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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
If Enron had been owned and controlled by a small group of private-equity investors, could the monitoring and control practices of a professionally run buyout shop have protected Enron’s shareholders and employees from the problems that... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
restore the garment. We have a cabinet full of dye pads and specialty tools to aid us in our cleaning and restoration processes.” Check in: Some 25 employees work at Parkway’s newly restored 10,000-square-foot operation. “The first thing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence
Talla, which leverages AI to resolve low-level IT issues without the need for human support. That doesn’t immediately reduce costs for IT services, but it does drive employee productivity. And if you think about AI-enhanced sales or... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Meditations on the Bottom Line
order that has survived this kind of transition." Despite ongoing challenges such as establishing cash flow, keeping up employee morale, and maintaining the organization's core spiritual values in the face of fiscal uncertainty, Bothwick... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
Merrill's employees for how quickly they adapted to their new offices in Jersey City. "I have told these people they have done the incredible," the Times reported on September 18, "and the bad news is that they have to get up and do it... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2006
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One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
industry entirely. Instead, the Miami native went home after graduation to join an upstart agency that seemed interested in doing things a little differently. At the time, Crispin Porter + Bogusky (CP+B) had a regional focus, with 55 View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
visits a noodle shop with an unnecessarily long wait, for example, she’ll reengineer the process in her mind: move the food there, put one employee here instead of two to reduce the line by half. “I’m pretty sure the owner would not... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
now has 140 employees and forecasted revenues of $125 million in 2009. Behind those figures, however, is the story of a company that has survived more than one brush with the void by reinventing itself through continuous, deep-seated... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
When 4753 North Broadway opened in 1924, the neoclassical tower represented the height of American architectural design, a terra-cotta temple of capitalism at the heart of Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Over the next century, a series of banks occupied the spacious... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez The Los Angeles–based startup Stell was borne of a pain point almost as old as recorded history itself: paperwork. One of Stell’s cofounders, Malory McLemore (MBA 2022), had landed a job as an engineer at Airbus after earning a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
it, by establishing accounting methodologies for the valuation of impacts that a company has on society—e.g., carbon emissions generated, water withdrawal from water-scarce locations, employee wages, job creation in areas of high... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
left and the right. No one wants politics to be corrupted. It’s also critical for business to push back against gerrymandering and voter suppression. An increasing number of firms are giving their employees time off to vote, which is also... View Details
- 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
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Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
successfully in the global economy while supporting high and rising living standards for the average American.” Calling that definition “spot-on,” Fields says Ford must look beyond its bottom line and “continue to provide our employees... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
themselves, Kahawa 1893 cuts out some of the traditional middlemen in the industry. The company works directly with Kenyan coffee cooperatives to source coffee beans that Kahawa roasts in San Francisco. Kahawa originally sold its beans to Bay Area offices, but when... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes
by $100 billion spent annually on management consulting and training. Yet that message doesn’t always get to the people who need it most: fewer than half of public-facing employees are well versed in these grand strategic ideas when it... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2
in front of policymakers in Washington. We will scale the level of activity to your needs.” E2 is somewhat unusual; it’s a virtual organization with no paid employees that has partnered with another nonprofit, NRDC. Members are required... View Details
- 28 Feb 2025
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Joy to the World
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010), CEO of East Boston Social Centers, spent time in foster care as a child, living in more homes than he can remember,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
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Fostering a Supportive Community
business and sparked his interest in leveraging it to address social issues, which ultimately led him to HBS. Mbanusi, who now works for Guild Education, a tech platform that helps employers reskill their employees debt-free, found in his... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele