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- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
you. “I was here in years 2002, 2003, and 2004. We had one of the smallest classes of OPMers because many people couldn’t get their visas and many of their businesses failed. It was an extraordinary time of relationships and trust and... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. Later, as a student at HBS, Stavros studied ESOPs: their initial popularity among private equity firms and their dramatic decline in use in the late 1980s. Stavros concluded that broad-based ownership could be a View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
corn at Creighton University’s Heider College of Business, where he has been on the faculty for 15 years. He will tell you that corn’s symbiotic relationship with humans stretches back 10,000 years, originating in Mesoamerica and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
Mandela after the fall of apartheid. “David has acknowledged that it really changed his life,” says Tatum, who joined the NBA in 1999. “Mandela told him that sports had the power to change the world, and the commissioner came back with... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
largest public fast-charging network in the United States, which estimates that almost 5 percent of new vehicle purchases are electric today, and that electric vehicles will make up more than 40 percent of new light-duty vehicle sales in North America by 2030. The goal... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
their own priorities, was a time-consuming challenge for Enan, he recalls. “It was a real exercise in navigating various congressional committees and the general power structure in Washington,” Harmon says. “Enan’s ability to relate to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
Alcohol-related mistakes are tricky, with consequences that can be serious from both a health and a career perspective, but that experience showed me how important relationships are in a career. My colleagues had come to my help when I... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A World of Difference
expertise are not bad things, but sometimes they narrow the way we think about problems because we think we have the right answer. One of the stories that I included in my book Rebel Talent was about the airline pilot Captain “Sully” Sullenberger, who lost View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Firm Foundation
few investors were operators, and vice versa. “There’s not often a lot of respect or a lot of switching of skills in that space,” she says. “And yet, you’ve seen the power of it in venture.” Startup founders routinely go into venture... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
restorative power of Dlodlo’s unconventionally mission-driven and community-centered approach to redevelopment. “Working with Nadine has been a blessing,” says Donnell Nance, a Union Square homeowner and officer in the Southwest... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
environment has very different economics. Local news outlets that once relied on monopoly-pricing power on the print side, and to a certain extent on the circulation side, just don’t have that in the digital media space. With a shift in... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Rethinking Call Centers: Effective Delivery of Service is Key
services industry, where call centers have moved beyond their most obvious function -- as low-cost channels for resolving a myriad of customer concerns -- to become a powerful means of service delivery with the potential to generate... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Short Takes
these relationships began to cross the line from traditional philanthropy to more strategic and mutually beneficial alliances, HBS professor James E. Austin, head of the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise (ISE), took note. "Here was... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Books
institutions. These institutions represent powerful constraints on the ability of the government to fund reforms, of firms to write contracts, and of citizens to enforce their basic rights. Borrowing to Live: Consumer and Mortgage Credit... View Details
- 11 Jun 2015
- News
Making connections at Harvard and beyond
In his role as executive director of External Relations at HBS, Ralph James (MBA 1982) takes the work of developing connections to a whole new level. While embracing the work of building lasting relationships between the School and its... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
INK: Big News for Small Business
the US Small Business Administration says we are on the brink of a radical transformation. Fintech players like Amazon and Square, powered by big data and AI, have the potential to bring about a golden age for small business, she says,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 02 Jan 2019
- News
Not Waiting for Progress
financial services with the Capital Group Companies, attended the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, with some HBS friends. A believer since childhood in the power of storytelling on the big screen, Diamond was struck by the lack... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Changing Lives One Computer at a Time
otherwise have access to people of color who are professionals and who are successful in their careers. The individual attention has been a big factor." Those relationships have been as powerful for the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
became a high-volume, high-level matchmaker who was discreet, got things done quietly and effectively, and was remarkably successful. More than anything else, the power and stature Weinberg accumulated during the war years — plus his... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
Relationships as Valuable Assets, by Robert C. Blattberg, Gary Getz, and Jacquelyn S. Thomas, is the first book to provide a unifying framework and practical tools for measuring customer value — the potential profitability of each... View Details