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- 04 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the Middle East & North Africa Club
1300 attendees and various panels and events throughout the weekend. How does the MENA Club assist students as they search for summer and full time employment? We have a career rep that fields all career inquiries from firms looking to View Details
- 17 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why a Blended Workforce May Be Key to Lasting Competitive Advantage
In recent years, companies have been anxious about the lack of skilled workers to fill pivotal jobs. But then came COVID-19 and a subsequent recession. The ensuing business turmoil and record-high unemployment may have temporarily distracted companies from their... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
For its representative in these critical talks, the board should have hired an outside specialist, with properly aligned interests and incentives. More generally, you should look hard at a potential agent's other interests and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
Unit. “The crisis accentuates what remote companies already understand—that work does not need to happen at the same time,” says Choudhury. “People can wake up in different time zones and cities, open documents, and get going.” Those who... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
generated an operational loss. "My feedback was, 'You're in trouble,'" recalls Kahn. By the spring, Kahn was in Mumbai, part of a team tasked with turning Agrovet around—the first foreigner the Godrej Group had ever hired in a leadership... View Details
- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
made a series of upward and lateral moves that entailed a number of tough assignments across many functional areas. Beginning as the director of regional operations in New England, this manager had profit and loss responsibility for fifty underperforming stores. View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
- 10 Sep 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Branding Yoga
Women's Health and the Huffington Post. In 2008, after opening her own studio, Strala Yoga, the popular doctor and self-help author Deepak Chopra hired Stiles as his personal yoga instructor, a huge... View Details
- 16 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense
companies. As one of my CEOs put to me, wryly: “In my January board meeting, I wasn’t hiring and scaling fast enough and told to ‘go, go’, go’. In my April board meeting, I was burning too fast and was told to ‘stop, stop, stop’.” Her... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 04 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms
percent more likely to hire women as partners for VC funds—the equivalent of a random distribution of gender diversity. “We could then identify the component of gender diversity caused exclusively by having a daughter uncorrelated to... View Details
- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
at the societal benefit while at the same time taking care of the individual. That in essence is what we're trying to get at. McCaffrey: In a standard marketing situation, there's usually somebody who pays for it—such as a corporate employer who View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing
prone to missing opportunities to form friendships or hire people by unfairly inferring [that] they are untrustworthy," she says. "There may be completely innocuous reasons someone may wish to keep personal information... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
first of 15 Jr. NBA programs focused on youth development; in 2017, it opened NBA Academy Africa, one of four NBA Academy programs around the world that features elite training for high school-age prospects, in Senegal. Yet fulfilling the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- Web
Wilder House | About
Wilder House Wilder House was rededicated in 1997 in honor of William P. Wilder (1922–2019), a prominent Canadian executive, and his support of the School. One of two buildings on the original HBS campus that were named for their functions, Wilder House View Details
- 24 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach
decision making process employed by many boards. In addition, shorter CEO tenures indicate that boards often fail to hire the right person. Boards also often choose the course of dismissing a CEO versus taking corrective action. Also, in... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
- 13 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas
Entrepreneurial Management Unit. “I hope it opens some eyes to the value of hard, risky, in-the-weeds science for commercial innovation, as opposed to ‘let’s just go build the thing and make it work on the fly.’” What does basing an... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- Web
Judges - Alumni
mitigate them. End with a strong call to action Don't leave your pitch open-ended. Clearly state what you are asking for: "We are raising $X to expand into X market, hire X talent, and achieve X milestone within the next 12 months." Bonus... View Details
- 16 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be
that premise to a new level, opening a four-story, 22,000-square-foot boutique on Fifth Avenue designed by architect Peter Marino that features details such as flashing LED screens and a staircase made of bronze and chestnut. (An even... View Details
- 01 Nov 2022
- What Do You Think?
Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?
residing in the US as either undocumented or illegal immigrants. What you call them seems to depend to some extent on your political leanings. Another result are borders—in particular, the Southern border—that are more open than many... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
"You will get a free meal for your family every week at a Panera that's closest to you. And as soon as we can get you back, we will get you back." It's the least we could do. We opened up an emergency fund where we were giving grants to... View Details
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
pieces you want to protect-the component on which you'll build the value-capturing part of your business-and the knowledge that you're going to put into the public domain. Let your users go to town on the open parts of the system, but be... View Details