Filter Results:
(789)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(789)
- People (1)
- News (205)
- Research (447)
- Multimedia (10)
- Faculty Publications (190)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(789)
- People (1)
- News (205)
- Research (447)
- Multimedia (10)
- Faculty Publications (190)
- 12 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
Does Your HQ Operation Fit With Corporate Strategy?
size of a company's headquarters—it could be that profitable companies waste their money on large headquarters—but it does suggest that companies should not necessarily be looking to minimize the size of their headquarters. Q: The lean... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
Process is essentially design thinking, and it’s the framework that I live by to create, pilot, test, and iterate the products and insights... View Details
- Profile
David A. Frankel
failures,” Frankel recalled. One success was Healthbridge, which grew into the largest independent healthcare data processing company in Africa. Despite his obvious entrepreneurial and investing skills,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
FBC project should look like. Rather, NASA forced its managers and contractors to invent new processes and procedures by imposing a set of budget, time, View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Jeremy Andrus
Skullcandy sponsors leading surf and skate teams and partners with prominent athletes, such as NBA stars James Harden and Kevin Durant, and... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
change fast enough for the U.S. to have the workers it needs in any near-term way.” Tema Frank went even further, commenting that “ we are still reliant on the human factor so a lot of potential productivity is wasted through bad... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
spent? For the most part, yes. Look at all the things we get for our taxes: education, police, the military, environmental protection, and hundreds of other things. True, a portion of it gets wasted because... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
market, then investors, employees, intermediaries such as law firms and data providers, and the wider capital markets are likely to be knowledgeable about the venturing process... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
multiple charges of bribery, conspiracy, racketeering, and tax fraud. More recently, there’s the Scranton School Board. In October 2017, a scathing 107-page report from the state auditor general for July 2012 to June 2016 uncovered... View Details
- Web
For Guests | Commencement 2025
guests to reduce bottled water plastic waste; donating leftover food to Food for Free ; providing waste sorting stations to divert usable resources from trash into the recycle and compost (which is... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
IBM team pitched their superiors on the company building a computer that could compete on Jeopardy!. It was bold, even risky; Jeopardy! was the ur–game show of idioms and double meanings. Building software for natural-language View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
says. When they looked more closely at the data, they realized that candidates were spending more time in areas characterized by high past turnout. The researchers surmise that the politicians were wasting time View Details
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
people, how to have a good investment committee, how to figure out what was the right type of thing to be buying at the right time. We had a great conversation. In the middle of it I tried to sell him some products, which I normally would do, View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
beach person and I'm not really a beach person. We're wonderfully compatible, but that's not an area. But I do want to support beach vacations. And part of it is it just it kind of feels like I'm View Details
- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
doubt, create small experiments. Pick one loaded for success that doesn't require much change and one that demonstrates the virtues of changing. Don't bet the company, and don't View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
waste, and have significantly lower rates of waste than the national average.” Kendall says the foundation’s multi-year, $485,000 grant to the university has helped it develop new relationships with local... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
Photography by Brandon Patoc You think the traffic is bad where you live? Be glad you don’t live in London, where the average driver wastes 101 hours a year—the most of any city in Europe—stuck in traffic, according to the Traffic... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
current environment. The way that we're seeing it as an opportunity to learn from how to help people make effective changes that align with this new time and how they want to live their lives. For instance, we just did a piece last week... View Details
- Web
Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Bryant & Sturgis (Boston, Mass.) records Mss:766 1801-1872 17 volumes Collection Guide Bryant & Sturgis was a Boston-based merchant shipping firm engaged in China, trading mostly in lumber, tea, and opium. The records of Bryant & Sturgis... View Details
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
cuisine, right? But back then, I didn't see it as that useful. I thought it was a waste of time. And then, number three is Yunnan people are very home proud. If you ask anybody where you are from in the... View Details