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04 Feb 2022
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Energy and Cleantech: Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office

organizations that hire only one or two MBA interns, do their recruiting in the winter and spring, anywhere from late January into May. As more and more students target early stage companies, the job search process is increasingly a... View Details

21 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

Hence, the call criteria used in sales directly impact which projects the firm invests in. Yet, how many in the C-suite understand how compensation, deployment, and other core sales management practices determine these activities daily?”... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

24 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

contest. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54708 June 2018 Management Science Personal and Social Usage: The Origins of Active Customers and Ways to Keep Them Engaged By: Lee, Clarence, Elie Ofek, and Thomas Steenburgh Abstract—We study... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 May 2009
What Do You Think?

Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?

energy to priority areas for innovation." Amy Sauers added findings that suggest that large firms succeed that "attempted to 'get small' (through the vehicle of) 'lean, mean, heavyweight teams.'" Another ingredient... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

22 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

CEO Succession: The Case at Ford

just the CEO, he's the owner. In that sense it's very important that the ownership of the company pick the new manager. Apparently he lost faith in the insiders, and interestingly, he conducted his own search. We don't read about any of the major View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Auto; Employment

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

stake in Infoseek, the Internet search firm. Disney, once merely an entertainment provider, has thus become a multimedia giant able to shape and deliver news, information, and other content through a variety of channels. "Companies... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising

15 Dec 2015
First Look

December 15, 2015

This case investigates both micro and macro issues around strategic human capital development. First, it explores how Egon Zehnder, a leading global search and advisory firm, assesses talent in the firms for... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Sep 2020
News

The Race for a Vaccine

Above: illustration by Matthew Roharik/Getty Images In November 2019, a team from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, visited Moderna, Inc.’s manufacturing plant in Norwood, Massachusetts. The biotech... View Details

Keywords: April White; COVID-19; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Apr 1999
News

Spirit at Work

competition and downsizing; rapid turnover of executives and employees; growing concern about the environment; and the crumbling of institutions such as schools and the family. "We're searching for new ways of grounding to sustain us... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

19 Mar 2015
News

Walter Salmon Remembered

for you.” I’m not sure how I made it through the last exam, having realized that I needed to start my job search all over again. I called him to tell him my decision, and he said to come over so that we could discuss what I did want to... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

16 Nov 2015
News

Connecting with Indigenous Traditions

that way.” After graduating, he spent a decade at the Hawaii-based Castle & Cooke, which was at that time a large agriculture firm that included Dole Food Company. Sprinkles began in the seafood division at Castle & Cooke’s San Francisco... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

19 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 19

stocks. Together, these tendencies generate geographically varying demand for dividends. Firms headquartered in areas where seniors constitute a large fraction of the population are more likely to pay dividends, initiate dividends, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 11, 2008

welfare-enhancing reforms, on the ability of firms and households to write contracts, and on the ability of citizens to enforce their basic rights. How Does Investor Sentiment Affect the Cross Section of Returns Authors:Malcolm Baker,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth

We suspect that the mistakes happen when firms choose managers at any level—from CEO to business unit head to project manager—based on what we call "right stuff" thinking, borrowing the term from Tom Wolfe's famous book and the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Raynor

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Harvard Business School

now call diversity . . . certainly African American issues were just a small part of the agenda, if any part of the agenda." 14 Of that era, Lewis said, "We felt particularly emboldened—that we had nothing to lose." 15 Lewis worked in a number of executive View Details

11 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 11, 2007

in performance that persisted for at least five years. This decline was most pronounced among star analysts who moved to firms with lesser capabilities and those who moved solo, without other team members. Star analysts who moved between... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2006
News

India Arrives

Ashish Dhawan (MBA ’97), founder and senior managing director of ChrysCapital, a private-equity firm based in Mumbai. Even so, Dhawan believes that a growing awareness of the outside world and a sense of competitiveness in the Indian... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

04 Jun 2024
Blog Post

Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

some of the most prominent law firms. Through Boston Lawyers Group, she identified potential firms and legal internships to get exposure to the sector and pressure test her interests. Yet, as she explored undergraduate courses and majors,... View Details

14 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors

information bottlenecks. "On many of the projects that I've been involved in, it seemed that a major flaw was that information wasn't getting to the people who needed to make decisions," says King. "All 3 of us are interested in the concept of voluntary... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing; Chemical

12 May 2022
News

Turning a Moment into a Movement

diverse leadership ecosystem. Valence, founded by Primus, is a membership network of more than 20,000 top Black professionals and over 200 corporate clients that connects companies with current directors and a slate of board-ready candidates. Cassidy’s organization,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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