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- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further. Using newly available data, we first review the landscape of global talent mobility, which is both asymmetric and rising in importance. We next consider the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The End of the Noncompete Clause
campaign, Employee Association to Renegotiate Noncompetes (EARN) in 2016. Because EARN’s “pop-up unions,” organized under the National Labor Relations Act, are designed to only engage the company on one issue and then dissolve, companies... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO
Gary T. DiCamillo (MBA '75) was second in command at Black & Decker Corporation and leading a turnaround of that company's power tools division when Polaroid snapped him up in late 1995. The world-famous instant-imaging company made him the View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 22 Jul 2014
- News
Hungry for Change
first to handle perishable goods in supermarkets that are approaching their expiration dates, and now to work even further upstream with growers," explains Zeaske, who never suspected how much his first-year TOM course would come in... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
audience. The case features a multimedia format of audio and video clips in order to engage students directly with JALC protagonists and with jazz music—the real protagonist of the case. The case is ideal for a first year marketing course... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs
producers, and thus worthy of slapping with 25 percent or higher penalties as they come in the country. The first three pages were chemicals and medical products, and as a one-time chemist I was surprised to see what the US was aiming to... View Details
Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications
- 24 May 2017
- News
Angie Hicks, MBA 2000
bank teller, Hicks grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and was the first in her family to go to college. At DePauw University, she interviewed for an internship in Indianapolis with venture capitalist Bill Oesterle (MBA 1992). “The highlight... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
I was very concerned that students from developing nations would be taught to simply replicate the failures of the American and European systems." In addition, she does not believe that the developed world has all the answers.... View Details
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
innovation." In a forthcoming book to be published by the National Bureau of Economic Research in association with the University of Chicago Press, Accelerating Innovation in Energy: Insights from Multiple Sectors, Henderson and... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
with which they do interact mostly doesn’t have putative news on it. The first generation of social media users, by contrast, didn’t have the proper training. My generation just assumed that anything we read on Twitter and Facebook is... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
becoming more and more team-oriented, less authoritative, and more consensus-driven.” This article was compiled from reports posted on the HBS Working Knowledge portal. For more coverage, visit hbswk.hbs.edu/. Asia Business Conference Highlights Role of Globalization... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
Suchismita had resolved that she was going to open a bank account. "That morning," Nundy recalls, "Suchismita spent hours in preparation, bathing and dressing up as if for a wedding. As we drove to the bank, she told me it was the first... View Details
- 28 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Meeting China’s Need for Management Education
definitely growing more intense as companies and government agencies strive to become truly "global" players. While much of the past growth and business success might have been based on national and regional success, they... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Action Plan: Casting Call
after graduating from HBS, at the height of the Korean War, Berkley served an additional 17 months, 11 of which were in Korea. As a first lieutenant in the infantry, he led his platoon on night patrols. It was a harrowing experience: “Of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Making Eco Easy
Competition (photo by Susan Young) That realization later led Paiji Yoo (who left HBS after her first year to pursue a mobile shopping startup she created) and her sectionmate John Mascari (MBA 2012) to cofound Blueland, which makes... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
improved governance by engaging both local people and national governments is a fundamental issue. The second challenge is the impact of globalization. Whether you’re trying to save rain forests in Borneo or the Amazon, or save the... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
Kristin S. Rhyne, MBA '99, would have loved to have the problems of reconciling employee priorities and juggling financial plans. Late last May, a year after incorporating Polished, she was still struggling to open its first unit. The... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living.... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
losses. In 2014, the health insurance industry’s aggregate pre-tax margin in the individual market was –5.2 percent, amounting to an overall loss of $2.7 billion. A SHRINKING POOL OF PROVIDERS Though Aetna is currently enduring a healthy dose of criticism for its move,... View Details
- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
value' mentality and get back to the 'stakeholder value' model." Others see it as the only practical resolution of the problem of growing inequality. As Paul commented, "In the current national (U.S.) legislative arena, it's... View Details