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- 01 Dec 2007
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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
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
uncomfortable territory in an effort to respond to their employees' deeper yearnings. While spirituality is a highly individual and personal matter, managers and employees alike seem to find common themes emerging when they begin thinking... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
Leadership Lessons from the Basketball Court
leadership and team-development programs and realized that a lot of them were built for another generation. Increasingly, younger employees are not going to stay in their company for 20 years. They're going to move from job to job if... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
WHITMAN When Meg Whitman joined a fledgling online auction start-up in 1998, not many people outside of serious collectors of Beanie Babies had heard of eBay. After ten years under her leadership, the company now has 16,000 employees in... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
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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
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
travels on Twitter." And of course as an employee of the company and somebody who uses the product pretty heavily, I had been posting some photos of our meetings in Cannes that week in the south of France. So Piero was correct on that... View Details
- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
celebrating the best talent in the world. And then putting the pieces in place to make sure when that talent walks in the door they want to stay here. It's a really fun group to work with. I mean we're—of our 500 some odd employees I'd... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
the interest of business in my mind. There is also a real role for businesses to play in strengthening democracy by helping reach people at scale by giving employees time off for voting, for example, and making sure they have information... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
non-profit employee before you’re going to go and become that person. Take all that money that you are making now, and sock away everything else. Also, don’t get used to the high-priced lifestyle that you’re going to have to scale back... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
clauses are only narrowly enforced in the state of New York, making it relatively easy for an employee of a large financial services institution to leave and found a startup. This puts it ahead of Massachusetts, which takes a stricter... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
hire roughly two-thirds of all graduates from top-ranked MBA programs, increasingly have in-house programs for developing and promoting talented employees who have only undergraduate degrees. One anecdote drove the point home. When Datar... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Just Breathe
the book, which is equal parts memoir and how-to guide, Zee Clarke (MBA 2008) shares her own experiences as a Black woman in corporate America and how discovering mindfulness techniques transformed her sense of well-being. As the founder of Reclaiming Flow, Clarke... 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
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 12 Apr 2016
- News
How Disney’s Alan Horn Manages the Movies
think that’s genuinely who Alan is.” The piece also offers insight into Horn’s day-to-day management style, with fellow employees recalling the usefulness of his notes on casting (Robert Redford as a villain in “Captain America: The... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
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Replicating Toyota's Success
Spear focused on the company's approach to solving problems and noticed the conscious way Toyota's managers involve employees in this process, even to the point of leaving a production line at suboptimal performance so that workers could... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HP's Fiorina Speaks at HBS
underemployment at home and abroad, before eventually earning an MBA at the University of Maryland. In 1999, after almost twenty years in the executive ranks at AT&T and Lucent, the one-time HP secretary returned to her former employer as its CEO. A $72 billion... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
families, and small businesses and their employees made sense. But some of the larger corporate bailouts really should have taken a backseat to further investments in public health. People use the phrase “fiscal stimulus” to describe the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
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Making Their Way
Kirlin received a patent for recessed lighting, to this day a landmark innovation for Kirlin and its customers. Throughout Detroit’s ups and downs, Kirlin has remained a stalwart manufacturing presence and loyal member of the community. Today, its 85 View Details