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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
done. Any contractor offering a payoff to Roshan was immediately blacklisted. Any employee caught taking or offering a bribe was instantly fired. “In emerging markets, you have to be very persistent and clear in your messaging—dogmatic,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
A Better Way to Go on Strike
costs at $200 million a day. What's more, a strike would cost the pilots and other employees their salaries. The airline would lose tens of millions of dollars daily and risk losing market share to its competitors. Yet the pilots were... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
who are doing the actual work what they think about a problem and how they would solve it. They are much more likely to come up with solutions because they've got the experience. It's just that no one ever asks them." Hawes's belief in the individual led him to give... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Better World, One Idea at a Time
commission-based, door-to-door sales organization while reinvesting profits to expand and provide employee benefits in Haiti. In addition to the judges’ picks, the “Audience Choice” award went to Essmart, a retail distribution company in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Exhibit at Baker Library Marks HBS Centennial
also be viewed online at Baker Library. As the manufacturing arm of AT&T, Western Electric’s Hawthorne plant, located outside Chicago in Cicero, Illinois, was known for the practice of “scientific management” (as espoused by time-and-motion guru Frederick Taylor). Tens... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
Prashanth Chandrasekar (MBA 2008) (pictured above right), but the company already had a strong remote-work ethos, with 40 percent of its employees working remotely and a globally distributed workforce with offices in New York, Austin,... View Details
- 21 Jun 2020
- News
Rooting out Racism
opportunity. An organization cannot be a meritocracy when the small number of black employees spend a significant percentage of their mental bandwidth wondering, “Why aren’t there more people like me? Am I being treated differently?”... View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
- News
Cheese Whiz
At Specialty Cheese Co. in Reeseville, Wisconsin, founder Paul Scharfman (MBA 1979) heads up a company that makes one of the state’s best-known exports: cheese. But as its name suggests, Specialty’s 250 employees manufacture products more... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Annual Report Details Strong Financial Growth
fellowships. On the operating expense side, employee compensation represented more than half of all expenditures, increasing 10 percent to $153 million. This growth reflected a 29.5 percent University-wide increase in View Details
- 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
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Thinking Outside the Centerfold
shop” (Adweek, January 28, 2002). With annual billings of $225 million and some 160 employees working in Miami and a new Los Angeles office, CPB is now garnering plenty of attention. But CPB had shown indications a few years earlier that... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Status Update
on KLM airline’s use of the Facebook Messenger platform for customer care, says Levine, and Walmart’s employee training program, which features Oculus Go’s virtual reality headsets. No stranger to the Facebook family, Levine came to the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 27 Jan 2023
- News
Turning Up the Volume
Edelman’s corporate sponsorship model gives its employees the ability to work pro bono with sponsored clients. “Because of Lex’s leadership, our partnership is beyond the run-of-the-mill corporate-sponsorship model,” notes Goldman, “and... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
cares that provide nutrition, health care, and educational support for mothers and young children—represent a particularly rich target. Rocket is currently working with the Ministry of Women and Child Development, which runs the centers, to help the country’s 1.4... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Up by the Roots
company’s e-commerce infrastructure. Beyond these advances, however, he has little interest in outgrowing his company’s family-run origins. “Our employees count on us and our customers count on us, and we try to do right by them,” he... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Ink
send employees and supporters over to the big chain store to buy it, bring it back, and sell it for a penny less.” THE MARKET TESTING “I told this Freezy Frosty story to my kids for years. And they would tell their friends, who would come... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty (MBA 1971)
before being asked to head the company's bankruptcy department in 1987. In 1991, she was granted responsibility for the high-yield department as well, and in 1992 became the first female employee elected to the Bear Stearns board of... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Truth in Lending
approach.” As the Entrepreneurial Finance Lab continues to expand its global reach, now with more than 50 employees on four continents, the company’s model has become increasingly sophisticated at identifying cultural nuances. “But about... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
The Simplest Taste
cachet to mail-order shopping. Although he mixed easily with the wealthy and famous, and came to be considered an arbiter of correctness, Marcus never forgot his business roots, declaring that "no man is too big to go out and make a sale." Known to all his View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
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Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
about as they help their employees through this process? Rachel: So I think we're in a time where leaders really need to redefine empathy and what it means. Empathy translates in different ways, for example, respecting different levels of... View Details
Keywords: Zoom