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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
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South Asian diaspora and the South Asia–curious, that launched in 2017. It’s an open tent for anyone who’s interested in the region and its people, and most of our subscribers are currently from the United States. Michael Aft: The New... View Details
- 01 Nov 2024
- In Practice
Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times
lagging expansion plans for its Supercharger EV station network. The number of new charging ports opened from May through August tumbled 28 percent from the same period a year earlier. The reason? “Widespread layoffs in April gutted the... View Details
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
of the younger generation abroad. I'm waiting to see how open the senior generation will be to these social changes. What's true in the Gulf region more than almost anywhere else in the world is that there's a huge expatriate work force... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries
they'd never hired a Harvard MBA before." Initially denied an on-campus interview with Apple due to her lack of experience, Dubinsky persevered and succeeded in meeting informally with the company's recruiter. Soon afterward, she became... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
experimented with computers and with designing an electronic office of the future. It formed Xerox Computer Services, acquired Scientific Data Systems, and opened its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in California. These efforts were only... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
single person who was hired during my time at Kohl's. How did you first get involved in politics? In the mid-1970s then Governor Pat Lucey asked me to be state chairman of the Democratic Party. When the Senate seat View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 09 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Career Advancement Without Experience
careers," O'Mahony says. "In addition, they're moving in and out of contract work. There are a number of open research issues here, such as questions of health insurance and retirement. What we did was focus on a very specific... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
a technical one." On April 1, 1993, he became the first CEO of IBM hired from outside company ranks. When Gerstner arrived, he found an organization that was, in some respects, a victim of its own success. Thanks to its longtime dominance... View Details
- 10 Apr 2019
- HBS Case
How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold
financial capital is important, generating human capital and social capital can be just as important, if not more so, and often gets short shrift. “We think there should be a ‘demo day’ for hiring employees or developing social... View Details
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The Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration: 1956 - 1962 | Baker Library
opportunity permits to higher levels of responsibility." (3) Many HRPBA graduates found employment in administrative positions in manufacturing firms, financial institutions, schools, and colleges. A 1958 article in Mademoiselle reported that graduates of the program... View Details
- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
In 2006, the entire region celebrated the opening of the Wild Center, a 54,000-square-foot, interactive museum experience. The center includes live wildlife exhibits, a movie theater, an art studio, a large system of trails, and... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
Sherwood came to HBS with the aim of being a securities analyst on Wall Street, but she graduated without a job offer. "I guess I picked the stodgiest firms to interview with, and Wall Street wasn't very open to women at the time," she... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
passed, often twelve to twenty-four months. Such a clause, for instance, sparked a public legal battle two years ago when Google hired away a top Microsoft executive, Kai-Fu Lee. But disputes and tensions over noncompetes are not isolated... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Alumni Career Journey: Sophie Levin (MS/MBA 2022) - How Risk Can Be the Key to a Sustainable Future
hired in your current position? I’m currently the General Manager of Newlab’s flagship location in Brooklyn, New York. Newlab is a venture platform that helps early-stage critical tech startups grow by providing access to community,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
the physiological state of the human body. A much better method is to get information about the DNA, RNA, and proteins. Understanding that information will help us detect a disease before it becomes symptomatic." "It's a way of thinking about disease that wasn't View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Web
A Culture of Innovation | Baker Library
at Smith on the importance of understanding the visual rendition of a scene. From Kennedy, Land too came to appreciate visual perception as being just as significant as the knowledge of chemistry to innovation in the laboratory. While Land View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
Salt Lake to work on the Salt Lake Olympics. And he hired me, so I got to be one of the executives on the Olympic Committee. I just had a fantastic time. David Binswanger. I am section H of 1982. My first job ever was loading tapes onto... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
diversity issues, notes, "Even companies that once were mostly interested in hiring women and minorities either out of a sense of moral obligation or merely to comply with the law now see the value that comes from broadening the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 04 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS
address poverty at scale which led him to focus on education and education policy as key to opening up possibilities. After two years teaching social justice in an economically distressed community with Teach for America, Mbanusi joined... View Details
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
separate track for social enterprise ventures, and in 2009 the contest opened to first-year students with the understanding that it shouldn't detract from coursework preparations. “If you look at the quality of ideas that have converted... View Details