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- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
University that provided 650 Boston teens with summer jobs and programs. Brooks then moved on to Citizens Bank as the senior vice president and director of charitable giving.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
out and possibly dealing with issues that are unexpected to put it mildly. What do you love about what you do? Ayr: I have a job where despite all the challenges that hit you each day when you wake up View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
for alumni approaching retirement: Cut back work hours gradually, develop outside interests, and consider serving in local or state government. “You can run for office, make a contribution, View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
Podolny: “As organizations have become flatter, those running them are looking for leaders who can see opportunities and address problems that cut across functional boundaries.” Even managers in large... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
In addition to its growth in manufacturing, India began grabbing headlines in the United States a few years ago for its sudden surge as a center of offshore IT work and business process outsourcing (BPO),... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
could have when I was running Yahoo!’s operations,” Decker says. She will devote part of her EiR year to helping with the MBA Silicon Valley Immersion Experience Program (IXP) in January and collaborating with faculty on cases related to... View Details
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
consequences of homer making seem cut and dried. But not so fast, says Harvard Business School assistant professor Michel Anteby. In interviews with retirees of the French Pierreville aeronautics plant,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
class with Professor George Lodge. Someone asked at the end of the class if "that was it are we finished?" Professor Lodge smiled and said, "No, it's just the beginning. We don't teach answers in this room; if you're lucky View Details
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
and users can choose to outsource or select an alternative service provider.7 Let's look at each of these conditions in turn. The first condition states that a constituent finds value in the firm's outputs.... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
or specific job history. Like Shackleton, today’s leaders need team members and other stakeholders who can acknowledge turbulence, embrace its opportunities, and meet its... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
industries for decades. And even though Mustapha and his sons had earned a reputation as hard workers, there was only so much they could produce within a system that left farmers either chronically... View Details
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
over the appropriate level of regulation. Many view the new entrants as disruptors of an old and inefficient marketplace and caution against regulating too early or aggressively for fear of View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
Some of this perception was likely a result of his public confidence. Some may have resulted from his bluntness and his stated intent to cut through the red tape of Washington, along with its perceived... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
as a Baker Scholar, in his spare time Rogers honed a system for trading over-the-counter stocks and left HBS with his bills paid and $50,000 in the bank. Eager to return to the Bay Area where he grew up,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
Photograph Courtesy Blink On June 10, 2008, two years and two days after receiving their HBS diplomas, Peter Leiman and Cameron Ogden (both MBA ’06) watched a Cessna Citation Mustang with four passengers... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
moderation policy, which is really important. You can only have community and belonging if you have safety and you have context and you have a well-moderated space, you need a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
project variables that can be changed are therefore the cost of the mission and its scope (or complexity). These two variables, in turn, influence the level of risk in the mission (i.e., the likelihood of errors). View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
leader. I traveled a lot with my father as he was starting manufacturing plants all over the country. Some years later we would go back and visit, and I saw the extraordinary impact that business could have... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
"considerable difficulty" in getting the magazine out on time, had cut the publication schedule to six times a year and set a subscription price of 75¢ a year, which was included in the $2 annual Alumni... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
is very granular. It's longitudinal, it breaks down by student, by geography. Pretty much any way you could cut it, it has good data. And for the longest time, we've been asking state leaders to make... View Details