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- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
Suzhou amid COVID-19, while exploring the bigger problem of China's labor shortage of migrant workers. Choudhury will teach the case in his elective course, Managing Global Operations, next spring. California Research Center—When the...
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- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
experience. Moreover, we should not forget that one of the coauthors of the famous Hawthorne Studies (Harold Wright) was also chief of personnel at the Western Electric Company when Management and the Worker: An Account of a Research...
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- 20 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Technology
companies students are interested in as well, from startups to high growth to the Fortune 500. Product management continues to be a popular functional area for students eager to use their general management...
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Technology
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
decision by the Bush White House to provide more than $20 billion to GM, Chrysler, and their financial subsidiaries, the auto task force put together by President Obama managed a restructuring of both companies at a breathtaking pace....
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)
to General George S. Patton. Stillman is professor emeritus of management at the University of New Orleans College of Business Administration, where he taught from 1967 until 1982. He has written a total of eighteen books, a number of...
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- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
retailers rely on temporary workers during the holiday season, so training and managing frontline staff becomes essential. Finally, retail executives should be highly focused on customer service. Consumers who shop in person will likely...
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- 08 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
On the Road: HBS Midwest Tour
rolled through Cincinnati reminding me of my childhood (we don’t get the same big thunderstorms in Boston). I loved being in Detroit and seeing the revitalization of the downtown area—there was lots going on and I even managed to catch an...
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- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
October 2017 Management Science The Size of the LGBT Population and the Magnitude of Anti-Gay Sentiment Are Substantially Underestimated By: Coffman, Katherine Baldiga, Lucas C. Coffman, and Keith M. Marzilli Ericson Abstract—We...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria
memory that the product was safe to drink. Q: What can any manager or business leader take away from reading Driven? A: All managers and business leaders need to get things done through people. It is hard to...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)
“Reimaging Capitalism” into practice by helping funds build investing strategies and philosophy around how they evaluate potential investments via a series of ESG ratings. I’m currently organizing a teach-in for the company management to...
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- 05 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
Reflecting on the Section Experience at HBS
able to make those directional/strategic decisions in the future. Business school would help me with that positioning. HBS, with its diverse student body, focus on a general management curriculum and reputation as a top business school...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference
recent HBS conference on the media and entertainment industries. Sponsored by the HBS Entertainment and Media Club and Price Waterhouse, the March event - "A View from the Top" - brought together senior executives from several leading...
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Paula Maute
- 29 May 2013
- Blog Post
Four Weeks on the Road with MBAs Across America
business, Made Collection. We helped the Collection refine their target audience and customer acquisition strategy, and Mike and Hicham managed to fit in a jam session with some of their resident musicians, too! We also explored Boulder’s...
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Entrepreneurship
- 19 Jun 2018
- Research Event
Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?
stellar cast of practitioners, management researchers, and business and environmental historians. As co-organizer of the event with HBS Professor Amy Edmondson and Swedish business historian Anki Bergquist,...
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- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
standards of the Internet and willing to transfer databases to a "rival supplier" in the event of an unsatisfactory relationship (Joshua Doherty), and those maintaining a highly focused in-house R&D capability while...
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by James Heskett
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
organizations, Kaplan and Haas identify five common mistakes when managers attempt to cut health care costs. The mistakes are triggered, primarily, by working from the line-item expense categories on P&Ls, rather than clinically based...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
When hotel manager Alessandro Benedetti worked for Kempinski chain locations in Spain and Switzerland, morning meetings were a time to go over the numbers and discuss strategy for the days ahead. But ever since Benedetti moved to Havana...
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 11 Mar 2009
- HBS Case
The Energy Politics of Russia vs. Ukraine
In a virtual replay of events this past January, in 2006 Russia's energy giant Gazprom cut off its supply of natural gas to Ukraine's energy company in the depths of winter. The move confirmed the fears of many in the West that the...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Gazprom Goes Global
A Russian Giant Grows, Despite a Bad Rap THE BIG CHILL: Russia and Ukraine’s gas wars give Europe the shivers. In a virtual replay of events this past January, in 2006 Russia’s energy giant Gazprom cut off its supply of natural gas to...
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- 19 Jun 2018
- News
Pittsburgh Alumni Annual Meeting Features PPG’s McGarry
were setting up headquarters in Pittsburgh. “We had close to 100 HBS alumni working at Westinghouse alone,” he says. “Then we had a slump in membership in the 1990s. But we’ve had a big drive to bring membership numbers up. We now run about 10 major club View Details
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Margie Kelley