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- 28 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Meeting China’s Need for Management Education
to grow and prosper. Manufacturing sectors in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore face the pressing problem of lower wage competition from plants in China. Thus many of those regions' manufacturing firms are relocating their factories and... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Past Informs the Future of Work
changes in corporate culture needed to embrace innovation, and management of its 100,000-plus workforce, from retraining or relocating workers, to using AI to find candidates for newly created technology jobs. Balanced against these... View Details
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Impact Stories | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Nicole Bucala As a student at HBS, Nicole Bucala (MBA 2015) could not stop thinking ... Activating a Legion of People Bertina Ceccarelli When a company I was working for relocated to Omaha, I knew I wanted t... Alumni Clubs Supporting &... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Turning Point: Sum of the Parts
father. Imagine being told as a child, “You have to get all As next semester. One B isn’t good enough.” For his part, my father was relocated to internment camps for American citizens of Japanese ancestry during World War II. His... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Joss Kent (MBA 1997)
effort to relocate 100 rhinos from South Africa, where poaching is a constant threat, to safer havens in Botswana. “It’s a very raw experience to be close with a large wild animal,” he says. “Our lives are often very removed from the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 Nov 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones
rethink fundamentally how and with whom they partner with suppliers. Writes Willy C. Shih: “They need to analyze their risk exposures, and then think about how to improve their resilience. They should look beyond just relocating supply,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
when single mom Roxanne Quimby met Burt Shavitz, a bearded beekeeper living in a renovated turkey coop in rural Maine. The pair teamed up to sell beeswax candles at craft fairs before branching out into a few personal care products, including its (still) best-selling... View Details
- 05 Mar 2001
- What Do You Think?
Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?
"human inventory" mistakes will include only severance payments and relocation costs, not lost productivity and knowledge, or damaged customer relationships and human lives. Because they will be regarded as "planned... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Asia Pacific - Global Activities 2021
are being felt around the world. Shih addresses the challenges companies now face in making their global supply chains more resilient without weakening their competitiveness. He also advises that they look beyond just relocating supply... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Raising the Barrio
most likely run for reelection next year. The city could not forsake the neighborhood, nor raze it. Relocating it was not a practical option: “The concept is to help people improve their lives in the place where they live,” he says. And... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 24 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends
project will be to ask a similar question of the private sector: Does private-sector economic activity create or crowd out additional private-sector opportunities? Put differently, did Bill Gates's decision to relocate Microsoft to the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Health Care’s New Frontier
1999, the nascent success of that program, called athenaNet, and the interest it attracted from investors and other medical practices convinced Bush and Park to shift the company’s focus from clinical care to Internet billing and information processing. Along the way,... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
Angie Hicks, MBA 2000
relocating to Columbus, Ohio, where he had recently moved. Inspired by the difficulty he was having finding workers to renovate his house, he had a business idea that he wanted her to pursue. It was a referral agency for homeowners... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 06 Nov 2012
- Op-Ed
Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities
The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about... View Details
- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
improved job training and relocation incentives for workers, he sees a future of continued market expansion, business profitability, greater social equality, and the increased social stability that this can produce. Kuttner argues that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding the Design of Livable Cities
the movie Slumdog Millionaire. In Mumbai the $3 billion public-private Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP) proposes free housing and services for Dharavi's longtime residents to relocate from their ad-hoc dwellings. To fund the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Surveying Students’ Summer Plans
be part of GE just as it’s relocating its headquarters to Boston.” Graham Fairbairn (MBA 2018) Hometown: Sydney, Australia Destination: General Mills, Minneapolis “I come from a consumer packaged goods background and have had the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
pioneers a new supplier-retailer partnership between P&G and Wal-Mart. Built on proximity (Muccio relocated to Wal-Mart’s turf in Arkansas) and growing trust (both sides eventually eliminated elaborate legal contracts in favor of Letters... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Transforming Baker Library
relocated so that library patrons will sacrifice nothing. In some cases, such as the book-delivery program, the service levels will actually increase during the renovation.” — Margie Kelley View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Class Day and Commencement 2001
relocated from nearby Aldrich Lawn due to construction of the new Hawes Hall classroom building, tradition otherwise prevailed in the form of beautiful weather, wise and humorous speeches, and an enthusiastic crowd of MBA graduates (some... View Details