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- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
Second, the chief diversity officer, Ted Childs, acts as a partner with the CEO as well as coach and adviser to other executives. In addition to educating them on specific issues, as he did when the company decided to offer domestic... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 10 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Retail
The “Know Your Audience” series on the HBS Recruiting Blog highlights trends in recruiting for various industries. Learn more about student interest, effective recruiting strategies, and best practices from HBS staff dedicated to your industry. Meet the View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
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Diversity | Employment
interns per year. Many of these interns have transitioned into permanent roles at Harvard, contributing significantly to team productivity and department goals. These interns bring fresh perspectives, a wide range of backgrounds, and... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
financial guts of the business world when I was a teenager.” Big fail: Missing the cut for the high school volleyball team. “I asked the coach what I needed to do to make the team the next year. She told me,... View Details
- 20 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All
greater in coach when passengers were subject to “situational inequality” by boarding from the front—where they walk through first class and are reminded of their “relatively disadvantaged status”—versus boarding from the middle, where... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
caught the attention of former major leaguer Gabby Street, who gave her a chance at a summer baseball school. With Coach Street’s training—and the cleats he gifted her—Toni managed to earn a spot in the minor leagues. Though View Details
- 04 May 2018
- News
How to Win the Kentucky Derby
from the point they spring the latch to the starting gate until they cross the wire about two minutes later. And that really encompasses the slogan and the saying, which I think is very accurate, that the Kentucky Derby is the greatest two minutes in sports. Hanna:... View Details
Keywords: horse racing
- 18 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
SIPs in 2021
levels of interest—founders in the early stages, joiners seeking practice in the field, or those debating if the entrepreneurial path is right for them. Teams of three to four students are matched after acceptance into the program, and... View Details
- 10 Mar 2011
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?
convey perceptions of competence. This work can provide the basis for coaching people in how to behave. Meanwhile Joshua Ackerman and his coresearchers are concentrating on the effects of touch (with origins in the womb) and surroundings... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
the Haitian Ministry of Commerce and Trade. “We’ve given a team of 30 farmers a crash course in strategy based on the HBS case method, and we’ve accompanied them on trips to meet potential customers—from coffee dealers in Seattle to mango... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
Point. When a knee injury cut his college football career short, Eisenhower jumped to being a “cheerleader,” gathering the Corps of Cadets before games to rally their support and studying football strategy with such intensity that he was ultimately asked to View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
(formerly known as the Crittenton Women’s Union), a Boston-based nonprofit that helps people move out of poverty and also licenses its coaching tools to other organizations across the country. “It was a challenging hike, and we got really... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
casual but cultured lifestyle of California's Napa Valley, his coach Fern Mandelbaum, cofounder of toy maker Skyline, questioned whether other Americans shared his concept of Napa. "I thought, 'Come on, Fern, I will tell you what it... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
returning to the familiar. Rejected by every Formula One team he pursued, Varma chose the “familiar” option after HBS and initially returned to work in London with Ziff Brothers Investments before joining one of Europe’s leading hedge... View Details
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
Cardona. “If you told my teachers that I would go on to be a teacher myself and work on education policy, they would have found that really incongruous.” Simmons credits some of those same teachers and coaches (he found an outlet in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 30 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Driving Social Impact Through Consumer Behavior: Nonprofit to Finance to Retail with Nicole Krantz (MBA 2022)
Strategy and Sustainability Manager. In her role, Krantz worked closely with the leadership team on building strategic partnerships that could further the company’s mission of sustainability. “I loved what we were doing at S’well and... View Details
Keywords: Retail
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Departments | Employment
agility, and working towards strategic objectives. Managers work together to set strategy, priorities, and policies, determine resource allocation, manage performance and coach individual staff on their career goals, and measure results.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
leadership. The writing team also added business executive Kent Lineback, whose executive experience included roles at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Harvard Business School Publishing before he turned to executive View Details
- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)
a great manager at the firm alongside the support of relationship managers at INROADS, who acted as career coaches to help young professionals navigate their careers. At Wellington, Ramirez also met fellows from Management Leadership for... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Mar 2017
- Blog Post
Education Sector Opportunities at HBS
through internships and careers. The Career and Professional Development office (CPD) has career coaches available with deep expertise in education careers of all kinds, including connections to education-based alumni who are happy to... View Details