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- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
Summing Up What's the Downside to Disruption in High Tech? This month's column gave many readers an opportunity to join my rant about the need for disruption to combat the increasing inscrutability and waste of technological innovations from a user's View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
consumer finance? The household sector in America is huge, representing approximately $61 trillion of assets. And consumer finance businesses are the touch points between the financial system and millions of... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
crunching. Acxiom, say analysts, has constructed the world's largest consumer database. Nearly 25,000 servers track data on 700 million consumers worldwide, including most US consumers, assembling approximately 1,500 data points per... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
international consultancy and still travels extensively — for business and pleasure — with his wife of 62 years, Lee. Tell us about a high point of your Bloomingdale’s career. In 1976, the Queen of England visited our New York store. She... View Details
- 22 Dec 2016
- Op-Ed
The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth
the government should not be in the business of helping some small businesses and not others. The editorial writers reinforced their view of SBA by pointing to President Obama’s proposed reorganization of federal economic agencies in... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
display a lot of information about their careers, which makes them available to headhunters and other employers as passive candidates. But they also establish relationships with others to stay in touch with peers and to make new contacts.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
for tomorrow. The BEI aims to leverage HBS’s unique platform to help move the needle on climate change and accelerate climate solutions. Critical issues such as these are also among the focal points for HBS’s new Institute for the Study... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 12 Jan 2017
- News
Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
Skeete Tatum explains. “We combine the leverage of technology with the human touch points that are critical in managing a career. This enables us to level the playing field for women in the workforce by... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
things, there is a transition to get through. The two-finger typist who wants to learn to touch type will suffer a performance decrement when he makes the shift. The idea was to improve performance by learning a new skill (e.g., View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
pressing need for changes to infrastructure. One point that stood out to me was the impact of climate on health outcomes, particularly looking at quantifying the co-benefits of healthy buildings. In addition, several speakers View Details
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Brooke Carter (MBA 2019)
other environments where you present and defend your ideas daily in front of 90 people. How long was your deferral (2, 3, or 4 years)? My deferral was 2 years. I considered deferring longer, but I felt like I was at a natural point in my... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
place, they can go back and harvest their eternal verities - research, credibility, the brokers' personal touch - and use them to their advantage." Dwight Crane points to a recent Merrill Lynch advertising... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
You want people to touch your product and actually get the brand experience. You could get to a point where stores like Best Buy become just showrooms and fulfillment is done by Amazon because they are much... View Details
- 22 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
CEO Succession: The Case at Ford
for the companies [in the] S&P 500, and about 40 percent when the company's had some problems. So you have to say frequently. Q: What are the advantages of doing that? A: The main advantage is that you can probably get a fresh point... View Details
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
private equity, eventually left Lehman to join Oakhill Partners in 1990, and then cofounded an independent investment banking advisory firm, Evercore Partners, in 1995. And while Offensend was building his career in finance, he also stayed in View Details
- 03 Oct 2018
- What Do You Think?
How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace?
rule on how to avoid such meetings, Phillyattorney asked, “While youth protection is critically important, has our civil discourse reached the point that the same protections are needed in the workplace?” Linda Powell commented, “Men who... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Mar 2011
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?
and a totally different personality in his/her private environment." Yedendra Chouksey pointed out that "what is beyond doubt is that the job and the job holder are interdependent the job provides the opening for power but the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
in the midtown Manhattan headquarters of Halcyon/Alan B. Slifka Management Company. In discussing the success of his investment firm, he points out that his traders are not only innovative and individualistic but also cooperative. When... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior
explains. "And the same may be true about inequality and our inability at this point to say much about its effects. The problem may be that we don't yet know enough about mechanism." Moss followed the same logic working with... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
From Connections to Seats: The Journey of Diverse Board Candidates - Blog: RGE Report
program saw value in staying in touch and helping each other find board positions. The group has broadened to a range of women who have completed governance programs at Harvard Business School, said Colleen Ammerman , director of HBS’s... View Details