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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Job Hunting in a Tight Market: Strength in Numbers
wants the reader to know. Thank-you notes after a job interview are ineffective. Instead, a job hunter must influence the hiring manager in any follow-up correspondence, addressing the key issues discussed in the meeting. Unemployed job... View Details
- 10 Feb 2014
- HBS Case
Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines
platinum mine. Photo: Gautam Mukunda The authors' research for the case study comprised more than 50 hours of interviews on three continents, not to mention some applied experience; Mukunda flew to South Africa and spent a day in Anglo... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
features designed to enhance safety and effectiveness had the unintended effect of changing how men enacted their masculine identities at work. Interview and participant observation data show that the major reorientation was away from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
linkages or externalities across industries. Regional economies and clusters are analyzed at various geographic levels including states, economic areas, and metropolitan areas. Access to top-level data on the CMP is free; more in-depth information is available for a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
In our January 2 update, we featured the first part of a two-part interview with HBS professor Michael E. Porter, an internationally influential expert on strategy and competition. (Porter was recently appointed to a University... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
implement strategy. In a retail business, no matter what you decide in the office, if the people out in the stores don't execute it, your business isn't going to be worth a darn, because they're the ones who deal with your customers. So hiring and motivating the right... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 18 Sep 2008
- News
HBS Olympians
Calgary Olympics and won a silver medal in figure skating in the 1992 Olympics in Albertville, France. More information here. Mike Murphy (MBA 2006B) competed for Australia in men’s three-meter springboard diving at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and the 1996 Atlanta... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
http://www.people.hbs.edu/jsiegel/SiegelLichtSchwartz_EFDI_20120310.pdf Daily Horizons: Evidence of Narrow Bracketing in Judgments from 9,000 MBA Admission Interviews Authors:U. Simonsohn and F. Gino Publication:Psychological Science... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
comment on, and summarize advice and insight on dealing with Vladimir Putin offered by former Secretaries of State Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Rex Tillerson. This presentation is based on video segments excerpted from in-depth View Details
- 10 Jan 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management
and involves all levels of the organization. How Can Operations Become A Competitive Advantage? Operations and the Competitive Edge Many managers expect operations organizations to fulfill only a support role. But an effective operations strategy can give you a... View Details
- Profile
Julio Cedeno
were required to interview alumni and current students as part of our research," he explains. He spoke to two to four people from each of the eight schools that interested him. "The first thing that tipped me toward HBS was... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- 31 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
My Misperceptions about HBS
here. I'll never forget the moment that my perceptions of HBS turned around: my interview day. I expected most of the people I met to be quite pretentious and arrogant—to be sizing up each others' chances of getting accepted. However, I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Editor's Note
and Julia Hanna interviewed four emeriti professors to glean reminiscences and insights based on their many years of service. Not directly related to the Centennial, but timely nonetheless, is a new book on the history of American... View Details
- 05 May 2011
- News
Blazing a Trail for Glenn Beck
from left-leaning Huffington Post to conservative Beck baffled media watchers but made perfect sense to Morgan. “I am a very apolitical person,” she said in an interview reported by the New York Times (January 6, 2011). “I’m a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Making a Difference
faster. Associate Editor Julia Hanna’s interview with Catalyst president and CEO Ilene Lang (MBA ’73) reveals how the New York–based global research and policy nonprofit is advancing the cause of women in business. In the third story... View Details
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
said yes. Once Rovell recruited a celebrity, that person often would cheerfully give him another star's direct line. Rovell quickly built an impressive Rolodex. You can succeed without explicitly swapping favors. Tapes of the show enhanced his credibility as an View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
were less thorough, and the managers and lawyers we interviewed while conducting our research raised concerns about the extent to which reforms were effectively implemented. Our results do not indicate that the more limited reforms in... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #3: Keith Kinch, BlocPower
jobs in the state in 2019, up from 9.7% in 2015.” And “between 2015 and 2019 green jobs grew by 13.2%, more than twice the rate of total job growth in New York (6%).” In September, BlocPower CEO Donnel Baird was interviewed by Climate... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
and WeWork—along with interviews and stories from their own personal experience, to make these ideas come alive. This book is your indispensable guide for unleashing greatness in other people and, ultimately, in yourself. Reimagining... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
In Rangan’s view, the sector is poised on the brink of transformation, a topic he enthusiastically expounded upon during a recent interview in his Morgan Hall office. The terms “social enterprise” and “nonprofit” seem to be used... View Details