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- 26 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
Make Work from Home Work For You (And Your Team)
reminders set to get up from her desk at regular intervals and to make sure she’s drinking enough water. Stephan echoes this point and emphasizes how important little breaks can be for your day so that you aren’t at your computer from the... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 18 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
Make Work from Home Work For You (And Your Team)
this, Fong has reminders set to get up from her desk at regular intervals and to make sure she’s drinking enough water. Stephan echoes this point and emphasizes how important little breaks can be for your day so that you aren’t at your... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
less like a game of Russian roulette; high prices and grumpy drivers were all too common. “People didn’t trust the Malaysian taxi system,” says Anthony Tan, echoing criticisms of Jakartan taxis and ojek. Tan recalls the early days of the... View Details
- 18 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
SIPs in 2021
independence—or loyalty—interdependence and being part of a network of connections and relationships? “These questions are crucial when you are choosing partners, working out issues with partners, or letting go of partners,” said Perel. In an evening fireside chat,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
are echoed by their counterparts in the Global South. All these magnates—Ratan Tata, Anu Aga, Adi Godrej, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Devi Shetty and Rahul Bajaj, to name a few—have built, to general acclaim and acknowledgement, organizations... View Details
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
prepare a force for the first engagement with the enemy and little more. It is no coincidence that some entrepreneurs today echo Clausewitz's observation and say the purpose of a business plan is to prepare a new organization for its... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco
- 02 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?
very presumptuous for business schools ... to feel they should 'weed out' or 'license' the moral credentials of students." Alexander Magoun echoed this view when he asked, "Would it not benefit society and corporate culture as a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
Chemdex founder David Perry echoes Rosin’s sentiments: “If you are serious about being an entrepreneur, the contest is a great experience because it will hold your feet to the fire on deliverables.” That said, Perry readily admits that... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Manufacturing
responsibilities” said Renee. Kristen echoed this point and emphasized that “time to actual ownership matters.” For other subsectors of manufacturing including transportation & logistics, airlines, and aerospace & defense,... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
agreement, the equivalent of a prenuptial. It’s a much more robust team. They’ve been able to anticipate where there might be divergences and head them off at the pass. So lots of echoes that we have across those two domains, and the more... View Details
- 28 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Creating a Workplace That Supports Employees in Work and Life
“Support from CEOs made me know that the wellbeing and success of LGBTQ+ talent was on their mind and a priority.” Paul Donaher (MBA 1981) echoed the point about senior leadership support and offered a suggestion on how to build that... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 28 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Managing Your Health and the Recruiting Process: Advice from HBS Alumni
echoes these thoughts. “My personal experience was that there was a lot of fear and apprehension keeping it to myself, but finally once I said it out loud, I found out almost everybody had some relationship with ADHD and most people were... View Details
- Profile
David A. Frankel
his wife, “I need a total change and this HBS thing is unfinished business.” He packed up, flew to Boston in the fall of 2001 and arrived on campus with the words of his peers echoing in his head. “A lot of people said `You are a lunatic.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
to take the information revolution very seriously. Echoing Rudenstine's re-marks on the aptness of the word "revolution," McFarlan declared, "The changes are that fundamental and dramatic. Products, services, and industry structures are... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
viewing everyone as a customer, you fundamentally change the nature of the value proposition that exists between you and the entities with whom you interact."2 This theme is echoed in another recent book, Everyone Is a Customer:... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward
Institutional Voice guidelines, limiting official statements on public matters, has been widely welcomed as appropriate and timely. The Presidential Task Force reports echo many of the recommendations of the HBS groups I shared with our... View Details
- 15 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
From McRibs to Maseratis: The Power of Scarcity Marketing
the colonel! @kevinelop: OMG!! . . . The Double Down is back at KFC!!! @iamToddyTickles: KFC's #doubledowns for Breakfast. Mmmmm. Mmmmmm. Yummmmmmy. I'm full. Despite his precious Twitter handle, iamToddyTickles appears to be a fully grown man in his profile picture,... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael I. Norton
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
convictions of the Valley's remarkable innovators, who created not just a company but an industry, still echo through the community. Bill Hewlett and David Packard influenced the older generation directly; many of them were early... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
school and for a lot of other places.” Joe O’Donnell (MBA ’71) echoes Menino’s comments. “I was in the restaurant business a while back,” he says modestly. (O’Donnell’s Boston Concessions, a billion-dollar business empire, already... View Details
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
Free Speech at Google In August 2017, Google fired James Damore, a 28-year-old software engineer who had been employed by the company since 2013. The move came after Damore penned an internal company memo titled “Google’s Ideological Echo... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne