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- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
the business to 'roughly' understand what a person was earning . Each role was assigned to a pay range. The greater percentage of that range was awarded dependent on performance, benchmarked through goals and objectives agreed earlier in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Admissions | MBA
and discover the value of our two-year full-time degree in general management. Play Video duration: 5:06 Lauren Sandoval (MBA 2021) explains her three reasons for pursing an MBA and her three reasons for choosing Harvard View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- Blog Post
Peek: The People, The Experience, and The Case Method
unique and varied perspectives generated many vibrant and memorable discussions both inside and outside the classroom. Despite our busy schedules, on the last night of the program, we found time to enjoy the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
A Growing Drumbeat
Issue Focus: Entrepreneurship Strength In Numbers: Andrew Rosenthal, Jess Bloomgarden, and Dan Rumennik of the HBS Start-Up Tribe, a student-led group with the goal of increasing the number of successful new businesses launched from HBS.... View Details
Keywords: Contests
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Leadership Project Codifies Elusive Traits
Alumni interested in leaders of the past century now have a powerful database at their fingertips, thanks to the School’s Leadership Initiative. The online resource offers a comprehensive overview of leadership in 20th-century American View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Looking for a Leader: The Role of Executive Search Firms
of facilitator and communicator." It's the company's directors, he explains, who actually develop specifications for the position and then rely on their own extensive personal networks to identify the majority of candidates. Only when this phase has been completed does... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
In trying to secure financial backing for a new product, independent innovators generally face the question of how much to invest in development before showing it around. Should they create, say, a working prototype (and maybe even View Details
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
Internet music piracy not only doesn't hurt legitimate CD sales, it may even boost sales of some types of music. Those were the counterintuitive findings released in March by Harvard Business School professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and his... View Details
- 17 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
New Treasury Rules Help Long-Retirement Planning
The United States Treasury recently amended its rules to encourage workers with retirement plans to purchase life annuities within these plans. Life annuities generally make fixed monthly payments from the date of retirement until the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Learning from the Past
works know themselves less well than they might, and to their cost." Strassler credits his successful business career with giving him the time and wherewithal to undertake and finance the project. In 1963, he and his associates took over... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Supplying Demand
line of generic foods to be sold in the United States - and had spawned his first nationwide trend in the process. His brandless foods concept helped propel Star from fourth place in Greater Boston sales into a tie for first in 1982.... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Managing the Map
You just can't see that far," says John D. Pratt (MBA '71), associate director and chief financial administrator of the Whitehead Institute. "Yet, if you're financing a new research facility, for example, sound planning generally requires... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- Web
Benefits & Compensation | Employment
Benefits & Compensation Competitive compensation is just the beginning. From health care and unmatched paid time off to an unbeatable package of perks and access to our stellar facilities—at Harvard Business School, you’ll enjoy benefits... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
The way to measure success
When it comes to Robert Kraft (MBA 1965), most people quickly think of him as the chairman and CEO of the three-time Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots. But, through the Kraft Group, the holding company of his many businesses, Kraft does View Details
- 21 Jul 2011
- News
Social Investing’s Time Has Come
How would you like to invest in a project that simultaneously provides a needed social service and generates a financial return? Nice idea, but not possible? Not exactly. Social impact bonds (SIBs) do just that. The concept is simple and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
To Market, to Market
and other tasks necessary to determine the best route for product commercialization. "By increasing the collaborative efforts between HBS and Harvard's scientific community, we will empower the next generation of life science... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
form of corporate social responsibility (CSR) through a sustainable business model that also generates superior financial performance. Read the paper: http://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/?p=4538 An... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2013
- Blog Post
A first semester reflection
to companies; what was more of a shock was how much time I spent talking to my peers. I was blown away by how generous my fellow students were with their time. I found myself emailing complete strangers asking for 30 minutes of their... View Details
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Eric Sonnier
As a resident of Houston, Texas, it may have been inevitable that Eric Sonnier’s first business experience as a co-op student during his junior year in college was related to the oil and gas industry. At Caterpillar Global Petroleum... View Details
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Andrew Goldin
experience prepared him for yet another transition. "The education reform 'buzz' was all about applying lessons from the private sector," says Andrew. "As I became interested in how the school district was managed, I wanted to acquire the decision-making... View Details