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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges
next day, three major buildings lay in ruins, and some three thousand workers faced the prospect of losing their jobs. But not only did Malden Mills' CEO Aaron Feurstein vow to rebuild his facility, he also promised to pay his View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 16 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #9: Shelly Xu (MBA 2021) Reducing Waste Through Beautiful Design
local workers who are deemed “climate refugees.” You can purchase them on her website. In the year and a half since her 2021 HBS graduation, Shelly has raised $1.2 million in an oversubscribed pre-seed round funded largely by customers... View Details
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
workers; and the production of knowledge, including the idea of the economy, among other topics. Together, the essays suggest emerging themes in the field: a fascination with capitalism as it is made by political authority, how it is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Flying High
didn’t ground demand,” she notes. “The demand was still there, especially for products like ours that limited your exposure.” When passenger air travel neared pre-pandemic levels in 2022, Aero discovered another advantage. With commercial... View Details
Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation
- 29 Jul 2021
- News
Support System
To the people of Ghana, shea butter is known as “women’s gold.” Used for everything from stretch marks to diaper rash, it’s a go-to product in high demand. And it offers employment opportunities for women willing to survey shea-nut trees... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
is the Bakken formation, a 25,000-square-mile underground deposit that—thanks to a rise in fracking and new oil extraction technologies—has produced as much as 1 million barrels of oil and gas a day, or about the production equivalent of... View Details
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
Sucher: Dust off that COVID playbook After the June 27 debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, 64 percent of 1,024 US workers surveyed reported suffering—or seeing others suffer—poor treatment at work for... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
workers always being “on”? There’s lots of evidence that working more doesn’t necessarily mean working better. With projects that require creativity, teamwork, and innovation, you come to a point where working more has diminishing... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- Op-Ed
4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World
with ideas, solutions, information, and energy that feed into their decision-making processes. Over the years, I’ve witnessed my own students convince senior executives to improve labor practices in the supply chain and workplace that end up improving View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
acquisitions. Today, the company Parker leads from its headquarters in Bradenton, Florida, offers a wide range of products to protect people and property, has 6,500 employees, operates in 35 countries, and generates annual sales... View Details
- Web
Caterpillar Tractor Co. - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
the world’s leading manufacturers of tractors, was formed in 1925. From early on the company mounted extensive marketing campaigns advertising their products for farming, logging, quarrying, mining, road building, and construction. Over... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
susceptible to everything from intellectual property theft to uneven product quality. But the novel coronavirus created chasms. “One thing that COVID-19 revealed is the extent to which business systems were predicated on global supply... View Details
- 25 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK
Behavior and Human Decision Processes. The benefits of talking it out Zlatev and colleagues conducted six studies involving a total of about 2,500 participants between 2018 and 2020. The results indicated that: Workers trust colleagues... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
Skullcandy products are currently distributed in over 70 countries, a number that expands every month. So a major challenge for us is how to establish our brand in each local market. Good brands are globally consistent, but they’re... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Past Informs the Future of Work
technology management, and robotics to simplify and automate support activities. He also addressed dilemmas about whether to allow each division to adopt innovation at its own pace or institute it simultaneously company-wide, and the obligation of leaders to View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A CEO Goes Undercover
employees. But I was also reminded that the enthusiasm our guests feel about our parks won’t rise any higher than the enthusiasm of our employees. And it is my job as their leader to be our employees’ champion — to ensure their well-being and remove obstacles so they... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
and cool-headed they were, as was typical of men in other dangerous workplaces, platform workers readily acknowledged their physical limitations, publicly admitted their mistakes, and openly attended to their own and others' feelings.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy
and more companies have adopted a service management view of the world, which means being locally responsive to customers. As a result, firms have to decentralize and encourage their frontline employees to make decisions on their own. To do that effectively, View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert Simons
- 27 Sep 2021
- News
Sewn with Love
When Kikka Hanazawa (MBA 2002), CEO of VPL, a women’s underwear and athleisure company, heard stories of the shortages of personal protective equipment for front-line medical workers faced with the coronavirus crisis, the fashion-industry... View Details
- 20 May 2013
- Op-Ed
Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again
competitive global economy, US manufacturing can thrive only if it is at the leading edge of knowledge. History provides some guidelines for making sure the NNMI lives up to its potential: Have a broad agenda: Government-funded research is most View Details