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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
many organizers use high-pressure tactics to get cards signed. Probably the most damaging however is the impact unions have on innovation. Unions fight change — any change — on the factory floor. Over the years, management gives up trying... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
team, and using that to build the marketing plan,” says Flatley. It helps that they are neighbors at the company’s corporate headquarters in Oak Brook, about 10 miles west of Chicago. “We yell over the walls,” says Cunningham. “I probably... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
every time you put a product in market, you’d probably want a lot of eyes on it, too. But it also means you don’t get Nest. Venkat offers the FirstBuild production approach as a counter: To make a device that produces “nugget ice”—a more... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
the best things I've ever done. I learned that a well-managed nonprofit can do a lot of good. Ultimately, I'd like to be involved with a nonprofit, probably in Nigeria, perhaps devoted to the fight against AIDS." "The internship... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
role. “I probably wasn’t ready to quit cold turkey,” she says. “But to be honest, I’m not a good part-time person. I only operate at one speed. If I take on a task, I throw myself into it with a vengeance.” Before long, she recalls, her... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
was probably a pretty likable guy and much like his characters — funny, tenacious, and creative. And that’s the way he really is.” Hood is now completing her third year as CEO of the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
citizen, which equals about $490 billion in spending power. That’s an opportunity that many people don’t recognize. Our free-trial-to-conversion rate was above 80 percent for a long time; the industry average is about 33 percent. We think we have some pricing... View Details
- 31 May 2018
- News
Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
across eating disorders. And I'll talk to three of those, because I think anyone with an eating disorder can probably identify with one of these three. And the first one was I didn't know how to recover. I tried everything from... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
injection of venture capital, at least an equal number of entrepreneurs has probably turned to other resources such as savings, "angels," or even dear old Mom and Dad. Consider, for example, the tale of Thermo Electron's George N.... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
course for managers of all kinds of organizations," says Martin W. ("Marty") Rodgers (HBS '97). "There's a lot to be learned from nonprofits, particularly how to align your company's mission with its values." Entrepreneurial Marketing "Many MBA students have View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
ourselves,” Coup says. “We aim to be about twenty times our present size in five years in terms of sales. In terms of personnel, we’ll probably be only two or three times our current size.” Keeping the company in Boulder and operating... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
language of historical explanation, a major conflagration can start to seem unnervingly probable in our time, just as it turned out to be in 1914. Some may even be tempted to say that the surge of commodity prices in the period from 2003... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
picture. But if they aren't able to grow, they'll probably be bought," notes Hackett. Ocean Energy's most recent merger was with Seagull Energy in 1999, and Hackett foresees more such activity in the future. "Within the next three years,... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
mission. One applicant recalled that his interview with Shackleton was less than ten minutes long. During this time, the commander “asked me if my teeth were good, if I suffered from varicose veins, if I had a good temper, and if I could sing. At this question I View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
time she’s been doing research in this area—and what has remained the same. Lynn Paine: Probably the most obvious thing that has changed is the attitudes toward women and towards diversity in general. You know, back when Tosh joined her... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
accountability and people working together to solve problems. This is Chuck Callan, 1982. My first job-- oh, that's going back a ways. Well, I guess I was somewhat industrious as a kid and I used to rake leaves and stack wood, cut grass for people in the neighborhood... View Details
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
whose numbers you use, it doesn't really matter, but the probability that you'll be successful is somewhere between 10% and 30%. And why is that? If it truly is a crapshoot, then it means that you just have to throw the dice a lot in... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
lot of these things in place. Hanna: And you've been involved in this work for about 10 years now, which is quite a bit longer than you probably anticipated. Langford: That's right. Hanna: Why do you do it? Langford: Well, it's a good... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
and CEO Barry Diller. Mr. Diller was and is a brilliant businessman, but we simply had different management styles—I was unhappy and resigned after about a year. Leaving a position like that was certainly a failure, in my eyes at least (and View Details
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