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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
In Brief
target group in southern India, that is about to change. More Celebrating HBS Women In celebration of this year’s 50th anniversary of women being admitted to the full-time MBA program, HBS and the Culture and Community Initiative are View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Uhlmann Award Winners Focus on French Retailer
failed in the face of an economic downturn in the United States and an onslaught of competitors. After a period of consolidation, the company is now looking for more opportunities abroad and has recently opened stores in China, Thailand, and South Korea. By the turn of... View Details
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
salesperson heterogeneity by using a hierarchical Bayesian framework to estimate our model. We find conditional compensation in the form of quota-bonus incentives to improve performance. We find little evidence that effectiveness differs between a quota-bonus View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
George A. Schaefer
A trained accountant, Schaefer’s first task as CEO was to dramatically cut costs. Caterpillar’s large, earth-moving products were no longer in high demand as in earlier years, so Schaefer decided to invest in making smaller machines for... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
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Science out into the open - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Production Chapter Introduction Chapter Images The Worker The Audience Bibliography previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 next Science out into the open ca. 1941 Chrysler Corporation Photographer unknown Science out into the open was the universal View Details
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Judging | New Venture Competition
Judging Social Enterprise Track Social Enterprise ideas are evaluated on their potential to become the basis of a viable new venture and will focus on the idea, its potential for social value creation, and the likelihood of achieving success based upon the team's View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- News
Signal Boost
that women and children would be hurt in traffic by exiting from the left side. Lara, then a manager of product strategy for Chrysler and the mother of an infant daughter, spoke up. “First of all, we park in parking lots, not traffic.... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
Creating an autonomous, entrepreneurial subsidiary may often be the best solution to this dilemma. Are there implications for entrepreneurial organizations, as well? Yes, very clear implications. If your business plan is based on a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
choosing this industry as opposed to another. The film business is a little tricky for MBAs to navigate. It doesn’t have the same clear path that other, more traditional fields do. Leaving that aside, the broader field of media and entertainment can be a really... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Students Top Marketing Contest
In January, Melissa Lau, Yanlin Liu, and Deena Malkina (all HBS ’08) took home top honors in Rice University’s seventh annual Marketing Case competition, besting student teams from nine other business schools, including Kellogg, Stanford, and Sloan. With the teams... View Details
- 12 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career
are not so different from organizational teams in other fields of life, including business. And watching the career moves of football stars may shed light on how you, too, can plan your next step. That's the message of new research by HBS... View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tips to Reinvent the Department Store
department stores will once again redefine themselves." David Overton, vice president and director of strategic planning and research for JC Penney, said, "Our biggest competitors are no longer the other department stores."... View Details
Elizabeth E. Boit
specialized in the production of women’s undergarments that were eventually sold by Lord & Taylor department stores. Boit was considered a maverick in improving the working conditions for her mostly female employees. She even... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
functional specialists, not general managers responsible for cross-functional integration. Three decades ago, COOs outnumbered CFOs in Fortune 500 and S&P 500 companies, but the proportions have flipped. Many CFOs are now charged with driving strategic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All
floor plan with the CEO sitting in the middle of staff, or should the CEO have an office on a separate floor? “We don’t have the data yet, but my hunch is that these decisions affect employee morale,” Norton says. “Anecdotally, people can... View Details
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Climate Symposium 2024: Confronting Reality, Celebrating Innovation - Blog - Business & Environment
Careers Climate Rising Climate Stories Clubs Courses & Curriculum Creating Emerging Markets Entrepreneurship Event Faculty Faculty Research IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2023 IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
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Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
demand and thus make Esquel's production planning as efficient as possible. Advances in engineering-from conserving natural resources such as energy and water to computerized color matching in the dyeing... View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
much at the center of that over the next five to 10 years. I think the clearest way to see that is through the SpaceX Starlink constellation, which is already a constellation of several thousand satellites. Many thousands more are planned... View Details
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Eligibility | New Venture Competition
entrepreneurs and investors who have agreed to maintain confidentiality of all submissions. We have asked them to treat your work product with the same care and respect for confidentiality. We also ask them to remove themselves from... View Details