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- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
40 years, and was managing more than 3,300 employees and an annual budget of $773 million. Early training in physics launched his scientific career, but Earls credits what he learned at HBS with giving him... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
Changes in employee management and training had an enormous impact. It took 22,000 workers to produce 1 million vehicles in 2000, for example, but only half that number to make 1.8 million four years later.... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Stephen Covey's Successful Habits
survive. Another force is unsatisfactory personal relationships. I asked a CEO of a major multinational why he had his 35,000 employees trained in the 7 Habits. He said, "My wife had told me I didn't listen... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
assist the city's children. It was during this time that he became involved with the Outward Bound USA organization, which he saw as an educational resource for the Boys and Girls Clubs. After participating in the program himself, O'Neill was so impressed with its... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
of internationalizing firms’ policies that require employees of diverse skill sets to adopt English as their business language. For the past four years, with extensive support from the School’s research centers in Asia, Europe, and Latin... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
twenty employees to twelve hundred over a quarter century. As a cofounder of the HBS African-American Student Union, she was a pioneer in helping the School become more diversified. Later generations "told me they were grateful I had... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic
safari theme. We wanted to go to a much more contemporary canvas against which to place the product. Communication was the last piece, which was about advertising and training the sales associates to improve communication with our... View Details
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
president and CEO of COMPS InfoSystems between 1992 and 2000. During his leadership, the small regional print-publishing firm that covered commercial real estate became a national electronic database publisher, with 420 employees and... View Details
- 16 Feb 2011
- News
Healthy Growth
have grown from $380 million to more than $1 billion during Ayers’s tenure, and IDEXX staff has doubled to nearly 5,000 employees in more than 65 locations across the globe. While Ayers leaves the lab work to others, his scientific... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
East to West
Japan.” A family-controlled but publicly traded company, Sumida was founded in 1956 by Ichiro Yawata, Shiggi’s father. The company reported revenues of 14 billion yen ($112 million) and had 5,200 employees when Shiggi Yawata was appointed... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
employees and their families to a cookout. The idea was that in the middle of this train wreck people could do something normal that would give them hope. You clearly put people ahead of the business in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
explores new wrinkles in this age-old formula — and how government policy may affect entrepreneurship. Visit http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5865.html. Marketing Your Way through a Recession In a recession, consumers become value-oriented, distributors are concerned about... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
From Bytes to Bites
Silicon Valley a natural fit. It’s a path that worked quite nicely for Thomas, who eventually rose to vice president of marketing at SuccessFactors, a software firm focused on employee performance and strategy solutions. Then, in 1995,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
small group of private-equity investors, then there would have been few employee shareholders or any kind of shareholders at risk. Yes, the board failed all Enron stakeholders. Many of the private-equity board virtues Professor Salter... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Future Source
education and collaboration beyond the company’s training program. “Andela employees will become founders and executives,” says Sulyman. “They will deploy what they’ve learned elsewhere in Africa.” Based in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
established markets - is sounding a wake-up call for corporate strategists. How did you first become interested in these disruptive technologies? It was the sudden demise of Digital Equipment Corporation that first drew my attention. How could a company, once described... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
pursue the opportunities available to her. I recently had dinner with the se-nior vice president of human resources at a large Fortune 500 company. He said, “Everything that the women employees want are things that I want, too, in... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
close connections between economies and governments around the world. "It isn't sufficient that I try to maximize the company's bottom line," Smith says. "Other constituencies affect our success in the long run." Starbucks employees... View Details
- 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
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
@Soldiers Field
told the Burden crowd. The HBS Student Association—headed by its first female copresidents, Libby Leffler and LaToya Marc (both MBA 2017)—offered an unconscious bias training session facilitated by Harvard’s Project Implicit and... View Details