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- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Get Off the Dime!
this. Technology offers us an opportunity . . . ." Charts, graphs, and flowcharts spelled this out clearly. The executive team listened. There were questions at the meeting. "How long will this take?" "Who else has used this software?"... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
mechanical engineering courses at Northeastern University, and two years as a second lieutenant in the Army (“doing a major’s job”)—proved to be ideal credentials for Knott’s eventual role as founder, president, and CEO of Riverdale Mills... View Details
- 27 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences
different than other places, and I also felt that it is very important for Americans to understand Muslim countries. (We have also been, or will be, in India, China, Latin America, Japan, sub-Saharan Africa, and Eastern Europe, as well as... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Karen Tumulty Reports on America
expect doom and gloom or world-weary cynicism? Maybe it's because being an inside witness to the good, the bad, and the ugly provides such fascinating raw material for Tumulty to work with as she carries out her mission: interpreting the... View Details
- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
in several respects. It is two-tiered, employs an ESOP as the acquisition vehicle, involves a high degree of leverage as well as the significant asset sales, and Zell himself will own almost no common stock in the post-deal Tribune. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
unrest. After exploring the scenario, Siris gave a sobering view of the current state of our electoral system, as well as potential solutions. “REN is scrupulously nonpartisan, and Peter is a great presenter,” says Sheets. “Dallas is the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Web
HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
Need-based tuition assistance, long a hallmark of HBS, remains a strategic priority for the School. This support, made possible through the generosity of donors, underscores the School’s commitment to invest in the future of students for whom business school would... View Details
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
Despite this upheaval, it seemed some businesses were immune to the digital onslaught—companies whose products and services couldn't be easily turned into 1's and 0's and put online. "A television set can't View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
his manager's approval—from the cash register. That practice is a gray zone, but would hardly qualify as a moral one. By contrast, the same employee setting aside a clothing item in a storage room to later purchase for himself when the item will View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to rock the workplace with no end in sight, leaving business leaders to struggle with a wide variety of challenges, including keeping staff members happily engaged—and employed. To make sense of the pandemic’s impact on workers—both on... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
improvements lagged well behind automobile production, stalled by conflicts over where they should be built, who should control them, and how they should be funded. Finally, in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
that kind of one-sided knowledge. The Farmers Business Network (FBN), cofounded by Baron, agriculture investor and entrepreneur Amol Deshpande, and several farmers, has emerged in a period of particular crisis for the American farmer. They are View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
communication flow. Environments where risk-taking is championed and visibly rewarded rather than punished, where leaders have good personal as well as technical skills, and where factors that create psychological distance between bosses... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 14 Apr 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)
a more personal note, my 12-year-old son benefits from my experience with Mike. My son and Mike are very different, so I have to be careful not to expect my son to listen as well as Mike did, but the same... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
After the Storm
external affairs officer, she became the first person of color to join Noble’s leadership—even though 98 percent of the network’s students come from communities of color. Within the next few years, a perfect storm of challenges began to take shape. “I would even say a... View Details
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
likely to be transferred if politicians have alternative means of control through subordinate politicians. Districts with higher rates of politically induced bureaucrat transfers are somewhat less successful in poverty reduction over the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2017
- Research Event
The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy
mission is to bring together leading scholars and business practitioners to study and shape the digital transformation of the economy. Accordingly, “Beyond Chicken and Egg” included three industry executives, as well as two academics who... View Details
- Web
Women's History Month | Baker Library
students and alumni, as well as on access to business content to the Harvard University community at large. Largest Minority/Women-Owned Businesses in Massachusetts by Revenue The Boston Business Journal, which is part of American City... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
Visiting the doctor can sometimes feel like being slammed down on an assembly line: Make co-pay. Check vitals. Diagnose the problem. Get a prescription. Next! The fee-for-service model of American medicine doesn’t put much value on long... View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Center Focuses on Europe
to have an HBS case written about them? Isn't it very unusual to be studied up-close in this fashion? Dessain: The Harvard Business School name is well known in Europe, but there are still a relatively small... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell