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- 20 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Technology
culture, as well as its products, services, and customer strategy. To connect with students, share with them what your company believes in and show them how you care for your employees and customers. Students are drawn in by your passion... View Details
Keywords: Technology
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The Arts of Communication - Course Catalog
holding an employee accountable, giving a peer critical feedback, speaking on your feet, influencing someone to change their behavior, resolving conflicts, and more. This class is for anyone ready to take risks, hungry to receive and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Lydia M. Marshall: Gumption and Grace
notes, "and it was very exciting to be a part of it." In 1999, Marshall decided to do something completely different. The result, VentureThink, is a start-up that aims to create, build, and manage e-commerce businesses. With the budding firm View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 08 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How to Hire a Millennial
General Electric isn’t moving to Boston’s waterfront for the views, however breathtaking they may be. In the increasingly fierce battle for millennial talent, GE’s decision to uproot its long-time headquarters from suburban Connecticut is nothing less than a... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
instruction. The initial phases of planning and design have just begun, with construction anticipated to commence in the summer of 2000 and completion scheduled for late 2001. Hawes retired last year as chairman and CEO of Life Re... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers
Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), which conducts an annual analysis of available labor data. Presumably, the Dodd-Frank rule, once it's mandated, will make more data available for such analyses. The Security and Exchange Commission has View Details
- 05 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition
the tone for company culture and even amid everyone’s hectic schedules we were able to fit in activities to get to know each other. One of the best parts of working on a team are the conversations that happen offline, and this was... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
Wes Hather. The would-be founders then went looking for “a big problem” and a tech-based solution. GroupTalent was born in 2011 to address the challenges of employee recruitment with an online marketplace. But two years later, the company... View Details
- 08 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career
pursued. Moving forward by taking a step back As an HBS alum, Kloeblen has access to free Harvard coaching through the school’s office of Career and Professional Development. Kloeblen scheduled a phone consultation and prepared to discuss... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’
conflict, and trial and error to advantage. At Pixar, for example, the company was caught up short in 2008 in a clash over production schedules for the movie Up and the short film Cars Toons. Blindsided by news that Cars Toons was behind... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
it." Still, companies around the country are managing to pick their way through such uncomfortable territory in an effort to respond to their employees' deeper yearnings. While spirituality is a highly individual and personal matter, managers and View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
uncomfortable territory in an effort to respond to their employees' deeper yearnings. While spirituality is a highly individual and personal matter, managers and employees alike seem to find common themes emerging when they begin thinking... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
assets are, how much protection each merits, and who's responsible for protecting them. Define the appropriate use of IT resources. All companies have policies explaining the appropriate use of resources. For example, employees know what... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
cyber-security and analytics. “These employees have found errors, faults, and gaps in IT systems that have gone undetected for years,” Fieldhouse says. “This even happened in the first week after their on-boarding.” In a video produced... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details
- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Get Off the Dime!
accept new software as long as they suffered little inconvenience and little change except reduced costs. They wanted their financial reporting to have their traditional look and feel. They wanted to do maintenance scheduling their way... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
- 02 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Women, Work, and the "M" Word
needs of employees and offering them tailored, appropriate benefits and support can make a world of difference in the workforce, company culture, and our society, overall. 1. Offer menopause-inclusive healthcare benefits A majority of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
Diego–based chain of more than ninety buffet-style restaurants serving fresh salads, soups, pastas, and breads, CEO Michael Mack has implemented a flexible system that allows hourly employees to change their View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
Harvard Business School. "Marla, my spouse, would see all kinds of things going on that I would simply miss. Why? Perhaps this was due to my tendency to focusing, and in my case, narrowly." In his forthcoming book The Power of Noticing: What the Best Leaders... View Details
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
Experiment of On-the-job Learning of Knowledge Production by Local Workers Reporting to Return Migrants By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj Abstract—I study whether return migrants facilitate knowledge production by local employees working for them... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne