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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Tidy Minds
In a wide-ranging Q&A in the "Global Manager" column of the New York Times (September 2, 2012), Sir Martin Sorrell (MBA 1968), chief executive of the WPP Group, the world's largest advertising and marketing firm, had some thoughts on personnel and the hiring process.... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Necessity became the mother of invention for staffing-firm founder
When she became a new mom, Allison O’Kelly (MBA 1999) wanted to have more flexibility in her life, and realized that other parents did as well. As founder and CEO of Mom Corps, O’Kelly turned a personal challenge into a profession. As a mom of three boys, she leads a... View Details
- 13 Jun 2016
- News
JetBlue Chairman on How to Handle Betrayal
say how did I participate in this? I think that gives you insight and sort of the first ability to start approaching it in a way that allows you to heal.” If the betrayals are fixable, Peterson says they must be addressed quickly, so as not to “fester.” For businesses,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2017
- News
New Regional Offices Broaden HBS’s Intellectual Reach
Development. These regional offices—including the one previously established in Mexico City—are staffed by a local researcher and are aligned with one of HBS’s global research centers, which range in size from 3 to 12 people. Many of the... View Details
- 29 Apr 2014
- News
"Pull People Through"
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Rethinking the Fashion Beat
fully staffed online magazine, BoF has emerged as one of fashion’s most respected and read sources, delivering reviews of runway collections, profiles of industry insiders, and news and analyses of markets both established and emerging to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Pearson Hunt
During my time as editor of the Bulletin, the Alumni Office was staffed by one secretary whose principal job was to obtain news of alumni and prepare the notes for the next issue. The Bulletin was published quarterly with a 6-by-9 1/2... View Details
Keywords: Pearson Hunt
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Innovative Course Brings Students and Alumni Together
implement change in an existing large organization," notes Garvin, "for the entrepreneur, staffing is everything. That insight surprised students and led to an interesting discussion." The thirty alumni who were able to come to campus for... View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner; photo by Joshua Lavine
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Streamlining the Supermarket
few healthy-eating options. 2–3.When your order is received, mobile robots retrieve storage containers of products from the shelves and deliver them to picking stations staffed by TakeOff employees. It’s a more efficient system than... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Think Globally, Teach Locally
all of which found its way back into the HBS curriculum.” Staffing the program, however, was no easy task. “People were dragged kicking and screaming — I agreed to go because I was coming up for tenure,” he says with a smile. “Yet each of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right
and Australia. And in June, Brier moved ("with Pat, my bride of 28 years") to London to a new position as chairman of Priceline.com Europe. "Rather than transfer the American template abroad," he observes, "we've created an organization led and View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
William F. Connell (MBA '63)
but his achievements over the past fourteen years speak volumes about his skills and vision as a leader. From the vantage point of his sparsely staffed Boston headquarters, for example, he sets the overarching strategy for each firm,... View Details
- 15 Dec 2013
- News
The Right Stuff
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
battled it out in an ever-increasing test of nerves, a kind of Darwinian gauntlet. Early NASA executives had decided this was how to identify who had been born with “the right stuff.” Many companies looking to make top staffing decisions... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Global Research Site Announced in Hong Kong
operations for the School in the Asia-Pacific region. Slated to open this fall, the center will be staffed by an executive director and one or two research associates. "The idea is to have people on the ground who are able to connect with... View Details
Keywords: Audrey Snee; photographs by Graham Uden
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rowing Upstream
What could better symbolize high-level business performance than an eight-oared crew team rowing in perfect unison, their boat powered by a selfless collaboration of strength, skill, and shared purpose? It’s no wonder that advertisers love to use this image to depict... View Details
- 21 Nov 2015
- News
Machines Beat Humans at Hiring Best Employees
- 01 Jun 2023
- News