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- 30 Jan 2009
- News
What’s It Worth to You?
lead. That’s why De Pree capped his compensation at twenty times what his company’s lowest-paid employee received. Kenneth Feinberg, the 9/11 special master, eventually came to understand that “all lives should be treated the same.”... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
fraud? What kinds of internal control levers, employee training programs, or perhaps even internal (nonfinancial) rewards and recognitions lead to a greater number of internal whistleblower reports? Subject... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Courting the Poor
procedure for credit approval, using nontraditional metrics to enable customers with lower, less easily established incomes (a pushcart vendor, for example) to make purchases. “Their loan repayment rates are the envy of the world, and the customers are deeply... View Details
- 08 Apr 2021
- News
Real Talk
‘That's not me. I'm not a racist. I don't have implicit bias,’ and they just walk out. And they don’t open up to more possibility in this area.” Henderson offers this example: Just after the end of apartheid in South Africa, he walked in to conduct a diversity View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Just Breathe
the book, which is equal parts memoir and how-to guide, Zee Clarke (MBA 2008) shares her own experiences as a Black woman in corporate America and how discovering mindfulness techniques transformed her sense of well-being. As the founder of Reclaiming Flow, Clarke... 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 2010
- News
Get Well Soon
Art by James Yang/Getty Images Health-care reform is more than a political football. For twenty years it’s been a ground-level topic of increasing importance for the administrators, physicians, nurses, and frontline employees who interact... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
problems we’re now facing, including unfunded pension obligations. It has done nothing to stop corporations from making promises to their employees and shareholders without the resources to back them up. Extensive reform is necessary. To... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
Francisco with another slated to open this month in New York City. It has grown from the cofounders to more than 100 employees who, between the consulting practice and Bridgestar, have worked on more than 200 client engagements. In the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Ed Tian: Boardroom Revolutionary
company. “There is a clear distinction between the board of directors and the management team,” explains Tian. “I have the right to hire and fire people. I’ve hired about twelve hundred employees so far but none of them on instructions... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
ask questions or to appear vulnerable, and pressuring coworkers to prove themselves through acts of physical bravery. The goal of this company’s training was to enhance employee safety and reliability in a... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
it a fad that amounts to little more than sensitivity training in New Age clothing, or does it reflect something more profound about the way we are beginning to conceive of and relate to work? In the following pages six HBS alumni who are... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Natural Fit
the age of 14. Now an incoming freshman at Dartmouth College, she saw no reason to choose between academics and competing in the sport she loved. At the time, however, few supports were in place to help athletes navigate the dual pressures of a rigorous course load and... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
approximately 150 million children ages 3 to 8, making it an ideal partner for working at scale. Rocket develops and delivers digital training materials focused specifically on boosting the skills of this group of public-sector educators.... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
50 hand looms distributed to the region with training courses organized to teach the craft. The second phase will include more sophisticated weaving loom deliveries and the creation of more formalized workshops to allow for carpet... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
From the beginning, the company’s goal has been to hire and train as many Afghans as possible; today, 75 percent of senior management and 97 percent of all employees are natives. Roshan launched as scheduled... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
concept.” With their faculty advisors acting as “healthy skeptics,” the team laid the groundwork for ZEFER, which has received more than $100 million in venture funding, earned over $100 million in 2000 revenues, and boasts over seven hundred View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
attention? Safety, first and foremost. Any fatality is a terrible thing, and there were too many throughout the group, particularly in South Africa, where 44 employees died in accidents the year before I took over. Two months after I... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
assist the city's children. It was during this time that he became involved with the Outward Bound USA organization, which he saw as an educational resource for the Boys and Girls Clubs. After participating in the program himself, O'Neill was so impressed with its... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 02 Dec 2021
- News
Learning Curve
Courtesy Patti Melcher Patti Melcher (MBA 1986) never intended to open a school. After getting her start in investment banking in Houston’s energy sector after her time at HBS, Melcher became an early employee at SCF Partners, helping to... View Details