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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
for every grade K–10, and recognizing that some students need a longer day or extended school year to meet those requirements; decentralizing decision-making and removing seniority from the union contract in the hiring of teachers;... View Details
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
into the business to the day the product departs the shipping dock. The researchers encouraged businesses to think of that order as the actual customer, and watched as they routed that person here and there among departments, perhaps... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 13 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Manufacturing
manufacturing want interactive sessions. They will do the upfront research on your company and what you do, then what they care most about during on-campus events is asking questions and learning more about your company culture and the... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
it? Tech didn’t always have a gender diversity problem, at least not by the numbers. In the early days of the industry, when computers were the size of rooms, not wristwatches, women had a significant presence in the field of computer... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
Publication:Pediatrics (forthcoming) Abstract Objective: To examine whether parents' delivery room management decisions for extremely preterm infants are influenced by (a) the degree of detail with which options-comfort care (CC) or... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
paid for the days they had worked, the district was completely out of money and had to lay everyone off. As people started to return to the city, the schools needed to be reopened. Given the condition of the district, in November 2005 the... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
the second day of the workshop, Popik met Steve Mott, a nuclear engineer who works at the Palo Verde Generating Station, in Arizona, the largest nuclear power complex in the United States. Mott told Popik about a particularly terrifying... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
two days a week from her country home and eventually left New York for good. Initially worried that she’d feel isolated in the country, Reade laughs and confides: “I met more people here my first week than in my nine years in New York.”... View Details
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The "Skype" of broadband, offering free Internet service. On an April morning known as "Super... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
Africa. We hiked for about eight days in the bush, far removed from any civilization. No roads. No cabins. Slept under the stars in between the animals. And one day, our guides told us we were going to hike to find some fresh drinking... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
Dean Nitin Nohria. “He cared deeply about every member of the HBS community and believed in the School’s ability to transform lives. By encouraging us all to dream big dreams—in effect, spurring our intellectual ambition—he set the School... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- Web
1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) | MBA
report all of their absences in advance of class into the Student Absence Notification Tool. It is important to note that Immersive Field Course class days are not eligible for excused recruiting absences, and all recruiting absences on... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
Crisis in Health Care Authors:Robert S. Kaplan and Michael E. Porter Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 9 (September 2011) Abstract Existing health care costing systems have serious flaws that make... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
been known to exist at least since the days of Marshall, Michael Porter's work, first in The Competitive Advantage of Nations (Porter, 1990) and then in On Competition (originally published in 1998; updated edition in Porter, 2008), has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
activity pales in comparison to what's happening today on the Internet," says Sahlman. "Whereas in the early days of the microprocessor, for example, it was expensive and complicated to buy computers, develop software, and break into the... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
out an application in minutes, and get an answer the same day and money in their bank account the next day, they flocked to the new lenders. Some issues arose quickly, though, such as high prices and bad actors charging hidden fees. The... View Details
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
Research Triangle in North Carolina think very hard about focus in order to create a virtuous cycle of complementary successful ventures. The results have been extraordinary. A generation ago, it would have seemed farfetched to predict that Raleigh-Durham would one... View Details
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
paper, we investigate how these two strategies may bring different benefits within the same day and across days. Additionally, we examine the impact of these strategies on both worker productivity and workers' likelihood of staying at a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Connie Baher (MBA 1980) Independently Published Told through the voices of family caregivers and counselors, this guide gives you straight talk and wise words that will help you make your way through the toughest—and possibly most rewarding—job you’ll ever have. If... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
brakes, they would sprint to take care of the problem and make sure we were able to continue moving. After four days we reached An Najaf. We were just getting ready to set up our logistical base and begin... View Details