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Black New Venture Competition and Black Tech Master Series Recap - MBA

talent to opportunity in these sectors. We’ve heard countless stories of attendees and founders securing funding, building partnerships, and fostering fruitful business relationships as a result of our events. We are honored to be the... View Details

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

required three kinds of specialists: business managers, country managers, and functional managers, with a group of senior executives to coordinate the efforts of the specialists. In 2003, as globalization has become a much more pressing issue and the View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Apr 2000
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Student "Treks" Lead to Jobs and Opportunities

benefit by meeting a talented group of potential employees. Students took part in one such networking event, a "Startup Career Fair," that focused on early-stage high-tech enterprises and included a series of top-level panel discussions... View Details

09 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government

School who has created a new MBA course, Public Entrepreneurship. "The course allows students to consider the alternative that government can work—or they can help make it work." “We have many talented people in government, but... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Establish the enduring structures required for the journey ahead. - Advancing Racial Equity

and networks that don’t reach the desired talent pools. Until the Chief DEI Officer and the Initiative are in place, a small group led by senior HBS leaders will serve in their stead so that progress is not delayed. Prev Next View Details

11 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI

experts from industry. Your team needs both ML engineers (often PhD level) and top software engineers who can productize and deploy AI. (Ideally you want talent who can do both, but good luck finding them!) There's a limited supply of ML... View Details

Keywords: by Rocio Wu

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Models of optimal experience (flow)

Flow is a state of profound task-absorption, involvement, and intrinsic enjoyment that makes the person feel one with the activity. Csikszentmihalyi's Flow Theory states that flow is more likely to occur in situations in which the person feels that the activity is very... View Details

04 Feb 2010
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?

that success requires some talent and some luck, while great success requires some talent and a lot of luck. The importance of this observation is that systems that involve significant amounts of luck, such... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Overcoming Nervous Nelly

her own experience to find a surprisingly effective way to use that self-awareness to improve performance. In college, Brooks was the lead singer of a cover band and sang in an a cappella group. She watched anxiety derail countless auditions of View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Dec 2022
News

Full Court Press

“And I think we can get there, given the amount of talent that is on the continent.” The BAL has created a professional pathway for talented players on the continent (Courtesy NBA) The BAL also has created a... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

24 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class

“professional people person,” his work involves leadership development; talent management; diversity, inclusion, and equity; and more in creating sustainable competitive advantage through human capital. “The relevance of human resources... View Details

02 Aug 2017
What Do You Think?

Summing Up: Why Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees?

leadership talent with the attitude, training, and willingness to devote the time to this difficult task of engagement, which can have a significant impact on performance. Too much emphasis on “making the numbers” to the exclusion of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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the Art of American Advertising - Advertising Products

rage for picturesque advertising which has marked the present popular renaissance in art has excited the keenest competitions in the production of beautiful designs and attractive novelties. The business in advertising cards has grown to enormous proportions, and the... View Details

15 Sep 2017
News

Christopher Harland (MBA 1984)

talented faculty and students,” he says. “With a trust, I was able to make a bigger gift to HBS and receive an income for life.” His trust will ultimately support the HBS Fund, which provides flexible resources the School can use to... View Details

02 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?

are not handled in the same way at all companies or for all workers. For instance, the rules of transparency don’t necessarily hold true for “large superstar firms that are willing to pay higher wages than anyone else,” says Cullen. They also don’t apply to employees... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

25 Aug 2014
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Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983

says, noting that “long-range plans don’t usually work out,” and observing that in his career he has focused on building things in a different way. “I have spent 30 years working with some of the most talented people in industry—our CEOs... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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Ellen Mahoney | About

of the senior administrative management team, Ellen works closely with the School’s leadership on organizational design, human resources strategic initiatives, talent management, recruitment, compensation, professional development, and... View Details

01 Jun 2013
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Building a Better Brazil

generation of businesspeople to follow his lead." These gifts point to increasing momentum around Harvard, HBS, and Brazil, highlighted by last year's visit by Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff to the University to witness the signing of a five-year agreement... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing

22 Feb 2022
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A World of Difference

expertise are not bad things, but sometimes they narrow the way we think about problems because we think we have the right answer. One of the stories that I included in my book Rebel Talent was about the airline pilot Captain “Sully”... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

17 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers

supporting caregivers a critical talent management issue, according to a new report, The Caring Company: How Employers Can Cut Costs and Boost Productivity by Helping Employees Manage Caregiving Needs, by Harvard Business School’s Joseph... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

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