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Brandon Tieu
HubSpot's impending decision of whether to focus on selling to larger enterprise customers or small-medium businesses. The former CEO came to class and explained their rationale to focus on larger customers. However, what struck me most was his View Details
- 24 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can Open Doors
emails from four candidates requesting a referral before choosing one. One of the four students was a Black male. Consistent with their earlier findings, the researchers found that when the Black male student mentioned his identity, he... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
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Jay Bhandari
of his selection tests, where dozens of candidates had to swim together across a pool at night without visibility. Short on breath and under time pressure, many would attempt to exit the pool as quickly as possible. However, a select few... View Details
- 16 Aug 2018
- News
Working with a Giver’s Spirit
If you were looking for the perfect candidate to run a nonprofit that fights poverty through entrepreneurship, Manny Ayala (MBA 1992) is just the person you’d want. That was the opinion of Cindy Ko (MBA 2005) in 2013 when she was... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
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Climate Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society
HBS and leverages the expertise of our faculty. Current Climate Fellows Matteo Gasparini DPhil (PhD) candidate at University of Oxford's Smith School for Enterprise and Environment (SSEE) and the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET)... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
Programs, drives the growth of HBP, Executive Education, and HBS Online, and expands our ability to conduct cutting-edge research. Fiscal 2021 was a strong year for faculty recruiting and promotions. In all, 13 candidates accepted... View Details
- 24 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Developing Your Next CEO for the Family Business
your next CEO. These internal candidates with some outsider views have a more objective and independent view about how your company needs to change and adapt. Executives with the right mix of Insider and Outsider attributes, Bower claims,... View Details
- 04 Jun 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?
David Wittenberg wrote that a board that would automatically disqualify such fired managers might be playing it too safe. “When a board of directors identifies a candidate with the right skills, personality and track record, it should be... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?
They would be strong candidates for inclusion in any organization's balanced scorecard. Among board committees, the audit committee has historically received the most attention. Not only are boards expected—and in case of publicly... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War
candidate for a World Bank Scholarship to attend business school at Harvard. "That is not an easy opportunity to refuse," Hoa notes. With her background in communist theory and difficulty with English, Hoa found her first year at HBS a... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands
Harvard Business School; Laidler-Kylander (HBS MBA '92) is a PhD candidate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Manda Salls: Any organization—profit or nonprofit— faces challenges when it goes global. What are... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 03 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First
Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 26 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast
it is when you collaborate between scientists, government, the corporate sector, and with communities, that's where the good stuff happens. That's where the answer lies at that intersection.” Many of the guests expressed their desire to hire View Details
- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
oneself, however, is well documented. There are mechanisms that keep people from honestly evaluating themselves.6 The more candid feedback that managers can obtain from varied sources, the more accurate and precise their assessment will... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
- 02 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize
what we were seeing,” says Ethan Rouen, an assistant professor in the Accounting and Management Unit at Harvard Business School, who conducted the study with HBS Professor George Serafeim and HBS doctoral candidate Botir Kobilov. “This... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
application process, eligibility criteria, and grant amounts, please refer to the Payment & Financial Aid page . What are my payment options? We accept payments via credit card, wire transfer, Western Union, and (when available) bank loan. Some View Details
- 26 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2023 & ClimateCAP Fellowship
ClimateCAP Fellow? I had a great time meeting other fellows in Austin back in February during the ClimateCAP Conference. Since most of this year’s fellows are also joint-degree candidates in various programs, it is refreshing to set aside... View Details
- 04 Jul 2005
- What Do You Think?
How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?
are not the skills that most doctoral candidates are asked to master as part of their training." Leonard Lane reinforces this view in saying that "Relevancy requires that the MBA-level instructor be a true practitioner-scholar... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
experienced teams, and who are successful at selling AI not as a technology but rather as a means to the best solutions. Special thanks to Brian Ascher at Venrock for valuable contributions. Rocio Wu is a second-year MBA candidate at... View Details
Keywords: by Rocio Wu
- 27 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too
acts that may seem mundane, like making coffee every morning for a spouse, often come with a strong emotional backdrop, boosting the bond between couples, say the coauthors, Harvard Professor Michael I. Norton, HBS doctoral candidate... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman