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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
line of upcycled drinking glasses. To acquire the raw materials, the founders identified a partner in the Houston area that had relationships with local bars and restaurants. Now, instead of tossing empties in the municipal recycling... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
local constituencies. They suggested that the School create a packaged presentation that could be delivered by Alumni Board members and other key volunteers to local alumni groups. Continuing Education... View Details
Keywords: John Hoffman
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
process, I found an employment agency that represented professionals seeking part-time positions. When I realized that my region of New England wasn’t covered, I offered to open up an office as a third principal in the firm. For the last 23 years, I’ve worked part-time... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
in a race against time, working for the underground agency IA3. When a child-trafficking ring is exposed, the IA3 team enlists the CIA’s aid with local police services in a dangerous mission to unearth the ring-leaders. But the team’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
basement of Gallatin Hall, in the dark and very messy Harbus office. It was in March of my second year, approaching the end of my tenure as editor of the B-School student newspaper. It had been a long year of filling pages with local news... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business
managers sometimes felt pressured to make payments that violated the company's code of ethics. Paine's case illustrates a classic dilemma: should organizations conform to local ways of doing business, or should they adhere to their own... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition
2014, York Street Partners will launch its asset management platform, and with it private equity, real estate, and fixed income funds—none of which currently exist in the Sri Lankan market. Future plans include exploring a venture capital fund and a crowd funding... View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
insurance house Momentum in Johannesburg, Magwegwe can often be heard on CNBC Africa and other local and national media, offering advice on financial matters, from simply saving more money to planning and sticking to a budget. Helping... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
for water services and wastewater treatment for 17 million people in 1,800 communities in the United States and Canada. American Water typically owns and/or operates the municipal water system in a community, while the community continues to “own” the View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- News
From the Ground Up
provides an excellent source of pure, natural artesian water. “From the very inception of Ka-Viti Water, we've been committed to giving back to the people of Fiji. A few years ago when I was in Fiji, we were working with the local schools... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
SEAS Complex Reaches for a New Frontier
Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria, a wide cross-section of faculty, alumni, students, and friends from across the University were joined by the Turner Construction team, Allston residents, and Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh and other View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
HBS Vets Support Homeless Comrades
hours by AFAA members seeking to call attention to the plight of homeless veterans and to raise funds for a local shelter that assists them. “We thought this would be an effective way to raise awareness about the New England Shelter for... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Transforming the IRS
traditional services on the telephones and in local offices, and offered new electronic services for filing, paying, and information. Why did you change the way the IRS measures employee performance? Performance measures have an enormous... View Details
- 25 Jul 2012
- News
Movie Magic
Kaplan: "Automated retail" dispenses movie magic. Photo courtesy Gregg Kaplan/Redbox If you’ve seen one at your local US grocery store, you know that “vending machine” is an inadequate description for Redbox, the sleek, red (of course)... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
strive to compete globally, their relationships with local communities have changed, says HBS Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. "Now that many businesses have focused beyond our borders," she says, "the ties with home communities that have... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
time, and expensive because it used diesel, which costs a whole lot and was hard for him to get. Morrell: A visiting dignitary flipped a switch to turn on the local grid. Poindexter: So we get to the chief's house, the soccer match is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
haven’t squeezed out cost yet,” agrees Celia Wcislo, a 1987 graduate of the Harvard Trade Union Program and the assistant division director of the 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) United Healthcare Workers East, a local... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
Skullcandy products are currently distributed in over 70 countries, a number that expands every month. So a major challenge for us is how to establish our brand in each local market. Good brands are globally consistent, but they’re View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
difference to the entire region. You can see the prosperity returning to the villages.” The impacts of this prosperity have been significant. A local credit union has replaced an abusive loan-shark system; farmers (mostly women) have... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Ed participants as early as possible and to maintain that connection over the next few critical years; to encourage early involvement with local alumni clubs; and to generate additional ideas to make the early alumni years more meaningful... View Details