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- 04 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Why the Bull Market in Leadership Books?
Summing Up There is no shortage of explanations for what seems to be a current bull market in writings about leadership, according to respondents to this column. Charles Cullinane attributes it to the economic and national insecurity that "has the free world View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
Alumni Career Journey: Lee Scott (MBA 2023) - Scaling Climate Tech Innovation
is your current role and what steps and tactics did you use to get hired in your current position? During EC year, I focused my career search on impact investing roles. I was particularly interested in impact-first funds and growth... View Details
- 14 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
The Alumni Network at HBS
HBS. That means that the alumni network is both massive and global. It’s pretty much impossible to search the alumni database and not find someone working in the country, industry, job role, or company that... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- Blog Post
Looking back on 1st semester and looking forward to 2nd semester
I’m enjoying the experience, and know that it will be vital for an introvert like me to slowly build up confidence to put my (even half-baked) thoughts forward. On the recruiting front, if there’s one thing I’d advise new students, it would be to try to target your... View Details
- 05 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Environmental Change and Ground-level Impact
toward smaller, younger companies that were still figuring things out. Can you tell us about where you ended up? One area of focus in my job search was companies working on the electrification of vehicles;... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
Frida Polli (MBA 2012) came to HBS as a neuroscientist in search of a business problem to solve, and she found it during the recruitment season. All of these companies and job-seekers searching for hints of... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 11 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses
algorithms to help distribute refugees: The first aims to help refugees find jobs fast. In the United States, this employment-focused algorithm achieved 96 percent efficiency, compared to about 70 percent without AI. Looking at data from... View Details
- 02 Jan 2014
- Blog Post
Preparing for a career in investment banking
learned to navigate. To be honest, I was quite sure that I wanted to try out investment banking in New York. My last year at my old job in corporate M&A gave me a taste of investment banking and I was intrigued. However, I had many... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship in General Management
background. I think I would have seen more incompatibility among their viewpoints than actually existed. What advice would you give someone who is approaching the job search as an MBA student? At the end of... View Details
- 29 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019
2020. Forget Cash: There are Better Ways to Motivate EmployeesIn today's tight job market, employers must focus on how to attract and keep top talent. Giving away stacks of money may not always be the best incentive. How Gender... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Advice on Switching Careers While at HBS
place where you feel good at your job and well-versed in your industry, and it is scary to go back to square one. Sure, I had been inside a coal mine, knew more than I particularly cared to about scrap metal recycling, and could make a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
It’s the Economy
common thread among them and found one in the search for solutions. In fact, by early this year, the national conversation clearly had shifted from discovery to recovery, with Washington taking a commanding role in charting a hoped-for... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
clients,” Treacy notes, adding the most important takeaway the company received from the NVC was retrospection. “The HBS competition was the first real opportunity I had to step back from the hectic day-to-day and really do some soul View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- Blog Post
Event Planning for Recruiting Success - Part 1
average attendance at on-campus presentations is 20 students. The Career & Professional Development staff coaches students to understand their personal career criteria in order to focus their job search... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni
serves as the epicenter of all contacts and communications between the club and local alumni. Today, with 275 members — its highest membership rate ever — the HBS Club of Puget Sound is flourishing. One of its most popular events, the yearly Seattle Trek, attracts over... View Details
- Profile
Hiroshi Mikitani
When Hiroshi Mikitani decided, at age 31, to leave a good job at the Industrial Bank of Japan in Tokyo to start a company, he raised more than a few eyebrows. In Japanese culture, where the group is favored above the individual,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
Case Study: Mind the Gap
The facts of the ever-widening skills gap are increasingly difficult to ignore: As many as 9 million tech jobs sit vacant across the US, Europe, and China, says Przemyslaw Berendt (PLDA 18, 2014). And judging by the $1 trillion spent on... View Details
- Web
Labor Practices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
the Corporate Image Gary Works Photograph Album Resources Research Links Films & TV Bibliography From the Director Site Credits Special Collections Search Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion... View Details
- 21 Mar 2018
- Blog Post
Telling Your Story: How to Create a Powerful Personal Digital Brand
Twitter, Facebook, and especially, LinkedIn. "Think about how we look up new people; typically it's either through a Google search or LinkedIn. Your LinkedIn profile needs to be an 'A+' portal to your identity," Grinshpun says.... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
When Stephen Moret (MBA 2001) first read of Amazon’s search for a second headquarters in the Wall Street Journal, he was certain the newspaper had made a typo. The online retailer couldn’t be talking about creating 50,000 jobs. Moret’s... View Details