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- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
board member hats and reverted to the roles of students and mentors. Dewey said that a board is there “to help you as an inner circle and you have to be open for dialogue. It’s like walking into a HBS class; your training in case... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
could be in a meeting at the same time. You’d hear someone answer a question and learn indirectly how to handle a difficult situation. As we grow, I think a lot about how we replicate that experience with training that is within the brand... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
post–Civil War era to commission-based canvassers hired and trained by manufacturers to sell agricultural products and books by Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant, for instance. “Drummers,” who acted as the middlemen between manufacturers... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
me in age, he was way more famous, way more successful, richer than I’d ever be, and he was miserable. I thought, “Dude, that’s future-me. That’s where I’m going.” So I said, “Look, what am I trained to do? I’m a ‘happiness’ guy. I’m... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
demarcation. Now the workers are on the floor, delivering orders or helping customers with the new kiosks; Karavites has updated his employee training to include a focus on customer interaction. Average customer count is up at this... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
to Officer Candidate School. Two years later, on a 4 a.m. drive to a training exercise while stationed in Hawaii, he clicked on NPR and heard reports of the 9/11 attacks. Soon after, his unit was deployed to the Philippines to fight the... View Details
- 04 Jun 2025
- News
Slice of Life
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In 2018, Bill Crawford (MBA 2006) founded Righteous Slice, a pizza restaurant in Rexburg, Idaho that has been steadily earning critical acclaim. It has... View Details
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
plans to build Project Bison. But Meghan Kenny, the project manager, can see the future. MK: Have you ever seen a train going by with many different sort of rail cars attached to it? That's probably not too far off of what it would look... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
create what we call “M-Work,” which is a co-working space, closer to the Mito train station. We also started a history project called M-History, because—even though Mito has contributed greatly to the modernization of Japan—that part of... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
successful economic development moment for Europe and Western countries. Poorer countries have had a much more difficult time, and lots of voices emerged with lots of disorder. We’ve been trained to understand that bias on the left or... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
past. And what I try to do is really focus on the things that need to change. I'm willing to delegate letting the trains run on time and the normal stuff that that's going well, I focus my time on the stuff that's not going well. And... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
trained to fill the role of the natural mother. Villages also run K-12 schools, vocational facilities, and medical centers in many countries, especially in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Kash Rangan first heard about SOS-KDI from Martin... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
services enabled anybody having a baby at any hospital in the world to bank the cord blood. Trained obstetricians treated the procedure like an organ transplant, with all of the systems in place. Medical couriers transported the blood to... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
entrepreneurship courses have evolved from being all case-based to include those that are learning-by-doing, project-based courses. That’s particularly important for training future entrepreneurs so that they can practice the necessary... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
responsibility in enhancing US competitiveness. When businesses build partnerships with community colleges to train workers, they are enhancing American competitiveness and improving the business environment. When a number of businesses... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
assistant. At that time, they had a training program there. It was basically, your first job was very much training. I absolutely hated it because they took every person who came into the program, as somebody who absolutely knew nothing,... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
opportunity in reverse. I know that now. Philip Ebeling (AMP 185, 2013) SVP, R-&-D, St. Jude Medical A foundation and a catalyst In September 2001, I quit my job as VP for derivatives training at an investment bank to start my own... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 30 Apr 2025
- News
A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado
DC Panel Looks at Social Enterprise in a New Government Landscape The HBS Club of Washington, DC teamed up with the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) on April 2, to present an alumni panel discussion on social impact titled “New Perspectives in Social Enterprise,”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
parenting popular in the United States and Europe. She also offers a few clever tips, such as how Russian babies are potty trained well before the age of two, and how Russian mothers easily get their young children to eat healthy,... View Details