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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
Katrina knocked out operations at the New Orleans headquarters and the Long Beach plant, pushing the business to the brink. Advanced planning saved vital data and operations, but Oreck credits employees with actually saving the company.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
world’s least densely populated country. At A Glance Total Area: 1,564,116 sq. km. Population: 3,041,142 Per Capita GDP: $3,400 Oyunjargal Dashzeveg (AMP 171, 2006): MONGOLIA I’ve been the CEO of Mongol Post Bank since 1998, when it had 50 View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
many Cicero employees now volunteer or work pro bono on company time mentoring, coaching, and training, as well as gathering and analyzing data to frame the best approaches to ending homelessness. One outcome of this work is a database... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
five-year plan, and I can't analyze things with spreadsheets. I get bored." The same has held true for how Wyss has approached his career. Asked if he ever thought he would spend thirty years building a medical device company into a $2.3 billion organization with some... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer
that we do at HBR — I edited; I acquired an article; I spoke with authors; I wrote the beginning of the list article; I did a few employee reviews; I interviewed a candidate for a job. I sang “Down in the Valley” to an editor who is in... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
in their free time seemed too much like work, so we shifted to companies allowing employees to work on company time. We also began working with companies to align efforts to their core human capital and business development strategies so... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
Doctors can’t succeed unless the patient actively participates. More employers are asking employees to participate in health-risk screening and disease management, or bear higher premiums for their health insurance. This movement will... View Details
- 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
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. On this episode, we’re featuring an excerpt from a new HBS podcast called Think Big, Buy Small. The show is hosted by Professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested
Production on the second season of Hello Sunshine’s The Morning Show was paused due to COVID restrictions. Even so, the company continues to grow; Harden mentions onboarding eight employees remotely during the pandemic (adding to a staff... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
guidelines and encouraging employees to create value through long-term thinking - rather than by trying to follow the latest "flavor-of-the-month." "Predictability is not certainty," Stevenson emphasizes. "It isn't about having a lifeless... 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
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
range of industries continue to implement radically flexible work practices, allowing most, if not all, of their employees to work from anywhere. Why? They understand that geographic flexibility offers a competitive advantage: the ability... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
2011), and I—have complementary consulting and research backgrounds and a shared passion to serve the global poor. Together, we decided that IDinsight was the best way for us to make an impact. This year, we will have 20 employees helping... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Star Search
excited about a job is their team, feeling they have impact on the broader company goals, and being intellectually engaged by the work. For us, that means allowing our employees to follow their passion and change roles. We call it the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
New Releases
including Hewlett-Packard, Ford Motor Company, Kirin Brewery Co., and Procter & Gamble - that have successfully implemented such systems. Cost & Effect describes systems that help frontline employees to improve their daily operations and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
choices among payment vendors and difficulties finding employees with e-commerce experience, necessitating extensive training. The Question: Cahuzac and his cofounders had planned to run a furniture company, not a logistics one. How can... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
foremost, to improving the everyday lives of consumers." Despite P&G's successes, Lafley is well aware of the dangers that can loom on any operation's horizon. He has talked publicly, for instance, about the limitations faced even by a company that has more than... 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