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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
the pair look for new businesses to support, one area that personally interests Levy is family caregiving. “We have 50 million unpaid, untrained family caregivers. I'm really interested in the care that’s happening in the shadows and how... View Details
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
enough to get a young person to college. They need to make the most out of college, get a job that they could not have gotten out of high school, and become a high performer at every stage of the professional world. Then they can bring... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
influenced and shaped who they are. They have overcome adversity, been inspired by others, and gained sustenance not only from their families but also from activities and pursuits that they personally enjoy. With that in mind, we present... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
young person whistling a tune. He was in a wheelchair. I thought, Tom, shape up. Figure out where you’re going to go and go there.” “At HBS, realizing there wasn’t enough time to study all of the cases in detail was liberating. I had to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
this were certainly the one thing we had not been prepared for. It never occurred to us that we would have to deal with such personal devastation. We put people first because it was the right thing to do. As a result, they saved our... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
solid reputation for cutting through bureaucracy and red tape, and for getting things done,” Albright observes. “She is a dependable, no-nonsense person with excellent ideas, great determination, and incredible follow-through. Bonnie was... View Details
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
even more powerful reward than compensation. Stick to your convictions. Professor Henderson told the group that it's important for CEOs to feel personally committed to the higher-ambition cause. "You have to really mean it and believe... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
assumptions. The first is that people are more altruistic towards individuals that agree with them and the second is that people's well-being rises when other people share their personal opinions. The act of voting is then a source of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
learned to ride a bike, he was not the first person to ever ride a bike. His learning got him from being a non-bike rider into the population of bike riders. In this case, performance is improved by acquiring necessary skills or knowledge... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
partner—Vladimír Železný, an experienced and politically connected television executive—managed to divert the entire value of the underlying entity for his personal benefit. After court battles escalated to the level of international... View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
violate the accepted norms and rules of engagement. If someone clearly engages in personal attacks or withholds a dissenting view only to obstruct the implementation later, they need to be held responsible for such dysfunctional behavior.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
offers four humanitarian Rainbows of Hope, personal and ambitious projects that have yet to reach fruition: the Hope Scholarship, which provides funds to help eligible high school graduates attend college; Hope for Starving Children, to... View Details
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
compare those clicks with users' subsequent purchases. Ever-cheaper IT makes this tracking cost effective and routine. In addition, a web of interlocking ad networks trades inventory and offers to show the right ad to the right person at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
the reason this promise of authenticity works [is because of] things like at Noma, when a person with allergies comes in, they go to outrageous lengths to accommodate the person. The idea is it's a once-in-a-lifetime experience for most... View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
and maybe even try ordering it. If that doesn’t happen, that sandwich will wither and not do well. And then as a result, we won’t be able to buy those Brussels sprouts from the farmers in Massachusetts. That’s why there’s a person we call... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
analysis but by values. Chainsaw Al Dunlap, a real person with a Hollywood moniker, told us that a dollar earned by killing a job was just as valuable as one earned by producing a valuable product, and Wall Street was seduced, even though... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
ways," he elaborates. "The corporate support came along much later." Wallace, an Alabama native, enjoyed highly successful stints at Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and the Georgia Research Alliance, a business/government council, before signing on with ACOG. "Once I met A.D.,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
both in business history courses and more generally to teach political risk management by multinational corporations. Beiersdorf, a German personal products company, expanded globally before 1914, but had its foreign factories and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
transformation takes years. It requires full commitment from the top, down to every person you hire. It’s a set of interconnected choices that have to be perfectly aligned. Once it works it’s phenomenal, but it’s really costly and hard to... View Details
- 10 Apr 2019
- HBS Case
How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold
leverage non-market, non-pecuniary resources,” Wu says. For example, a startup can benefit more from advice and mentorship from a successful person in their industry, or in-kind donations of legal or financial services, than they can from... View Details