay out a novel five-step recovery process to rescue a career: “Fight, not flight” (face the... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
early December, the board fired Wallace as CEO. A few weeks later, the company closed for good. It isn’t the sort of story that alumni like to trumpet when they return to their alma mater. But today, that is why Christina Wallace is back... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 05 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Closing the Education Gap with Kei Takatsuka (MBA 2022)
curriculum that could help close the gender gap by encouraging STEM education set a fire in my heart.” Looking Ahead Clearly, Takatsuka is making the most of the summer between RC and EC year, building startup experience and working to... View Details
- 16 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard
Way Millions Shop, and I had the opportunity to interview Alexandra. Learning more about what she gained from her experience at HBS inspired me to give business school a real look.” Once Girard landed at HBS, she experienced what so many students do. “It was like... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
economic systems in ways that could well present unknowable threats to many of us. The threats are not certain. The victims are not known. But a fire is burning, and the smoke is swirling. The EIA/IEA reports also tell us-by country and... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- What Do You Think?
Dot.Com Shakeout: Chess or Roulette?
small amounts of money for control of the most promising dot.coms subject to this fire sale? On another level, the question might be raised whether or not this game resembles roulette. For example, the corporate histories of the most... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Taking Care to Prepare Leaders: Lessons in Leadership Development from DaVita Kidney Care
assigned full responsibility for a DaVita clinic. During their four-to-six month stint in the “Leadership Practicum,” Redwoods dive deep, empowered to hire and fire teammates, and manage finances. “Most importantly,” Coyle notes, “they... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
horses are fast enough for the decade to come. They pride themselves on being obsessive about managing for performance, on paying and promoting those who deliver while firing those who don’t. But often these kinds of companies think that... View Details
- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
own perspective on the city’s evolution as an entrepreneurial ecosystem. Emanuel, for example, cited an historic event that fostered the city’s resilient, civic-minded culture: the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Having the can-do attitude... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
Feet to the Fire The road to those rewards can be a bumpy one, but the Business Plan Contest gives participants a chance to test and hone their ideas. The founders of Bang Networks, the plan that took last year’s first prize, saw the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
satisfy finicky customers. It was a baptism by fire that gave Makarim the confidence to turn to Go-Jek full-time and reimagine the company as an app-based service similar to Uber. Uber, which launched in San Francisco in 2010 but had not... View Details
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
rewarding high-performing teachers, and retraining and/or firing badly performing teachers," the paper states. In the United States, India, and China, managerial use of incentives are much more common than the use of monitoring and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
organizational overhaul. Long-term coach Ron Rivera was fired and Matt Rhule was hired as the new head coach. Newton, having started only two games all last season, was in the last year on his contract. With his injury concerns, Carolina... View Details