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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
action legislation helped to level the playing field in the same way as the GI Bill? The top CEOs in business are usually between 45 and 65 years old, so it takes a couple of generations to see the impact of legislative acts aimed at... View Details
- 16 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
with cancer and passed away a couple of years later,” Dzodan shared. “After he passed, I had to start working on the company because it was a small business and there were no managers.” Their father’s passing took an emotional toll on the... View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing
It is important for managers and executives to "help people in the organization understand it's both things working together." "One of our big challenges is simply inventory management," Nuzzo said. "For the last View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
they had done for me," he says. "I taught a math or physics course a couple evenings a week. But I also used my teaching as a recruiting vehicle for NASA, to inspire bright students out of high school to go into our apprenticeship... View Details
- 11 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?
of politics is higher than it has been in the last couple of decades. Also, one way of viewing local elections and political primaries is as a product development process for the major parties. Letting voters choose among a diverse array... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
What do you think? Original Article Two contrasting news stories caught my eye over the past couple of months. The first involved the strike, at least initially unsuccessful, by the mechanics' union at Northwest Airlines in an attempt to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
an onion: you peel layer after layer after layer, and in the end, there's nothing left and you cry," he joked. These days, he said, entrepreneurship means "you're either a winner or a loser. Sometimes, you're a winner and a loser within a View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 22 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability
HBS classmates and with a structured learning and development process will make BCG a great first job post-MBA. Key Learnings & Advice Having gone through the recruiting process a couple of times, I wanted to provide a few suggestions... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
- 20 May 2020
- Blog Post
Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12
“We have spent a lot of time over the past couple of years laying the foundation for growth. There are pieces of our business that would be easier to scale, but no part is more representative of Tom’s experience than our body coaches,”... View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- What Do You Think?
Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?
graduates and former students who are exploring innovations such as battery technology, superconductivity, magnetism, and superintelligent computers. My feelings are buoyed when I read about a “second machine age” fueled by digital technologies, hailed by Erik... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy
base—3,000 or 4,000 words at an intermediate level. You're not asking people to have native-like mastery in English, which hovers around 10,000 words. You're simply asking them to develop enough skill to function effectively. A language strategy View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
- 03 Apr 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?
few lines or a couple of minutes. As a result, entire industries, such as newspaper publishing, are dying along with a generation that buys and reads them. People are reading news online, but they are willing to pay very little for it. As... View Details
- 04 Apr 2008
- What Do You Think?
Who Owns Intellectual Property?
developed and distributed in China, had to come up with a realistic business plan projection a couple of years ago. It required an estimation of the share of potential revenues that would be siphoned off by others appropriating the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
wishful thinking and ignorance of the reality of other cultures and value systems. Are there comparisons to be made in the way business leaders and political leaders pursue their agendas in the global arena? There are a couple of... View Details
- 13 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens
not enough; it must also be coupled with a positive outcome. Norton compares it to results in their online dating research in which users were more satisfied when they saw the website working hard for them during searching-but only if... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Sep 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom
unexpected ways. One of the students self-assembled a team in the very early stages of the course. He assessed classmates' strengths and interests during the first couple of sessions and recruited the ones he wanted to work with. The... View Details
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
new digital economy, coupled with the growing size of the EC and IT sectors within the overall economy, we can no longer afford to further postpone attention to efficient business process interfaces between supply-chain trading partners.... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 09 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Stock Options Are Not All Created Equal
the price drops 70%, his options are worth a mere $211,000, less than 8% of the original stake. Disney's Michael Eisner is perhaps the best known CEO who has received megagrants. Every few years since 1984, Eisner has received a megagrant of several million shares. It... View Details
Keywords: by Brian Hall
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
When 4753 North Broadway opened in 1924, the neoclassical tower represented the height of American architectural design, a terra-cotta temple of capitalism at the heart of Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Over the next century, a series of banks occupied the spacious... View Details
- 27 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Summer Fellows Respond to COVID-19
through all the management issues we discussed and learned about in class the last couple years. First, we need to consider all the stakeholders involved and develop practical solutions to satisfy each one. It is an economic development... View Details