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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Faculty Books
activities? How does one evaluate the reasonableness of a manager’s performance on large projects where traditional outcome methods don’t seem to apply? HBS emeritus professor Fox and his coauthor answer these questions based on records and View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- News
Helping vets become resident landlords
after finding the vets and educating them to the opportunity that they have this no-money-down, resident-landlordship opportunity. “We have 350 vets in the pipeline. We have nine prequalified to buy property. And we have six actively shopping, and we’re in 35 states.”... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Gardella Joins Alumni Career Services
ACS provides, Gardella (email: rgardella@hbs.edu) hopes to "add value to every alumni interaction" through services that help job-seekers sharpen résumés, improve interview skills, and conduct research on firms and careers. "My goal," he... View Details
Keywords: Caroline Chauncey
- 03 Nov 2020
- News
One Paramount Priority
In the four years since the last US presidential election, Diane Hessan (MBA 1977) has been interviewing more than 500 voters, talking about everything from gun control to COVID-19. This years-long project has made clear to Hessan that... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Changing Nature of Research
more data, faster and cheaper, so that we can make better decisions in real time, micro-targeted to a consumer or a patient,” he explains. For her multiyear study, Raffaella Sadun, the Thomas S. Murphy Associate Professor of Business Administration, View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- News
From the Ground Up
Paul Phillips (MBA 2003) is cofounder of Kai-Viti Water, which bottles and sells artesian water from the Fiji Islands. In this interview he talks about the company’s policy of dedicating profits from the company to support basic education... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Breakthrough International Negotiation
from a collection of diplomacy cases developed in the last decade. Through in-depth interviews with top diplomats and negotiators on the front lines of tense international conflicts, Watkins and Rosegrant have distilled a set of basic... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Transforming the IRS
think it’s fair to say that the IRS successfully copied many of the things that well-run big companies do. It’s an objective that’s often articulated but not often implemented in government. — Ann Cullen Read the entire HBS Working Knowledge View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
All in Good Time
from home after leaving the corporate world in 2004. When her workload overwhelmed her, she got some friends involved. “I realized that there were many other people who had the same need for flexibility,” O’Kelly says in a phone interview... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Booting Up
cater properly to larger-footed women. One day a shoe manufacturer finally said to me, 'Why don't you do something about that?'" Intrigued by the challenge, Thornton interviewed shoe retailers and manufacturers and even took a $6-an-hour... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
HBS Alums Help Jailhouse Entrepreneurs Go Straight
law-abiding start-up enterprises. The brainchild of former venture capitalist Catherine Rohr, who founded the program in 2004, PEP has seen dozens of participants benefit from its demanding regimen. Multiple interviews and tests are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Flex Time
elsewhere.” Many alumni interviewed for this article also mentioned the degree of flexibility manufacturing offers. Although Linda Katz (MBA 1994) of Molded Dimensions has been spending more time at home with the couple’s three children,... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
HBS Faculty Explore Ideas Around the World
interviews have been completed that provide a unique perspective on the last 40 years of business in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The majority of these are now available on the Creating Emerging Markets website as... View Details
Keywords: faculty research
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Analyze This
(239), Chile (159), Colombia (83), Ecuador (39), Peru (82), and Venezuela (85). On the African continent? Answer: South Africa (775), followed by Nigeria (239), the only other country in triple digits. It hasn’t always been this way. In fact, Dean Jay Light remarked in... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Cathy A. Nichols
shock, Nichols credits HBS with providing excellent skills and training for her subsequent career: consulting. After graduation and work as an investment banker in New York and Los Angeles, on a lark Nichols interviewed with McKinsey's... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Teaching and Learning Center Established, Honors Christensen’s Legacy
Harvard’s Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning (where Chris Christensen remains a revered figure); interviewing directors of teaching and learning centers around the country; and consulting with HBS faculty on what services are most... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Job Hunting in a Tight Market: Strength in Numbers
wants the reader to know. Thank-you notes after a job interview are ineffective. Instead, a job hunter must influence the hiring manager in any follow-up correspondence, addressing the key issues discussed in the meeting. Unemployed job... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Facing Ambiguity
video interviews and audio reenactments of meetings that take them from the shuttle’s launch to Day 8. On that day, a critical Mission Management Team (MMT) meeting determined that foam strikes that had occurred during the shuttle’s... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy
destructive to all parties.” With the students’ assistance, Sucher wrote two background notes on best practices for layoffs. They also produced a series of video interviews with laid-off employees to capture firsthand perspectives on the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
social and environmental concerns into daily operations. In the multimedia case “Burt’s Bees: Balancing Growth and Sustainability,” HBS associate professor Christopher Marquis uses text exhibits and video interviews to show how the small... View Details