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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
based in Jacksonville, Florida. “I’ve been here 33 years and worked in almost all aspects of the business,” says Ward. “My granddad punched a clock here his whole life, and now his grandson’s running the show. I think that’s pretty cool.” This may be the View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
(Palgrave Macmillan) Rossetti helps readers understand transition and presents a step-by-step roadmap women can use to make transition positive, optimistic, and approachable throughout their lives. Rossetti...
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- 11 May 2020
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Better Than Cash
hours per paycheck. The time saved could be spent in the classroom. The Better Than Cash Alliance advocates for responsible digital payments and provides guidance to governments, corporations, and international organizations in their...
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- 10 Mar 2021
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In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension
as a ship engineer. In time, she moved into business to, as she puts it, “understand how the world worked,” even as her passion for the environment continued. After two decades in the for-profit sector, including consulting work and marketing for Mars Confectionery and...
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- 18 Feb 2021
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Jumping In, Fighting Bias
to leadership roles at Quidsi, Jet.com, and Walmart. “My gender, ethnicity and faith compelled me to be ambitious in a way that I don’t know if I otherwise would have been,” Balbale told the Wall Street Journal. Last June, Balbale left her position at Walmart as VP of...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
small, regional employment agencies have existed in the space for decades. But Nomad’s digital marketplace is an innovation, allowing clinicians to advertise their availability and health care institutions to advertise their needs. Once a...
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April White
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Action Plan: Whole Sale
of Walmart’s beauty business. Balbale was a vice president at the Vitamin Shoppe in the mid-2010s when he saw Amazon and startup e-tailers moving into the wellness category. The competition inspired him to transition into the e-commerce...
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- 21 Nov 2013
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Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
like push email with its BlackBerry Enterprise Server. This gave them a first-mover advantage, but as technology improved and data capabilities on wireless voice networks evolved rapidly and took off, the advantage turned to a burden with BlackBerry unable to View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
also not an ideal situation for athletes, who feed off of a crowd’s energy. But for the sports leagues and the related startups that can survive this transition period—and not all of them will—it could provide an opportunity to assess and...
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
presents the instructive dilemma faced by Fujifilm as its core film business vanishes in the wake of advances made in digital technology. “Fuji experienced the same situation that buggy whip manufacturers confronted when cars were...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Career Transitions, Continuing Education Focus of Washington, D.C., Club
innovative new programs, such as the club's "Books for Breakfast" series, which features authors from the cutting edge of academia and business. HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter kicked off the program last year with Evolve!: Succeeding in the View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Uncovering The Secrets of Mittelstand Success
corporations—is a clear focus on longevity and the future. As an example, Shih cites ARRI, the world’s largest manufacturer of professional motion picture equipment, which weathered a difficult transition from film to View Details
- 27 Jan 2023
- News
Turning Up the Volume
When the executive director of Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA) stepped down in June 2020, Ilana Goldman (MBA/MPA 2002) stepped up. As chair of the board and a political and nonprofit consultant, she saw it as her duty to fill the role until a...
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Maureen Harmon
- 20 Apr 2020
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To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual
organizations face in designing and implementing effective digital platforms that support a range of functions and stakeholders. “We talked about what it really means to transition to View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 1996
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Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
transition from the industrial era to the information/high-technology frontier presage a new era of prosperity, analogous to our transition from an agricultural to an industrial society? I don't think it...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
offerings? —Trevor O’Hoy (AMP 157, 1999) I refer to COVID as the passage to HBS's future. In just a few months, the School made transitions that would ordinarily have taken us years to realize. The hybrid classroom we developed—with the...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
victim of foul play. Digital Goddess: The Unfiltered Lessons of a Female Entrepreneur by Victoria R. Montgomery-Brown (MBA 2003) HarperCollins Leadership With women leading only 24 Fortune 500 companies, female founders receiving only 2.2...
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- 01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill
Appalachian settlement schools that functioned as both educational institutions and community centers. After serving as an elementary school, a boarding school, and a public school, Pine Mountain transitioned in the 1970s to a center for...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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The Prophet of Start-Ups
apply. But I don’t consider a speculator — in my definition of the word — constructive. I am building men and companies.” One child, an ambitious little outfit called Digital Equipment Corporation, more than fulfilled its hopes, cementing...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Staying the Course
opportunity amid countless obstacles. The sale of ed tech products has been on the rise in recent years—with an estimated $150 billion in global expenditures on digital learning in 2018, a number predicted, pre-pandemic, to double by...
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