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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
All in Good Time
qualified professionals with part-time, temporary, and flexible full-time positions in legal, IT, accounting, strategy consulting, and marketing, among other areas. Like many young mothers with two small children, O’Kelly felt the tug-of-war between home and office. A... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
hard. The other thing I have is, I have a contract with my wife. And we wrote it out on a piece of paper and we both signed it. Because of the way I think about it is, we all have a contract with our... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
New Releases
where they have some special hold over those receiving the money," explains Hayes. There are a number of acceptable financial contracts dating from the Middle Ages that do allow certain investments other than a straight equity investment;... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Elevator Pitch: Game Time
says. “With this type of AR, we can draw family and friends to the table for game nights in a whole new way, even when your fellow players are at different tables, in other cities.” Stats: Tilt Five is located in San Jose, California, and has 14 employees and four... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Working Behind the Scenes — Alan F. Horn (MBA 1971)
preachy." Horn was subsequently asked to become a board member of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in 1990. "In the face of the Contract with America's rollback efforts, NRDC is a staunch defender of clean air, clean water,... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
Partners, the social enterprise track winner, plans to create a for-profit education management company operating charter and contract K–12 public schools. “Winning was very affirming and gave us a renewed energy to carry out our plan,”... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Emerging Information
offices in 18 countries. The firm's main product, ISI Emerging Markets, is a continually evolving resource of information covering emerging markets in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Contracting with local information providers - from... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Authentic Leadership
their own leadership style and determine their inner compass. They are invited to draw up a contract establishing norms and confidentiality, allowing for openness about vulnerabilities as they share their life stories and confront... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Bruce Levy (MBA 1977)
education. the average annual salary for a wnba player is $60,000 to $70,000. I signed a contract recently for a player who will make more in a month overseas than she gets in the WNBA for an entire season. Now how do you explain that?... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photo by Chris Sorensen
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The End of the Noncompete Clause
industry: labor organizing. For decades, noncompete clauses were written into job contracts to help protect companies from losing intellectual property by restricting when and where employees could work after they departed their current... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Pearson Hunt
Industrial Administrator Program, the Army Quartermaster Corps School, the Navy Supply Corps School, and the Army Air Forces Statistical School (where I did my teaching), as well as the Navy's Contract Termination course in the ending... View Details
Keywords: Pearson Hunt
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
engaged, which led him to exploring government contracts. First came several contracts with the US Postal Service to produce lobby desks, which were followed by several deals to build waterproof plywood shipping containers for gas masks... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 13 Apr 2022
- News
New School
could have the biggest positive impact in education. When Waldron joined Curriculum Associates, the company had already been doing just that for almost 40 years. The owner asked Waldron to make a long-term commitment to those same ideals and sign a View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy
off 2,300 employees and costing the jobs of another 2,000 temporary, contract suppliers’ workers. That action cost the company 700 million euros in sales and 100 million euros in profit in the German market—and at 80,000 euros per... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Gazprom Goes Global
price to maximize profits. Ukraine responded by telling Gazprom that it would refuse to pay the increase, and furthermore, it intended to charge Gazprom more to use Ukraine’s pipelines to transit gas to Europe. Russia waited until the existing View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Case of Achievement
which he and a partner bought in 1971 and built into the largest independent contract laboratory in the world. Retiring early, he spent eight years serving on the Seattle school board, where he helped initiate bold reforms that attracted... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
after they've contracted an illness, compared with public health's cost-effective preventive approach. I realized that public health is all about policies, systems, and distribution on a wide scale. As an investor, I could see huge... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
pioneers a new supplier-retailer partnership between P&G and Wal-Mart. Built on proximity (Muccio relocated to Wal-Mart’s turf in Arkansas) and growing trust (both sides eventually eliminated elaborate legal contracts in favor of Letters... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered
Greenland, thereby earning the right to name it. He chose "Minarjnik," a contraction of the names of his wife, Mrinalini Mani, and two sons, Nikhil and Arjun. A memorial service was held in February at Memorial Church in Harvard Yard.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
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Turning Point: On the Line
the larger entertainment landscape remains unsettled. The next contract negotiation comes in 2026, and nobody wants another strike. I’ve been blessed to live the creative life I’d dreamt about and make a career out of it. So if... View Details