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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
create a prototype of an off-road vehicle, recruiting local mechanics and welders in the coastal town of Kilifi. That laid the foundation for the company’s latest model, the Mobius II, a sleek SUV designed and made in Kenya, with rugged... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship
fortune." "I saw no reason to hold off until I was older or retired to share my good fortune." After college, Rauner wasted little time enrolling at HBS, entering the School at age 23. Midway through the second year of the MBA Program, he was View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Core Values Keep Airline Flying High
longer average time spent in recruitment of employees; and the emphasis on cross-functional teams. With 80 percent of its employees unionized, Southwest also invests time in creating strong relationships between management and union... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
vmeste? (Can we manage enterprises together?). This initiative laid the groundwork for our subsequent effort with Laura Gordon Fisher, head of MBA Admissions, to recruit qualified Russians and Eastern Europeans as HBS students. We also... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Dean Jay Light Takes Charge at HBS
Mumbai. Light is also busy with faculty issues, including recruitment and development. He is particularly interested, he said, “in ensuring that the next generation of faculty is versed in the School’s rich heritage and is well-prepared... View Details
- 27 Apr 2018
- News
Placing Nurses Where They Are Needed
is a nurse that will go from one place to another. Typically, it is someone that will come in from outside the area, and that is the reason the hospitals cannot really find them because they are not available locally. So we are able to View Details
- 31 Jan 2019
- News
A Global Mission
currently focused on recruiting students from Syria and northern Iraq. Elsewhere, DeFehr has developed an idea for an overland shipping route in southern Mexico to rival the Panama Canal. Business opportunities in that part of the world,... View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
asphalt-paved path, with unpaved shoulders for runners) with neighboring winemakers, who donated initial funds to memorialize Tom Shelton, a fellow vintner and vine trail leader who had lost his life to cancer. “We recruited the Land... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- News
Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
says Carol Markowitz (MBA 2003), a corporate finance expert from Los Angeles whom Wilkins recruited to work at Idea Village. "The alumni network has also been very helpful." After serving as Idea Village's COO, he left in May to start... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges
Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Indonesia, India, and the Philippines. Professor F. Warren McFarlan, senior associate dean and director of the HBS Asia-Pacific Initiative, credited the School's Asia-Pacific Research Center, led by Executive Director Camille Tang... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
More than a Game
grandchild, a testimony to the close ties that have formed around the sport. Although their spirits and most of their bodies are still willing, the alumni group is actively recruiting more youthful teammates to level the playing field.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
from the interview list. Recruiters refused to interview them because it was a “waste of time.” I know, because this happened to me. I was part of this forgotten class. Joan Oxman Rothberg (HRPBA 1962, MBA ’63) Summit, NJ Editor's Note:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Making It Possible to Explore and Grow
whom she recruited from her existing business network. (photo by Russ Campbell) “In 2013 less than 3 percent of all venture capital raised in the US went to female-led companies. I wanted to fix that.” —Anna Khan (MBA 2016) The Rock... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
with a recruiter in an HBS corridor in 1969 led Hawes to a small Connecticut company that focused on insurance company mergers and acquisitions. In 1972, he ventured out on his own and founded Insurance Investment Associates, which soon... View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
pursuing a degree in public health. In addition, the organization operates outreach and ambassador programs to promote Harvard University throughout Mexico. Ocejo is among those who spread the word about Harvard and the support available, View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
fiscal 2002) has had little difficulty recruiting experienced employees, with surplus tasks handled by managers-in-training. Mack, a former consultant in heavy manufacturing and petrochemicals at Bain & Company, bought the Sweet Tomatoes... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
2006 MBAs Go to Work
Martin, associate director of MBA Recruiting Services, notes that 88 percent of students report that the job they accepted was their first choice in terms of function. “We ask students to prioritize their career search relative to three... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)
always an easy task. Today’s students seem preoccupied with job offers almost from the time they arrive. Recruiting briefings start in the fall of the first year, and the competition is tough. Against that backdrop, it’s sometimes... View Details
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985
Lemann founded Banco de Investimentos Garantia and soon recruited Sicupira and Telles to join what would become the most successful investment bank in Brazil. As they acquired diverse assets, the trio transformed the Brazilian economy,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
host for January's WesTrek, a recruiting and networking event in Silicon Valley attended by almost 250 HBS students. In the global realm, our new Asia Pacific research office, due to open this fall in Hong Kong, will provide a unique... View Details