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- 29 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age
and lawsuits—the cases against Uber being just the most visible. As the law stands, state officials deciding these cases face a purely binary choice: workers are either employees or independent contractors, with no in-between. That’s a big View Details
- 18 May 2021
- Book
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
for a company that's hiring like crazy More than a year into the pandemic, as the economy improves and recruiters begin to ramp up hiring again, Ng advises job seekers to zero in on companies that are advertising multiple openings.... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
clear-cut. “A problem with megatrend predictions is that, even if they turn out to be generally accurate, they’re not managerially useful.” In the first month of social distancing in the United States, online sales at Walmart and Target... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
linked to politics, economics, and ecology. Any bit of news, such as an oil tanker spill, a technical problem at a plant, or a political crisis in 1 of their sourcing countries, can send their share prices into a tailspin. Even good news... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
financial sector," he declared. Acknowledging that experience in other countries has shown that reform of the financial sector can be an arduous and complicated process, Sugisaki stressed, nonetheless, that Asia's problems in this area... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
valuable and transformative." Also last September, Acxiom unveiled its beta Audience Operating System, which allows marketers to connect traditionally disconnected data across all channels — online, offline, and mobile — and which Howe... View Details
- Web
From Concept to Product | Baker Library
wellbeing and advancement she nurtured. Inge Reethof remembered that “Everyone who would come to [Morse], with their shoulders hunched, came out 10 feet tall as if their problems were solved. . . . I respected her enormously and she... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
and teaching assistant-led problem sessions to multiple team projects and classic problem sets. Crimson Greetings One of the more memorable aspects of Foun-dations may have... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
the lab. In 2016 Lee and four Harvard cofounders launched DZD to apply genome sequencing and machine learning to the problem of growing antibiotic resistance. Their technology helps doctors diagnose life-threatening infections, like... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 04 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Think of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee
Oberholzer-Gee: “One of the fascinating things about newspaper economics is that, if you could magically jump into an all-digital future, you actually don’t need that big of an audience in order to survive.” Working Knowledge sat down... View Details
- 28 Feb 2011
- News
Rebooting the Human Condition
Enriquez: Exploring in Tuamotu Islands, French Polynesia. The future is so yesterday. It's already here, and everywhere around us. The problem is, most of us just can't see it. Fortunately, the future is on exhibit this week, and Juan... View Details
- 01 Oct 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?
of distribution (more transparency across multiple organizations in inventory management, lower inventory to sales ratios, fewer stockouts, etc.). Just as important was the question of who could lead the effort. Not surprisingly, it came... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Lessons from History - Creating Emerging Markets
watched a short video of Yusuf Hamied discussing the necessity of incremental innovation in the pharmaceuticals industry in the 2000s. Lively discussion then ensued, moderated by HBS Professors Tarun Khanna, Srikant Datar, and Geoffrey Jones. Each of the four panels... View Details
- 26 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade
provides the opportunity for a few faculty members to share recent work with an audience of doctoral students, staff members, and other professors. In a panel discussion, several professors shared the practical findings of recent field... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Vision: To Go-Go
make a go of it. They raised $500,000 from family and friends in 2019; picked up another $75,000 by winning the alumni track of the HBS New Venture Competition in 2020; and raised $4.5 million in seed funding three months later. Foodology solves the capital, risk, and... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
that we’re smart in the things we’re attacking, and to try to solve real-world problems that make an impact.” Watson General Manager David Kenny (MBA 1986) adds: “The tech sector tends to reward short-term thinking.” But Watson is... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
career studying technological change, Henderson has observed trends and common traits across a variety of industries. “I believe energy is the problem of our time.” And her message is optimistic. Moving to clean energy "is not... View Details
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
shift to professional management in 1983-1986; the Xerox acquisition in 1987; the MBO in 1993; and the ING acquisition in 1997. Presents the transactions from multiple points of view: the founders and their associates; the professional... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Preparing Our Students for a Changing World
participating in Israel: Startups and Venture Capital the experience of learning by doing in a country recognized globally as a tech hub. “I was fortunate to work with great teammates and an exciting partner —an automotive cybersecurity company at the cutting edge of a... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12
multiple sectors were managing through crisis, while building his own business acumen. Post HBS, Surette rejoined Parthenon for four years focusing on education and consumer goods consulting. Then when it came time to make another move,... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail