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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
School of Hard Knocks
defined by age, strongly correlates to employee engagement, satisfaction, and performance. To promote understanding in a diverse workplace, I've found some of the best practices are simple, familiar activities, such as brown-bag lunches... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Changing Lives One Computer at a Time
innovation. Although the program usually consists of one teacher and the students, the involvement of adult facilitators has proven to be a powerful added benefit for both the children and the HBS volunteers. Dell will share the HBSAAA volunteer model as a best View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Hong Kong Club Thrives, Plans Next Global Alumni Conference
Kong, the United States, and Europe. The strength of the conference, Teo stresses, will come from “the intellectual value of the leading research from HBS, combined with the power of practice from experts in the field.” Teo has long been... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
article in a business journal that gives as strong, comprehensive, and accurate a depiction of corrupt business practices as “Show Me the Money.” My own career was mostly in the Foreign Service when I had occasion to see and lament most... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
INK: Taking Care
system, rethink what matters, and protect her family throughout those travails. With a foreword by Katie Couric, the book offers practical tips to help others face the journey with less fear. In the excerpt below, she writes about the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
One problem was that Rakuten offered little initial training or support to workers, who were expected to pay for their own English classes and learn the language during off-hours. Neeley, who drafted some best practices that the company... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Raising the Barrio
most likely run for reelection next year. The city could not forsake the neighborhood, nor raze it. Relocating it was not a practical option: “The concept is to help people improve their lives in the place where they live,” he says. And... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Short Takes
schools, have benefited from setting up internal management development programs and facilities in order to maintain a qualified pool of employees. Replicating U.S. business practices in other countries is a very complex challenge,... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
decision-making climates that are externally oriented." The lesson for managers, the authors say, is that instead of adapting their management practices to local norms, multinational firms should strive to create the kind of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
scuttled by. The factory, its walls covered with union stickers and pro-worker graffiti, contained the seeds for change. Any practical businessman, however, could see that despite the story’s romance, reviving Jeannette was an equation... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
customers, so of course it makes sense that we care for our employees and our communities as an extension of that. Eco-consciousness has been part of the company since the beginning, given our practice of recycling and renovating older... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
knew I had plenty of energy, and I was eager to learn whatever they could teach me about singing. So we began practicing together, and before long we started to jell. They came up with the name for the group, and Indian Elvis was born."... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
practices to understand principles,” Porter has said. As part of that effort, and emerging from his trip, Porter and several GHD colleagues have written a case study, “HIV Care in Rwanda,” that was the subject of a special seminar at HBS... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Complements to the Case Method
multimedia simulation “Strategic Brew” engages students in a fast-paced exercise in strategic decision- making. The goal of the simulation is to show, rather than tell, students how to strategize. Working in teams, students gain practical... View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
to 2.5 million women across the country and launching his own startup, Salud Cercana (Health Near You), to address the issue of heart disease in low-income Mexico communities. One of only a few Mexican physicians with an MBA, Ocejo, 31, first saw the opportunity to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)
growth of female athletes in amateur sports, we found that sexual abuse of these young, female athletes by male coaches was quite widespread. It was an incredible series that changed the reporting laws in Washington State. PRACTICING... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
You're Better Than Your Job Search by Marc Cenedella (MBA '98) and Matthew Rothenberg (Downtown Bookworks) This guidebook provides easy-to-understand best practices and tools to help keep a job search on track. Covering such topics as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
strategy and business planning. Jeffrey Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986), former editor of the Bulletin and author of historical works about HBS, describes Christensen and his colleagues as “transitional figures” in the School’s approach to management View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
dishes, He says he appreciates the democratic aspect of a business that rewards practical experience and a strong work ethic. “People who apply themselves can work their way through the ranks,” he observes. “For many workers —... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
management practice has evolved since the "benevolent, high-growth environment" following World War II. That era provided fertile ground for the growth of Alfred Sloan's "strategy, structure, systems" model of the divisional corporation... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry