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30 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

with economies of scale in merchandising, marketing, and distribution. To ensure standardization, Wal-Mart sets the span of control for store managers at the "narrow" end of the scale. Although they nominally control their stores, Wal-Mart site managers have... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

28 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?

Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Manufacturing; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Mining

14 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 14

factors such as "firm culture" and "employee engagement" in driving firm performance? Increasing evidence from a wide range of fields suggests that productivity differs widely across firms, even after the inclusion of careful controls for factors... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2002
News

Straddling Two Worlds

first honed at HBS. After his initial adjustment to the MBA Program, Tierney thrived and upon graduating as a Baker Scholar, completed the coursework for the doctoral program before realizing that academic life did not suit him. Eventually, Tierney took a job in... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

02 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 3, 2008

Institutions on the Philippine Frontier Under American Rule, 1898-1918 Authors:Lakshmi Iyer, Noel Maurer Abstract Abstract We examine three reforms to property rights introduced by the United States in the Philippines in the early 20th... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

a familiarity and a sense of being right there with the subject that accompanies such grace and intimacy. We see a similar intimacy in stories up until the 1960s, when we then begin to see a higher, thicker wall develop between the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News

01 Sep 2013
News

Who Are We?

SOCIAL MEDIA James Kondo Managing Director, East Asia, Twitter M. James Kondo 103 alumni work in social media 41 at Facebook 31 at LinkedIn 7 at Twitter High Tech: 135 at Google 104 at Microsoft 23 at Apple... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Dan Morrell; social media,; Twitter; SodaStream; consulting; consultant; CEO; farming; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

Career Coach

Vincent Dessain

Vincent (HBS MBA’87) draws on more than 25 years of experience as a higher education senior executive at HBS and INSEAD and in the corporate world both in the US and in Europe to counsel students and alumni as they evaluate, prepare for and pursue their career options.... View Details

24 May 2023
News

Balancing Acts

you have to balance the two, you're doing the right thing. Now, if you're in politics and you're making a decision, it obviously has to do with Apollo. But if you are with your family and your kids and your friends and you go out at night... View Details

Keywords: work-life balance; happiness; family

04 Aug 2020
News

How Business Can Advance Racial Equity

the most rational question in the world to ask is, is business playing a positive role here? If not, why not? And how can it? April White: Lisa, you've raised a lot of really important issues that business can be engaged in, but we're talking View Details

19 Aug 2010
News

Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers

directions and lose its focus. Of course, throughout my entire three years in OPM, I was always referred to as the guy in heat. Arch was right on: it wasn’t long before my lack of focus caused my business to stutter, but I was able to... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

04 Sep 2019
News

Deep Dive

Discovery Channel. As media interest in this odd endeavor increased, a public relations firm joined the growing team, too. And Vescovo needed to know where to dive. He contacted Dr. Alan Jamieson, a deep-oceans expert at Newcastle... View Details

Keywords: April White; photo by Jeff Wilson; Scientific Research and Development Services

19 Jun 2017
News

Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?

really funny and-- well, funny's not the right word but a really eye-opening story. I was actually telling this today. So right out of HBS, we were non-funded, working out of a makeshift office. And one of... View Details

09 Apr 2025
News

The Working Parent Revolution

we offer. They may have an on-site child care center that they have reserved the space for, have ultimately spent the capital to build out the space and then provide ongoing subsidy and support so that their employees with young children... View Details

30 Jan 2019
What Do You Think?

Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?

by offering both differentiation and low cost, that in fact the two strategies might feed on each other under the right circumstances to produce superior results for customers, employees, and investors. Two of the firms he studied were... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation; Financial Services

15 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

Reinhardt. But he was not convinced. "Maybe [Browne] thought customers would reward BP at the gas pump for being environmentalists ... I don't know how you buy gasoline, but I buy gasoline at the station that's on the right side of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2007
News

The Plight of the Global Poor

In Bolivia, ACCION linked the microfinance field to capital markets through the founding of BancoSol, a microfinance institution that became the nation’s most profitable bank. “Poverty can only be truly addressed if you meet four... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; bottom of the pyramid (BOP); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

to study must have had a compounded annual growth rate in revenues, profits, and market capitalization that exceeded the 50th percentile of industry peers between 1997 and 2006 or for the CEO's tenure. Corresponding figures were used for... View Details