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Questions for Evaluating Company Culture and Community - Alumni
students and alumni who are searching for organizations that are committed to these same principles. Below is a sample of questions to enable HBS students and alumni to have thoughtful conversations with hiring managers on this important... View Details
- 08 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: DaVita Healthcare Partners, Inc.
commitment to clinical excellence and improving patients' health and quality of life. DaVita focuses on setting worldwide standards for clinical, social, and operational practices in kidney care, with over 2,200 dialysis clinics worldwide... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out
these large institutions is too powerful for one leader to overcome within the limited time frame of tenure—a finding that could apply to other organizations as well. Sadun is hopeful this evidence will influence hospitals to rethink their View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
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Field Course: Startup Operations - Course Catalog
learn through the startup they are working on, but through the 19 other startups in the course. Taking the perspective that there is more to just “build it and they will come”, the course will explore four modules: Getting To Product Market Fit: Exploring best View Details
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
practices that companies can follow to put this into place: Link work to social purposes employees care about Recruit Holdings believes work should add value to society. It also operates under the philosophy that a good manager should... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
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Janina Motter
As a high school student in Florida, Janina Motter “got interested in chemistry and studio art. I went to Stanford where I could pursue a high-quality education in whatever interested me.” There, Janina found herself exposed to the more interdisciplinary View Details
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
not only a company's numbers but also the systems that produce the numbers. Finally, public accountants will have to evaluate the work of the boards' audit committees that hired them. The bill for the additional external auditors and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
ability individuals can be constrained from commensurate employment opportunities due to their geographic location. In the face of physical, informational, and social barriers to migration, firms with nation-wide hiring View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
successful dual-purpose companies build a commitment to creating both economic and social value into their core activities. This approach, which they call hybrid organizing, includes: setting and monitoring social goals alongside financial ones, structuring the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
redefine the meaning of success in business. B Lab’s mission is to assemble a global community of Certified B Corporations, which are companies that meet certain prescribed standards of social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal... View Details
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
their standard hiring practices to fit local challenges and customs. Based on interviews with professionals in a number of established accounting, strategy consulting, and executive search firms presently... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
7 Resolutions for Recruiting in the New Year
talent. Looking ahead to the new year, as recruiters and hiring managers, you have the opportunity to build on the successes of 2022 and take your businesses to the next level. You may be actively recruiting or taking a step back to... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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Clarence Kennedy and the Art of Photography | Baker Library
into his class “The Art of Photography.” The course focused on “a study of the effect of light and perspective on form. Lectures, demonstrations, and practice based on the use of one-minute positive cameras which, with film, will be... View Details
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Field Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation - Course Catalog
scientific goals and have success; optimizing capital efficiency; legal and intellectual property development; regulatory considerations. Industry Challenges and When to Get Help - when should you worry about regulatory concerns? Who do you View Details
- 25 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Walking Away from a $3 Billion Deal
becomes clear you can raise $4 billion for your next fund instead of the planned $1 billion. Professor of Management Practice Nabil N. El-Hage coauthored the case with HBS professor and Finance unit head Richard Ruback. "Very few... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Turning Point: Dream Weaver
little over six years later, I was hired as founding head of CAA’s corporate practice and had the opportunity to work with Robert Redford, Robert De Niro, Danny DeVito, Kevin Costner, and director Michael... View Details
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Educating Business Administrators - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
professional point of view. In the ministry, the law, and medicine, experience has proved that the shortest and most effective way to absorb the fundamental facts, principles, and standards . . . and to prepare for its practice is in a... View Details
- 03 Oct 2018
- What Do You Think?
How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace?
quotas Instead, I favor an individualized approach where the organization names diversity and inclusion as values and then individuals are evaluated based on their words and behavior rather than on numbers.” Frances Pratt suggested that, “ there needs to be a more... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Books
how organizations can create moral behavior using unspoken cues. Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway Why do businesses evaluate candidates solely on past job performance, ignoring the job's difficulty? Why do university admissions... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Ruling from the Bench
time. The decision was practical and personal: Her goal upon graduation was to land a well-paying job to support her fiancé through law school; once he’d completed his degree, it would be her turn to attend. The engagement ended, but... View Details