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Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry - Course Catalog
in their life and 1 in 3 Americans having their first job experience in a restaurant. Restaurants have provided significant management and ownership opportunities for women and minorities. Restaurants are also big business. In 2024, US... View Details
- 12 Feb 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
Mendhro grew up with a desire to learn and experience the world, she had no formal opportunities to do so. “My brother and I would wake up in the morning and explore. It was self-learning,” she says. “Education became a personal goal and... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
Paul Callahan (MBA 1992) is the captain of his own fate. A freak accident at age 21 left him a quadriplegic. That transformative moment led him, ultimately, to take the helm of Sail to Prevail, a nonprofit that helps disabled children and adults to View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 14 May 2020
- Blog Post
A PRIDE Farewell
PRIDE, releasing a new visual identity and mission statement, to better represent the diverse gender identities and sexual orientations of our members. Created categories of membership to better protect member privacy and respect the... View Details
- Profile
Funa Maduka
For many ambitious college graduates, an offer from Goldman Sachs would be a dream come true. But for Funa Maduka, who felt drawn to "alleviating life's inequalities," the opportunity also represented "many sleepless... View Details
- 24 Feb 2011
- News
Show Time
be represented at the gala. One of this year’s nominees for Best Picture, Winter’s Bone, and Biutiful, nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, are both distributed by Roadside Attractions, cofounded by Eric D’Arbeloff (MBA ’93). A... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 03 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
What I Learned in the Peek Weekend STEM Cohort
of what you studied as an undergrad. The cohort experience was great. With so many STEM majors being represented we all immediately bonded over our tumultuous engineering (or other major) schooling. Despite... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence
participants - in similar positions in a broad range of businesses. Offered for the second time last spring, TGM brought together 43 senior-level general managers from more than a dozen countries, representing industries such as mining,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
institutions of our capitalist system, which, if ignored, can undermine the legitimacy of the system. I provide some ideas on how to fix the problem. Working Papers Curbing Adult Student Attrition: Evidence from a Field Experiment By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
Negotiators' efforts to advance their sides' interests almost always go hand in hand with management of conflict, both between the sides and within them. Often, negotiators or those they represent are already locked in adversarial... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Time to Trek
include Las Vegas, India, New York City, Israel, and Seattle, the treks provide a means for students to meet leaders in their field of interest and travel abroad to experience an increasingly global business world. About half of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
company returned to signage as well, but this time used licensed partners NeoLux (Korea), Midori Mark (Japan), and Motion Display (Sweden) to sell its trademark Ink-In-Motion displays for point of sale promotion. Wilcox recalls another near-death View Details
- Profile
Frank Mycroft
mindset, the willingness to look beyond tactical issues. "When I was at NASA," Frank explains, "I realized I was personally more geared toward strategic thinking. I didn't want to be the world's leading expert on designing one little widget." His... View Details
- 14 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Balancing Act: Kate Eberle Walker’s Action Plan for C-suite Diversity
looked at the company’s leadership ranks, she saw few women who could serve as role models and mentors. So when she was first assigned to a team led by another woman, the experience was revelatory. “I could see myself in that more senior... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
New Releases
The book represents a milestone in a lifelong personal spiritual odyssey, a process he likens to climbing a mountain with many paths to the top. Richly anecdotal, the volume provides examples of spiritual journeys drawn from literature... View Details
- 24 May 2018
- Blog Post
Win/Win Board Assignments: Expert Advice from Board Recruiter Julie Norris
kinds of hard skills and experiences one would curate on a resume, except with an eye toward a board post rather than a job. "We're talking about things like financial expertise that would help an audit committee, or HR View Details
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Community | MBA
interaction inside and outside the HBS classroom is enriched by classmates representing a variety of industries, countries, beliefs, and perspectives. For me, HBS has been all about the people and the shared View Details
- 15 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Prime Day: The Logic Behind a Retailer’s Made-up Holiday
skepticism about how the company would ever sustain charging such low prices, paired with free shipping. That early experiment has proven a huge success, as there are reported to be 40 million current Amazon Prime subscribers. Each... View Details
- 09 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
These Employers Pay Higher Salaries than Necessary
experience the employer has on the market” In this case, the employer is the shopper, and the freelancer has the information advantage—especially when working with a first-time employer. The result: The inexperienced employer tends to pay... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
represents a growing trend or an unsettling blip, but one thing is certain: As many changes as there have been in the film industry, more are sure to come as technology alters the way movies are made and how we watch them. The movies are... View Details