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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
base. The companies provide free office space where iTrust “relationship managers” meet with employees. The arrangement gives iTrust, starting with zero brand recognition, “instant credibility in the eyes of company employees and a ready-made pool of customers,” says... View Details
- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
among new ecommerce customers and found that it was similar to that of existing customers, those who bought online before the pandemic. That suggests that new customers turned to online channels to cover View Details
- Profile
Katie Laidlaw
Why was getting a degree from HBS important to you? HBS attracts people similar to me, yet different from me in every way. I was particularly drawn to challenging myself in this learning environment and meeting new people from around the... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 30 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?
off the shelf, and you take it home with you." The research team also kept track of brand consolidation, noting that companies were most likely to prune brands post-merger when the marketplace was crowded with similar products. But... View Details
- Feb 2014
- Case
Southwire and 12 For Life: Scaling Up?
Southwire, a leading maker of cable based in rural Georgia, has partnered with the local school system to staff a factory with at-risk high school students. The positive impact on student outcomes has been remarkable, and the factory makes a profit for the company. Now... View Details
- 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM EDT, 01 Jun 2015
CPD Career Reboot Camp in Boston
Career Reboot Camp is happening at HBS! Led by Professor Tim Butler and facilitated by a team of experienced HBS career coaches, participants will work through exercises to reflect on their key career interests, what's important to them in work and life, and create a... View Details
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
basic savings account with a standard 0.3 percent real interest rate, similar to the highest available alternative in the Chilean market; a basic account combined with meetings in a self-help peer group; and a high-interest account. The... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
Amy Schiffman Langer "My life experiences inform my work, and vice versa," says Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA 1977). She has turned physical challenges—breast cancer, a disability, and chronic pain—into a focus on cause-marketing and advocacy. "I've parlayed my misfortunes... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Making a Difference
with working in a nonprofit,” he remarks. “I wanted to see for myself how different or similar they really were.” Haacker's excursions across the six-million-acre park enabled him to spend time with the park's managers and scientists. “It... View Details
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures
failed at Singulus it was unlikely that he could have bounced back to his former position or commanded a salary that was similar to the comfortable one he'd left behind. As it turned out, this business story had a happy ending. Singulus... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2001
- What Do You Think?
Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?
rather, how do we get the organizations of the world to agree to standardized job types?" Suresh Annappindi points out that "...although people and products cannot be equated and subjected to the same exact metrics ... we can apply suitable common principles,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Understanding the Mental Journey of a Job Change | Working Knowledge
anymore, or something else appears more desirable. We’ve actually seen a consistent timeline play out over and over when people are looking for a new job. It’s similar to the timeline that they follow when they purchase products and... View Details
- 29 Jun 2016
- News
Women of Wall Street Tell Their Story
lot of similarities in what they were trying to do and what all the women at that meeting were trying to do.” For all that, Equity is anything but a capital-M message movie, says Munger. “It does not fall into the potential trap of... View Details
- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
emboldened other teams to follow a similar model: Hire young coaches with offensive backgrounds who are willing to challenge convention, particularly with regard to offensive schemes. Such hirings included Kyle Shanahan (37) in San... View Details
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
Departments. "The underlying logic of much of decision and control theory was similar to the underlying structure of how we at JPL would design trajectories and track and control a spacecraft," says Light. "So... View Details
- Student-Profile
Patrick Ferguson
sports analytics consulting group, where he helped professional sports teams identify undervalued players. His next position—as an accounting research assistant at his alma mater—brought these threads together. The senior faculty members Patrick worked alongside... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Philippines Outreach
Bradley: A “civilized man,” making an impact in Washington and beyond. The owner and chairman of the Atlantic Media Company, publisher of the Atlantic magazine and the National Journal, David Bradley (MBA 1977) has been called “ ‘the most civilized man in Washington’... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Innovation Goes Mainstream
Ten years ago, social enterprise pioneer Linda Rottenberg wasn’t taken seriously when she pitched established foundations to fund her upstart organization, Endeavor, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting high-impact entrepreneurs in emerging markets. But defiant... View Details
- 16 May 2014
- Blog Post
Leveraging Big Data to Improve Recruiting
to understand the recruiting landscape at HBS and the types of opportunities that are of interest to our students. Organizations often look to our data to improve their recruiting strategy and job offer negotiations, but organizations also have extensive data of their... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Hawes Hall Groundbreaking
will share architectural similarities with campus buildings designed by the firm of McKim, Mead & White in the 1920s. Hawes Hall will house eight classrooms equipped with state-of-the-art technology that will, in Clark's words, "stand the... View Details