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Diversity | Employment
provide leadership opportunities through service on our Executive Committee. Career Training at the Allston Brighton Resource Center Members of our Human Resources department regularly conduct career... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
exploring a particular market? The Department of Housing and Urban Development has a rich collection of data sets to help you understand local housing markets. View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
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Post-war PR Campaigns Reaching Wide Audiences | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
students who might potentially become future managers at the corporation. J. Carlisle MacDonald, the head of U.S. Steel public relations, wrote, “It is, of course, desirable to use every possible medium to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
(literally “Plant and cultivate the roots”) with my directors. We thoroughly explored the business because I wanted them to see the challenges that exist beyond their own departments — the view from where I sit, as it were. Once we had... View Details
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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Margaret Rudkin, founder of Pepperidge Farms; and John Deutsch, chemist and provost of MIT, and later Deputy Secretary of Defense and Director... View Details
- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
Bezos was still working on Wall Street. After decades of tax-free sales, ecommerce was just 11.4 percent of US retail sales in 2019, according to the Department View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
In the late 1970s, the Chicago Police Department noticed that the city's crime rate increased when cops stopped walking the beat and started driving around in patrol cars instead. They wondered why, and asked the political scientist... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic
President and CEO of Banana Republic since 1995, Jeanne Jackson (MBA '78) has been credited with transforming the faltering safari clothing brand into one of the nation's leaders in - and definers View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
pushed the quick-charge capabilities of lithium-ion batteries well beyond what was once thought possible. And last November, the US Department of Transportation announced plans... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
action over a period of time versus just simply one year. But in this one year, things have been on a good path. Skydeck is produced by the External Relations department at Harvard Business School and edited... View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
beautiful ride on the water. I think there's a reason that entrepreneurs, like Sergey Brin, and Larry Page, or Sir Richard-- are drawn to the sport of kiteboarding. And it just feels like home. Skydeck is produced by the External... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
Photo courtesy of Francis Tapon Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Francis Tapon (MBA 1997) was off to a bright tech career after HBS, working at a Silicon Valley startup before stints at Hitachi and... View Details
- 03 Sep 2014
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Choose Your Boss?
up to a human resource department to carry out all but the final stages of the process. And like board members, research has shown that they rarely ask questions that would enable an understanding View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
for me is to create a large, fundamental institution on a global stage out of India. And I think we can do that. Skydeck is produced by the External Relations department at Harvard Business School and edited... View Details
- 19 Feb 2021
- News
A Playbook for Progress
an unstoppable force.” Dan: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Jacqui Adams (MBA 1978) is CEO of a communication strategy firm that she launched after more than two decades as an Emmy award-winning... View Details
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
negotiations with a potential acquirer's CEO. Instead, we researched who the CEO would turn to regarding acquisitions. Of course, his CFO would be pivotal. Continuing to map backward, we turned up an analyst in the finance View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 06 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Circularity in Denmark
there were two main takeaways: the use of a foundation and co-op corporate structures to better enable progress towards sustainability goals, and the distribution of sustainability roles across multiple... View Details
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
into the business to the day the product departs the shipping dock. The researchers encouraged businesses to think of that order as the actual customer, and watched as they routed that person here and there... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 19 Jun 2017
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How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
the owners. And they just out of the clear blue made an offer to me to be a consultant, to leave the partnership, become a consultant for them in international marketing. They never had a marketing View Details
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
like budgeting, should be part of the annual governance cycle. Whenever plans are changed at the enterprise or business unit level, executives likely need to realign the organization with the new direction. The alignment process, View Details