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13 Sep 2017
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: Gorton's Seafoods

been recruiting at Harvard Business School and what roles do you hire for?Gorton's has been recruiting for our marketing area at HBS since the late 1980's. The role we recruit for is called Associate Marketing Manager. As a... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

23 Aug 2016
First Look

August 23, 2016

officers (CEOs), we use linguistic features extracted from conferences calls and statistical learning techniques to develop a measure of CEO personality in terms of the Big Five traits: agreeableness,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Tales of the Newly-minted MBA

H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference to tell their stories—the ups, downs, and detours that brought them to where they are today. "I moved back home. That's where I started," said Joseph Williams (HBS MBA '99), cofounder of Wakefield... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2008
News

Career Services Shifts into High Gear

from the graduating class went abroad; in 2008, those figures rose to 50 percent and 6.2 percent, respectively. With that in mind, this year MBA Career Services will host conferences in Shanghai and Paris focused on potential employers.... View Details

24 May 2017
News

Angie Hicks, MBA 2000

Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1972 Born, Fort Wayne, Indiana 1995 Earns BA, Economics, DePauw University 1995 Launches Angie’s List 1996 Angie’s List buys Unified Neighbors 2000 View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

11 Jul 2013
News

Program Aims to Develop a Generation of Global Citizens

Falik's Global Citizen Year continues to grow. Courtesy Abby Falik Related Links Nonprofit founder recognized Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship: Call for entries Upcoming webinars for entrepreneurs HBS New Ventures group on LinkedIn... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Mar 2011
News

Fixing What Ails the Drug Industry

echoed Hamburg’s call for improvements in regulation, but he also emphasized the innovation side of the balancing act between safety and product development. “Reinvent invention,” he told the audience. The industry must get smarter about... View Details

Keywords: pharmaceutical research; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2014
News

Roads to Recovery

lights in working order? Maybe not. The state of the nation's highways, bridges, airports, dams, seaports, and tunnels collectively rate a grade of D+, says the American Society of Civil Engineers, which has called for a $3.6 trillion... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation; Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

Profile

Jillian Dorans

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? The short answer: I fell in love with hospitality. I'm what you would call a career-switcher. Three years into my management consulting career, I worked on a... View Details

Keywords: Services; Consulting

Portrait Project

Joel Bryce

spend 70 hours busing across Southern Africa? Fair questions. But. . .I'm afraid I don't have the answers. So go ahead. Cold call me. I'll look like I did on the first day of class. I may stumble over my words and say that it may be the... View Details

25 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 25

Corporate Performance By: Brochet, Francois, Maria Loumioti, and George Serafeim Abstract—Using conference call transcripts to measure the time horizon that senior executives emphasize when they communicate... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Dec 2010
Op-Ed

Tax US Companies to Spur Spending

managers would have to explain to their investors why earning a negative 2 percent return would make sense as opposed to either investing or disgorging that cash to shareholders. The definition of "excess cash holdings" will be... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai

Student-Profile

Filippo Mezzanotti

I was born in Italy and grew up in a small town called Cesena. I moved to Milan after high school to attend Bocconi University, where I earned my Bachelor and Master of Science in Economics and Social... View Details

19 Aug 2013
News

Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers

participants, the income earned from honey production often makes the difference between living below or above the poverty line. When not helping his fellow Kenyans boost their incomes and satisfy their palates, Keshavjee also makes sure... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture; Finance; Health, Social Assistance; Management

01 Dec 1998
News

Africa's Way

contribution to this emerging tapestry. Globalization is increasingly tying the fortunes of national economies to one another,"observes South African manufacturing executive Ewald J.H. Wessels (MBA '71), one of the key organizers of the School's 1999 Global Alumni... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

14 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom

By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

16 May 2018
News

ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup

Alumni Runner-up prize with Magma Trading, a stock market for block-size trades that he calls “the Costco of trading.” Benoit Dupont (PLDA 20, 2016) (Europe region) took the $5,000 Crowd Favorite prize with his pitch for WeMaintain, a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Greed, Fear, and The System Hinder Corporate Reform

agreed. There's been an incredible diffusion of what some people are calling the stealth-wealth pay system.— Rakesh Khurana One of the key points to remember in fixing the system, according to Khurana, is that most of the attempts to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

26 Sep 2018
News

Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure

called the Katy Prairie Conservancy, in collaboration with the Houston Flood Control District, local governments, and area developers on what he calls a sponge credit. The credit would allow, for instance, a... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Sep 2018
News

Turning Point: Power Outlet

proactively, not reactively. I can’t stop. Then a mom from the group suggested setting up a conference call to figure out our next steps. From there, we formed a steering committee, and I drafted a mission... View Details

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