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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Northern California Initiative Reaches Out to Women, Girls
start of the two-day class, the teen girls had little understanding of the market, but, Schwartz recalls, “by the end of it, they were reading the stock pages and picking stocks. It was really exciting.” Thompson-Verga, who served as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
created value in the for-profit marketplace and want to take a similar approach with philanthropy," Emerson asserts. Joining this group of philanthropists are baby boomers, who are "entering their retirement years very engaged," Emerson notes. "They are not going to be... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
that he had called on, got the student to verify it, and asked for the pot. Peter Jones then asked if it meant that we had his tacit permission to play, and John’s response was that we were welcome to play as long as we did not mind losing consistently. View Details
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them
Fleet management is expensive; so is wireless technology. But in the end Immediate Response is a cost saver for Progressive. The staffer may write the customer a check on the spot and such quick assessments View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry
to come to HBS, specifically to be in Boston. What HBS resources have been most helpful to you in exploring your career options? Simply talking to people from different backgrounds and having open dialogues about this problem and what... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- Blog Post
Weekend Sprint: Accelerating Climate Solutions
in early-stage ClimateTech companies. To start off the day, Professor Jim Matheson provided critical background knowledge on the context of climate change, exploring both the key problems and opportunities that climate change presents.... View Details
- 19 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
HOW PART OF YOUR IDENTITY SEEMS TO GO AWAY AS YOU GO THROUGH THE ORIENTATION PROCESS.” Previous studies have shown that employees are especially productive and happy when employers encourage them to use their individual signature... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Gore All Business at HBS
how business and governments worldwide had worked together to resolve the ozone-depletion problem by tightening regulations and by eliminating the use of CFCs through improved and cost-saving industrial processes. Indeed, companies that... View Details
- 30 Jan 2012
- News
Shopping Around
‘contemplating’ a problem and confronting and resolving it.” As the driving force in McArthurGlen’s transformation from an entrepreneurial enterprise to a multinational real-estate development and management company, Calabrese has been... View Details
- 01 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Finding the Confidence to Apply to HBS
applying to b-school." And so on... I told others that it was not the right moment, and I told myself that I was not the right person. The people around me who believed in me most were the ones who ultimately talked me into applying. My partner View Details
- 24 May 2022
- Blog Post
Get to Know 2022 Class Day Student Speaker Peter James Kiernan
that with the immense challenges we were facing, despite our expanded emergency powers and ability to deploy resources, we couldn’t solve the problem ourselves,” said Kiernan. “We needed the private sector—manufacturers, hospitals,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
up there. Any one of them alone is taxing enough, but Monica Dodi has experienced all three in the past two years. Yet the unstoppable entertainment executive, now a single mom, is still smiling and upbeat. "I'm happy and where I want to... View Details
- 27 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?
ingredients for a romantic dinner, but ends up spending an hour comparison shopping for organic dog food and craft beer. A college student resolves to spend every Wednesday evening studying in the library, only to spend most of that time... View Details
- 09 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
its human capital," says Rivkin. "So if we're really falling down in that arena, we have an economic problem so important that business leaders can't sit on the sidelines." On the positive side, this could be a promising... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
accounting books and doing things that hurt a lot of people at the end of the day. On a personal level, I lost two children. My wife was expecting triplets. Happiness comes within. It doesn't matter what... View Details
- 12 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Spent this Summer Coding
entrepreneurs to build our own technical skillsets to become the person who can transform seedling ideas into actual offerings. When you're building, you're constantly expanding your understanding of both the problem and the solution.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
In the wake of the financial crisis and the massive federal response, it has become fashionable to declare that “too big to fail is too big to exist.” Powerful lawmakers and popular commentators regularly endorse this notion, promising to View Details
- 17 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission
charitable donations like a typical nonprofit would. Commercial microfinance organizations often adopt a hybrid model, for example: they provide business loans to poor people who wouldn't traditionally qualify, but they still depend on the loan recipients paying them... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
When Product Variety Backfires
Traditional wisdom teaches that brands win market share by offering a wide variety of products, increasing the chance of appealing to a wider variety of customers. But how happy are you when trying to find a head cold remedy at the... View Details
- Portrait Project
Tony Deifell
wrote, "you may not notice these cracks. They are a big problem since my walking cane gets stuck." I want to notice all the cracks in my world – the prejudice I still have about cultures I don't understand, the arrogance that I... View Details