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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
one was surprised. On the retail side, the large discount chains — WalMart and Target in particular — had steadily taken market share from specialty toy stores, in some cases using toys as a loss leader to pull in traffic. The ripple... View Details
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
many of us take for granted—not to mention the average person wondering if they need to bring an umbrella to work. As the cofounders studied the industry, they found that while... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
rewards programs as a defense mechanism. They just try to copy what the competition is doing. If that is all that you do, then you are not clear in your own mind about what can be View Details
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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024 | Working Knowledge
while being torn between optimism about possibilities and awareness of how much is still to be done and wondering how View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
literally in the Toronto phone book there's eight of them, and, like, my uncle, my uncle, my aunt, my cousin. So, thank you. The thing-- I'm learning to be a dad, so it's far from a View Details
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Harvard Business School
Darden in Gillespie, ed., “We Were Just Doing What Needed to Be Done,” 60. 20 Interview with Lillian Lincoln Lambert, “The African-American Student Union of HBS: A Salute to... View Details
- 14 Oct 2020
- News
Sewn with Love
ended up in landfills, as organizations scrambled to meet food, shelter, and medical needs first. She could offer a percentage of her sales at VPL, but in the face of a tsunami-sized tragedy, her contributions would View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
speaks passionately about his faith, the rights of others to their own beliefs, and the damage done by extremists: “It’s a clash of ignorance, that people don’t understand what Christianity or Judaism or the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
in the world, we don’t want people to be constrained by financial barriers that would prevent them from accessing the School or being successful in the MBA Program or... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 02 Jan 2018
- Op-Ed
'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year
They are often born of deep business experience, delivered with great style, wit, and humor. Here are some of our favorite comments in 2017. Some have been edited for clarity. Want to be Happier? Spend Some... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
of values. The fundamentals I experienced as a new faculty member — the engaged classroom where students actively participate in the learning process, the dedication to ideas that have power in practice, the real sense of community you... View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- HBS Case
This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly
traditional debt collection firms have begun looking at how to change their collection practices to incorporate a more collaborative approach. As Turkasset’s case shows, however, that transformation is not... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
role that is most important to Harf is being the cofounder and chariman of DKMS, the blood cancer cure bank. Now the most successful organization of its kind in the world, he launched it in 1991 after losing... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
AMABILE: A decade of research shows that to be creative, people need to feel good about their work. After thirty years of research, I am still passionate about creativity,”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
for IM, voice, and video calls. I always carry my cellphone. What qualities do you think leaders today need? Leaders need to be courageous and fearless. They need to View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
National Happiness: Why Happiness Matters for America—and How We Can Get More of It. And while his next move was to run the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) think tank, he couldn’t shake the topic. It wasn’t just a professional... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
also the former chairman and chief executive officer of Medtronic. Bill, welcome. Bill George: Thank you. Good to be here. Kenny: I really appreciate you taking the time to... View Details
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
shareholder value. The GE board had deferred to Welch in a highly public selection process, which had favored the sales-focused Immelt over someone who could transform GE to prepare the company for the... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
Olympic bids in their own cities. Act from Choice: Simple Tools for Managing Your Habits, Your Emotions and Yourself, to Be How You Mean to Be by... View Details
- 21 Jun 2022
- News
Banquet Brings Latino Alumni Back Together; Dallas Club Marks 75 Years with a Look Ahead
years, going to be the third-largest urban area in the US, after New York and Los Angeles,” says outgoing club president Van Sheets (MBA 1983). “So we had Cullum for our first event because we know that a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley