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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
lunchtime, we’re back in Boulder. Sausage, steak, and veggie burgers sizzle on a grill in the parking area behind GoLite’s corporate headquarters in a nondescript business park. Employees sip beer and chat under a blue canopy set up for a... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
the book with an anecdote about Bob, this well-liked employee of yours who produced subpar work. Can you recount that story and talk about how that experience was instructive for you? Kim Scott: This experience with Bob was probably the... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
thousands more individuals across the world. This crisis can either be an end or a new beginning." APRIL 29 As chairman of Wipro, an Indian multinational, Rishad Premji's (MBA 2005) response to COVID-19 was both practical and humanitarian. On the practical side, he... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- News
Startup Talk in Chicago
(MBA 1995), senior vice president of marketing, loyalty, and sales; and Ralph Lopez, vice president of IOC Operations, hosted the group in the airline’s massive command center and spoke about the critical importance of taking care of their View Details
- 11 May 2011
- News
In a Good Place
that skill can come in handy when juggling the many demands of GreenFlea, a moving puzzle of vendors, each with his or her own personality and demands. (Gehrke’s is the only full-time position; twelve employees help out on the day of the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
most valuable asset - people. "I believe an executive who has a personal life and urges her employees to do the same will be beloved and better at understanding the marketplace and the world," she concluded. "Not coincidentally, I want my... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
44, has been charged by a bull elephant in the Congo, swum with penguins in the Galapagos, mingled with bison in the American West, and camped out among grizzly bears in Alaska. It’s all part of his job as head of a multinational conservation organization with 3,800... View Details
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- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
Tulip, a four-star hotel in Festac, into a position as a telephone operator at the Radisson Blue Hotel in Victoria Island. WAVE is expected to train 25,000 people by 2019. “We have to start leveling the playing field. It should matter that View Details
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- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
employees at every level of the organization," says Makihara, who instituted an open-door policy to make good on what was then a revolutionary idea among Japanese executives. Emphasizing the importance of adopting new technologies, he... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
departure from a traditional, "top-down" management style, Nasser continued. "Every employee must be a teacher, learner, and leader," he said. Later in the day, Professor Myra Hart led a breakout session on the topic of "Start-Up... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
which asked Nielsen to remain as chairman and CEO for five more years. He agreed and doubled the size of the company during that time. With revenues of $165 million and 2,500 employees in five countries on three continents, Hazleton was... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
focus from advising to investing in start-ups just as the UK and Europe embarked on major economic reforms. In addition, the U.S. venture capital industry got a huge boost when a 1978 clarification in the Employee Retirement Income... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
relations powerhouse Hill & Knowlton) for $566 million. It was the equivalent of a minnow swallowing a whale. "They were thirteen times our size, but it was an opportune moment to strike," he explains. "JWT had lost some high-profile accounts, and there was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
Entertainment Group and ahead of Cinemark Theatres), AMC has 345 theaters and nearly 5,000 screens across the United States, with about 20,000 employees hosting some 200 million moviegoers each year. (AMC has the largest market share in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Staying the Course
workplace disruptions all companies have faced. DreamBox, which is based in metropolitan Seattle, the epicenter of the first-known US outbreak of COVID-19, was among the first wave of companies to transition to a fully work-from-home model. For Woolley-Wilson, keeping... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Releases
of confidence that demonstrates the risks of neglecting customer and employee relationships in the face of large-scale change. Once the world's most admired corporation, IBM stumbled badly in the early 1990s. The company, now making a... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
build trust by allowing employees to know what¹s expected of them. Predictability also enhances the firm¹s stability while leaving room for vitality and creativity, Stevenson asserts. While technological advances, economic dislocations,... View Details
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
4 months. southeastern us Merlin Mobility offers an SaaS platform that enables enterprises to create and deliver Augmented Reality-based instructions to smart devices, helping customers and employees complete technical tasks up to 56%... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
have been fixed by the right words? Has your best employee walked out the door without you ever telling them how much they meant to you? Do you still recall that wonderful thing someone said to you so many years ago? If so, then you know... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Illustrations by Andrea Manzati Prescription: Free the Data! On a bright September morning, on the expansive lawn outside the Watertown, Massachusetts, headquarters of the e-health firm athenahealth, city and state officials, company executives, and hundreds of View Details