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- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
the industry leader. New hires would help to integrate new products and grow marketing efforts, but several experienced team members wondered whether virtual collaboration could continue to work with an influx of new people. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
years for these reductions to have a material impact on a city's unfunded liabilities. In fact, many cities are downsizing employment, rather than hiring new workers. Cities could require all public employee retirees to join Medicare when... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
Wellesley friend who was Nelson Doubleday's secretary suggested I talk to him, I was open to the idea, and he offered me a job in the research department for the same salary. It was appealing to work in a company that was trying to hire... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
still had to justify its existence through profits. He hired the best engineers available, yet expected them to run their areas of responsibility with commercial acumen as "ordinary businessmen." He despised cartels and gained a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
in my new book, I talk about the leader as coach. And many people are hiring coaches like Chad to help them through it. But I think as leaders, we need to be coaches. We're no longer command and control, directing people what to do. And... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
the next piece is how do you translate that into action. So what we’ve been doing is working with the corporates to create true training opportunities where they can hire those folks,” said Bobo, who hopes to have funded 1,000 internships... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
Cespedes provides sales managers and executives with the tools they need to separate the signal from the noise. These include how to hire and deploy the right talent, pay and incentivize your sales force, improve ROI from your training... View Details
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
design and development firm (and once one of the largest in the business), to help turn it around after a series of crises that had seriously threatened its survival. Pearson has personally invested in the firm, re-organized many aspects of its operations, and has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
abroad in a cost-effective manner. India's software companies, for instance, recognized the possibility of providing services to overseas customers at least a decade before Western companies even considered hiring Indian software... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
25-year-old male with a university degree who has worked for two or three years with a bank or insurance company where the job required him to cold-call prospects and push products. iTrust takes a different approach. New hires unlearn how... View Details
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
the business through personal relationships with clients. A passionate entrepreneur, his approach to growth-secure customers first, figure out how to make money later-was remarkably successful, if sometimes chaotic. Facing an increasingly commoditized marketplace, in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
Ujjivan can grow, looking at such issues as new technology, diversifying product offerings, and how to hire the best staff. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=108057... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
might, with sellers of talent (such as graduates of business schools). For managers, if their business growth is predicated on hiring appropriate amounts of talent—as it invariably is—what do they do to compensate for the absence of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
right out of business school," Sahlman says. "They don't yet know enough about hiring and firing or managing. They don't know enough about selling and marketing or production and operations." He advises freshly minted MBAs with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
found the doors open. Wearing a hazmat suit and using a flashlight, he found his way to the storage room that held a number of instruments. He hired a man off the street to haul away his gear, which included a set of mid-20th-century... View Details
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
end of the case Hever is reflecting on a proposal he submitted for providing CDC services to one of the largest U.K. companies. The general counsel wants to pay for these services in cash should he decide to accept the proposal, rather than View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
And then, develop portfolio tools and management towards that. And that was a real groundbreaker in the way they offered their services. And then, they went even further. They hired a financial gerontologist—which I don't know if many of... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
group of small businesses and nonprofits that could benefit from MBA talent. Now in the process of hiring an executive director, the nonprofit connects service-minded MBA students from 20 schools with community organizations that need... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Tigers in the late twentieth. Many may consider this an old-fashioned way to develop, but as Sun argues, it's the only one that's proven to raise living standards across entire societies in a lasting way. And with every new Chinese factory boss setting up machinery and... View Details