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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
to make a living selling buttons, combs, and other sundry items to suspicious and penny-pinching rural homesteaders. From these humble origins, Friedman traces a series of transitions that imposed ever-greater organization and professionalism on sales activities.... View Details
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
he's seen improvements in the way reinsurers distribute risk over the last two decades, he still questions whether reinsurers in their current form can survive a major catastrophic event. "Reinsurers assume the risk of, and hold the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
(Thinkstock) Prescription drug spending increased by more than 13 percent in the United States in 2014, raising health insurance premiums and the ire of consumers and politicians. The reasons behind the rise are many, including the high... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Leng Lim: The Spiritual Face of Business
self-described “bookworm,” is used to being a little different. As a high-school student, he appreciated his country’s strong commitment to education even as he longed to experience other cultures. At age 18, he was given that opportunity through a scholarship to the... View Details
- 07 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Fostering Candor in Teams and Organizations
Candidates consider many factors when seeking new job opportunities – location, role, benefits, and compensation to name just a few. Yet there is another element that may be more difficult to explain on paper but is just as critical: organizational culture. There are... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
United Arab Emirates, it can be more like 99.9 percent indoors for some people.) To put this 90 percent figure in perspective, it’s useful to think of what it means in terms of our own lives. By the time we hit 40, most of us have spent... View Details
- 22 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies
likely than men to play a key "boundary spanning" role in the company. One can think of it like this. If we were to randomly remove an employee from this company's communication network, the odds that this action would cause a communication breakdown between two View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 06 Dec 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered: How do I identify opportunities in emerging markets? How important are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered: What's the best way to report nonfinancial... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 03 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping a Community Connected
that we deliver to families. The United Way is helping with an East Boston campaign for rental assistance. We are working with food pantries. We are helping residents get EBT debit cards to buy food for... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Clubs Hopping
reach across the United States. For the past 10 years, the club has hosted a popular gala in New York, attended by Latino alumni, students, and newly admitted students. But the event was attracting only a portion of the School’s Latino... View Details
- 11 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
Finding My Place at HBS
43 zip codes. Trey was recently named Social Innovator of the Year—Audience Choice by the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas. Our next project, called Trey SZN 3, is our most ambitious yet. In March 2021,... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Uncovering The Secrets of Mittelstand Success
faculty members representing diverse academic units at HBS traveled to Munich to probe the factors underlying the Mittelstand model. They visited companies both private and public, large and mid-sized, to understand the innovation... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
difference in people’s lives and doing that for a city is so tangible.” Koh and Osgood both found their way to the Mayor’s office through the HBS Leadership Fellows program. Open to all graduating second-year MBA students, the program... View Details
- 16 Jul 2021
- Op-Ed
For Entrepreneurs, the Benefits of Slowing Down
Summer has always been a time to take a breath and slow down. Now that the United States is entering a post-pandemic phase, we have yet another reason to take things a bit slower and stop obsessing about efficiency and speed. One of my... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 22 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015)
contributing to her home country. She noticed that many of the families she grew up with eventually found themselves dispersed around the globe after seeking opportunities abroad. While she welcomed international exposure, traveling to Europe and the View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
McNerney: It’s all about being globally competitive and creating U.S. jobs. Illustration by Andy Friedman Related Links The Path to Economic Revival Making Their Way Squawk Box at HBS - Jim McNerney, Dean Nitin Nohria, and University... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Navigating the Populism Phenomenon
numerous HBS case studies and research papers on populism in democratic countries from Bolivia to France to the United States. “Populism seems to be on the rise everywhere,” says Pons. “It’s a phenomenon that is urgent and important to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
allocation to this new asset class of social investment, the same way that venture capital and private equity benefit today from such allocations.” The idea is taking off in the United States. President... View Details
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
consumer products. Finally, a series of cubes represents major customers. The shapes lie scattered on your desk. Your job is to fit the pieces together. Do you place the spheres on top of the blocks so that functions report to the regions? Or should it be the other... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons