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17 Nov 2011
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design

data network, the easier it is for workers to lean on superiors and rely on them to make decisions. It's also easier for executives to micromanage and keep all the decisions in the corporate office. Trust is also a key factor in determining whether decisions are... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun

08 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

How to Hire a Millennial

General Electric isn’t moving to Boston’s waterfront for the views, however breathtaking they may be. In the increasingly fierce battle for millennial talent, GE’s decision to uproot its long-time headquarters from suburban Connecticut is nothing less than a... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller

05 Nov 2020
Blog Post

12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition

headquartered in Boulder, CO. Not only did I get to work with an incredible team, the remote experience allowed me to get a virtual tour of one of the CEO’s hangars in Montana, something that would have been nearly impossible to replicate... View Details

28 Feb 2024
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Entrepreneurship

Initially, I worked for three years at the Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon, as a rotational operations analyst. Following this, I relocated to Los Angeles, California, to serve as a program manager. In this role, I helped... View Details

27 Jan 2015
First Look

First Look: January 27

investment committee's agenda, Project Paris. Project Paris, a very different type of real estate transaction, is a hybrid mezzanine investment in the acquisition of a residential real estate services firm headquartered in France. The... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Nov 2023
Blog Post

Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Duolingo

is a popular language learning app and website that now serves over 500 million learners worldwide. Learners can access 30+ languages through bite-sized engaging lessons on a gamified platform making learning fun and accessible. The company is View Details

Keywords: Technology

10 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Innovations to Address the Global Water Crisis

Headquarters in New York for the 2023 Water Conference. The three-day summit was the first major UN conference on the topic since 1977, and it took place in the context of a newly released UNESCO report revealing that “26% of the world’s... View Details

01 Dec 2005
News

Campaign Ends, Exceeds Expectations

enter less financially rewarding fields can apply for a variety of loan-assistance and fellowship programs. Global Research The Global Initiative, headquartered in Greenhill House, helps faculty develop in-depth international re-search... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jan 2008
News

John Doerr, MBA 1976

businesses. “I love helping people make a large-scale impact,” says Doerr. “I’m a networker, an organizer, an unbounded enthusiast and supporter of great entrepreneurs and leaders.” When he joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1980, the eight-year-old venture... View Details

04 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities

Pretium who previously worked as a research analyst at HBS. “Astoundingly, five of the six most valuable public companies in the world in 2020 were tech companies headquartered in San Francisco or Seattle. In response, local policy... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

15 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Rethinking E-Leadership

Chuang, CEO of Aquent, an employment services company headquartered in Boston. In roughly half of the new initiatives Aquent has invested in over the last few years, Chuang estimates, "we have gotten too excited about a new product... View Details

Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni

10 Jul 2024
News

Next Level

inclusion and investing into underrepresented communities,” she says. “Great games can come from anywhere. The company’s called Midwest as they are headquartered in Wisconsin and are focused on highlighting talent from underrepresented... View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace

13 Jul 2016
Blog Post

How To Hire A Millennial

work arrangements, meaningful mentorship programs, and sense of mission. General Electric isn’t moving to Boston’s waterfront for the views, however breathtaking they may be. In the increasingly fierce battle for millennial talent, GE’s decision to uproot its long-time... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

22 Feb 2019
News

Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders

and NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, and moderated by HBS Professor Henry McGee, former President of HBO Home Entertainment. Held at the brand-new, nearly half-million-square-foot Telemundo Center, the new Miami headquarters of... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Arts, Entertainment

15 Sep 2015
News

Easing the Costs of Saving a Child

Taylor is heartened every Wednesday, the day when Pathways’ partners meet to approve loan requests. The magic happens on the 10th floor in an office across from Rowland Taylor’s headquarters in Houston. One week there was a “yes” for a... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation

software, consumer electronics, and pharmaceuticals. Such companies hold many important patents and boast R&D labs that rival facilities at the best universities in the world. They are headquartered in countries with myriad... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull, Alejandro Ruelas-Gossi & Martin Escobari

01 Jan 2012
News

Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952

headquarters is named after him, for instance—attest to his many contributions to the world of business, as do his outside activities, including presenting papers on entrepreneurship, venture capital, and democracy throughout the world... View Details

20 Dec 2018
News

Baker Library Webinar Features Resources for Alumni

dishes to add some surprises to the evening. A white elephant gift exchange game rounded out the evening. Declaring their holiday celebration on December 12 as the “coolest of the cool,” the HBS Club of Austin gathered at the North Austin View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

20 Apr 2016
News

Steps to Success

the oats for Cheerios,” she remembers. “I had the great fortune to go to headquarters periodically, and decided to move to the marketing division.” She spent most of her time in the company’s Big G Division, working with products such as... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

March 1992 (Revised June 1992)
Case

Thermo Electron Corp.

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

George Hatsopoulos, CEO at Thermo Electron Corp., is considering whether to issue shares in a subsidiary via an initial public offering (IPO). The company has developed an unusual corporate structure in which subsidiaries fund new ventures by raising debt and equity in... View Details