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Doba Parushev

Most people prefer to embrace security; Doba Parushev tends to run from it. "My life interests tend to go in two- to four-year stretches," he says. As a ten-year-old in Bulgaria, he competed nationally in math contests. But by... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

01 Dec 2015
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Euro Vision

challenge was amplified—cofounding Index Ventures in 1996. "If we were going to compete with the best portfolios that were built in Silicon Valley," says Rimer, "we'd have to hunt far and wide across Europe." It's become a popular bet: VC... View Details

Keywords: Jason Feifer

March 2020
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People Analytics at Teach For America (B)

By: Jeffrey T. Polzer and Julia Kelley

This is a supplement to the People Analytics at Teach For America (A) case. In this supplement, situated one year after the A case, Managing Director Michael Metzger must decide how to apply his team's predictive models generated from the previous year’s data. View Details

Keywords: Analytics; Human Resource Management; Data; Workforce; Hiring; Talent Management; Forecasting; Predictive Analytics; Organizational Behavior; Recruiting; Analytics and Data Science; Forecasting and Prediction; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Talent and Talent Management

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June 2010 (Revised April 2014)
Course Overview Note

Corporate Social Responsibility and Employee Engagement

By: Christopher Marquis, Bobbi Thomason and Jennifer Tydlaska

Analyzes the link between corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities and employee engagement, including CSR effects on employee commitment and motivation, new skills and training, and motivation. Also discusses best practices in employee engagement through CSR. View Details

Keywords: Competency and Skills; Training; Employees; Retention; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Practice; Motivation and Incentives

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12 Jan 2017
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Personalizing Women’s Path to Success

Photos by David Kelly Crow Many women hit a point in their career when they are unsure of which path to take next or even how to move ahead. For some, that inflection point comes mid-career or after a successful run; others are simply hopeful for a smooth return to the... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

14 Dec 2010
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A Career Focused on Innovation and Manufacturing

Keywords: Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

25 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

process does not have these features, deal price should receive no weight. This approach would represent a middle ground between the competing approaches advanced by 29 law, economics, and finance professors in the DFC Global appraisal,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Arum Kang

contrary to her expectations, a line of children's hair accessories failed to post the sales numbers she had anticipated. "When I got to the floor," Arum says, "I saw that my product was crowded among too many competing... View Details

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Strategy and Technology - Course Catalog

What are the key strategies for creating successful MSPs? Tactics—Judo & Sumo Strategy: Many of the critical challenges in fast-moving technology businesses are tactical in nature: how and when do firms cooperate and compete with firms... View Details

01 Oct 1998
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A Career to Smile About

of acquired knowledge and experience across regions and nations is a key to business success. And with dozens of wildly different markets and ongoing geopolitical rearrangements, she knows that, be it toothpaste or any other consumer product, it pays to be culturally... View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.

01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Raymond M. Jefferson

limits of human physical capabilities" by maintaining his Special Forces' exercise regimen and competing successfully in full-contact fighting martial arts tournaments. Jefferson retains a deep affection for the people of Hawaii, who... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

15 Dec 2015
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Lovepop Woos The Sharks

LovePop. You’ve been in front of VCs before. How does this experience differ? It’s so different. My experience with pitching VCs is in a much more casual environment. It’s at a coffee shop, at a conference room table—it’s never you standing in front of five View Details

01 Jun 2015
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Fast Forward

Illustration by Chris Gash The School’s US Competitiveness Project launched four years ago with a simple but ambitious goal: figure out how companies in the United States can better compete in the global economy while raising living... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Apr 2001
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University Elections

Harvard aspires; to provide advice to the Corporation; to give formal consent to major initiatives as referred by the Corporation and to appointments; and to bring a long-range perspective to Harvard affairs through the varied View Details

April 2018
Teaching Note

InsideSales.com (A) and (B)

By: Frank Cespedes

Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 817-018 and 817-042. InsideSales.com (ISC) has been successful selling its software to small- and medium-sized businesses (SMB). But for various reasons, the founders see “the next stage of growth” as building a scalable sales and service... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Customer Relationship Management; Growth Management; Marketing Strategy; Salesforce Management; Talent and Talent Management; Technology Industry

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16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?

side—while the early stage side is not quite as pretty a picture." The Future Of Europe Asked how the market is likely to evolve in a climate that contains enormous diversity in geography, business practices, and culture, as well as diversity in funds... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

11 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Riding the Internet Fast Track

acquisition and brand-building, products and services that are often free or deeply discounted, and abundant funding provided by exuberant capital markets."The problem," he says, "is that everyone understands the strategy, and many View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

06 Sep 2016
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The Solution That Doesn’t Get Discussed About How to Get More Women On Corporate Boards

board search is a loss leader for building the connections and relationships needed to support the traditional search firm’s primary revenue stream. We designed Trewstar not to compete with or disrupt the search firm industry, but to fill... View Details

01 Oct 1997
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Antitrust in Historical Perspective

producing companies became larger and more autonomous. Even producers, if they happened to be small operators of oil refineries, iron works, and cigarette factories, could not begin to compete with the new giants. So they often faced the... View Details

Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow