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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
company located in eight countries. “With close to 800 interviews conducted in a variety of languages, more than 3,500 survey results, and thousands of pages of archival material, a project of this scope would have been nearly impossible... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Getting on Board
very effective advocates.” When your search narrows to a particular organization, use the interview process to discover as much as you can about its culture, priorities, and problems. “Find out how the company makes its money,” urges... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
A New Path for Alumnae
in April was developed to do just that. It’s an intensive, six-day course that concentrates on tactical job search and interview skills, but also provides updates on the latest developments in functional skills such as negotiating. In... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
intended to frame the issues for potential curriculum changes at HBS. (To ensure open discussion, comments made during the two colloquia were not for attribution.) For their research project, Datar and Garvin interviewed 30 deans and... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office
IV (MBA '66), who has led this august institution for the last twenty years, is neither. In fact, Lazarus claims no formal artistic training beyond auditing a single art history class in college. "When they interviewed me for the... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
think that as we see those laggards and employees choose to go elsewhere, they will be forced to switch on to the importance of providing things like on-site child care and backup care. Skydeck is the Harvard Business School alumni podcast featuring View Details
- 30 Sep 2024
- News
The Making of a Streaming Sensation
very much hoping that Harriet's adventures will continue on screen as they have continued in the books. Skydeck is the Harvard Business School alumni podcast featuring interviews and insights from across the world of business. It’s... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
gathered from interviews with senior executives at about five hundred major companies in China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Deshpandé and his team discovered that many of the "strategic levers" essential to high... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Stephen Schwarzman on What It Takes
The Wall Street Journal interviewed Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman (MBA 1972) about his new book, “What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence,” which was released this week. The article includes scenes of Schwarzman’s early life... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
A Streamlined Time Inc.
This week, Rich Battista (MBA 1990) was named president and CEO of Time Inc. Among Battista’s first moves was appointing Jen Wong (MBA 2004) as chief operating officer; Wong was previously president of digital for the company. In an View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Sounds Like a Plan
BRENNEMAN: A fast way to make money. Rigorous, thorough analysis is the precursor of an effective business plan, right? Maybe not. In an interview about leadership in the New York Times (March 15, 2009), Greg Brenneman (MBA ’88), chairman... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
From Das’s Desk
Professor Perlow and her students met with alumni to test the assumptions and refine the themes of the course, including holding workshop sessions for more than 80 reunion attendees and members of the Alumni Board. The students also View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Bozidar Djelic
can bring everything to a halt.” Djelic adds to the pressure by placing himself very much in the public eye. “Communicating is a big part of my job,” he explains. “In this small country, we have 350 television stations serving a population of ten million. I do a lot of... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
comment on, and summarize advice and insight on dealing with Vladimir Putin offered by former Secretaries of State Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Rex Tillerson. This presentation is based on video segments excerpted from in-depth View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
implement strategy. In a retail business, no matter what you decide in the office, if the people out in the stores don't execute it, your business isn't going to be worth a darn, because they're the ones who deal with your customers. So hiring and motivating the right... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 18 Sep 2008
- News
HBS Olympians
Calgary Olympics and won a silver medal in figure skating in the 1992 Olympics in Albertville, France. More information here. Mike Murphy (MBA 2006B) competed for Australia in men’s three-meter springboard diving at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and the 1996 Atlanta... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
On Balance
Mary Wooldridge (MBA 1994) recalls a job interview early in her career in which the interviewer asked, “Why should I employ you? At your age, you’re just going to go off and have children.” At another... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
the world, in India it has only just emerged over the past twenty years. In her study, which draws on interviews with over forty designers and others associated with the industry, as well as analysis of Indian magazine articles, Khaire... View Details
- 02 Dec 2016
- News
The Story Behind the Stories
where? What are you doing the last two weeks of the summer? And I stayed with Ali Shariff, who was a classmate. And just started interviewing a bunch of entrepreneurs who had small and medium enterprises, about how they saw the world. And... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
producer, if you can maintain the rights, or have a pool of capital at your disposal, or both, you are ahead of the game.” Zee and the other alums interviewed for this article agree that it’s become more difficult over the past ten to... View Details