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Hunter Goble

Initially, being in business “was not the plan” for Hunter Goble. In high school, Hunter was an avid debater, and thought his calling would be in “law, government, and politics.” Hunter began a pre-law track at DePauw, and successfully interned with Senator Lugar, then... View Details
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Sustainability Resources for HBS MBAs

Business & Environment podcast Climate One Podcast Drilled Podcast   Greentech media Energy Gang podcast  Rankings Global 100 100 Best Corporate Citizens Newsweek American's Most Responsible Companies 2021 Global... View Details
  • 05 Apr 2018
  • News

50 Years After King

of the top women business leaders in America. With the kind of clarity that crystalizes over a lifetime of reflection, Fudge says that moment “was a driver for me personally to make a difference and to do something different.” In time, the article notes, she rose... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2015
  • News

Five-Star Research

In his most recent paper, Luca and his fellow authors offered a new algorithm that takes into account reviewer accuracy, stringency, and other quirks as well as changes in a restaurant’s quality over time. If the algorithm were to be implemented, some View Details
Keywords: April White; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 30 Mar 2015
  • News

Raising the bar to provide quality education

my husband and I—he’d been involved from the beginning at ARK—we moved to California and decided we wanted to help children in our backyard there. We serve a population of low-income, mostly minority children, whose choices are public schools that View Details
  • 08 Jul 2002
  • What Do You Think?

Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?

Article In the past several weeks we have been treated to vastly restated earnings, the conviction of an entire accounting firm, and the baiting by congressional committees of witnesses drawn from the ranks of corporate managers. We are... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 04 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable

solid data to answer the question of who mattered. So he made lists of US presidents and British prime ministers that dated back to George Washington in 1789 and Britain's Charles Grey in 1830. He noted how historians ranked them on... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • September 2006 (Revised April 2007)
  • Supplement

Tim Keller at Katzenbach Partners LLC (C)

By: Boris Groysberg, Christopher Marquis and Ayesha Kanji
Supplements the (A) case. The (C) case includes Keller's actual 2006 mid-year and self evaluations. View Details
Keywords: Projects; Management; Leadership; Organizations; Situation or Environment; Competition; Rank and Position; Attitudes; Motivation and Incentives; Performance Evaluation; Consulting Industry
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  • 11 May 2020
  • Op-Ed

Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness

Structural changes, such as adopting wage ranking for awarding H-1B visas in place of today’s lottery system, did not achieve much support among our alumni. The gap between alumni believing the existing immigration system is harming their... View Details
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
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1.9 Course Registration | MBA

outlined below: Preregistration: learn about courses and rank course preferences for the upcoming term. Follow-Up Window: adjust rankings for refined course offerings before assignment algorithm is run.... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Air Time

trying to find parking.” “About 30 percent of the traffic in most urban areas is caused by people just driving around trying to find parking.” — Bryan Mistele (MBA 1995), founder of INRIX transportation information firm Trending @HBSAlumni View Details
  • September 1994
  • Case

Leadership Problems at Salomon (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Michael Santoro
Deryck Maughan, a vice chairman and co-head of investment banking at Salomon Brothers, learns that his superiors have been less than candid about their knowledge of bidding improprieties by the firm's government trading desk. He must decide what, if anything, he should... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Decision Choices and Conditions; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Crime and Corruption; Rank and Position; Financial Services Industry
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  • September 2010
  • Article

How Firms Respond to Being Rated

By: Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel
While many rating systems seek to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making purchasing decisions, we investigate how these ratings also influence the companies being rated. We hypothesize that ratings are particularly likely to spur responses from firms... View Details
Keywords: System; Information; Decisions; Cost; Opportunities; Performance; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Economics; Theory; System Shocks; Rank and Position
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  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

Siebel Addresses HBS Northern California Club

large part to its founder's emphasis on customer relations over shareholder value. Today, Siebel has over eight thousand employees in more than 34 countries. Fortune magazine ranked the company second in its 2001 listing of the "100... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • November 2006
  • Article

The Flattening Firm: Evidence from Panel Data on the Changing Nature of Corporate Hierarchies

By: Raghuram G. Rajan and Julie Wulf
Using a detailed database of managerial job descriptions, reporting relationships, and compensation structures in over 300 large U.S. firms, we find that firm hierarchies are becoming flatter. The number of positions reporting directly to the CEO has gone up... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Change; Business Ventures; Compensation and Benefits; Rank and Position; Wages; Motivation and Incentives; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Jobs and Positions; United States
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  • 20 Dec 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts

Ramarajan Striking a careful balance between professional image and personal passion is difficult, as a case study on high-profile banker and gospel singer Carla Ann Harris underscores. Professor Lakshmi Ramarajan discusses the case in this Cold Call podcast.     Why... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

Patricia ("Tosh") Rapoport Barron

Barron continued to rise through the ranks of the Xerox Corporation, earning kudos in 1993 as a Business Week "Executive to Watch." Three years ago, she was named president of Xerox engineering systems. But a string of personal events... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

Going Public: Shari P. Hubert

Dartmouth, Hubert moved up the ranks at Merck and was working as a customer segment manager in employer marketing when she decided to apply to HBS. The most crucial lesson she has learned at HBS is the importance of knowing how to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 17 Mar 2011
  • News

Make or Break for the USA?

Germany, despite having the highest labor costs in the world, also enjoys the world’s largest export surplus, at 7 percent of GDP. The United States, by contrast, ranks lowest among the world’s largest manufacturing nations in “export... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Manufacturing
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Marco Crespo

ranked the quality of Brazilian nonprofits for potential donors. After completing his degree, Marco returned to Instituto Ayrton Senna, becoming its business director. His mission: Make education a priority for Brazil. "More... View Details