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- 03 Oct 2017
- News
Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?
that the company doesn’t like, or isn’t willing to rezone a chunk of land, Bezos would be able to say “the next 10,000 jobs could go into either of our headquarters locations. What are you willing to do for us now?” Wilcox predicts. “He’s... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
El-Hage Takes Alumni Post
EL-HAGE: Generous alumni support has helped make HBS a “great institution.” Seven years ago, Nabil El-Hage took a one-semester sabbatical from his high-pressure day job to teach two finance courses at HBS. He enjoyed the experience so... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Finding New Ways to Solve Civic Problems
large. So when I look at things and my job and everything I do, I always try to make sure that I am accomplishing those two things: benefiting individuals and making sure that their lives are going to be better because of my work, but... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring
by Stuart C. Gilson (John Wiley & Sons) News of major job cuts, bankruptcies, mergers, and buyouts seems to dominate the headlines these days, as global economic forces put pressure on companies to adapt in pursuit of higher market value.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
March, about a Kabul student whose business created jobs and hope for women in her neighborhood during the Taliban years. Growing up in Maryland, Lemmon was exposed to news and politics by her mother, who was active in local politics.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
waste, and conserve natural resources. From 2005 to 2015, for instance, the company’s water and energy consumption per garment dropped by 60 percent and 40 percent respectively. Esquel also works to enhance the well-being of its employees. “Their health and safety,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
influence on the thousands of blind people it serves every year. Still, he wasn’t likely to take the job just because he happened to be a blind CEO. “Entering the blindness business was never really my objective at this stage in my... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out
stay, and job satisfaction of staff. In the study, the researchers looked at CEOs with tenure in at least two organizations and compared the performances of hospitals with new CEOs against those that did not experience a change at the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Social Enterprise Conference Draws 800 Participants
idea (no business plan necessary) in thirty seconds, with the two best ideas getting a second, longer hearing of two minutes. The winning concept was an online site that encourages teachers to share lesson plans and best practices. The event also presented a career... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Start Me Up
would help create multiple startups at the same time?" That's the idea behind MassChallenge, the startup accelerator and competition—now the world's largest—that Nigam cofounded in 2009 after leaving his job as a Bain consultant. Based in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
HBX: Expanding Our Reach
disseminating their ideas to a broader audience. One product HBX plans to launch next year is a suite of pre-MBA courses drawn from HBS's pre-matriculation and Analytics programs. It will be designed for serious and committed learners, typically undergraduates taking... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
many Cicero employees now volunteer or work pro bono on company time mentoring, coaching, and training, as well as gathering and analyzing data to frame the best approaches to ending homelessness. One outcome of this work is a database Cicero created with 2,500... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
rendered uneconomic by high Israeli costs. At the same time, Israeli firms in industries that have been local, such as most services, can use alliances to begin trade and foreign investment. Any loss of lower-wage job opportunities for... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
there new trends in our students' career choices? There is a surge of interest in high technology, small companies, and more entrepreneurial kinds of jobs. I think that reflects the economic realities of the times; market valuations are high, and the View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
where his father eventually landed a job at a General Motors factory in Doraville. Stan O’Neal attended the General Motors Institute (which later became Kettering University), a co-op program where he alternated between studying... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
question to address at this point in history. And they would likely say that our job is to promote democracy and peace. What they should say is that our job is to stay above the fray and try to keep the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Cracks in the Foundation
months ahead as they and other HBS faculty travel to a number of cities to meet with alumni, as well as government, labor, and other business leaders, to disseminate ideas and catalyze local actions around competitiveness. "Our alumni bring enormous capacity and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Sparking Internet Commerce
college and HBS, Grouf held jobs at McKinsey and at Goldman Sachs, where he worked on M&As for clients in communications and technology. During his second semester at HBS, after hooking up with some software visionaries at MIT, Grouf... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 03 Mar 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)
protesting them, providing inappropriate detail, detour statements, false smiles. The issue that I’m most concerned about right now is inside threat mitigation. Studies show that anywhere from 30 percent to 50 percent of cyberattacks were inside View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Examining Global Workforce Management
a defined next step, such as a new job or training, for 60 percent of the company’s employees worldwide by their last day on the job. She is currently studying Michelin’s actions, which include providing layoff and community support when... View Details