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- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
culture in which all staff should learn through experimentation and by making mistakes. He also supports the idea that employees should enjoy their work and have fun. “Getting the culture right is never easy, but if you interact with... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
just that currently the market drives more resources toward treating male pattern baldness than toward malaria prevention. We’re way behind on achieving the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. In my opinion, a major reason is that we haven’t effectively found the View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
Salmon. The authors examined the overseas experience of retail giants Carrefour (France), Wal-Mart (U.S.A.), and Royal Ahold (the Netherlands). Occupied with their enormous domestic market, many American companies, like Wal-Mart, tend to focus on economic efficiency... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
The Black family (including their dog, Rocky) take a watermelon break. (photo by Christina Gandolfo) One day I came home from work, and the twins were stumbling around on the ground, and [Cynthia] said, “You don’t really look happy.” And I said, “You know, happiness is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
a habit of reading while I’m putting them to bed and waiting for all those requests for another cup of water. That consistency helps. Finding the right book can get you hooked back into reading, too. When I was a young mom, I found Anna... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
if they are all pointing in the right direction, it’s a lot easier to market the product. Relative advantage is the starting point. It’s a necessary but not sufficient condition. You have to be better than what you’re replacing on some... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
importance of coordinating each business unit's goals in a large organization to the firm's overall strategy. "In my unit, debt capital markets, we're at a lot of decision points right now," Busch explains. "So I've taken back Cynthia's... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
2020 Thomas J. DeLong. All rights reserved. A Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice, Professor DeLong is co-chair of the Executive Education program The Reflective Leader, developed specifically for mid-career MBA alumni.... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
percent control of BlackRock. “Are you recommending we grow domestically?” asked Gordon. “Initially, yes,” said Kashyap. “We are not ready for the combination of both retail and expanding abroad, neither of which we have much experience in View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
forward usually isn't a straight line to your objective.” Homer had it right in The Odyssey when he wrote, “The journey is the thing,” says Frey, who recommends adventurers not always focus on the destination. “Allow time to have fun and... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
HBS and community leaders. Fred Clark: The Class of 1973 lived through and learned from the civil rights movement and the promise of an open, fair, and vibrant society as articulated by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. After seeing some of the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
Illustration by Mercedes McDonald. Orchard Gardens photo by Ed Quinn/Saba In many parts of the country, housing costs and shortages have begun to show signs of adversely affecting corporations, workers, and local economies. Affordable housing - such as Boston's Orchard... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
looks on the back of the garments right down to the appearance of the hangtags. Having that level of access to the product inspires us as much as anything else. What management issue do you think about most in your job? The culture of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
sector, and the influence of networks and social capital on accessing human and financial capital. It also provides an in-depth analysis of the venture capital industry and raises questions about why women have so much difficulty getting their business plans into the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
surprise “Keep America Rolling” zero-percent financing campaign on GM vehicles to keep GM's, and its suppliers', production lines rolling in the face of an unprecedented national crisis. Rick's quick and decisive action against conventional wisdom did View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
happiness at 75? What are the investments I need to make so that I can be happier right now, and so I have a better shot at being happier later? So the book that I wrote, sure enough, is for career changers and mid-lifers and people who... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
reside, the only sign that something interesting is happening below the surface is a thick black cable that snakes onshore just yards from where Smith stands on Roosevelt Island. “A larger system will likely look like what you can’t see View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
out of sequence. You build relationships when you don't need anything. And even when I was CEO, I would reach out to other CEOs, I would reach out to other leaders not to ask favors but to say, "Hey, how's it going?" Or, "I read an article today in the Journal. I know... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
robust and travel across boundaries, you don’t actually have to teach management country by country. So the first order of business for us is to get the global content right so that when our students graduate they can work for a company... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
giving first-time offenders, particularly our youth, a second chance at righting their wrongs,” says Huntsman. And there’s the bottom line to consider as well. “All told, it can cost our communities anywhere from $2,000 to $5,000 to... View Details