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01 Jun 2017
News

Streamlining the Supermarket

TakeOff, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has already raised $10 million in funding, and has partnered with a supermarket chain to open its first fulfillment center early this fall. As for customers, they... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

11 Oct 2022
News

Righting the Ship

historic high of 94 percent. And the numbers in the years since—hovering between the high 80s and low 90s—account View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

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About the Project - U.S. Competitiveness

and improve the competitiveness of the United States—that is, the ability of firms operating in View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

Covering the Issues

Bulletin coverage of technology centered on areas such as aviation, energy, and automation. A 1928 article on radio, for example, noted that "with View Details

Keywords: Susan Young, Deborah Blagg, and Garry Emmons

18 Apr 2007
HBS Case

How Magazine Luiza Courts the Poor

The inspiration for a new case can strike at any time. For Harvard Business School professor Frances X. Frei, the time and place was one morning... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

September 2013 (Revised June 2014)
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Rana Plaza: Workplace Safety In Bangladesh (A)

By: John A. Quelch and Margaret L. Rodriguez

On April 24, 2013 the Rana Plaza factory building collapsed in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Over 1,100 people were killed in the worst industrial accident since the Union Carbide plant gas leak in Bhopal, India. Most of the victims worked for garment factories,... View Details

Keywords: Marketing; Public Health; Safety; Workplace; Human Rights; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Bangladesh

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19 Jun 2023
Blog Post

The Road to Impact

Library (NYPL) and the education initiative accelerator America Achieves, and he currently serves as president and CEO of Education Development Center (EDC), a nonprofit based... View Details

01 Dec 2012
News

The Accidental Pioneers

would be mostly men and a few women." She was right. Sherwood was one of eight women out of a class of 668 to be admitted for View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia

18 Aug 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

everything from the particulars of their target market, to their revenue model, to the name of the venture, before... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

01 Jun 2025
News

Keeping the Faith

It has been said that the note of a Tibetan singing bowl is the sound of inner peace. That’s not something you might expect to hear in the MBA classroom. But it rings through Hawes Hall at the beginning of each session of The Spiritual Lives of Leaders, a second-year... View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace; Illustrations by Victo ngai

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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership

The 20th Century Zeitgeist The 20th Century Zeitgeist Great Leadership is not a singular concept. On the contrary, it is a function of View Details

04 Mar 2019
What Do You Think?

What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?

include the founders and leaders of organizations such as Google and Facebook. Their business models are centered around the exchange View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products

01 Mar 2013
News

Opening the Door

For her innovative research and outspoken advocacy of US health-care reform, Professor Regina Herzlinger is known in some media circles as "the godmother of consumer-driven... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management

Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed--and What to Do About It

Silicon Valley, Singapore, Tel Aviv—the global hubs of entrepreneurial activity—all bear the marks of government investment. Yet, for every public intervention that spurs entrepreneurial activity, there are many failed efforts that waste untold billions in taxpayer... View Details

21 Jul 2006
Op-Ed

Enron Jury Sent the Right Message

The most noteworthy message of the Enron trial is that corporate executives can be convicted in a court of law for... View Details

Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter

14 Nov 2024
News

How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details

01 Dec 2021
What Do You Think?

How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?

in a U-Stor-It container in Inglewood, California. After losing his day job, he turns to his “auxiliary emergency backup job” as a “freelance stringer for the CIC, the Central... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Dec 2010
News

Notes from the Trenches

Last week’s post by Roger Thompson featured “Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs”. To build on that, I thought I’d include some of the more quotable moments and insights from a recent... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Scientific Research and Development Services

06 Nov 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?

Summing Up Is Business Agility a Product of Top-Down or Bottom-Up Resource Allocation? Respondents to this month's column provided possible explanations for greater reliance on top-down resource allocation... View Details