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- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
training program, and now just became employee number one at Microsoft's development center in Nigeria. And he's an amazing person, I mean with or without Andela, he would have been fine. When you meet him, you'll know, he's on a mission.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
concept.” With their faculty advisors acting as “healthy skeptics,” the team laid the groundwork for ZEFER, which has received more than $100 million in venture funding, earned over $100 million in 2000 revenues, and boasts over seven hundred View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
capital in the world. It's time we had some kind of a health-care/SEC equivalent. There are some encouraging trends in the private sector. For example, Sears Holdings Corporation and Darden Restaurants are now giving employees cash... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
Faculty Books Fit to Compete by Michael Beer, Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus Harvard Business Review Press In his 30 years of working in corporations, HBS professor Michael Beer has witnessed firsthand how organizational silence derails... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
team, how to measure progress, and more. The Virtual Manager: Cutting-Edge Solutions for Hiring, Managing, Motivating, and Engaging Mobile Employees by Kevin Sheridan (MBA 1988) (Career Press) As more and more jobs can be performed from... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
1994), director of strategy services Joanne Kudrna (MBA 1981), and partner Shelly Bauerly Kopel—and they will tell you Granite Equity looks for companies that value employee wellness (they want their people to be happy, healthy, and... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
40 years, and was managing more than 3,300 employees and an annual budget of $773 million. Early training in physics launched his scientific career, but Earls credits what he learned at HBS with giving him the right stuff to soar in the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
Changes in employee management and training had an enormous impact. It took 22,000 workers to produce 1 million vehicles in 2000, for example, but only half that number to make 1.8 million four years later. In addition, Bajaj Auto has... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
Merrill's employees for how quickly they adapted to their new offices in Jersey City. "I have told these people they have done the incredible," the Times reported on September 18, "and the bad news is that they have to get up and do it... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 04 Jun 2025
- News
Slice of Life
there's this certain amount of discomfort that most people have. I just go in assuming everyone wants to be the best in the world at what they do, and I'm going to help them get there. And so when I have newer employees that don't come... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
2008, Macridis wondered if it wasn’t a sign of things to come and decided to borrow money that he didn’t need. Later, when sales dropped 40 percent and capital controls gridlocked the banks, the company was able to continue to fund inventory, service their clients,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
environmental counterpart Jody Holmes by surprise. “One day he’s working for the province, and the next day he’s on the other side,” she says. “It was a shock.” For Smith, adding a provincial employee to his team helped his side build... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
it, by establishing accounting methodologies for the valuation of impacts that a company has on society—e.g., carbon emissions generated, water withdrawal from water-scarce locations, employee wages, job creation in areas of high... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
left and the right. No one wants politics to be corrupted. It’s also critical for business to push back against gerrymandering and voter suppression. An increasing number of firms are giving their employees time off to vote, which is also... View Details
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
with some of firms’ highest-achieving employees often ended with questions about how to manage the demands of parenting and work. Much of the information she found was long on platitudes and short on practical, actionable advice—so she... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
laptops, cases of champagne, and other kinds of recognition to individuals who in some way had distinguished themselves. When a faculty secretary finally made a long-anticipated visit to her ancestral home in Italy, he gave her a camera and asked her to bring back... 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