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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
R. Cross reveals the man behind the art. It is the surprising story of a life led on the front lines of history. In that life, this Everyman made archetypal images of American culture, endowed with a force... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Climate Change as Must-See TV
Susan and Steve Mandel (both MBA 1982). The series includes Don Cheadle, Matt Damon, Harrison Ford, Olivia Munn, and Arnold Schwarzenegger as on-the-ground correspondents who visit ordinary Americans on the front View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Breakthrough International Negotiation
from a collection of diplomacy cases developed in the last decade. Through in-depth interviews with top diplomats and negotiators on the front lines of tense international conflicts, Watkins and Rosegrant... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Renter’s Market
street. He looks for positive signs such as strong rental demand from city employees and blue-collar workers; a mix of rental and owner-occupied properties; successful local businesses; city revitalization projects; and informal... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
An Electrifying Tale
into an operation that now boasts 135 employees and anticipated 2003 revenues of $45 million. As Boston’s Big Dig, a prime revenue source, winds down, City Lights is expanding to other parts of the country. The company has also launched a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
Tropical's Nick Castaldo: “When you see employees who take pride in what they're doing and long lines of happy customers, it's terrifically satisfying.” Nick Castaldo is CEO of Miami-based Pollo Tropical, a... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Getting New Ideas off the Ground
if we would help him put a computer in the home of every employee worldwide. “We did that with Ford, and then the next day in the front page of the New York Times announced a similar deal with Delta Airlines... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Jen Wong (MBA 2004)
to the front of the line in VR.” Take the meeting: “I spend a fair amount of time talking to new early-stage companies that have interesting technologies we want to test. Some of these start off small, and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Back at the Ranch
they need to learn how to walk from point A to point B on a ranch without injuring themselves. Or the livestock.” “When you’re in the Army, you have to be so focused that you don’t really have time to think about your career. You keep doing what’s five feet in View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
impact on the success of employees and companies. “I came to the program on the late side, but I think I’ve found a set of research topics that thread the needle between relevance to real organizations and scholarly interest,” he... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
comes from headlines we’ve seen this year. The Economist ran a cover story on the supposed new majority standing of women in the professional workforce with a picture of Rosie the Riveter and the headline “We Did It!” The Atlantic published a feature along the same... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
process. The staff of seven recently switched from an assembly line to a less-efficient but more scalable pick-and-pack process, with one person completing each order. In the previous setup, adding staff would create bottlenecks. “Imagine... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Turning Point: One Step at a Time
work just as well. Luckily this meant I had plenty of places to hide. I found a tree a few hundred feet beyond the starting line and ducked for cover. Then I spritzed myself with water to ensure that I was appropriately sweaty and jogged... View Details
Keywords: Christina Wallace (MBA 2010)
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Stacey Lawson (MBA '96)
illustrations of standard parts, such as valves, pumps, and gears. Today Lawson is the vice president of marketing at InPart, a company she cofounded upon graduating from HBS. InPart, now fifty employees strong, is creating a library of... View Details
- 07 Oct 2011
- News
Tea’s Time
can’t wait 10 years to do it,” Rawdon thought. Still at Siebel, and casting about for business ideas, she met Emily Meyer, a designer for Esprit and Gymboree who wanted to create a line of globally inspired children’s clothes. “Business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
order to offset the negative impact of a sagging economy and sharply rising employee benefit costs. Over the course of the past three years, U.S. manufacturing has shed some 2.7 million jobs, with companies marshaling technology and... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
Angie Hicks, MBA 2000
on the Angie’s List “campus”—a collection of buildings the company bought and renovated in Indianapolis— when an employee asks to take a selfie with her. While she has been the name and the face of the company since she cofounded it 22... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
orders and have them delivered to their tables—a service often performed by managers. “Now when I see a customer talking to a manager, it’s a good thing,” says Karavites, smiling. Traditionally, the bank of cash registers that separates the customers and the View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
Scott Roth (MBA 1994) in the Black Hills of South Dakota as the pair discussed ways to help. What Kim wanted to do was build a foundation that would aid in funding the college educations of military children who had lost a parent in the View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
the boundaries in financial services, the two giants have challenged more conventional banking mergers in which organizations merely seek to grow larger while remaining banking concerns." Crozier also sees the current merger trend as beginning to divide the industry... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey