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- 31 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Setting Interns Up for Success at Your Startup
feel overwhelming. How will we integrate interns into the team? What project would drive the most value for our company and help the intern learn? Where do we start with this process? If these questions sound familiar to you and your... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 18 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
Make Work from Home Work For You (And Your Team)
haven’t used videoconferencing or chat previously, familiarize yourself and set up a test. This is particularly relevant for videoconferencing tools so that you can see how your surroundings appear on camera and understand the various... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
He created the sociology of science; terms such as focus group, role model, and self-fulfilling prophecy are all familiar to us because of his work. He's 87 now, a university professor emeritus at Columbia, and a scholar at the Russell... View Details
- 23 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19
areas like mental health care, dairy farmer subsidies, and the fishing industry, Cai says. “Things that maybe we're not as familiar with. Seeing the breadth of different policies and the different stakeholders that they touch was... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 06 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?
financial service companies. Benro was very familiar with European customers in the financial services sector but had no experience with other industries. "Working with Benro might be cheaper than doing this all on our own, at least... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 05 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Environmental Change and Ground-level Impact
of the same shared assumptions about where the company will be in six months or a year. How can students best familiarize themselves with different career areas and job functions within renewables and clean energy? There are several... View Details
- Web
How Alumni Can Recruit When They Aren’t Recruiters - Recruiting
trusted and familiar source. Sharing your story and anecdotes about how you transitioned from HBS to your company will resonate with students, so don’t hesitate to get personal. Be open to candidates with background in a different... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
about. We talk about so many different topics at HBS, but this was the first time solving food insecurity was at the heart of a discussion. “There’s also something unique about having a case discussion surrounding a company you’re View Details
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
provides, it forces senior executives to become more familiar with how younger, even entry-level, people think, how they work, and how and what they are consuming. To make it work, senior executives have to make themselves vulnerable to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Nov 2000
- What Do You Think?
Succession at GE: What’s Next?
outlook; a willingness and ability to partner; and familiarity with various types of businesses, particularly in the service sector. Too often, they have reflected what GE (and other organizations) needed in the past, not the future. If... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Apr 2025
- Blog Post
How to Onboard Recently Graduated MBAs
people, few of us put as much effort in onboarding those new hires.” As today's workforces become increasingly varied in backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, new dimensions — and sometimes new challenges — are naturally introduced: evolving what is View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 25 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
didn’t know. “I realized I wanted to learn more about business strategies and the management side of things and less on the tech side, even though I really loved it,” he says. “They say HBS is transformational, and for me it really was,” he adds. “For one thing, I... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
As one of the largest toy makers in the world, the LEGO Group has been riding high in America and Western Europe. To grow, however, LEGO recently faced a decision familiar to many other multinationals: should the company shift from... View Details
- 03 Feb 2020
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization Have Too Much 'Rebel Talent'?
while hiring and assigning conventional managers to deal with more familiar and common tasks and goals.” “The right question is therefore not the amount of ‘rebel talent’ but how to focus it on the right causes.” Grace was more cautious.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 1/5
audacity to question Bryan’s authenticity out loud – I noticed. While you may not have given a second thought to heading to Aldrich Hall for class immediately after the talk, I went to Baker Library to meditate – to try and clear my mind of the all too View Details
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
also extended to the companies in which XTV invested. These were structured as separate legal entities, with their own boards and officers. XTV sought to recruit employees from other start-ups who were familiar with managing new... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
comprehensive picture of households' wealth, both inside and outside of tax-deferred accounts. While useful, the dataset is very complicated. It is complicated enough that it is, in my view, a somewhat under-exploited resource for the economics profession. I was pretty... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
It did it by providing simple and inexpensive solutions to everyday problems. Initially it solved a problem in Scott's family of balancing the checkbook. Intuit is said to have been the 47th software company to address the problem. It did it by using as a metaphor the... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Fast Start on Your New Job
the culture and politics of a new organization. It's so easy to fall into pitfalls in these areas and really damage your credibility. The risks obviously are highest for new leaders coming in from the outside. They often have grown up in another organizational culture... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)
priorities this summer were to familiarize myself with the assets and challenges facing our city’s economy, while learning from leaders who are driving change. I enjoyed getting an overview of our “cluster” growth industries (such as... View Details