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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Vital Signs
Image by Edmon De Haro Illustration by Edmon De Haro The signs of strain were there long before the pandemic: Health care workers had been managing under tremendous pressures while working long hours in understaffed hospitals. Then COVID unleashed an unprecedented... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
students, case development is central to developing a strong HBS faculty and their understanding of the trends and strategic issues facing organizations, says emeritus professor Joseph Bower. A gift from the Joseph Bower Family Fund to... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
educate young people about the game, get them to play and enjoy it. We’re building future fans and players, so we invest in that.” The panel also shared some trends in Africa that bode well for companies and investors considering... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
as owners, they think, ‘How do I make this company faster, better, and stronger?’” says Ben Perl (MBA 2007), a managing director of Neuberger Berman, which has invested in KKR. Michael Kramer (MBA 1999), also a managing director at Neuberger Berman, sees Stavros’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
History Matters
The stunning collapse of three high-profile banks in recent months—Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic Bank—churned up a host of headlines and fears: Are these signs of major instability? The first dominos to fall? In the second edition of their... View Details
- 22 Sep 2022
- News
The Beauty Guide
herself, in ELC’s Reverse Mentorship Program, in which earlier-career employees mentor their leaders. Freyre’s own young, Latina mentor has taught her more about social media and trends among the next generation—how it is feeling about... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 19 Apr 2024
- News
Alumni Host Energy CEO Summit in Houston; Austin Club Co-Hosts SXSW Reception
Clubs News Clubs News Houston Alumni Host Annual Energy CEO Summit The HBS Club of Houston presented its fourth annual Energy CEO Summit on April 3, which featured four of the industry’s top CEOs discussing trends and challenges around the theme of “Energy Security and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
percent of its work is in the area of high-level executive search. In his more than forty years in the business, Zehnder has seen many trends come and go in management practice, but the qualities he and his partners value in a prospective... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
multinationals, everyone seems to agree that it’s too early in this story to predict how big the segment could get or how long consumers will angle for these products. Professor Israeli, who wrote the case on Athletic Brewing, points to a panoply of wellness View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
of books that make up its online inventory on hand—but the curation is not specific to the location. Nationwide ordering trends and reviews inform what is available on the shelves in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and elsewhere. In late... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Jeff Cruikshank
his colleagues. Even when something looked to me like a genuine impending disaster - a true train wreck looming just around the next bend - there was a very good chance that I was failing to see the Big Picture. So no disasters, but there were some highly positive... View Details
Keywords: Jeff Cruikshank
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Faculty Research Online
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6156.html. The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation The notion of levying higher taxes on tall people — an idea offered largely tongue in cheek — presents an ideal way to highlight the shortcomings of current tax policy and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
The Mind Speaks, Marketers Listen
unconscious and often visual, for the last decade Zaltman has solicited visual images from subjects to chart thoughts about a wide array of products. While skeptics may see the ZMET as a passing fad, others consider it evidence of a growing View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Just Rewards
workforce, streamlined operations, and grown business. At Greggs, his policy of putting employees first was initially criticized by shareholders, but the approach yielded positive results for all and illustrated the benefits of investing in workers. Darrington also... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Teens and Magazines: Where There's Smoke, There's Advertising
Public Health) found that the agreement has had little effect. In their article in the New England Journal of Medicine last August, King and Siegel analyzed trends in expenditures for advertising between 1995 and 2000 by examining fifteen... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Book Briefs
to provide the resources needed to change the world. Boards That Lead: When to Take Charge, When to Partner, and When to Stay Out of the Way by Ram Charan (MBA 1965, DBA 1967), Dennis Carey, and Michael Useem (Harvard Business Review Press) The authors see an emerging... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
into a New England institution and one of the leading consumer banks in the nation. Responding to demographic trends and consumer demands in the mid-1970s, Crozier moved quickly to launch a ubiquitous network of automated teller machines... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Competencies and Credentials
I realized this is going to be absolutely transformational. At the same time, technology is enabling more flexible forms of work, but in many cases without the benefits associated with traditional jobs. These two trends could... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
protecting and monetizing their intellectual property. In a Q&A, Professor Josh Lerner discusses current trends in IP, including the rise of patent pools. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5925.html. Rethinking Retirement Planning Many of us... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
Businesses. The advantage of these courses is that they allow students to take what they learn in the classroom, apply it in the field, and then discuss it with their classmates. I think this trend in field-based learning is a reflection... View Details