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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
and cutting wages, this will reduce the purchasing power of Americans, shrink the tax base, and eventually undermine the business environment in America. Conversely, if workers get higher pay while American-based companies are not able to... View Details
- 29 Jul 2021
- News
Support System
selling them. The problem these shea-nut pickers faced, says Naa-Sakle Akuete (MBA 2014), CEO and founder of Eu’Genia Shea and its Target-based sister brand, Mother’s Shea, is that they are largely women in villages without electricity and therefore lack access to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
travel from countries as far-off as Slovakia and Poland. The workers stay in dormitories — homes in town that the Husteads have renovated — for a nominal fee. “Getting and training good people is a core competency for us,” Hustead... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
pandemic. The program provides an opportunity for students to develop skills and knowledge while having significant responsibility and high impact. This summer, HBS is supporting a record 162 Social Enterprise Summer Fellows, with many of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
incorporates human rights, development, and health issues — it’s the ultimate strategic challenge.” At the Kennedy School workshop, participants discussed a case coauthored by Barrett and Ballou-Aares on Heineken’s efforts to implement an HIV/AIDS program for their... View Details
- 17 Jul 2020
- News
Support System
the foundations of these communities.” The problem these shea-nut pickers faced, says Akuete, CEO and founder of Eu’Genia Shea and its Target-based sister brand, Mother’s Shea, is that they are largely women in villages without electricity and therefore lack access to... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 14 Oct 2020
- News
Sewn with Love
affecting the entire world at once. The women at FGFH recognized an opportunity for impact when they began to hear stories of the massive shortages of personal protective equipment for front-line medical workers and to see images of... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
turn, moving ideas on new paths to market and perhaps even publishing research to enhance industry knowledge will provide new and important ways for companies to realize the value of their discoveries. — Laura Singleton (MBA ’88) Artful... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
feeling, so therefore it’s worthy of study. The second thing is figuring out that, when you study it, you get better at it. This is not of theoretical interest; the more you know, the happier you can get. When it turns out there is View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
Design Institute address these trends? KL: Our aspiration is to help invent the future of capitalism. Let’s figure out how companies can operate ethically with digital technologies and how we can get all of our workers trained up... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
companies like International Harvester and US Steel. But over time, automation steadily reduced the number of workers required to extract the mineral, while competition from natural gas and cheap, low-sulfur coal from out west did the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
employees of international firms, Neeley’s research also looks at how distant workers collaborate with colleagues through various means of communication—electronic, voice, or in person—to advance work and relationship goals. Such contacts... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
Although many executives feel an urgency to get people back into the office full-time to rekindle a sense of connection, Subramanian says the evidence suggests otherwise. On the flip side of the same coin, a Gartner survey of 4,500 View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
people’s “realtime” experiences as they worked on creative projects. What were you looking for, specifically? We wanted to get inside the hearts and minds of knowledge workers to better understand the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
describes as a “wonderful treasure trove of data.” “We have a window into how concrete events affected knowledge workers’ thoughts, perceptions, emotions, and motivations,” Amabile says. “We call this ‘inner work life,’ and we found that... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
the six-foot six-inch former Yale basketball player is conducting a whirlwind tour of the facility that houses Kettle Cuisine, Inc., the soup-making company Shafir has painstakingly nurtured since cofounding it in the mid-1980s. With View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
management role at the Wisconsin Public Service Corporation that included a team of 42 union and administrative workers spanning four counties. At 34, she was assigned line responsibility for electric line crews and gas technicians. “I... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 24 May 2017
- News
Angie Hicks, MBA 2000
relocating to Columbus, Ohio, where he had recently moved. Inspired by the difficulty he was having finding workers to renovate his house, he had a business idea that he wanted her to pursue. It was a referral agency for homeowners... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
plus parks, a museum, even a beer garden. "We are tackling one of our nation's biggest challenges, fixing health care," said President and CEO Jonathan Bush (MBA 1997), and creating a dedicatedspace where workers can be "creative,... View Details