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- 10 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Retail
have to be a success story. If your company is doing a turnaround and you want to hire smart MBAs to help right the ship, that will draw students in.” HBS students are eager to make an impact and to join leaders with a genuine purpose.... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Faculty Books Published in 2020
for yourself, how buildings can have an impact on our health, and how leaders can have an impact on today's biggest issues. A list of the titles, authors, and their abstracts are included below. American Business History: A Very Short... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Admit It: You’re in Denial
potentially ruinous obstacles that managers face. From Ford to General Motors, Sears to Lehman Brothers, it has torpedoed many good businesses. Why would any sane, smart executive deny a fact of critical importance to his or her business?... View Details
- 04 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is E-commerce at Risk in Apple's Security Dispute with the FBI?
stakes at play in the San Bernardino iPhone case. Christian Camerota: Was it a good strategic move on Apple’s part to bring the FBI’s request into the public eye? Sunil Gupta: There are arguments on both sides. The FBI was smart in making... View Details
- 28 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
you craft good questions and demonstrate your competence. Ng says it’s an unspoken rule: When you are asked, “Do you have any questions?” you should always say “yes” and come prepared with a smart inquiry. A good question is one that you... View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
How To Hire A Millennial
ACTION AND COMPLETELY RETHINK THE PACKAGES THEY ARE OFFERING TO ATTRACT YOUNG TALENT." For starters, companies would be smart to revisit how they structure work, especially when it comes to jobs in areas where competition for talent... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Action Plan: Fired Up
friends and family in backyards all over the world. “We’re growing a global company, neighbor by neighbor,” says Andrus. How to: Build a big brand while staying close to your customers Look beyond the obvious metrics. “Competitors focused... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Turning Point: One Step at a Time
Kids and adults alike had told me I just “wasn’t athletic,” and that was OK—I was smart and talented in other ways. So when the time came for that mandatory mile run I had to get creative. We didn’t have a gym at my small parochial... View Details
Keywords: Christina Wallace (MBA 2010)
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
drought-proof resource has become increasingly appealing. “Carlsbad is a very important test case,” he says. “There are lots of eyes on it—everywhere from Texas to Florida.” And it’s not only the tech that interests other cities, it’s the way Poseidon View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- Profile
Arthur Rock
a simple but profound desire: he wanted to help talented people build great companies. “Anyone who comes into the office and says `I have this business plan and you’re going to make a lot of money if you invest with me’ doesn’t stand... View Details
- Profile
Angela R. Hicks Bowman
nascent company could find enough smart people in Indianapolis to build the business, a notion that infuriated Hicks, a lifelong Hoosier and staunch supporter of the Indianapolis business scene. “My... View Details
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Turning High Potential into Real Reward
it's understanding the path to the mainstream market and being smart enough to, A) pick a good mainstream market and, B) assemble the people and partners who give you a disproportionate likelihood of getting there. It's very important not... View Details
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Reality of Web Services
being used to automate simple business processes—transmitting an order, acknowledging a shipment, describing an item for sale, etc. Over time the processes enabled via Web services will become more complex, but it's best to start small and View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant
- Profile
Prita Kumar
startup vision. By December, she had won the Entrepreneurship Club’s 100-second pitch competition. “I’m a self-starter and I was definitely one of the earliest people to commit to an idea,” she said. She didn’t stop there. Kumar applied for a Rock... View Details
- 23 Oct 2024
- News
Running Man
There aren’t many people on this planet—let alone septuagenarians—who can contemplate running 50 or 100 miles at a time. But for 77-year-old Eric Spector (MBA 1972), a retired entrepreneur and CEO in the tech, consumer retail, and media sectors, running long (long,... View Details
- Profile
Ruzwana Bashir
knew I wanted to work with smart people and learn about how to build a business.” After graduating, Bashir moved to London, joined Goldman Sachs and later the Blackstone Group with the intention of a... View Details
- 27 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Driving India's EV Future: Insights from Ather Scooter and Exponent Energy
affordability. Leading Through Innovation and SafetyWith 8-year battery warranties, a spotless safety record, and innovative products like the Halo Smart Helmet, Ather prioritizes trust, convenience and better overall experience. This... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
everyone's life." Dubinsky found Apple's casual atmosphere—where smart people thrived—a good fit and accepted a position as a support specialist. "Apple had real energy. I loved the notion that we were changing the world. To me that was a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
design—to help clients no matter what their business happens to be. As a result, they have become highly skilled at explaining the finer points of contract theory and incentive design to executives who want to mint their own cryptocurrency tokens or View Details
- Profile
Terrance McGuire
McGuire said. “It was about commitment and leadership and recruiting the best talent and being smart about it. It was a very exciting environment and I got exposed to a lot of different entrepreneurial types, some of whom were... View Details