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- 29 Jul 2013
- News
Opening New Markets for Black South African Winemakers
marketing director at L'Oreal, also serves as Heritage Link's CFO. The Cuffes have two sons.) Asked where she'll be in 10 years, Cuffe replies, "I think I'll be a serial entrepreneur, with the wine business going well but maybe other businesses within that portfolio.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
Toby Klein, postmarked Tubuai, French West Polynesia. Toby wrote, "Several years ago I told the world to go to hell and moved to Tubuai, French West Polynesia, where I fish in the sea, eat fruit that grows all around me, and live in the proverbial grass hut. Every... View Details
- 30 Sep 2024
- News
The Making of a Streaming Sensation
Disney+, HBO Max, Sky, BBC. There was a couple of things that both Holly and I felt very strongly about when we took the project out. One is that we wanted it to stay clean, okay? There's a type of teen show that's out there which... View Details
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a... View Details
- 01 Feb 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?
the perspective. Sandeep offered that one of the key factors to be considered global demographics. “You have an aging population in the West, which when coupled with increased barriers on cross border immigration would result in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions
A couple of years ago, hip-hop artist Macklemore topped the Billboard 100 chart with Thrift Shop, a paean to buying inexpensive used clothing from Goodwill Industries. Indeed, like the rapper, millions of people know Goodwill primarily as... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
key to the success of a large organization is the ability to make it seem small to employees. For example, Ken Iverson maintains that his company, Nucor Steel, should not have more than a couple hundred employees in any one of its... View Details
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off
naturally enough, driven by a transition to self-managed teams in production. Managers launched a program of team goals coupled with team-based pay with three possible levels of reward. Managers reckoned that 90 percent of teams could... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
4 Challenges All Early-Stage Startups Face
now discovered that cleverlayover could have saved them a couple hundred dollars. They would go home to tell their friends and family about the product, and we'd acquire users gradually through word-of-mouth. We received our lucky break... View Details
- 13 May 2025
- News
If I Knew Then
continuing the important relationships that you developed at school. And I’ve done that through my activities in the visiting committee, the Alumni Board, and then the Harvard Business School Club of New York, which I chaired for the last View Details
- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
school, always take the job that looks like it will be the most enjoyable. If it pays the most, you’re lucky. If it doesn’t, take it anyway. I took a severe pay cut to take each of the two best jobs I’ve ever had, and they both turned out to be exceptionally rewarding... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
wife also tend to 20 sheep, two alpacas, three dogs, and a cat. The couple grow their own produce and are awaiting the spoils of a recently planted truffle orchard. Gower says his time at HBS gave him the clarity to take that leap and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 22 Jul 2014
- Blog Post
From FIELD to Field, Putting What I’ve Learned at HBS into Practice
note, my HBS experience also never lets me forget that having fun is just as important of a success metric as any other. Here are a couple snapshots to explain why I may never leave Zambia (more on Google +). - Minh Chau, MBA 2015 View Details
- Profile
Carol Lauson
Seeking a holistic vision Right away, Carol knew she wanted an MBA program "strong on general management. I had a couple of mentors with HBS degrees and was impressed by their perspectives. They had a more holistic view of business... View Details
- 23 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
How I Structured My Second Year at HBS
differently, I would change a couple of things. First, I would have only registered for classes that were of high interest to me. In particular, I registered for one class because the material seemed important and it was a popular class,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty (MBA 1971)
quietly) and not to take things personally. Havens-Hasty married newspaper publisher Dozier Hasty in 1984. The couple has two sons, aged six and ten, who enjoy playing golf and chess with their parents. "We have a lot of help on the home... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 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
- 17 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Decoding the Artful Sidestep
topic to understand better. Q: How did you go about designing your study in order to get a handle on this topic? A: It actually took us a couple of tries to come up with this design. The challenge was coming up with an experimental design... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace