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- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
with HBS Working Knowledge editor, Sean Silverthorne, Porter discusses the importance of cluster research and the value of the CMP. Silverthorne: How can data from the Cluster Mapping Project help... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
they might order homers or request some for their friends. Also, on the organizational level, effectiveness might be improved. The company might get more from its employees when it gives them more: In this case, for instance, allowing... View Details
- 21 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Parable of the Bungled Baggage And the Unhappy Customer
Late-arriving luggage proved to be a parable about customer service for Harvard Business School professor W. Earl Sasser. In this excerpted transcript from a new video CD presentation, Sasser discusses how a seemingly harmless budget trim... View Details
Keywords: by W. Earl Sasser
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
play." They came. Brown: I'll never forget a tournament we played in New York on Ellis Island. Most of the other teams were made up of guys from Europe or South Africa or New Zealand who were working in New... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
University that provided 650 Boston teens with summer jobs and programs. Brooks then moved on to Citizens Bank as the senior vice president and director of charitable giving. She worked to narrow the bank foundation’s giving areas View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 03 Mar 2014
- HBS Case
Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
sales growing from 11 million in 1995 to 185 million in 2011. And it offers important insights on supply chain management, innovation, and risk-taking. But it also provides lessons to anyone selling a commodity—after all is said and done... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
Whitman, and James Wolfensohn to get a sense of their lives away from the corner office. James Wolfensohn (MBA ’59) WOLFENSOHN James Wolfensohn’s achievements in business, public policy, philanthropy, and the arts include ten years as... View Details
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
interested Latino professionals prepare themselves to be considered for board positions. The virtual event was the second in a series of webinars offered as part of a coordinated campaign by the two alumni clubs, with consulting help from... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
Clubs News Clubs News In a first-ever result, all of the winners in the 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition (ANVC) hail from the same HBS class: the MBA Class of 2022. The ANVC finale, held virtually on March 22 and 23, brought eight global regional winners together... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light
The Texas town of Marshall has a population of 25,000 people, 2,000 of whom are students attending one of the four colleges that have earned Marshall the nickname "Athens of Texas." Marshall is also home to a historic pottery... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Dean Clark on the New Academic Year
European research center planned for Paris will further enhance our facultyís ability to conduct in-depth, field-based studies away from Soldiers Field. Closer to home, several campus renewal projects are strengthening the residential... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
initiative of the club, connecting alumni to each other and to the communities it serves. Elaine MacDonald (MBA 1998) Elaine MacDonald (MBA 1998) “We deliver expert goodness,” says HBSCP executive director Elaine MacDonald (MBA 1998). “Our teams of alumni volunteers... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 20 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Misgovernance at the World Bank
Getting a seat at the table often makes all the difference in the world. New research from Harvard Business School suggests that this idea holds true literally at the World Bank, where the 24 countries serving on the Board of Executive... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
as well as organizations and institutions around the globe, including in his home country of Canada. McArthur’s association with HBS began in 1957 when he arrived on campus from Vancouver. His standout... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
have driven the company’s expansion into women’s health and a host of programs for the elderly population, from nursing and rehab programs to palliative home care—each pioneering new approaches to age-old... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
recently sat down with HBS Working Knowledge to share her latest thinking. Her new book, Clearing the Hurdles, co-written with Candida G. Brush, Nancy M. Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood, and Patricia G. Greene, will be out in May 2004 View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
Upon Further Review I found “Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit” in the June Bulletin to be a brief but exciting summary of the three-person panel discussion that took place at the Kennedy School of Government last March. For a while, it appeared that one of the... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
of the President’s Export Council. Do you have any perspectives to share from your work in that particular post? American business is trying to find the most constructive way to engage with the Obama... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
from Fort Worth’s southern suburbs to Crawford, Waco, and east to College Station, home of Texas A&M University and the presidential library of Bush’s father, George H.W. Bush. Political analysts rank Texas... View Details