interview - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Feb 2014
News

Eyes on Medical Breakthroughs

river at Radcliffe.) "HBS has this old archival picture [of her class]. I showed it to my kids and said, 'Don't I look terrified?'" When it came time for job interviews, recruiters typically brought male students up to their hotel suites to talk. Women were View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Management; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2010
News

Alumni Books

interviews conducted by the authors, this book is filled with colorful stories about selecting and working with management, pioneering new markets, adding value through operational improvements, applying private-equity principles to... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2010
News

Do Good: Eat Chocolate

chocoholics. “I felt like I needed to focus on a natural, organic, authentic food,” Endline says during an interview at sweetriot’s offices in New York’s SoHo neighborhood. “Chocolate has a rich history, and it comes from pods of the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; candy; chocolate; Crop Production; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

the open source community are often intrinsically motivated. It is important to realize, however, that hackers are a diverse group. I have interviewed hobbyists, students, academics, software professionals, and government workers who... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

20 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)

core project this summer was to develop a feasibility study for Region of Choice’s expansion into equitable business development. To accomplish this, I led interviews and focus groups to understand the challenge, conducted a survey of 65+... View Details

04 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Energy and Cleantech: Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office

Larger organizations, typically those with a structured MBA internship program, begin engaging with first-year students in October and November, conduct interviews in January, and have offer decision deadlines in mid-February. On the... View Details

01 Mar 2013
News

Leveraging Female Talent

that keep executives awake at night. But before you can do that, you have to find out what keeps them awake at night. Who did you talk to? At this point, my research associates and I have interviewed over 250 people in the United States... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

18 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

hospital fundraising efforts. An interview with a promising candidate, who is also a digital native, forces her to confront shifting attitudes toward issues of data and privacy across generations against the backdrop of continued... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

and the supervised ML coding of facial images with a neural network algorithm. We employ these novel methods to study CEO oral communication, using videos and corresponding transcripts of emerging market CEO interviews to conduct our... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

26 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

orchestrates, manages, and coordinates its network of hundreds of global partners." It just isn't possible for one firm to master all these skills. MacCormack and his team (Theodore Forbath, Peter Brooks, and Patrick Kalaher, all of global services provider Wipro... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Profile

Monne Williams

sponsor?" Seeking answers, Monne landed a college internship with Roush Racing, a NASCAR team based in Charlotte, NC. "I got to see how licensing and merchandising worked from the inside," she says. When Monne returned to Duke, she aggressively networked... View Details

20 Aug 2024
Blog Post

Chasing a Dream: My Summer Internship at Chelsea Football Club

clubs along the way. Despite these setbacks, I stayed motivated, continued reaching out to people, and kept building my network. While traveling in Asia for HBS FIELD Global Capstone at the end of my first year, I conducted several virtual View Details

15 Apr 2022
Blog Post

How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Kelly Ogiesoba

This spring we’re speaking with current MBA students who were admitted through 2+2 to learn what they did during their deferral years. Here’s an interview with Kelly Ogiesoba (MBA 2022). Why did you decide to apply to HBS via the 2+2... View Details

05 May 2016
Blog Post

Being a Student Mom at HBS

takes into account your family needs or who can provide guidance on interviews for family-related issues. All moMBAs are also part of a group on GroupMe and connect on Facebook to share information. MoMBAs at HBS will also organize a... View Details

01 Mar 2005
News

Facing Ambiguity

video interviews and audio reenactments of meetings that take them from the shuttle’s launch to Day 8. On that day, a critical Mission Management Team (MMT) meeting determined that foam strikes that had occurred during the shuttle’s... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Space Research and Technology; Government

02 Oct 2015
News

The ‘F’ Word

Alone, broke, and homeless My biggest failure in life was my marriage. My wife filed for divorce, and the judge gave her all the assets and me all the bills. After 23 years of marriage I was alone, broke, and homeless. I needed to understand why this had happened, so I... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

08 May 2020
In Practice

Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On

lecturer of business administration. What should nonprofit leaders do as they face an economic recession? Lynda Applegate: Think like an entrepreneur I have been interviewing non-profit and for-profit leaders to identify how they are... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

16 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 16

stage-to redefine the roles and responsibilities of a public corporation in the 21st century. Based on extensive interviews conducted with Schultz and other Starbucks executives from 2011 to 2014, the case offers a range of vital lessons... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization

concern with the role of firms in creating markets, shaping policies, and diffusing globalization," says Jones, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, and Faculty Chair of the School's Business History Initiative. In this View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Pharmaceutical

01 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 1

in the future? By examining hundreds of job profiles developed by executive-search firm Heidrick & Struggles and interviewing numerous senior managers, the authors have identified some clear trends. One strikingly consistent finding... View Details