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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
the number of temporary housing units an organization has created in post-earthquake Haiti. But how does one measure the effectiveness of a training program in boosting farmer incomes in Ghana? This was the question facing the Millennium... View Details
- 07 Feb 2005
- What Do You Think?
If You Blink, Will You Miss?
process." Steve Carnevale puts it more graphically: "I think blink is very dangerous. Read the book Fooled by Randomness. The author does a good job of explaining that our brain is great at pattern recognition, but not suited to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
As much as Kendall loved the nuts and bolts of manufacturing — he even trained on the company's assembly line and became a certified welder — he decided that the demands of a career in manufacturing would leave little time for community... View Details
- 25 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?
some time in training before they can legally sell their services. These requirements are meant to screen out low quality providers. So fundamentally, occupational licensing exists to increase consumer trust in service providers, just... View Details
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
Imagine a retail chain that offers customers not only the lowest prices but also personalized customer service. Employees receive above-average wages and 20 times more training than the average American retailer. Sounds like a recipe for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Turning Point: Living History
needed to quit my job and focus on the museum full-time. Suddenly I needed to understand climate-control systems and lighting. Then there was the business model and hiring our team. It was a completely mad period of bringing an entire... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
portfolio firms, attend board meetings, and provide strategic guidance, just like independent venture capitalists. In some respects, their job may be easier: typically, the corporation provides all the funds, sparing them from having to... View Details
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Brooke Carter (MBA 2019)
your jobs is acting as a translator between business and engineering. I think about how to build a mass-market product that will help us hit our company KPIs. It allowed me to leverage my MBA, as well as my undergraduate View Details
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
suitable education, and in the spring of 1921, Doriot enrolled at HBS. His first job the next year was at the New York & Foreign Development Corporation (an affiliate of the investment bank Kuhn, Loeb & Company), where he assessed... View Details
- 06 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
Henry McGee: From HBO to HBS
they offered me a job in a sort of informal publisher’s training program. The plan was for me to start in circulation, rotate through the different business functions and, if I was any good, eventually... View Details
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
http://www.weforum.org/pdf/cgi/pe/Full_Report2.pdf Five Ways to Bungle a Job Change Authors:Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams Publication:Harvard Business Review 88, no. 1 (January-February 2010):137-140 Abstract The article focuses on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
was eager to be a part of the cause his two brothers had already joined. It was “the job which he thought he should do,” his brother Bob explained. Green soon found his business know-how had earned him notice within the new Office of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Admit It: You’re in Denial
constructing an elaborate campus? Why? What is it ignoring while it is engaged in celebrating itself? 5. Would you rather be conventionally wrong or unconventionally right? If you answer the latter, odds are you are in denial. “Think different” is what Steve View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
kerosene heaters. You can see the kerosene tanks in the picture, one per unit. Frequently, it seemed, my dad would have to transport kerosene from the outside tank to the one inside heating unit in the dining area, which did a great job... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Complete Package
school, she got a job in a hotel sales department and decided to defer her education. Two years later, Pfizer headhunted Chong. She didn’t know the number of chambers in the heart, she admitted during her interview with the pharmaceutical... View Details
Keywords: April White; entrepreneurship; sustainability; packaging; leadership; women; Manufacturing
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
phone. Through the entrepreneurship program, Sounouvou received training, mentorship, networking, and $5,000 in seed funding, among other benefits. “The training helped me greatly in improving our business plan and understanding the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Jul 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?
interesting hypothesis in commenting that "We will always be able to identify examples of leaders that 'buck' the now orthodox definition of the balanced, emotionally intelligent, people-focused leader the likes of Gates and Jobs may... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
recruiting mistakes." Now Malcolm Gladwell (author of The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers) has come forth with the proposition that there may be some jobs for which it is impossible to hire with any confidence. As he puts it,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
suitable education, and in the spring of 1921, Doriot enrolled at HBS. His first job the next year was at the New York & Foreign Development Corporation (an affiliate of the investment bank Kuhn, Loeb & Company), where he assessed... View Details
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Oral Histories | Baker Library
college. So I'd gone into business without any real training except some job experience. So the courses were challenging, and I met a lot of wonderful women there, and the WAC [Written Analysis of Cases] in... View Details