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  • 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

The system won the first annualHBS Association of Nigeria New Venture Competition for the West Africa region last year. Workers at a Nestlé distribution center in Lagos unload maize produced by one of Kola Masha's Babban Gona farms. But... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 07 Sep 2021
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Embracing Activism for Social Change

needed,” Mendu says. A third component of the initiative pairs mental health clinicians with outreach workers for the homeless to head off potential crises before they happen. “Our model was a program we researched in Houston that’s... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 26 Nov 2019
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Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream

of 2009 alone, Mills points out that 1.8 million small business jobs were lost. Heavily dependent on credit, small businesses were unable to access capital markets as banks reeled from the crisis and lending froze. With half of the View Details
Keywords: fintech; Artificial intelligence; Small business
  • 01 Jun 2002
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Up to the Challenge: Lori Schock - Listen and Learn

manufacturing workers on a computer system used for data reconciliation. The assignment proved challenging. “I was a total outsider running a class designed to change the work patterns of an experienced manufacturing team,” she grimaces.... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Brill
  • 17 Jul 2020
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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
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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
  • 24 May 2017
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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
  • 22 Feb 2022
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Vision: Learning Curve

math. They also had parents with the resources and knowledge to keep them academically engaged. Now the brother-and-sister team is trying to extend those same advantages to all Indian children through Rocket Learning, the edtech nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; education; entrepreneurship; startup; India; Educational Services
  • 01 Jun 2024
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The Exchange: Chance Encounters

to the office, when, and why. Based on my own research, especially in knowledge work, I’m not surprised that organizations are realizing they need workers to be physically present, in person, at least... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 01 Jun 2020
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Post-Office

cost of living is much cheaper. I think from both the company’s perspective and the workers’ perspective, this could be a win-win. Some CFOs and workers will see that and that will make this a more permanent phenomenon or a trend. The... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Remote work; COVID-19; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 01 Sep 2012
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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
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 30 Jun 2019
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Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo

enthusiastically showed him the parts and assemblies they are building for various aircraft and space vehicles, as well as industrial process controls. His interest and knowledge impressed everyone,” Sherrill adds. Shih says he jumped at... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 01 Mar 2023
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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
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 01 Mar 2007
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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
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 01 Feb 2000
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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
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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
  • 01 Mar 2007
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Security Chief

explains. “They were very entrepreneurial and had great niches. And now we have to pull all of them together to act as one company.” He reels off a trio of management challenges: retaining valued workers whose View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; technology-based security business; Management; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management
  • 01 Mar 2015
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A Boomtown's Echo

Beyond the Boom Senior Lecturer John Macomber The oil boom has lowered the unemployment rate in Williston, North Dakota, to less than 1 percent. “With respect to the city, if you want to diversify the economy and make it attractive to live here, then you have to make... View Details
Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining
  • 01 Jun 2003
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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
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Laura Singleton; Donald; Sull; Henry; Chesbrough; Rob; Austin; Leslie; Perlow; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Jun 2022
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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
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