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February 2022
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US Foods: Driving Post-Pandemic Success?

By: David E. Bell, Olivia Hull and Amy Klopfenstein

In November 2021, US Foods CEO Pietro Satriano must decide his company’s trajectory following the COVID-19 pandemic. US Foods suffered due to business closures and social distancing during the height of the pandemic. While the situation improved following the return of... View Details

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04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

interact in large, contemporary organizations is not well understood. We argue that organizational structures and geography delimit opportunities for interaction such that actors have a greater level of discretion to choose their interaction partners within business... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

August 2023
Case

Beamery: Using Skills and AI to Modernize HR

By: Boris Groysberg, Alexis Lefort, Susan Pinckney and Carolina Bartunek

Unicorn human relationships startup Beamery evaluates it's growth versus depth strategy as its strategic partners and customers could become future competitors in a quickly changing AI based human resources and talent management industry View Details

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10 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business

that fuel this new dual system in Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World, released this week. The book is Kotter's latest to address large-scale organizational change. Fifteen years ago, in Leading Change, Kotter View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

03 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

Conduct, your jobs are secure. This decision was made with 100 percent support of the Firm’s Operating Committee. At the end of this year, we will know what we are dealing with, and hopefully, the economy will be on the mend by then.”... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

01 Jun 2023
News

Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan

Rumi Spice, a venture they incubated at the Harvard Innovation Labs in 2015, which brings saffron and other spices from Afghanistan to market in the United States and provides jobs for more than 1,500 farmers and other workers in the... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

17 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?

feet up, and coast through their Golden Years. Like a boiling kettle removed from the burner, most retirees initially feel a blissful release from intense pressure when 40 or more hours are no longer dedicated to a job each week. An empty... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Entertainment & Recreation

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Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online

earns you a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online. What you earn . Overview Syllabus Enrollment Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Become fluent in disruptive innovation theory Assess new opportunities and potential threats Discover View Details

22 Dec 2020
Blog Post

The Forward Fellowship Convinced Me That I Belong at HBS

grad school. I had accepted an offer to move to Miami and work at Restaurant Brands International (Burger King, Tim Hortons, Popeyes) in their Leadership Development Program. While I was honored and excited about the opportunity, I... View Details

20 Apr 2021
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A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success

design, but just look at their faces, beaming with pride and anticipation! Or online, head over to Facebook and Instagram, where you will see other instances of value creation. Look at the pictures and videos your friends post when they receive a coveted View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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US Business Immigration Overview - Alumni

requires that an employer place 2 Sunday print newspaper advertisements for the offered position and also document at least 3 of the following additional recruitment efforts:. Posting the position on the employer's web site Participation... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock

constant tension between employees and management. “We lived through a lot of strikes,” Stavros says. One of the changes the union was advocating for was profit sharing with hourly employees. “Can you believe I have no incentive to care about doing the View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

15 Dec 2023
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Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

years. We started our fund at zero, and we’re now worth $3.1 Billion. We’ve had a hand in creating more than 150 millionaires, a few billionaires, and hundreds of thousands of jobs. The continent offers huge opportunities in whatever... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

15 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

history of this American corporate icon. The U.S. cannot afford to lose the thousands of middle-class jobs of GM workers and management, nor the cutting edge R&D that GM does with its suppliers and partner universities. GM faces a... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

12 Mar 2021
News

My Favorite Case

entrepreneurial culture relative to its Wall Street counterparts, but competition in the investment banking industry is intensifying in 1997 due to a wave of mega-mergers. The new combined banking entities are able to offer customers a... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

When Benchmarks Don’t Work

proposition offered by the two clothing retailers is so different that one cannot learn much from comparing the aggregate cost of servicing customers at the two companies. Armani would probably not benefit from studying Wal-Mart's selling... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service

04 Oct 2022
What Do You Think?

Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?

the supply-demand ratio for talent? Will the need for recognition and advancement on the job lure people back to the office? Or have the attractions of working at home changed the job satisfaction equation... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Balancing Work & Life - Alumni

with a more stable job with more predictable schedules and income. Build out your support team You (and your partner) may be able to “outsource” the tasks that would otherwise put stressful pressures on your time. Look for opportunities... View Details

19 May 2021
Op-Ed

Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career

Accomplishing that requires permanent, work-based learning programs that support educators’ degree-granting programs and employers’ hiring strategies. Closing the gaps and reducing the frictions between completing one’s education and starting a View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson

28 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets

when big scandals happen, like Enron and WorldCom, the weak link often turns out to be auditors. Managers are mostly truth-tellers but have incentives to embellish and sometimes commit fraud. So we rely on auditors to mitigate that problem. Auditors’ incentive to do a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Accounting

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