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23 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Learning Curve: The Brother-and-Sister Team Behind a New Edtech Nonprofit

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

01 Jun 2011
News

Who Was George F. Baker?

newspaper reporter since 1863,” the year he invested $3,000 to become an original shareholder in the First National Bank of New York (now Citibank) at age 23. Baker believed in action, not words. And his actions spoke volumes. He began... View Details

Keywords: Finance

Portrait Project

Sylvester Wee

"You’ll never make it." I’ve heard that same line too many times growing up, but never once succumbed to it. I started competitive tennis late at the age of 12 but trained hard to eventually become the top ranked player in Singapore. I... View Details

24 May 2017
News

John J. Brennan, MBA 1980

over $4 trillion under management and maintains a sharp focus on low client costs for its 25 million investors. In 2008, at the age of 54, Brennan turned the company over to his handpicked successor, Bill McNabb. “Jack surprised us,” says... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

July 2011
Case

Shifting the Diversity Climate: The Sodexo Solution

By: David A. Thomas and Stephanie J. Creary

This case profiles the evolution of Sodexo's diversity initiative. Diversity became a key priority for Sodexo, North America in 2001 after a class-action lawsuit was filed and certified in Washington, D.C. against Sodexo Marriot Services, Inc., the food services... View Details

Keywords: Diversity; Business Strategy; Globalization; Management Teams; Gender; Race; Ethnicity; Age; Food and Beverage Industry; North America; Washington (state, US)

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01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success

really are shooting for zero defects, but if you don't have some failures, you're probably not taking enough risk." When asked to share his proudest achievement, Kennedy looks instead to the career of his wife, Karen, who enrolled in medical school at the View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

25 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker

As the daughter of newly freed slaves on a Louisiana plantation, Sarah Breedlove's prospects at birth in 1867 foretold grinding poverty and toil. Over time, she graduated from the cotton fields to the washtub, marrying at the age of 14... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Beauty & Cosmetics

21 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Do TV Debates Sway Voters?

Or Ronald Reagan’s witty response to concerns about his age that arose in his 1984 debate with Walter Mondale: “I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience.” The opportunity to speak directly to... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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McArthur Hall | About

position in the future. He initiated major changes in faculty development, committed unprecedented resources to research and curriculum development, and positioned HBS academic programs at the leading edge of business education. Addressing the problem of the School’s... View Details

29 Aug 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?

Harley demographic aging out of the sport the new concepts are a step in the right direction most of all, the product must be right.” Kevin O’Meara agreed, saying that, “the tariffs and the ‘Twitter war’ are masking the true issues (1)... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto

01 Dec 2023
News

Case Study: Staking a Claim

Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

April 2023
Article

Performance on Patient Experience Measures of Former Chief Medical Residents as Physician Exemplars Chosen by the Profession

By: Lucy Chen and J. Michael McWilliams

OBJECTIVE To compare care for patients of primary care physicians (PCPs) who were former chiefs with care for patients of nonchief PCPs.

DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Using 2010 to 2018 Medicare Fee-For-Service Consumer Assessment of Healthcare... View Details

Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Forecasting and Prediction; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Competency and Skills; Surveys; Health Industry

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24 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?

digital age is a fertile area of his research. Luca is looking at rankings, expert evaluations, online consumer reviews, and quality disclosure laws to see how they work in market settings, and which are most important for consumers. To... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

19 Jan 2024
News

The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix

she cannot transfer her bag, that the company will not transfer her bags, and all she wants to do is go see her grandkids, and she can't move very fast at this advanced age and he responds very clearly. And he says, I would really like to... View Details

09 Feb 2021
News

Investing in Entrepreneurship

of innovation.” Crisp grew up on Long Island, earned a BA at Yale University, and served as an intelligence officer in the United States Air Force before coming to HBS. Having earned his pilot’s license at the age of 14, he was excited to... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Jun 1998
News

Simmons Family Endows Professorship

adoptive parents was short: at the age of eight his mother died, and his father sent him to live with family friends in Salt Lake City. Elizabeth Ellison was born in Layton, Utah, in 1916. Her grandfather, Ephraim Peter ("E.P.") Ellison,... View Details

05 Jun 2009
What Do You Think?

What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?

Summing Up If not useful growth, what are we measuring? And why? This column does not thrive on general agreement. And this past month discussants came close to general agreement on the proposition that economic growth is not measured properly by GDP, gross domestic... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

Profile

Shira Asa-El

what did you want to be when you grew up? A scientist. From a very young age I was not a “usual” girl: I hated dolls and anything pink, I had short hair, loved sports, and found comfort in numbers and solving problems. Thanks to my... View Details

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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Late 19th Century US Postal Service Expansion, Firm Creation, and Firm Performance” with Astrid Marinoni. Raffaella Sadun : Winner of the 2023 HBR Prize for the best article of the year in Harvard Business Review for “Reskilling in the View Details

04 Jan 2022
What Do You Think?

Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?

Employee, The New York Times, November 3, 2019. Your feedback to last month’s column How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity? I’d like to think that the tentative nature of the few responses to this column suggest the early stages of interest and limited knowledge... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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