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- 01 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?'
team. And these findings hold value in the world of corporate hiring, as well. In 1996, Jeff Borland and Jeanette Ngaire Lye studied data on Australian football coaches to investigate whether a good match plays a role in a coach’s View Details
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Colt Stander
Chances are there haven’t been many MBA candidates who have designed eyeglasses for Nickelodeon and Geoffrey Beene, or the mobile console for a micro-ablation tool used in surgical suites. “I’ve had the unusual experience,” Colt Stander...
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- 01 Feb 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?
have always been highly mobile, with more than 40 million leaving their jobs voluntarily in recent years. That’s roughly twice as many as are fired or leave involuntarily. It’s testimony to a US economy that produces a remarkable number...
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by James Heskett
- 11 May 2020
- News
Better Than Cash
Courtesy Ruth Goodwin-Groen Ruth Goodwin-Groen (MBA 2001) has a lot of work to do. “Our job will not be done until all people—old or young, rich or poor, male or female—are able to make and receive payments in a way that works for them,”...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire
when a headhunter reached out, Lew decided to explore the opportunity at Columbia. “I’ve always encouraged members of my team to openly interview for positions that seem interesting,” she says. “When you interview for a job, you either end up feeling really, really...
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- 08 May 2019
- Blog Post
In the Business of Flexibility
level of talent within their budget. The firm is simultaneously mobilizing a part of the workforce—those with a need or a desire for flexible arrangements due to childcare responsibilities or other factors—that might otherwise be left on...
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- 24 Mar 2023
- News
Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
attracted alumni in various career transitions seeking clarity on their next steps. According to Bernstein—who has a JD/MBA and DBA from Harvard and served as HBS Club of Toronto president from 2006-08—until recently, job seekers focused...
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Margie Kelley
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
were little," says Blumkin, "but they were growing up and I was ready to come back full-time. We live in New Jersey, and I heard about the job at the Host Committee from a friend who worked there. I knew it was just a two-year...
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- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
less than $25,000 a year, this program represents a transformational opportunity to earn a college degree and secure a job with a family-sustaining wage. What is sometimes underestimated is that not only are community colleges obvious...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
“Our mission at Social Finance is to mobilize capital to drive social progress. We are pioneering new impact investing approaches, like the Social Impact Bond, to unite uncommon partners around common goals.” Step change: “In eight years,...
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- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
2011. Of the nation’s 16.2 million management jobs at smaller companies, only 6.7 percent are held by blacks, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. These realities prompted John Rice (MBA 1992) to found Management Leadership for...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 23 Jun 2015
- Blog Post
What is SVMP?
Josh works as a Regional Organizer for FWD.us – a tech advocacy firm that mobilizes the tech community to support policies that keep the American Dream achievable in the 21st century, starting with comprehensive immigration reform. Why...
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- 04 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS
jobs while re-credentialing herself as a nurse.” After high school, Mbanusi earned his Associates degree at Collin County Community College before transferring to Cornell University where he majored in policy analysis and was exposed to...
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- 19 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Codeacademy’s Delicate Work of Adding Monetization Without Crushing Mission
users. Not only does it teach a skill set (coding) that is increasingly in demand in the job market, but its users are so loyal and engaged that they have provided the bulk of the learning content themselves at no cost. Codecademy's...
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Arthur Rock
with it a surge magical new hardware, software and services that lead directly to the current world of the Internet, powerful mobile devices and a hyper-connected globe where all knowledge is at our fingertips. “I was never 100 percent...
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- 11 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Crafting a Nontraditional Path to Venture Capital and Private Equity with Morgan Sheil (MBA 2021)
School as an undergraduate chemical and biomolecular engineering student at the University of Maryland. She was accepted into the 2+2 program and set out after graduation to explore potential careers and build her skills. After a year and half as a Process Engineer at...
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- 18 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry
endeavors where you need to mobilize such diverse talent at a global scale and climate change is one of those challenges. In terms of internal HBS resources, connecting with career coaches at CPD, especially those in the energy and...
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An Educated Investment | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
villages and rural areas. So Husain took action. In 2007 she founded Educate Girls, a nonprofit organization that mobilizes communities to take a stand against gender disparities in education. The organization leverages existing community...
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A Eureka Moment | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
A Eureka Moment As a student at HBS, Nicole Bucala (MBA 2015) could not stop thinking about a much-discussed but hard-to-address challenge: the need to bolster American STEM education. That interest inspired a startup—Eureka Ed [eurekaedapps.com]—that is building a...
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- 20 May 2020
- Blog Post
Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12
leave the firm in 2014. “I left without a job prepared to engage in a period of exploration and a long term job search. I knew I wanted to do something small, entrepreneurial, mission driven, and with great...
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