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- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
While improving the fulfillment of any one drive enhances employee motivation somewhat, the key to a major employee-motivation advantage relative to other companies comes from improving all four drives in... View Details
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
mixer. This project has taken over 1 year to develop, mainly because the division's management team continually asked for more analysis, and R&D was slow in developing a reasonable technology to create a soft-grip handle. Finally, the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jul 2018
- News
Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
concluded on June 30 and the School will report on its achievements and impact in the December Alumni Bulletin. The Campaign had high aspirations from its inception. We aimed to increase engagement and participation among our alumni and the next generation of HBS... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
that once that need is accepted, and management commits to supporting the improvement effort and applying continual pressure, it will happen. We point out that while managers obviously need to accept the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
transferring rents to multinational corporate patent holders headquartered in the world's most advanced countries, especially the United States. IPR advocates countered that improved IPR would spur innovation, and that even if this... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Finishing Touches
On a steamy day last July, workers replacing books in the restored Stamps Reading Room of Baker Library experienced an unfamiliar sensation: air-conditioning. Climate control is just one improvement to come out of a comprehensive... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
Internet-based companies like Google record every click and keystroke of every customer, analyzing the data to continuously improve their products and marketing. Customers are courted and supply chains are... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Finding My Focus in Health care Amidst a Global Pandemic
Importantly, I have noticed that both HKS and HBS have remained flexible and responsive to feedback to continuously evolve and improve the student experience. I am excited to carry the learnings and momentum... View Details
- 29 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?
than they otherwise might. Whether this leads to a higher standard of living than that of their European counterparts is debatable. But there is growing evidence that providing pleasant work environments, aided to some degree by new technology, has spearheaded the... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
competency and its ability to move up the value chain that will allow it to share the positive gains. If labor tries the old tactic of strikes, management will just outsource the staff from somewhere else ... " Globally organized labor may benefit from View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Profile
Jeff Nelson
When he joined the single-family project-development group, he entered the eye of the storm. “I was in the division addressing the core problem – fixing the way mortgages originated in the first place.” With his colleagues, Jeff developed a third-party... View Details
- Web
BiGS Research | Institute for Business in Global Society
on race, gender, and other characteristics continue to present serious challenges, both in the workplace and in broader society. Purpose of the Firm Companies are increasingly evaluated not just on their financial performance but on their... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Mario A. Corti: Global Reconnaissance
Corporation in California. Returning to his native land in 1977, he worked at the Swiss National Bank and later served as Undersecretary for Foreign Economic Affairs before accepting the Nestlé USA position in 1990. Corti, who became Nestlé's CFO in 1996, lists the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Job One: Alumni Engagement
examining expectations for programs and ser-vices, evaluating what HBS already offers, and helping to improve marketing and communications. From the School’s perspective, the importance and influence of a vibrant, engaged alumni body has... View Details
Keywords: Peter Cooper
- 21 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
actual human being wrote it? Do it! Want to build an intuitive web form (easy to fill out, simple to save, easy to submit) to replace a clunky paper form (hard to write, easy to lose, annoying to submit)? Do it! Want to build an app that lets people request View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
endeavors to nurture businesses in emerging economies and promote sustainable sources of energy, show his continuing determination to bridge the gap between policies and people. In the course of one two-week trip last May, James... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Rena Xu (MBA 2014, MD 2014)
What inspired you to pursue a career in medicine and how does your HBS MBA fit into this career path? “I was drawn to medicine because I loved the idea that knowledge and skill could directly translate into improving the lives of others.... View Details
- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
guide for anyone who is on a team or leads a team—whether a junior or senior manager, from big organizations or small, in the United States or abroad—and wants to make the impossible possible: turning off more, while improving the work... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors
School over the course of 2004. I am pleased to share our plans and our progress to date. Let me begin by reporting that the Global Leadership Forum Committee, with direction from its new chairman, Jean-Marc Daillance (MBA 1984), is View Details
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
needed to commercialize products of new technology. Embedded, too, were the basic functional capabilities—product development, production, and distribution and marketing—that were needed in order to continue to View Details