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Preliminary placement figures (as of August 1997)* Total September Cohort January Cohort Average satisfaction with job offer (on a scale of 1-low to 7-high) 6.1 6.1 6.1 Average number of companies contacted 20 19 21 Average number of organizations with which each... View Details

23 Mar 2016
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Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It

women comprise 21 percent of senior executives in Sweden, they account for only 8 percent of CEOs. This Catalyst Pyramid visually highlights the gender gap in the labor force, two levels of management, board seats, and CEOs in companies... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

2016
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The New Role of Business in Global Education

By: Mark R. Kramer, Greg Hills, Kate Tallant, Matt Wilka and Anjali Bhatt

Shared value defines a new role for business in helping to overcome the global education and unemployment crisis. By aligning profit with purpose, companies can become essential partners for schools, nonprofits, and governments while simultaneously discovering new ways... View Details

Keywords: Shared Value; Education; Employment; Global Range; Business Ventures

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An Outside-Inside Evolution in Gender and Professional Work

By: Lakshmi Ramarajan, Kathleen McGinn and Deborah Kolb

We study the process by which a professional service firm reshaped its activities and beliefs over nearly two decades as it adapted to shifts in the social discourse regarding gender and work. Analyzing archival data from the firm over eighteen years and... View Details

Keywords: Professional Service Firms; Social Institutions; Organizational Learning; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Employment; Gender; Society; Service Industry

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08 Apr 2016
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How to Hire a Millennial

15 Mar 2016
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The costs of inequality: Faster lives, quicker deaths

28 Sep 2021
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HBS Club of London: David Halpern on How to Apply Behavioural Science to Behavior

10 Nov 2020
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The Power of 'Patient Capital': Long-Term Investing in a Short-Term World

16 Mar 2017
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The CEO Who's Turning the Global Development Movement on Its Head

20 Jul 2016
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How Amazon Adapted Its Business Model to India

Keywords: Amazon; online retail; market entry; innovation; Retail Trade

16 Jan 2016
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An Alliance of Leaders Helped Lure GE to Boston

Keywords: Government

01 Dec 2003
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Alumni Bookshelf

Straight Talk on Investing coauthored by John J. (“Jack”) Brennan (MBA ’80) (John Wiley & Sons) Brennan, chairman and CEO of The Vanguard Group, provides a hands-on, straight-forward guide to investing. Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest by Linda Carlson (MBA ’80)... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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