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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
manufactured consumer goods first used the union label as a way to show solidarity through their purchases. One hundred years later, men and women, and even teenagers, organized to protest sweatshop production in various countries around the world and to View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
panels. Instead, the panels would need to come from Asia — a considerable challenge for an eighty-employee company based in suburban Boston. Sharpe’s response was equally direct. ET partnered with a company based in Singapore and shipped it panel pieces to be assembled... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
gained from the CSML program to help navigate issues wrought by the pandemic: “With the increased demands of leading a campus through the ever-changing landscape of COVID-19, the ability to triage needs, inspire hope, and develop robust... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
excessive risk-taking (or, at a minimum, didn’t respond with increased prudential regulation), stockholder demands for ever higher returns grew still further. It was a vicious cycle.... “The stockholder-centric view of the current Schumer... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Advance Racial Equity in the Office
don’t even realize it’s happening, Rice says, but it means that people of color can’t compete on equal footing for career mobility. Doing nothing to fix systemic disadvantages is “fundamentally racist, not to mention cancerous to our... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
stars. Successful professional service firms are able to do this more or less consistently on a long-term basis. We found there are four critical aspects to managing these firms effectively: strategy, organization, culture, and leadership. Success View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
book, Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire, Henderson says that we have failed to reenvision capitalism. It must be not only an engine of prosperity, she offers, but also a system that is in harmony with environmental realities,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
doesn’t look like what I thought it would, but I have learned, once again, that people are so much more varied and interesting than what I could imagine on my own,” writes Margulies, who worked on improving health-care systems and rural... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Shape of Things to Come
interest or because student demand tells us something has no traction. Less frequently we’ll make a big change in the first year. NN: Important impulses for change also come from alumni. We were approached not so long ago by a graduate... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
know we have the capability in McHenry to fix any problem and make that product work.” CGM has some twenty full-time U.S. employees. Although the global recession brought about downsizing at the company in 2009, it was also an opportunity to invest in state-of-the-art... View Details
- 08 Jan 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
to produce food. Less typical among nonprofits is Sustainable America’s investment philosophy. The organization makes direct investments in new technologies that reduce the demand for oil and increase the food supply. Tiller is a fervent... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
has ever seen. In the past, biographers of Lord Liverpool have not sufficiently acknowledged the importance of his foremost skill: economic policy (including fiscal, monetary, and banking system questions). Here, Hutchinson's decades of... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
church, or were married to a neighbor’s daughter. But with the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 and the spread of railroads, newly developed transportation systems expanded the range of business dealings beyond hometown connections. More... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
leak-detection system can pinpoint holes in the waterproof membrane within a foot, minimizing the need to disturb established plantings during repairs. While it’s hard to imagine today, the thumb-sized seedlings planted in September will... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
capacity. The task force has purchased dedicated manufacturing facilities to produce COVID-19 vaccines, including one that until recently manufactured veterinary drugs, and it is helping to procure other necessities that are in high View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
Dutch flower industry has responded to increasingly stringent laws restricting the release of pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers into the soil and groundwater. The Dutch, he reports, have created a closed-loop greenhouse system in... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
Given the demands of his HBS studies, he wisely teamed up with former MIT classmate Bob Frankston, who did much of the programming work on the project. Together, they founded Software Arts, Inc., early in 1979. "Those were the days of the... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
surprised than I was when I got in," Hall said. HBS proved to be an ideal and welcoming setting for Hall as he dealt with the trauma of combat and began to decide what he would make of his life after the military. The demanding academic... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
what you’re offering,” she continues. “Coordinating all the pieces and players not only for Linear Air, but for the industry to get off the ground, is an interesting creative challenge for the entrepreneur.” The ability to respond quickly to changing market conditions... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
products of countries where those sports were already widely popular and enjoyed high-caliber infrastructure and player-development systems. The success of these star imports to North America created demand back home, and globally, for... View Details