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Minal Mehta
And when Bollywood was exploding across college campuses in my undergrad years at UC Berkeley, I was leading my dance team to sweep national competitions. It feels like BollyX had always been in the cards. "It was 18 months after I had graduated from HBS. I had... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Elizabeth Powers (MBA 2021) was thrilled to land a summer internship at a highly respected consulting firm. Then came COVID-19, and the firm announced it was shortening her View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
pressure? What do you think? Original Column Tube and train riders in Europe are well-aware of the term, “mind the gap.” They see it every time they step off a train or subway platform. In a sense, it’s also... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Class All His Own
lived in the basement of the Dean’s House. His job was to keep Dean Donham’s car clean, put wood on the fire, do chores, and wait tables in the dining hall for his meals.” He also reminisces about fellow classmates like Robert McNamara... View Details
- 01 Feb 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?
of $1 trillion. It’s a figure deserving the attention that remote work seems to be stimulating. The Big Quit is really not new. While significantly more employees are currently quitting their jobs than even a year ago (roughly 30 percent... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Oct 2024
- News
Running Man
There aren’t many people on this planet—let alone septuagenarians—who can contemplate running 50 or 100 miles at a time. But for 77-year-old Eric Spector (MBA 1972), a retired entrepreneur and CEO in the tech, consumer retail, and media sectors, running long (long,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Angela Ruggiero (MBA 2014)
Trump offered me a job right after he fired me on The Apprentice. That was cool. I ended up not taking it because I was still training to come back and play in one more Olympics. I played golf with him one... 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
- 07 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Innovation in Asia
in the U.S. may soon have as much to fear about losing their jobs to overseas competitors as call center employees do today. Executives debated "The Present and Future of Innovation in Asia" during the 2005 Asia Business... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2013
- News
A Passion for Film
d'Arbeloff didn't consider that he could actually work in the film business until he got a job at Lotus Development in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after college. "I was making a lot of training materials and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
mine, we are spending millions of dollars on socioenvironmental efforts in the surrounding region: schools, a hospital, electrification, job training in support enterprises, health-care programs,... 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
- 29 May 2013
- Blog Post
A self-discovery journey
and challenging, but fun. End of the first exercise. Second exercise. Fill in a thorough analytical survey to detect your interests: manage people, influence others, apply technology, creativity, quantitative analysis. Third exercise. Pick 12 View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
Illustration by Dave Cutler At the peak of his career as CEO of Bain & Company, Tom Tierney (MBA ’80) quit his job to form a nonprofit professional services organization. Frustrated by the plodding pace of Alzheimer’s research,... View Details
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Carlos Coto
interesting. "I moved into a full-time management rotation program and noticed something intriguing," Carlos says. "As a teller, you get to know clients personally; you're aware of major life events, like when they're buying a house or changing View Details
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The Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration: 1956 - 1962 | Baker Library
Administration Catalogue, 1956-1957. A Growing Partnership Acknowledging an awareness of the changing role of women in business, Harvard University announced in 1955 that Radcliffe's Management Training Program would become the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Disrupting India’s Dental Market
slotting into a job in an established business had little allure. He wanted to start something new, ideally a for-profit enterprise that would have a visible social impact. But when he thought about health care delivery, Singh found... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 05 Dec 2019
- Blog Post
Addressing Unmet Needs in Health Care Using an MBA
you arrived at HBS, were you planning to go into a health care career? What influenced your decision to pivot into that industry? Before coming to HBS, I worked at Procter & Gamble as an operations manager. While my first job (only... View Details