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- 25 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
companies to recruit qualified managers. “We help people who are looking to return to the continent because they’ve heard about the economic growth, the high GDPs, and the need for management talent, but who aren’t sure how to go about... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 10 Oct 2024
- News
Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes
to include a mentoring component, at the request of the students themselves. As the 20th anniversary of Can Do approached in 2022, Wilfong was planning to wind down the program, but the scholarship recipients again shaped the program’s future. Now, with their... View Details
- 01 Apr 2024
- News
Generosity Multiplied
successful recruitment firm, Reed is deeply involved in the Big Give, an innovative match-funding platform that hosts online fundraising appeals for charities. By engaging philanthropists and companies to match donations made by the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
The CEO and the Functions of Leadership
work of the organization. The recruiting and retention of the management team is therefore another vital function of leadership. “In each of these areas, the challenge is not only design and implementation but also alignment and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
HBS Collaboration Helps Management Education for Minority Students
began an "inside track" recruiting program, in which a faculty member from a minority school establishes a relationship with a particular company. He or she then identifies one or two high-potential students and encourages them to... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Tradition and Outreach at HBS Club de France
monthly luncheons, guided visits to major art shows, and the annual Management Prize award ceremony. Since the late 1980s, notes Executive Director Marie-Hélène de Rancher, the club has been instrumental in securing loans for French students at HBS and, more recently,... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet
e-commerce solutions for the laboratory supply market; CitySoft, which builds Web sites and intranet applications and recruits and hires employees from underrepresented urban areas; and ZEFER Corp., an Internet consulting firm. The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: The Fish-Farming Fix
is developing technology to cool the eggs and make them available on demand. “We’re basically turning fish eggs into seeds you can plant anytime and use whenever you want,” says CEO Dmitry Kozachenok (MBA 2013). Since cofounding Cryoocyte in his first semester at HBS,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
HBS Reverses Policy On Grade Disclosure
is inappropriate for HBS to dictate to students what they can and cannot say about their grades during the recruiting process,” Light wrote. “I believe you and your classmates earn your grades and should be accountable for them, as you... View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
after the initial cleanup operations are finished. Once they’re on the ground, the mission includes repairing homes, rebuilding schools, health clinics, community centers, and whatever else is needed. It’s a job that taps into his entire skill set, from reorganization... View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
believe that we need the best talent working on the most important issues of our time. Currently, the social sector has a lot of constraints that make it challenging for organizations to recruit and develop people.” Kapila’s social... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
graduate, our students will be joining organizations with increasingly diverse workforces. Making the most of these differences will be crucial. Inclusion also is key, because diversity is only the first step. Even as we recruit more... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
narrowed. "Much of what we teach in management theory is that there is one best way to do things," West observes. To explain the existence of two "best ways," he cites differences in the institutional contexts in which U.S. and Japanese firms operate. Japanese firms... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
center.” Instead of subsidizing this agency, Congress wanted the PTO to generate significant revenues for the government. As a result, starting salaries for examiners fell far behind the private sector, and it became difficult to recruit... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
chosen a leader from outside its ranks in its century-long history in the United States. Recruited from Becton Dickinson, a maker of medical devices, he was an outsider not only to Merck, but to "Big Pharma" as well. "Members of the... View Details
- 08 Dec 2017
- News
Harvard Business Grads Are Putting Politics Above Profits
students in 2015. In addition to running campaigns, other alumni are forming organizations to support these efforts. Daniella Ballou-Aares (MBA 2001) helped launch the nonprofit Leadership Now after the 2016 election to recruit alumni and... View Details
Keywords: politics
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Michelle Ross (MBA 2011)
manufacturing, some of the synergy, feedback, and integration that can provide a competitive advantage is lost. That’s just one of the reasons why it’s important to have a manufacturing base in any healthy economy. Goodyear didn’t come to View Details
- 31 Jan 2019
- News
A Global Mission
currently focused on recruiting students from Syria and northern Iraq. Elsewhere, DeFehr has developed an idea for an overland shipping route in southern Mexico to rival the Panama Canal. Business opportunities in that part of the world,... View Details
- 04 Feb 2020
- News
In Harmony
to bring in guest artists, recruit faculty, maintain facilities, and continually improve the experience for everyone involved. “Basically, in the business side of nonprofits, we’re enablers,” reflects Weinstein. “We enable the people who... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
assessed classmates’ strengths and interests during the first couple of sessions and recruited the ones he wanted to work with. The surprise is that he was a Ph.D. scientist, not an MBA. And this was the team that won the MIT contest.... View Details