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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
York after graduating from college. Then, in 1988, Ferguson and Keith Clinkscales (MBA 1990) founded Urban Profile, a lifestyle magazine for young African-American professionals. “We didn’t consider printing costs or subscribers,” Ferguson remarks. “It’s View Details
- 28 Mar 2012
- What Do You Think?
Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?
both the public and private sectors while continuing to support an apprentice system. Service sector research indicates that all developing economies are experiencing increases in the proportion of service sector jobs, while jobs that "make things" shrink toward some... View Details
- 12 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster
they need is probably not a panel discussion. Rather they need someone with a high degree of expertise and lived experience in the field to brainstorm individually around their challenge. These resources sit on top of the foundational... View Details
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win
touch something you have to give it energy.— Howard Stevenson "If all that matters to you is your success as a businessperson, you're probably not going to be as likely to create a legacy among your followers, because you're not... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Come Sail Away
When Michael Sard (MBA 2018) arrived at HBS, he owned about 50 Hawaiian shirts. “It was one of the few items in a man’s closet that could have a ritual to it around going out, like a tuxedo does,” he says. Purchase options, however, seemed limited to two extremes:... View Details
- 23 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Arla Foods: How Sustainable Can A Dairy Company Be?
switch to alternative dairy products, whether for health, price or sustainability reasons. This transition will likely occur slowly and alternative dairy products probably won’t ever fully replace animal dairy products, but we feel that... View Details
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
fade after this contagion, but there will probably be more outbreaks in the decades to come. This means that we can expect our physical structures to change, too. Think of the extension of today’s airport and courthouse security... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator
thought, hmmm, it's probably people who are up for tenure soon, or maybe it's the people who just graduated, and they want to get their name out there," Larkin says. "We were thinking very much along the traditional economic model--people... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?
product. Others were less negative, arguing that the Company probably had to do what it was doing to “stay in the game.” The Company’s management faced a major decision. On the one hand, it could unwind the effort to begin production in... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Box Office Power of Stars
We all understand at some level that stars in the worlds of film, sports, and even business create results. If you want big box office for Pirates of the Caribbean, it probably pays to sign Johnny Depp to play the lead. But Harvard... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
complained that when they started, they were "blissful in their ignorance." But after this sustained development, they could now see problems, root down to their probable cause, design solutions, but the team members couldn't... View Details
- 16 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?
risk considered plausible. It assigned a probability of 11 percent to such a pandemic (against, for instance, a 19 percent assigned to global energy shortage or a 17 percent assigned to shortage of labor), making it not really that rare... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 May 2025
- Blog Post
How to Work with Search Firms
out The position they were calling about A sample conversation might go like this: "About two years ago you called me about a CFO position in East Overshoe, Minnesota. After some conversation we agreed that this probably was not a good... View Details
- 14 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Veteran Financial Aid Outlook
are paid very generously. I probably should have put mine towards tuition, but I decided to travel over winter break and chose to put much of it toward travel. Now for some tough love. Harvard’s Financial Aid model is need-based and... View Details
- 03 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?
“I think the digital nomads are probably more likely to be Millennials, early career workers who want to travel the world and work, or empty nesters,” Choudhury says. Several countries, including Croatia, Estonia, Germany, Mexico, Norway,... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 02 Aug 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: Why Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees?
“Engagement comes from spirit, and if the organization has little or no spirit—if it see mission as simply ‘maximizing shareholder value’—then engagement will remain an elusive thing.” George Yurieff added that “as long as the order entry numbers are on (or over)... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
and mortgage and automobile companies employed—approaches that are diametrically opposite to those outlined in my book and discussed here. These firms did dumb things because their leaders did not make the principled choices outlined above. View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War
Tigers. "Consumer product markets in Vietnam are starting to reach capacity, but if you look at companies in the intermediate manufacturing sectors, such as those that serve the car and television industries, there will be many opportunities," she says. "Our... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)
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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Elfers (HBS MBA '43), Henry Hoagland (HBS MBA '39), and Charles Waite (HBS MBA '59)–would come to work for ARD. "[Doriot] probably had more to do with the formation of this business than any other single person," Waite notes. "[I]t was... View Details
- 22 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Side Effects: The Case of Propecia
detailing is 5 percent to 7 percent more effective in driving share growth, she said. And what about that claim that 75 percent of doctors will write a prescription if the patient asks for it by name? "Not really," Wosinska said. DTCA creates drug awareness... View Details