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- 15 Jul 2024
- News
A Sporting Chance
varied career, which has included jobs in consulting, technology, retail, and finally real estate. Looking for a way to stay healthy after his accident, Perez de Leza first took up hand-crank cycling, and then adaptive skiing. Inspired, he started View Details
- 02 Sep 2022
- News
Strength in Numbers
funding the endeavor, but they have recently begun recruiting 100 founding families to the Goodness Web, with a goal of raising an initial $25 million. The overall ambition, though, is much bigger: In seven years, the founders envision a... View Details
- 22 Sep 2020
- News
Balancing Act
within the company. And the third step was being explicit with the recruiting team: “It’s not about saying ‘I prioritize diversity but ultimately I’m going to hire the best person for the job.’ People say that a lot. You have to say, ‘We... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Mar 2017
- News
Don’t give up your power
due-diligence process before they hire anyone, so there, I believe, are very few, if any, recruiting mistakes. So don’t give away your power, don’t second-guess yourself. Stand up with your head high. Own it every day that you choose to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
What Keeps HBS Ahead? You Do!
Their work drives our educational programs, fuels Harvard Business Review, and informs HBS cases used worldwide. Our unique funding model makes this possible. Because research is funded internally, faculty enjoy greater academic freedom. It’s expensive, but the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
other stakeholders in society. If academic critiques were not discouraging enough, Datar and Garvin distilled more bad news from their research. “There’s an escalating drumbeat of concerns from alums, from students, and from customers — the companies that View Details
- 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
- 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
- 25 Mar 2015
- News
The Greening of Houston
that if they’re going to recruit and retain the best talent, then the city has to be someplace where people really enjoy living. Houston’s quality of life and entrepreneurial climate were what brought Troy Thacker (MBA 2000) back to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
A Trusty Board
Field's board, worked with McCarter on numerous civic projects when McCarter was at Booz-Allen and later recruited him to run the Field. Similarly, the Smithsonian's Bob Fri joined the natural history museum at the request of board... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
There and Back Again: The Challenges and Rewards of Working Abroad
environment that may force them to question their own identity, values, and basic assumptions. That kind of change requires preparation, advise two specialists in senior international recruitment at Russell Reynolds: Patrick Delhougne... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Professors Pearson, Thurston Remembered
his home in Palm Beach, Florida. He was 80. While a partner at McKinsey, Pearson was recruited by PepsiCo to be its COO, and soon became its president as well, serving the company for fifteen years. During his tenure, PepsiCo’s revenues... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Research Brief: Subject Expert Matters
the first step toward breaking that code. In 2017, the team conducted a field study in collaboration with Harvard Medical School, which announced a call for research proposals for solutions to human health problems. The researchers View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 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
- 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