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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
Issue Focus: Leadership Issue Focus Li & Fung's Global Footprint Reimagining the MBA Leaders come in all colors, ages, shapes, and sizes, with all manner of skills and temperaments, a variety and diversity seemingly matched only by the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
resident of Brazil who first demonstrated extraordinary leadership skills as a youthful commander in the underground resistance against his native Norway's Nazi occupiers, Lorentzen has made development one of his top priorities. And he... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Past Informs the Future of Work
roles requiring different skill sets. In comparison, by 2018, Vodafone had installed chatbots—software applications simulating interactions with people—where one bot may replace three workers, but it hadn’t yet significantly altered its... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
organized and hosted by Heather Stark (MBA 1999) and Suzanne Kwok (MBA 2015). Philippines Alumni Take Swift Action to Serve Community During COVID-19 The World Trade Center Manila was converted to a COVID-19 treatment facility. The Essential View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
SCHARPF: Seeking cost-effective raw materials in Rwanda. Elizabeth Scharpf (MBA ’07) is on a roll. Determined to put her MBA skills to work addressing socioeconomic and public health problems in developing nations, she has launched a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
position.” While organizations (and individual workers) don’t win by “brain collecting,” they do benefit from strategies that take cultural and skill matches into consideration. Groysberg notes that he’s heard from companies that keep his... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Venture: Time Heals All
Assembling a nursing schedule for a hospital ward can be surprisingly difficult—a little like playing three-dimensional Tetris, says Ilana Springer Borkenstein (MBA 2022). “It is a really challenging, tedious task.” Nurse managers must take into consideration a host of... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
skilled outside workers and managers while providing good wages in a country where the average person makes under $100 per year. Equally important is the project’s catalytic impact on future investment. The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
The Next Big Thing
life-sciences center of the world, by virtue of its unsurpassed “cluster” of world-renowned universities and teaching hospitals; medical-device, biotech, and pharmaceutical companies; financial firms; and skilled workers. “The leadership... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
the urban poor (one of CEMEX’s accomplishments in Mexico). Based on our research, we believe the time has come for companies to accept the challenge to use their entrepreneurial skills on a broader canvas. Companies today complain that... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
loose and left to go bankrupt and be restructured—while the government focused on larger enterprises. The transition to an export-driven, low labor-cost country was well under way by the turn of the century, as millions of workers moved... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
which was facing numerous challenges: a rapidly decreasing market share, falling revenues, and cratering investor faith. Heins went about cutting costs—including the layoff of more than 5,000 workers in May 2012—scrapped plans to make the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
probably come up with something that looks a lot like COVID-19.” Nevertheless, Yellen was encouraging: “I know Hispanic workers can power our recovery—potentially in an even bigger way than a decade ago.” Perez shares Yellen’s optimism.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
explains. “They were very entrepreneurial and had great niches. And now we have to pull all of them together to act as one company.” He reels off a trio of management challenges: retaining valued workers whose knowledge and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
Real Skills for Real Jobs with Real Success by Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992) (Viking Adult) As a Big Brother, Chertavian saw how many young, disadvantaged, yet motivated workers were stranded at the bottom of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
aware that workers often underestimate their language capabilities. In many cases, testing and offering benchmarks can help calm anxieties, as could limiting meetings for low-confidence English speakers until their language View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
companies like International Harvester and US Steel. But over time, automation steadily reduced the number of workers required to extract the mineral, while competition from natural gas and cheap, low-sulfur coal from out west did the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
competitors. An exploration and production company founded in 1967, CMS employs 180 workers in the United States, South America, and Africa. "Some of these mergers facilitate the purchase of properties that are no longer strategic to the... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
pandemic. The program provides an opportunity for students to develop skills and knowledge while having significant responsibility and high impact. This summer, HBS is supporting a record 162 Social Enterprise Summer Fellows, with many of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
recently in terms of public perception. We need to restore confidence through effective and proactive communications, through openness and candor, and through accuracy and conservatism in financial reporting. What are some of the important View Details