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- 22 Feb 2018
- Blog Post
Five Steps to Jump Start Your MBA Recruiting at HBS
Whether this is your first time recruiting at HBS, or you are a returning recruiting partner, we have five tips for getting your recruiting efforts at HBS off to a great start. 1. Determine Your Ideal Candidate – Identify the View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 30 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
Why I Didn’t Think I’d Get in to HBS
that person has been more than willing to help me learn. On countless occasions in my RC year, I happily traded an hour of financial derivatives tutoring in exchange for an hour of accounting help, and along the way I learned a ton and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
complex scents, both of which contrast with the Asian preference for light scents.” For an industry which looks global, it has some decidedly local characteristics . World War I helped launch the beauty revolution. In close quarters, soap... View Details
- 05 Nov 2024
- Research & Ideas
AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen
to replicate the unique characteristics of a specific person’s writing style, says Prithwiraj Choudhury, the Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “We trained an algorithm to write using... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
personal interest in students sometimes led to lifelong friendships. Michael Berolzheimer (MBA ’63), cofounder of the Duraflame firelog company, remembers hashing out some of the early principles of the company in an informal session at... View Details
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
that it is often these same characteristics of goals that cause them to "go wild." High Commitment, High Performance Management High commitment, high performance organizations such as Southwest Airlines, Johnson & Johnson,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 07 Mar 2005
- What Do You Think?
Should Business Management Be Regarded as a Profession?
somehow behave differently from business people because they have passed some kind of certification process." As Deepak Alse put it, "Licensing or professional tags will not have any impact on the personal ethics...What we... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Recruiting International Students is Easy and Beneficial for Employers
visit our page on hiring international students. International Students Exhibit Strength of Character No matter their industry, employers look for candidates with grit, personal strength, and ability in the face of challenge. Few life... View Details
- 07 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School
remarkable is that five such extraordinarily different personalities could flourish at our institution. Their backgrounds, both intellectual and personal, were highly diverse. Christensen, for example, was perhaps the School's foremost... View Details
- 19 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Investing in Breakthrough Technologies to Lead the Energy Transition
friendships with classmates from all walks of life, and through these relationships I have been inspired by the multitude of ways that my classmates are shaping the world. Shell’s M&A group has many similar characteristics to an HBS... View Details
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
the research in an e-mail interview with HBS Working Knowledge. Martha Lagace: Are you and Professor Mankiw really serious? Could you give us a brief background for your idea of taxing according to personal View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy
forge a marketing deal with Canal Plus, the leading pay television company in France. These examples highlight two critical characteristics of networked incubators. First, networking is institutionalized, meaning that the incubator has... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Designing a More Artful Future for the Middle East
on “The Flower Salesman,” which he painted on a six- story building in Dortmund, Germany. The portrait depicts a 10-year-old Syrian refugee who became a successful flower seller in Lebanon. If Yazan Halwani (MBA 2020) had a personal... View Details
Keywords: Inclusion
- 23 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 23, 2016
executives and their personal characteristics to study gender gaps in CEO appointments and pay. Both gaps are sizeable: 18% for CEO appointments and 27% for pay. At most one-eighth of the gaps can be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building Communities as Well as Companies
Despite the uncertain climate for start-ups, launching a business continues to hold irresistible appeal for aspiring entrepreneurs. For many African-Americans, entrepreneurship is seen as a means of building community as well as personal... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 05 Dec 2016
- Blog Post
5 Pieces of Advice for Applying to HBS
me and what is most important to me. It may sound straight-forward, but I think it’s really important to have clear direction on what you want to do and how the HBS experience will help you get there. Then make sure that your application really shows your View Details
- 25 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
Alumni Career Journey: Lee Scott (MBA 2023) - Scaling Climate Tech Innovation
capital sources including TopCo equity, project equity, grants, debt, and government support. There is no one correct approach on how to fund these projects. The uniting characteristics of projects that do successfully fundraise are a... View Details
- December 2023
- Case
Robert McNamara: Changing the World
By: Robert Simons and Shirley Sun
This case traces the life of Robert McNamara from Harvard Business School to Ford Motor Company to the U.S. Department of Defense. McNamara excelled in every job along the way: becoming the youngest-ever professor at Harvard Business School, the first non-family... View Details
Keywords: Performance Measurement; Military; Leadership Development; Values and Beliefs; Personal Characteristics; Leadership Style; Success; Business and Government Relations; Power and Influence; Business Education; War
Simons, Robert, and Shirley Sun. "Robert McNamara: Changing the World." Harvard Business School Case 124-036, December 2023.
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable
including Thomas Jefferson and Jack Welch. More on them later.) Under most circumstances, a leader is elected or appointed. And it makes no difference who ends up in power so long as the person is experienced and is hired through the... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
of capital. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-040.pdf Friends in High Places Authors:Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy Abstract In this paper we demonstrate that personal connections amongst politicians, and between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne