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- 31 Jan 2018
- Blog Post
Tiffany Nida’s Amazon Journey: “I Continue to Grow Because They Keep Giving Me Responsibility.”
with tight margins: pet food, baby food, and beverages. But with great responsibility came great support. “We got a couple weeks of intensive training, plus ongoing training” over the next eighteen months, Tiffany says. Further, she was... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 22 Mar 2022
- News
Clubs Mark a Milestone and the Lunar New Year
not know each other, were born in the same remote town in China. “That was a weird coincidence,” says Montano, adding that she is now reading a book written by someone she met at the event. “It was a great feeling to be together for a View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
the Civil War era. Those trees are still home to bald eagles, dozens of species of migratory songbirds, and one of the largest blue heron nesting sites in the Chesapeake, with more than 400 blue heron couples in residence. Pat Coady (MBA... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. On this episode, we’re featuring an excerpt from a new HBS podcast called Think Big, Buy Small. The show is hosted by Professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff... View Details
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
architecture and IT agility. In particular, we use modular systems theory to examine how different types of coupling impact the ability to maintain, retire, and commission new software applications. We test our hypotheses with a unique... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
practices that companies can follow to put this into place: Link work to social purposes employees care about Recruit Holdings believes work should add value to society. It also operates under the philosophy that a good manager should figure out what an employee is... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
ideas, and one of these ideas was figuring out how [the Soconusco] could leverage Mexico's competitive advantage in export agriculture. So why not try coffee? Coffee for the masses had been a thing for a couple of decades at that point,... View Details
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
Furthermore, a text message coupled with peer pressure by a real-life savings buddy had no larger effect than a text message that simply informed participants of their own achievement and the success rate of others. "It could be that... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 16 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Creating a Candidate-Centered Recruiting Process
especially when coupled with a culture of active communication and connection with employees who work remotely. Companies who choose an in-person or hybrid model still should also be considering how their facilities meet employee needs.... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
later volunteered teaching at a prison. A couple of years after leaving HBS, I became interested in the idea of the ROI of higher ed; that a college degree used to be the best investment someone could make, and was quickly becoming one of... View Details
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
understanding. A focus on time allows us to synthesize and extend the evolutionary and positioning models of strategic search. Toward this end, we couple induction and deduction. The inductive part of the paper uses detailed observation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping the Beat
getting ready to tour in New York City and perform at the Fifth Avenue Apple Store, go to South by Southwest. This year I was invited to be a TED Fellow in the class of 2020 and speak on the TED mainstage in Vancouver, which happens in April. We had an incredible,... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?
couple of years to start getting traction on the data that has been published. Also, it will require significant investments in research to fill in all the "blank spots" in discovering how genes interact with proteins to govern... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Maxeme Tuchman
hurricanes, plus three different principals in one year." "Teaching in the classroom has a great impact," Max says, but by her second year of teaching "I knew I was made for district management; I could make a bigger difference by stepping up a... View Details
- 16 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Insights and Inspiration: A Look Back at the Summer Venture in Management Program
of more than 180 strangers to forming a special bond in just a couple of days. It was all transformative and surreal. Did SVMP change how you think about your future? Oh, for sure. Before SVMP, I did not have much knowledge of MBA... View Details
- 21 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Finding My North Star at the Crossroads of Profit and Purpose
a profound impact on me. I identified with the workers in Africa who were spending months away from their families. Stories about their children going to great colleges and jobs always warmed up my heart. My next couple of assignments... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Ken Baumgartner - Sticking with It
soon became very clear that Baumgartner had an undeniable talent for the game. After developing his skills in a Canadian junior league and in Europe, he put his full-time college plans on hold when he began playing with the Los Angeles Kings in 1988. “I figured I'd... View Details
- Profile
Fatou Bintou Sagnang
always talk about, and I experienced it here for the first couple of months," Fatou says. "But I sat down and told myself, you know what, I can't do everything. But I can focus on the few things I really have to do and do them... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Peter W. Olson: By the Book
says of his twelve-year stint in Japan and Germany. "My first marriage was to a Russian woman, so I also got to know the Soviet Union very well." He returned to the United States in 1989, when the eldest of their three children was 11 years old. The View Details
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Credit Flowing to Consumers in Need
modern-day doomsayers, referred to the specter of another Great Depression. This was not total hyperbole. While different analysts weighted the "fundamental" causes of the crisis differently, most recognized that the increased complexity of both financial... View Details