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- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
important? “Almost 4 million American military veterans served in the post-9/11 era, and many of them have successfully transitioned into school or the labor force. However, a 2011 Pew Research Center study showed that 44 percent of the... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
transitional government under Bizimungu (1994-2000) and the first Kagame government (2000-2004) to restore and build the economy. Rwanda: National Economic Transformation provides detailed economic and social data as of 2004, allowing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
from Asia, for example, requires weeks for transit alone, not even considering coordination time. Product cycles are shortening, and less lead time allows companies to wait longer to make decisions on quantity, features, style, and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
the company's two-decade transformations. 3 In many ways, however, Welch is an exception: Very few top executives have been able to transform themselves from being analytically driven strategy directors to people-oriented strategy framers. Yet for a traditional company... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
and design assignments. The education facilitated his transition into management when he was finally promoted two years later. Once in middle management, Williams's career took off; he was charged with coordinating the engineering,... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia
Economic links with the west were few. All three were relatively advanced economically compared to other nations in the former Soviet Union, so they seemed best prepared to make an economic transition to independent statehood. None of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
GE’s transition from Jack Welch to Jeff Immelt. In 20 years at the helm, Welch had grown shareholder value from $14 billion to $400 billion and Fortune had named him “Manager of the Century.” Immelt, meanwhile, went on to preside over the... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
as insurance against a starter who may get injured. Co-benefits are tangible and financeable. Health improvement and time savings, for example, are real benefits. We rode the new bus rapid transit (BRT) system in Dakar, Senegal. Local... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
within the organization,” says Fieldhouse. “We built a manager’s training course; individual development plans that focused on adaptive and executive function skills; workplace performance scales; and transition and career movement... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- Profile
Vivian Scalfi
challenges Vivian liked what she found at Diageo and decided to pursue an MBA to help her consolidation in the industry and her transition into leadership: "I wanted more management skills – how to lead, how to inspire people,"... View Details
Keywords: CPG
- 18 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
The Benefits of Living in a Dorm at HBS
I was away from Boston. The dorms are only 9-month leases, which gave me the summer flexibility I wanted and helped me save money as a byproduct. Plus, returning residents get free summer storage, which made the transition into my second... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Commemorating a Milestone
you'll meet alumnae who transitioned from the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration into the MBA Program between 1960 and 1965 and hear from some of the eight women in that first two-year Class of 1965. Naturally, the hope... View Details
Keywords: Meta
- Profile
Stephanie Tilenius
to follow your dreams.’” Blazing new trails – out west “I’ve never looked back,” Stephanie says of her decision. “HBS marked my transition from finances to the operating side – to the building side.” Yet even at HBS Stephanie continued to... View Details
- Web
Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement
myriad needs of women navigating the menopause transition with access to evidence-based virtual care, education, and community. Applying a lesson from my MBA days, I knew going digital meant needing data. In our world of information... View Details
- May 16, 2016
- Article
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
By: Dina Gerdeman and John A. Quelch
Chipotle Mexican Grill’s ongoing struggle to win customers back months after a contaminated food crisis highlights the challenges companies face with keeping food safe.
Chipotle has seen its shares tumble and recently reported its first-ever quarterly loss... View Details
Chipotle has seen its shares tumble and recently reported its first-ever quarterly loss... View Details
Keywords: Food Safety; Organic Food; Supply Chain Management; Globalization Of Food Business; Mérieux NutriSciences: Marketing Food Safety Testing; Food Safety Modernization Act 2011; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Transition; Economic Systems; Food; Health; Supply and Industry; Logistics; Practice; Problems and Challenges; Quality; Safety; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Insurance Industry; Public Administration Industry; Public Relations Industry; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Mexico; North America; United States; Canada
Gerdeman, Dina, and John A. Quelch. "Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (May 16, 2016).
- Profile
Carlos Coto
April; by June, Julia had an offer from iProspect in Boston, which made the transition easy," Carlos says. Julia now works as a controller at iProspect, and is co-president of the Partners Club at HBS. HBS has challenged Carlos' way... View Details
- 27 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
HBS Alumni and Students Take On the Climate Crisis
effort to help businesses transition to cheaper, cleaner, more reliable energy solutions through improved efficiency, better data, and optimized pricing. In this blog post she talks about how she embarked on a career in clean energy. View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Climate Change as Must-See TV
scientists to investigate human causation of climate change. Video Embed Dan Abbasi (MBA 1998) hopes to enlist the HBS alumni community in the political movement for climate change. He calls his fellow alumni "probably the most powerful network I belong to." Abbasi has... View Details
- 04 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
Motherhood and the MBA
all. Before coming to HBS, Katie spent 7.5 years as a Surface Nuclear Warfare Officer in the US Navy. After making the transition out of the Navy in late 2012, she welcomed son Lincoln (now aged three) into the world. Katie was able to... View Details
- 09 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel
energy intensity required to produce steel. In the case of steel, there is a transition challenge because it is such an established industry with known processes. However, it is also a massive area of opportunity, because the demand for... View Details