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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: A Fair Share
it.” And the second is laws and regulations. These are designed to protect consumer interest, so companies should be regulating themselves in advance of any regulations that may be imposed on them. But they should also be working with... View Details
- 03 Dec 2019
- News
Two Tales of Connection: Over Meals and Mentoring
To help keep the dinners interesting and encourage alumni of differing backgrounds and experiences to connect, Gupta says each dinner is open to guests according to age groups, with one seat per age group. Building Bridges dinner, HBS... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
facing similar challenges, and return with a renewed energy and insight. Some of this exchange of ideas happens at twice-daily case discussion groups of six or so people organized according to participant living groups, or “pods,” a space arrangement View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Investing in Innovation
Fund for Leadership and Innovation or made gifts directed to specific priorities. A multiyear series of Campaign events will be held in more than 20 locations around the world, each designed to connect alumni in learning about and sharing... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
to try to improve the livelihood of every member of the company." When you go into a store looking for a stylish, well-made shirt, the designer brands jump out at you-names like Hugo Boss, Tommy Hilfiger, and Ralph Lauren. So do the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
flaws, antitrust policy over the years has had powerful effects in controlling collusion, stopping cartels, preventing anticompetitive mergers, eliminating resale price maintenance, and encouraging entrepreneurship. Perhaps most... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
there is as much creativity and knowledge among your customers as you could ever hope to generate within your own boundaries. Accept the reality that they collectively know more than you do about whatever it is your company makes, that technology has almost completely... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
your fixed costs," Bhide says. "But if, for example, you want to create a business that solves other companies' design or engineering problems, then you have an interesting opportunity. Just by working harder and faster than your... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
and New York. Cummings asked readers for their thoughts on how to design a fulfillment system that would suit their complex process. Their path: The company switched to an assembly line from a pack-to-complete system with two key... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
universities. Based on a national survey the company undertook on the assumptions college students hold about sex, relationships, and sexual assault, the program is conducted in a group setting to encourage roommates and classmates to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
spending too much; and the Reagan and Bush administrations’ tax policies and deregulatory environment for encouraging risk-taking. Conard makes the contrarian case for how the economy really works, what went wrong over the past decade,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
practice designed to "bridge" the gap between the seemingly disparate worlds of corporate management consulting and nonprofit organizations worldwide. Tierney, who serves on the Board of Directors of the Associates at HBS, is also at work... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
that offer them. Hall's research is focused on the optimal design and incentive effects of compensation plans built around equity-based pay and especially stock options, the instruments most responsible for the huge numbers associated... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
academics that had been doing research on the subject, and also individuals who'd taken sabbaticals, and companies, through the HR and the talent departments that have designed policies. I'm working with a professor at the University of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits
fact-filled breakout sessions designed to help organizations become more successful in achieving their philanthropic goals. “To our knowledge, there has never been such a gathering of top nonprofit executives,” said Bruce Marcus (MBA... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Short Takes
care by encouraging effective communication among care providers. In their working paper, "Networks and Organization Design: A Framework for Improving the Coordination of Patient Care," Gittell and Weiss argue that organization View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
black box that transforms ideas into actual products and services. "Little bets labs," for example, allow companies large and small to rapidly build and test prototypes in the market using inexpensive web resources. "Find someone with a good eye for View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
Impact Lab at the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard with HBS professors George Serafeim and Peter Tufano. Key takeaway: “Many companies are racing to invent, finance, scale, and deploy technologies to decarbonize—while they... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
setting up their own digital service teams. That's a big win for us, and we're always trying to encourage people to take jobs in government and have government hire technologists. And the final thing is to turn this into a movement, and... View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
experience? Falik: Traditionally, study abroad has been the experience that we’ve encouraged kids to have to expand their horizons and have a global experience. When we look at the data, though, it’s pretty striking: 80% of kids who... View Details