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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
many organizers use high-pressure tactics to get cards signed. Probably the most damaging however is the impact unions have on innovation. Unions fight change — any change — on the factory floor. Over the years, management gives up trying... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
prepare managers for the transition to a postwar economy. In 1945, Kidder, Peabody & Company titan Albert H. Gordon (MBA '25) contributed a prescient essay on the economic impact of peace. Gordon predicted "a major reorientation of... View Details
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- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
(Reporters later discovered that the signature page had been cribbed from an earlier contract extension.) In September, Pennsylvania’s Attorney General announced multiple felony charges against the district’s former fleet manager and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
serious illness and its attendant financial insecurity could one day focus instead on a brighter, healthier future. A Cornell graduate who holds an MBA from Boston College, Rhenisch was for years well employed and enjoyed excellent... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
medical innovations. Jessica Beck and Marcela Sapone (both MBA 2015) launched the automated “personal butler” service Hello Alfred in a crowded on-demand marketplace. The service corrals other on-demand services, offering customers both a single, simple portal and an... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
lighthouse shows sit at the top of the company’s content pyramid. In the middle section, with budgets closer to $50,000 a minute, Quibi is building a tier of unscripted material—reality and game shows, documentaries, and the like—with a View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
got a lot of encouraging feedback from institutions, especially the pension funds—CalPERS, for example. Huge. But they want to invest in much larger funds. And so getting to that point of creating a $250 million or $500 million... Then the other thing is also this... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
ON THE PRIZE: U.S. dependency on Middle East oil will be long term, Stobaugh says; about one-fifth of U.S. imports are from the region. YASSER AL-ZAYYAT/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Energy Future argues that U.S. energy policy should focus on... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
equal is the law of the land. So those are the constraints in this entrepreneur's life. He's the grandson of a slave, son of a teamster. And we don't know much about his early life, but sometime by the middle 1890s he's managed to find... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
siblings, get to work every day on time, work toward a degree at night (paying their own tuition), and manage to save enough to slowly build a house. While generally excited by democracy, Liberians are understandably impatient for roads... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
you doing? Hey, are you still at the hotel?” And he goes, “Oh, no, I'm not at the hotel anymore.” And oh, my goodness, our hopes were deflated. We thought that, oh, he's just not made it. And then he said, “But I'm a manager at a moving... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
himself as the victim of a tragedy, he used it to focus his life. "Why have I been put in this situation? What am I meant to do?" By 2014, Foster was in the midst of a flourishing tech and finance career, and he came to HBS to start the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
superpower: Innovation. In this episode of Skydeck, we’re kicking off a three-part series called “Out of the Valley.” It will focus on the work of Alex Lazarow (MBA 2010), a venture capitalist and author of the book, Out-Innovate: How... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
means there was a complaint—about the food, about the service, some negative thing that had escalated to the point that a manager had been called on to straighten things out. Or at least, that’s what it used to mean. In fall 2016,... View Details