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- 01 Jun 1999
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Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
workers into capitalists, and Americans-historically passbook savers-into a nation of investors. "For the general public," notes John J. Brennan (MBA '80), chairman and CEO of the Vanguard Group, one of America's largest mutual fund...
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Garry Emmons
- 30 Nov 2017
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Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
orders and have them delivered to their tables—a service often performed by managers. “Now when I see a customer talking to a manager, it’s a good thing,” says Karavites, smiling. Traditionally, the bank of cash registers that separates...
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- 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009
benefits policy at the AFSCME, the largest public sector workers union in the U.S., was responsible for protecting the pensions of its members. Because pensions were invested for decades, Ferlauto wanted the companies in which the union...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Jan 2010
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First Look: January 5
become the hubs of the network. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-043.pdf Private Equity and Industry Performance Authors:Shai Bernstein, Josh Lerner, Morten Sørensen, and Per Strömberg Abstract The growth of the...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives
In addition to its growth in manufacturing, India began grabbing headlines in the United States a few years ago for its sudden surge as a center of offshore IT work and business process outsourcing (BPO), industries unto themselves that have reshaped companies and...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
The system won the first annualHBS Association of Nigeria New Venture Competition for the West Africa region last year. Workers at a Nestlé distribution center in Lagos unload maize produced by one of Kola Masha's Babban Gona farms. But...
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- 14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016
others—a drawback for their organizations. Passing involves portraying oneself as an ideal worker while quietly pursuing a life beyond the office. But passers may feel isolated from their colleagues because they are hiding parts of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2007
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Mission Possible
services organization cofounded by Tierney and Jeff Bradach, then a member of the HBS faculty and now Bridgespan’s managing partner. The organization works to boost the performance of nonprofits and foundations, thereby improving their...
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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
and popular traveling medicine shows that hired both Native and non-Native performers to peddle their products. They even had plans to build a store, which never materialized, where a performer would stir a...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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Making Their Way
metal-stamping machine is set up and the press is running, a single worker can operate two or three presses. “In fact,” says Chirchirillo, “our McHenry plant produces parts for a lower per-piece price than the high-quality Chinese...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
software that helps firms perform critical work both using internal and external talent. They have about 75,000 freelancers for their external marketplace. The market opportunity Pat and Rob pursued illustrates key challenges posed by the...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
those faculty are separate from the subject-matter experts who teach the students in the individual courses. And then we have separate faculty who evaluate the performance of students on their exams, their assessments. And then, probably,...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
technology or HR or some of the financial systems that you need, really, to not only scale your company, but also put you in a position to obtain financing, because you just don’t have the robust reporting systems nor the robust financial condition and View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation
only ended up with a greener product, we also had one that was cheaper and performed better." He notes that in Europe his company now markets an aerosol product propelled by ordinary compressed air. Johnson's environmental activism...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
other most of the time, where we can help you build relationships, understand what skills you need to navigate the early parts of your employment. If you can get a user early—and for us that means at the start of their knowledge worker...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care
plus parks, a museum, even a beer garden. "We are tackling one of our nation's biggest challenges, fixing health care," said President and CEO Jonathan Bush (MBA 1997), and creating a dedicatedspace where workers can be "creative,...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
skills and opportunity gaps. We’ll also discuss where the 20th-century education and training model falls short in a fast-evolving 21st-century economy. We’ll consider how the apprenticeship model offers advantages for both workers and...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
evaluators who then do the evaluation of all students’ performance on those assessments.Kerr: So a lot of specialization in the process.Pulsipher: That’s right.Kerr: And you didn’t mention research. I assume that faculty are not engaged...
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globalization and technology, more generally, can have different allocations and distributive effects. Indeed, rising inequality, the weak labor market performance for workers at the lower end of the skill...
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