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- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
withstand any of the challenges for today. Hanna: And Andela was launched in 2014, the same year that you graduated. It's an organization that identifies and trains software developers. Can you talk a little bit about how it fits into... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
had recently launched several lifestyle brands (using brand names it had revived), which posed brand architecture issues. Lastly, the company had just acquired a digital fitness app, RunKeeper, and was wondering how best to leverage this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
5 Career-Related New Year’s Resolutions (and 5 Tips for Keeping Them)
Anat Keinan shows that people who wear funky outfits to the office are often seen as more confident and as having higher status than those who dress to fit in. As writer Dina Gerdeman explains, “The researchers found that observers viewed... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom
approach and delivery to better fit with other individuals or situations; similarly, there's untapped potential in being able to establish electronic connections with consumers in ways that are not necessarily based on having a huge... View Details
- 04 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on Tech
experience has created this amazing sense of comradery for me, and I know once I graduate from HBS I’ll have a life-long, tight-knit network of professionals I can call friends. Anything else you would like to add? Outside of tech, I’m into physical View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
is available on the Internet at www.nfcom.com/jokes.htm. HBS classmates Humphrey Chen (MBA '96) and George Searle (MBA '96) first met in the HBS parking lot when Chen helped Searle recharge his U-Haul's dead battery. So it's fitting that... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Ink
presentations, Cuddy contends that we are likely to lose this self-possession in a fit of worrying about the stakes and self-questioning our performance. If only we could stay in the moment, focused on the task at hand, calmly and without... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
program, developed under the umbrella role Genzyme's corporate social responsibility, fits into its global competitive strategy. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/910407-PDF-ENG Leading Teams Note Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
as entrepreneurs. Although historically there have been few, women are now seeing opportunities, and financing is becoming much more available. They previously saw that their path up the corporate ladder was not a particularly attractive route. Q: How does the course... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
encompasses the birth of the consumer society, the shift away from an industrial economy, and the decline of the social contract between companies and workers. So the Times articles were chosen — from a huge array of possibilities — to View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
company is that when we hire people, we always hire for attitude. We don’t hire for skills. We hire for attitude because we feel skills can be taught and trained. But if you have the wrong attitude, no matter how skillful you are, you’re not going to View Details
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
parts to exact specifications, which could fit into almost any gun of the same type. This made replacement and repair significantly easier and production more uniform. Other industries and countries would later implement these principles... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
formats now fit only a narrow segment of the population. Finally, much of retail growth over the last three decades has relied on aggregating volume to support a large store infrastructure. However, this volume may not materialize in any... View Details
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
cycles. To sustain these changes, leaders may want to initiate "periodic monitoring of the fit between outcomes and assumptions, and intermittent periods of analysis relatively free of new activities." The study also underlines... View Details
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
work and how the parts fit together. We deal with much more complicated games than the game theory usually deals with." In short, Roth has determined that successful marketplaces require three key elements. "They must be thick,... View Details
- 26 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees
than luxurious prizes like electronics or trips. It’s even better if a gift feels personalized. A manager could give an employee who enjoys fitness activities a gift card to a store that sells workout clothes, while giving another worker... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
customers routinely selected cards that although profitable for the bank could be a poor fit for customers’ needs—leading to low satisfaction scores, cancellations, and occasionally, financial distress. To that end, the company’s... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
such as financing, understanding the founders’ definition of success/failure, defining and pivoting a business model, and determining the organizational impact of a pivot as well as the role of VCs and boards in outlining company strategy. In 2008, Jason Jacobs, a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
cofounder and CEO of fitness organization Peloton, committed to investing $100 million over the next four years “to fight racial injustice and inequity in our world and to promote health and wellbeing for all.” Peloton will focus on five... View Details
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
mass infection in South Korea—a mass religious gathering, a call center, a dance fitness center, and, most recently, a night club. All of these instances took place in closed, confined indoor areas with limited ventilation and with people... View Details