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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
off-boarding,” says Polli. “If somebody is looking to let go of an employee, we will give them career matching and help them connect to other opportunities. It is important to have a solution that will basically work from start to finish.” The company has grown... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Right Stuff: Getting the Word from MBA Admissions
people who are different from themselves. Examples might include a production supervisor who can rally everyone in an organization, from frontline employees to union leaders to CEOs; or a platoon leader who works with people from a range... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
New Releases
renew the organization and its products. This new individualized corporation, they observe, requires a fundamentally different management approach that rejects the traditional "organization man" model in which employees are considered... View Details
Keywords: Robert Binstock
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
launched programs to sell MedKaz to each prospective market segment—to consumers and groups with specific healthcare needs, to corporations that can offer MedKaz as an employee wellness benefit, and to such government entities as the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
that has redefined commerce. Since stepping down from eBay last spring, Whitman’s focus now lies in the public and social sectors. When Meg Whitman joined eBay in 1998, the two-year-old private company had thirty employees and $4.7... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Turning Point: Tell Me More
jumped in. One day I was running a company, with an office and employees and a grand strategy, and shortly thereafter, I was sitting alone in my home office, interviewing Americans about how they were voting and why, digging into... View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- News
Signal Boost
workforce is changing tremendously,’” says Lara. “‘If you want to keep your turnover low, you’ve got to be able to determine how to make your employees feel like they’re a part of your organization.’” In addition to its annual Summit on... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
decision to buck the industry standard and invest in employees. “Our business model gives employees a career path,” she says, noting that half of the company’s top managers started as sales associates. As she expanded Bluemercury beyond... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Lego Stays on Script
you ask to use a company’s main brand, because that affects all of its employees and business,” he says. “But the way we play with Lego is a mash-up. My son’s Batman minifigure interacts with a Star Wars minifigure, and we wanted that... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 05 Jul 2011
- News
The Business of Champions
opposition.” How, I wondered, can companies similarly sharpen the pursuit of their mission and goals throughout the organization? My Take-away: If companies can figure out how to get employees to personalize the mission, then the... View Details
- 15 Jan 2020
- News
The Business of Access
expenses. It’s about the things that would make their work better and easier, which are resources that private-sector employees take for granted.” In January 2019, Lisle became CEO of Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired, a... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
example, the Building Owners and Managers Association International 2018 Office Experience Exchange Report indicates average office gross rents of $30.35 per square foot for private-sector office buildings, average utility costs of $2.14, and total space per View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
Administration Harper Business Rapid and unprecedented changes brought on by the pandemic have accelerated the transition to remote work, requiring the wholesale migration of nearly entire companies to virtual work in mere weeks and leaving managers and View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
2011 Khan Academy launched. Today, Khan Academy has 130 employees who create instructional videos and practice exercises in math, science, computer programming, history, economics, and more. Its work has captured the support of thousands... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Bradley merged the Atlantic magazine’s Boston operations with those of the National Journal and Government Executive, just 3 of 55 employees elected to make the move to Washington, DC. Nearly 150 years after its founding, the Atlantic’s... View Details
- 23 Sep 2021
- News
Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies
often in a shorter time frame,” says Rogers. The program seeks to work with clients offering types of work that allow employees to thrive, which is critical for turning around a community. The program takes inspiration from the values of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
time. We’re really experts in large order gifting to multiple addresses. RY: Give us a sense of how big the company was when you bought it. How many gifts did you send out? How many employees? RK: We had twelve employees when we bought... View Details
- 18 Nov 2020
- News
Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar
evolution in the contract between employees and employers. The conversation also considered how the post-COVID workplace will be different, as technology and work modes continue to evolve. The next day, on October 21, HBS clubs around the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley