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- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
exposure to career opportunities in business than they did in areas such as law and medicine. That insight planted the seed for what would become Management Leadership for Tomorrow, or MLT. After leaving... View Details
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
keep its product pipeline on the cutting edge. The company also worked to integrate vertically-to own or control every viable piece of the supply chain-in an effort to manage the flower and produce businesses from View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2024
- News
My Worst Job
rotational program. And it was a trial by fire, because one of the rotations was at night, so I worked the graveyard shift, and I was a team supervisor in a plant environment, and I am not built to be nocturnal. It was horrible. I... View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
opportunistic low-ball offers. Working Papers The Effect of Management Control Elements on Coordination By: Bormann, Sara, Jan Bouwens, and Christian Hofmann Abstract—This study examines how control elements of a firm affect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
School Case 614-056 BGI: Data-driven Research BGI has the largest installed gene-sequencing capacity in the world, and to Zhang Gengyun, general manager of the Life Sciences Division, this represented an opportunity to apply his training... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
Authors:Laura Alfaro, Andrew Charlton, and Fabio Kanzcuk Abstract We investigate, using firm-level data for 79 developed and developing countries, whether differences in the allocation of resources across heterogeneous plants are a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
Security, Department of Defense, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and other agencies, describe how America’s electric infrastructure was critically unprepared for any number of natural and man-made threats, including solar storms,... View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
all over the world. By 1970, we had a factory in Holland serving Europe. In 1971, we started assembly plants in Australia and Japan.” He visited more than 50 countries, including many in the Middle East to take advantage of the oil boom.... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 02 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
ALUMNI WORK TO REVERSE BIAS THROUGH PHILANTHROPY
17 other executives of color from leading Massachusetts corporations. Pursuing an innovative, state-focused approach, the fund specifically targets Black- and brown-led nonprofits closely tied to the people and problems in under-resourced Massachusetts communities.... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
ready-to-heat soups, shipping an average of thirty thousand gallons each week. Shafir - himself a study in constant motion - plans to move his operation to a roomier location in nearby Chelsea early this year. Despite adding a $2.5 million liability to the company's... 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
- 16 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
where his passion for entrepreneurship was reignited and he founded a software company, Certant, in 1999 after graduation. Shortly thereafter, the dotcom bubble burst and Certant ran out of funding. However, the co-founders and team View Details
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
Hipotecario's management and shareholders need to come up with a plan that will satisfy creditors and keep the bank's business model intact. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
As for energy independence, Reinhardt says, “As Energy Future points out, there is no single answer, and I don’t think we can really declare anything off the table. That includes nuclear, despite its flaws, because of its potential for replacing coal-fired View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
preclinical studies in animal models including Alzheimer’s disease, cardiovascular disease, multiple sclerosis, melanoma, and breast cancer. Skouras launched Olatec in 2008 after founding Global Reach Management Company following a decade... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
brain-like?” And that, she says, is the key not only to better AI, but to a better understanding of what makes us human. When Dubinsky declares something to be the next big thing, it isn’t empty Valley bravado. She has worked at the forefront of personal computing at... View Details
- 03 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Faculty Spotlight: Professor Jurgen Weiss
every general manager understands the role of energy in the world. Part of the course will explore how energy enables our prosperity, enables our economic activity. But I want to spend the bulk of the time thinking about what kinds of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
Education Leadership Project (PELP), a collaborative effort with the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) that employs management concepts and entrepreneurial strategies to improve student performance in large school districts. But... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
combination offered by Ford Motor Company’s management training program. While he excelled at leading teams to solve engineering-based manufacturing problems, it was a stint in sales and marketing that changed his life. “I was on the job... View Details