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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
one moderately successful product — Stove Top stuffing mix. " Armed with this information, he quickly advised the firm to refocus its efforts on acquiring established but undermarketed concerns, which eventually led to GF's profitable acquisitions of Oscar Mayer and... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Faculty Books
and both individuals and teams will benefit. Employees are more satisfied with their work-life balance and with their work in general. And firms are better able to recruit and retain employees. Perlow... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
which recruits at-risk youth to work in Ben & Jerry's shops). It monitors employee progress and tries to quantify the costs each represents to society. It then tracks how that cost structure changes due to... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
Wes Hather. The would-be founders then went looking for “a big problem” and a tech-based solution. GroupTalent was born in 2011 to address the challenges of employee recruitment with an online marketplace.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
programming vision, to recruiting and motivating a growing team of employees (some of whom, like Swan, were commuting from other cities at the time). Also in play: managing a tight, closely watched budget... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Star Search
retailer Wayfair. “They want to know, ‘Do I feel like I can add value and make a difference?’” Gulliver manages a 300-person team at Wayfair dedicated to helping the growing e-commerce company recruit and retain talent. Her role is... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 11 Oct 2019
- News
Balancing Act
successor and two years later, after Tutor.com had merged with The Princeton Review, she became CEO of the combined company. For Eberle Walker, being in charge came with the responsibility of fostering other women, starting with her executive team. The first step was... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
Diego–based chain of more than ninety buffet-style restaurants serving fresh salads, soups, pastas, and breads, CEO Michael Mack has implemented a flexible system that allows hourly employees to change their schedule with as little as one... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 16 Jan 2020
- News
Hitting the High Notes
needs are the same. The number-one priority among C-suite executives is talent attraction and retention,” says Sheridan, who guides companies on best practices for employee engagement. “I’ve run three companies myself, so I use a lot of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
What I Do: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002)
successful?” “One of the big things in recruitment is figuring out how to attract employees who reflect the people we are trying to serve. For instance, one of our core areas is criminal justice. Today, one... View Details
- 02 Dec 2021
- News
Learning Curve
Courtesy Patti Melcher Patti Melcher (MBA 1986) never intended to open a school. After getting her start in investment banking in Houston’s energy sector after her time at HBS, Melcher became an early employee at SCF Partners, helping to... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
twenty employees to twelve hundred over a quarter century. As a cofounder of the HBS African-American Student Union, she was a pioneer in helping the School become more diversified. Later generations "told me they were grateful I had... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
Katrina knocked out operations at the New Orleans headquarters and the Long Beach plant, pushing the business to the brink. Advanced planning saved vital data and operations, but Oreck credits employees with actually saving the company.... View Details
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
Tulip, a four-star hotel in Festac, into a position as a telephone operator at the Radisson Blue Hotel in Victoria Island. WAVE is expected to train 25,000 people by 2019. “We have to start leveling the playing field. It should matter that View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
and philanthropy and executive director of the Mattel Children's Foundation, based in El Segundo, California.) “Business can be the greatest force for good on this planet.” At ExecWB, Goodwin and his team recruit for-profit partners to... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
with a recruiter in an HBS corridor in 1969 led Hawes to a small Connecticut company that focused on insurance company mergers and acquisitions. In 1972, he ventured out on his own and founded Insurance Investment Associates, which soon... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
graduate, our students will be joining organizations with increasingly diverse workforces. Making the most of these differences will be crucial. Inclusion also is key, because diversity is only the first step. Even as we recruit more... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
positive motivational value, how employees at lower levels viewed the fairness of incentive plans, and whether incentives had an effect on corporate performance. The results were surprising. Most noteworthy: making pay contingent on... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
other stakeholders in society. If academic critiques were not discouraging enough, Datar and Garvin distilled more bad news from their research. “There’s an escalating drumbeat of concerns from alums, from students, and from customers — the companies that View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
As this existential crisis unfolded, a customer called FedEx in tears because her wedding dress hadn’t arrived yet, with less than twenty-four hours until the ceremony. A frontline service employee named Diane jumped into action, tracked... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint