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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Reawakening rural America
7,000 jobs since its launch in 1986. “My primary business is recruiting manufacturing firms into rural communities and helping them create jobs,” Schultz says. After a three-year research project about rural economics that led to the book... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
MBAs mobilize to assist small business owners
tripled his monthly revenue and secured a $100,000 no-equity investment. Now Baker and his team have recruited an inaugural class of 32 MBAs, from five schools, to hit the road for their own journeys in the summer of 2014, and are seeking... View Details
- 28 Nov 2018
- News
Elevating Women at Fidelity
identifying talent from within and expanding the firm’s recruiting efforts at colleges and universities. In an effort to shake up Fidelity’s “cliquey culture,” Bloomberg reports that Johnson moved her office to be near the money managers... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
A man on a mission
also used my teaching as a recruiting vehicle for NASA, to inspire bright students out of high school to go into our apprenticeship program.” Since retiring, the indefatigable Earls has taught college-level ethics courses, launched a K–12... View Details
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
Turning a Disorder into an Opportunity
self-confident, as well as financially self-sufficient. Forty-five people have been employed through the program at Australia’s Department of Defence, Department of Human Services, and Department of Immigration and Border Protection. Eleven new View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
data science (e.g., unbiased data and algorithms), better implementation (e.g., understanding the target audience and market conditions), and better policies (e.g., auditing algorithms to ensure they perform in an equitable manner). For Frida Polli (MBA 2012),... View Details
- 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 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
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
terms of time. But you know, the recruitment and selection process has changed quite a bit. Back in the early 90s, late 80s, it was generally just a question of the chairman and CEO and the other board members looking at their... View Details
- 22 Jul 2021
- News
Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
Chris Marshall (DBA 1996), Kamal Karmakar (OPM 37), Eugene Lee (MBA 1976), and Sophia Shing (MBA 1997). The seven participating startups were recruited by TaFF as part of The Bridge Fashion Incubator (TBFI) program, considered Southeast... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
controls the recruitment and tenure of directors, sets the board’s agenda, selects the information that flows to the board, and oversees the process of evaluating CEO performance, directors will find it difficult to shift the power... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
bibles of business success, the silver bullets of top performance, the secrets to long-term accomplishment and growth. And you’ve heard all about the importance of information technology, total quality management, and recruiting that... View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
In Harmony
organization, with nearly 25 percent of its income going directly toward scholarships to attract top performers. The rest is used to bring in guest artists, recruit top faculty, maintain facilities, and continually improve the experience... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Class of 1975 Endows Chair in Entrepreneurship
Starting New Ventures, and Venture Capital and Private Equity. The Class of 1975's major gift cochairs, Leo J. Corbett, Hamilton E.("Tony") James, and Kendrick R. Wilson, reported that their classmates have shown overwhelming enthusiasm for the gift's objectives: to... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 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 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
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Rushing Yards
Gazette. Howard knows the game well, having played high school football in Plano, Texas, before his recruitment to the Air Force Academy by head coach Fisher DeBerry, who told Howard he wanted to help him not only play football, but... View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
they had done for me," he says. "I taught a math or physics course a couple evenings a week. But I also used my teaching as a recruiting vehicle for NASA, to inspire bright students out of high school to go into our apprenticeship... View Details
- 15 Jul 2024
- News
A Sporting Chance
The fall that had such a profound effect on Jorge Perez de Leza’s life would later have a big impact on others with disabilities as well. “When you hear somebody say that in one minute your life changes—it really can happen,” says Jorge Perez de Leza (MBA 1996), the... 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