Talent Development And Retention - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Aug 2022
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Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Susan Wilner Golden (PMD 59, 1990) had a very frustrating experience caring for her aging mother. With her background as a graduate of the HBS Program for Management... View Details

01 Mar 2013
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Opening the Door

neighborhood-based health plan for the city of Charlestown, and I became involved in building a system of benchmarks for the various services that were being offered—everything from dental care to drug and... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

18 Apr 2022
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Home Grown

launched in 2019—and a development he sees as part of the larger trend of homegrown, Asia-founded technology companies expanding into Western markets. READ MORE Julia Hanna: Why was it important to you to do this in India, View Details

01 Dec 2020
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Well Matched

professor Anita Elberse—that develops the business skills of highly paid professional athletes, who all too often make questionable investment decisions. (It has since expanded to include athletes from a variety of disciplines, including... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; venture capital; diversity; inclusion; tennis; leadership; women; Finance

01 Jan 2007
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A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968

the company puts a premium on new product development and innovation, while providing help and hope to people of all ages with disabilities. Mal Mixon takes his guest on a tour... View Details

14 Dec 2017
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Making Movies Is a Class Act

the same section, solving hundreds of cases, provided us with a similar view of assessing mystery stories!” The lasting friendships Wood and Abrams formed at HBS extended to a network of other alums eager to help bring the clever... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Sep 2010
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Fair Trade

accelerated flow of creative talent into the United States, primarily New York, reinforcing that city’s status as a hub of talent, fashion, and retailing to match Paris. Helena Rubinstein took advantage of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores

23 Sep 2021
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Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies

developed the series in recognition of the fact that sustainability is “everyone’s issue” to act upon. HBS Club of Japan president Wakana Tanaka (MBA 2003) “We wanted to raise awareness by inviting prominent speakers View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jan 2009
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Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985

Jorge Paulo Lemann, Carlos Sicupira, and Marcel Telles have been primary figures in Brazil’s economic development for more than 30 years. The three friends and business... View Details

17 Jun 2021
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Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity

The pair worked with club sponsor Faye Thorek of Thorek/Scott and Partners to produce the virtual panel event. Stark, an executive coaching and leadership development... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

12 Nov 2019
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Seismic Shift

diversity and inclusion is what one might expect from a consultancy. The organization offers strategies, advises on diversity initiatives, and helps find and retain View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

29 Apr 2025
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Challenge Accepted

marketing at Merrill became one of our first major investors and has invested in every single one of our funds since. So there’s a silver lining to most things. JH: In his second year at HBS, John Rice (MBA 1992) conducted a field study... View Details

Keywords: challenges; failure; advice; experience

01 Dec 2012
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Rival Visions

policy, military strategy, and the development of the American West. As a member of the House from 1795 to 1801, he was the first powerful congressman who lived on the western side of the Appalachian... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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Books

today's top executives must build organizations in which the new can constructively displace the old and where talented employees are encouraged to help formulate company strategy. "Successful e-leaders... View Details

01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives

developing economic powerhouse. In the evening light, silhouettes of high-rises under construction punctuate the modern skyline, and a gleaming urban mall stands ready to serve Mumbai’s growing,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

coincided with both the rise of the home computer, marketed mainly as a toy for boys, and the rise of the male tech geek. This stereotype of a so-called brogrammer played an important role in the development... View Details

Keywords: April White

13 Sep 2019
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Hollywood Ending

the best of Silicon Valley’s tech talent to reimagine the delivery with Hollywood’s creatives to make the sizzle. “I have half of that equation,” Katzenberg says. Although Whitman completed his picture, he figured there was no way she... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photo by Christina Gandolfo

01 Mar 2018
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Case Study: On the Record

the risk associated with investing the potentially significant time and money necessary for the R&D, equipment, and talent that could eliminate these bottlenecks, or focus on... View Details