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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Nancy Hall (MBA 1974)
business when I graduated. We were trained to work in established companies that had tens of thousands of employees. We didn’t spend much time on international business or study nonprofit management. Entrepreneurship was a novel idea.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions
$3.94 billion in sales from its more than 3,000 retail stores and its online auction site. Even so, Goodwill’s core mission is to provide job training and placement to people with disabilities, criminal... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Oct 2015
- What Do You Think?
What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?
column. Anne, for example, pointed out that the German system assigns a certain number of immigrant families to specific villages, has them take German lessons, and gives job assignments with benefits conditioned upon taking a View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
financial gains of diversity are not limited to venture capital but also expand to goods and service-based businesses. Addressing Unconscious Bias in Recruiting There are excellent resources to help train your managers and employees to... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Charlie Rose Interviews Goldman CEO Paulson
audience, which included several previous Goldman employees. One former Goldman analyst asked how work-life balance — which Paulson urged his audience to seek — can be achieved when a job demands more than sixty hours a week. After... View Details
- Profile
Janelle McDonald
personal risks. Initially trained as a systems engineer concentrating in computer science, she started her career as a software developer and later became intrigued with consulting. “I liked the variety of work, the exposure to different... View Details
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women at Work
caring partner is key to making things work. "But I've had to train my spouse," she joked. You have to manage your career for the long-term.—Kara Gruver, Bain Consulting Her advice? You can't be perfect and on top of everything... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 14 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Rewriting the Rules of Service Competition
well. As a result, these organizations staff very carefully, hiring for attitude and then training for skills, whether the business is fast food or cutting-edge medical organizations such as the Mayo Clinic. These are not good places to... View Details
- 14 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Growing CEOs from the Inside
who somehow have maintained enough detachment from the local traditions, ideologies, and shibboleths that they have retained the objectivity of an outsider," Bower writes. Think Anne Mulcahy, CEO of Xerox, who started out as a sales rep for the company in 1976 and... View Details
- Web
What We Do | Research Associates
that benefits both scholars and practitioners. Our Research Associates strive to stay at the cutting edge of their field, which means this is a job where you'll always be learning. Your workload serves as on-the-job View Details
- Web
Africa - Global Activities 2020
their MBA to pursue full-time jobs on the continent by supplementing their income when their total compensation is less than $100,000. Yeboah and Kyei were among five HBS graduates who received the fellowship in 2019. The School has... View Details
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
strongly motivated to control and reduce costs. Yet the Army, the Navy, and, to a lesser extent, the Air Force provide limited industrial management training for military officers whom they assign to key managerial positions in major... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
technical training for its long-tenured tool-and-die professionals. “We are now a core group, and for anything beyond that we bring in people on a project and per-hour basis,” Chirchirillo explains. “We are doing more just-in-time work;... View Details
- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
feeling! I internalized these standards and began to believe that academic metrics and accomplishments would be critical in determining where I could go to college and the kinds of jobs I would be able to get after college. To the extent... View Details
- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
need from their employees. To address this, the president recently announced his backing of job training and apprenticeship programs, although no specifics have been announced. Benioff has taken up the... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
combination offered by Ford Motor Company’s management training program. While he excelled at leading teams to solve engineering-based manufacturing problems, it was a stint in sales and marketing that changed his life. “I was on the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Joel Bines
Joel Bines has a knack for inspiring others to take a chance on him. Time and again this hard-driving member of a close-knit Boston family has found himself succeeding in jobs for which he's had no prior experience. In each instance, he... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- Portrait Project
Anjali Thakkar
“Time of death: 4:57am.” This was my first experience losing a patient. Around 4am, I was falling asleep, despite the constant din of the Emergency Room, when the Code Blue alarm sounded. I dashed out behind my team, and when we arrived, it was like a rogue wave during... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Charting the Year Ahead
impact within months! Volunteer Cultivation and Recognition. The global HBS community thrives on an unequaled level of volunteer initiative and effort — on campus and through clubs, reunions, fundraising, and more. HBS does an outstanding View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
34,000 Pages and Counting
with each issue. When Keith started at HBS, he was looking for a paycheck, not a career. He needed a job while finishing his dissertation. A piano major at Oberlin Conservatory, Keith earned a Ph.D. in musicology from Harvard in 1985,... View Details