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- 12 Jul 2019
- News
Can Apprenticeships Keep Up With The Kardashians?
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Solving for Z
he says. For Breitfelder, however, managing the tension between what employees want and what companies need to do, in order to execute their strategy, is simply part of a talent leader’s job description. And if Gen Z is broadening the palette of options from which... View Details
- 28 Mar 2024
- News
Rooms with a View
Alexander Mirza (MBA 1997) has spent two decades in the hospitality industry, opening and growing major hotel brands, including Hilton, Starwood, and Caesars, with locations around the world. And with each new project, Mirza faced the same primary challenge. “It didn’t... View Details
- 22 Nov 2023
- News
So You Want to Join a Startup
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: At age 29, Gus Bessalel (MBA 1988) decided to leave consulting for a decidedly less glamorous life as an entrepreneur, working out of a storage room in the bowels of an underground hotel... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
protagonist. Specifically, because it was intersectional, it wasn’t obvious what she should do or what success meant, because she fit into two marginalized groups. The classroom discussion was fantastic. Moreover, the case involved HR and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Carlos A. Saladrigas: Hardworking Optimist
graduating from HBS, in 1984 he cofounded Vincam, a staff-leasing firm that provides HR functions to small companies. Two years after its headline-making 1996 IPO, Vincam's revenues exceeded $1 billion, and the firm became the largest... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Future Vision
experiences in the MBA Program being enhanced through the use of recommendation engines for courses. Or digitalization could help improve HR practices for staff through the use of people analytics. The list could go on and on. The beauty... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Fostering a synergy at work that benefits associates as well as customers
Ganesh Natarajan (AMP 169, 2005), CEO of Zensar Technologies, is cultivating a collaborative management philosophy and innovative HR policies to ensure its 7,000 associates help customers achieve their business needs. At the core of the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
Business Initiative at The Wharton School, the book distills a set of critical insights Western managers can use to compete aggressively while creating and sustaining successful professional relations in Chinese business communities around the globe. The View Details
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Elevating Ethiopian Entrepreneurs
to bringing the right type of HR and systems and finance systems to those companies. And finally, really helping them raise capital. “Capital is really looking to enter Ethiopia as it opens up as we speak. But the issue is that they're... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships
that HBS provided the ideal preparation for launching a new company. “You become familiar with all the roles in a startup, from CEO to HR director,” he says. He and his business partners also benefited from HBS faculty advice. “It’s like... View Details
Keywords: fellowships
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Back to School
work-around solution — the campaign — to reforming HR into a strategically viable entity,” he observes. Understanding how to re-create that progression could be a valuable lesson for organizations across all sectors that hope to recruit... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
Parker Imagine having a conversation with the head of HR that goes something like this: Over the past several years with the company, I’ve helped turn around an ailing division. Now I’d like to try my hand at managing a growth business.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Turning Point: The Dark Season
months into unemployment, I was doing a lot of soul-searching and praying to figure out what I was truly trying to do, which was get into real estate and community development. Then my mother came to visit in Chicago and said she was praying for me. The next day, I... View Details
Keywords: Jonathan Wilkins (MBA 2007, MDiv 2009)
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
today, companies as different as Uber, Deloitte, and Unilever have added gamification to their recruiting process. Keep up with evolving HR practices using ABI/ProQuest in eBaker, our online research portal for alumni. View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
development opportunities, or proper rewards. Expanding on their previous books, The HR Scorecard and The Workforce Scorecard, the authors recommend that workforces be managed like portfolios, with more investments in the jobs that create... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Research Brief: The Fresh Start Effect
“Fresh starts make a wonderful time to commit to being the type of person who tackles those important items and actually delivers on them,” he notes. One of the more satisfying aspects of this study was knowing that HR departments could... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
and his partners created SharedXpertise Media and took over Corporate Responsibility Magazine, a publication modeled on CFO and Workforce magazines. “We were betting there would be a corporate responsibility officer who would have a similar budget to a head of View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
working was critical. So we literally wrote down our unwritten rules and created a handbook for onboarding. I was a bit skeptical about the idea; it felt like a very old-school HR effort. But the results were tangible. It instantly gave... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
been effective. The issue is finding the dollars and the leadership to do that." SOLVING THE HR DILEMMA "It's difficult to recruit the skill level we need for district-level finance positions when most people capable of overseeing a $100... View Details