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- 24 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Trailblazing Success with Global Reach and Impact: Scott Wallinger (AMP 82, 1979)
Forestry and attended the US Naval Officer Candidate School in Rhode Island, where I served in leadership positions and then spent three years on active duty as a ship’s navigator. In 1965, I began my forestry career as a Landowner... View Details
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
the firm. She was thus familiar with its culture and practices. To ensure broad perspective, two "outsider" researchers—Ramarajan and McGinn—conducted the detailed coding of the inside data. "Our insider-outsider authorship... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
And openness and transparency are not just digital; Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966) is an example of a leader who converted the hushed, mausoleum-like executive floor we know at most companies into the open beehive of Bloomberg LLC and New York City Hall, putting his... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
previously at Diapers.com, where the prevailing culture was one in which team members thought like owners. It’s one of the values that the cofounders wanted to bring with them as they built their own brand. “We look to hire people who... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
energy and potential of their people to deliver superior economic and social value. Book: http://hbr.org/product/higher-ambition-how-great-leaders-create-economic-/an/12957-HBK-ENG The Culture Cycle: How to Shape the Unseen Force That... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2017
- News
The Right Thing to Do
Whistleblower,” tells the story of Sherry Hunt, Citibank, and the frauds that caused the Great Recession. Hunt started at Citi as a mortgage quality control officer in 2004, just as the housing bubble was swelling up. She saw the company... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
baby sector, fashion, bath supplies, furniture, office supplies—that's all starting or started a couple years ago," he says. "In the States, if you want to be really successful, you have to create something like Snapchat. In Brazil, you... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 16 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Creating a Candidate-Centered Recruiting Process
extends to authenticity during the interview itself. “The more authentic the company is, the easier it is for the student to understand if their natural brain and body works in this environment,” Hamilton said. For example, if a company View Details
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Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them - Recruiting
unconscious bias is affinity bias in which people tend to gravitate towards others who look, act, and think as they do. In recruiting specifically, unconscious bias and affinity bias often express themselves as a preference for one candidate or another because of “... View Details
- 10 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
Working with Professors at HBS
Prior to joining the HBS Class of 2014, I worked in strategy and planning at HBO and spent a summer at Univision in the office of the CEO. Media has been my industry of choice ever since I was exposed to it in high school through the... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=408095 Big Spaceship: Ready to Go Big? Harvard Business School Case 409-047 Big Spaceship, a digital marketing agency, faced a rather big challenge: How to scale the distinctive View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Borders and the Self By Chinwe Ajena-Sagna (MBA 2003) Masobe Books “Who are you?” Every border tells a story. Every story has its origins. Tracing a cultural lineage from the beginnings of Igbo history in the ninth... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
ANDRUS: Unemployed at graduation, an unlikely and inspiring odyssey takes him from his parents’ basement to the corner office of a company on the cutting edge. Photos by August Miller HBS Alumni of a certain vintage might recall a... View Details
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-002.pdf Culture Clash: The Costs and Benefits of Homogeneity Author:Eric Van den Steen Abstract This paper develops an economic theory of the costs and benefits of corporate culture—in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
instrumental in setting up the Center. Sahlman has identified four characteristics that make the area unique: the rapid pace of change, a highly evolved infrastructure, a culture of entrepreneurship, and extraordinary efforts by and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 07 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
From Teach for America – to HBS – and Back Again
A native Miamian, HBS alum Maxeme Tuchman (MBA 2012) spent the early part of her career working as a Teach for America corps member in her hometown. Maxeme later went on to work in the New York City Mayor’s Office and the Bill and Melinda... View Details
- 22 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #7: Turning Waste Heat to Power
second anniversary with the Tallgrass deal. Launching during the COVID-19 pandemic meant that Janice and her team were unable to work side-by-side in their Calgary offices for their first 18 months together. Now, most of her 13 staffers... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
to sitting on the sidelines afraid to invest, period. To make matters worse, staffing their start-up turned out to be painfully difficult. It didn’t help that the free office the partners secured from a friend for a year was located in a... View Details
- 27 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Learning the Language of Product at Duolingo
snack or drink under the sun, and the weekly massages all made work easy. Maybe less typical was that I, along with most of the company, left the office almost every day between 5:30 and 6:30. As someone with a child on the way, having a... View Details
Keywords: Technology