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(MS/MBA 2025) Re: Jannine Versi (MBA 2014); Laura Mackay (MBA 2014); By: Julia Hanna Play Public Programs Encourage Entrepreneurship Gareth Olds 26 Feb 2025 Recruiting Exploring value-based care: My summer internship with Main Street... View Details

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM EST, 20 Nov 2023
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Tech in the Job Search: LinkedIn for Job Searching

Data can reveal what matters most in today's job market, and this interactive webinar from CPD and Jeremy Schifeling, LinkedIn's former head of student and alumni education, will share behind-the-scenes insights that can help you optimize LinkedIn for both job hunting... View Details

21 Nov 2023
Cold Call Podcast

Cold Call: Building a More Equitable Culture at Delta Air Lines

Keywords: Re: Linda A. Hill; Air Transportation

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

methodology, recruiting and managing the team and overseeing more than 400 project across many industries. Phil has given more than 150 keynote speeches at events like the Harvard Business School Distinguished Speaker Series, National... View Details

30 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do

detailed in the article Avoiding overhead aversion in charity, published in the October 2014 issue of Science magazine.) Donors are more reluctant to contribute if they think their money is paying for administrative overhead. ©iStock/Koinseb In their first experiment,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

09 Jun 2022
HBS Case

From Truck Driver to Manager: US Foods’ Novel Approach to Staff Shortages

in March 2020, the pandemic only exacerbated a longstanding issue. The shortage of drivers to deliver food supplies to the roughly 300,000 restaurants, hotels, hospitals, schools, and universities serviced by US Foods was not its only staffing problem. The company also... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

15 Mar 2017
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An Average Day at HBS

advantage of this while you are here. Club events: these events can range from social to professional and include speaker series, conferences, and various recruiting prep. Recruiting/Networking: obviously this will vary depending on the... View Details

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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

future and advance her career. Sheneka Balogun Director of Recruitment and Project Accountability at Greater Memphis Alliance for a Competitive Workplace (GMACW) Get ready for your MBA or other graduate program with the online courses... View Details

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After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business Research Associates Social... View Details

13 Aug 2012
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When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions

have a large impact." The researchers then recruited 209 experienced loan officers from several leading private—and public-sector Indian commercial banks to participate in up to 15 loan assessment sessions. Participants were asked to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking

January–February 2023
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Rethink Your Employee Value Proposition: Offer Your People More Than Just Flexibility

By: Mark Mortensen and Amy C. Edmondson

A lot of leaders believe that the formula for attracting and keeping talent is simple: Just ask people what they want and give it to them. The problem is, that approach tends to address only the material aspects of jobs that are top of employees’ minds at the moment,... View Details

Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Retention; Recruitment; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Satisfaction

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For Organizations - Business & Environment

students who want to learn about your company and hear from senior leaders. Organizations are invited to design targeted events in collaboration with clubs. Organizations can also request resume books from any official student club via the HBS online View Details

14 Aug 2006
HBS Case

On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”

Military Academy at West Point, where he recruited a young player named Mike Krzyzewski. "Coach K was a young, scrappy kid. He wasn't the best athlete on the team, but he had a lot of leadership potential," Snook says. After... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports

12 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

guidelines. Companies at this stage often wait too long to hire people experts—both human resources managers and experienced recruiters who get the startup-to-scale scene. That's a big mistake. Investing money in these roles early will... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

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Frequently Asked Questions | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

educational and reunion programs, and career resources. Organizations interact with our social enterprise community through Executive Education programs, independent projects, recruitment and hiring, and community engagement programs. How... View Details

12 Sep 2022
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When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment

of whether managers should aim to deliberately increase the diversity of their evaluator pools,” the researchers write. Experts prefer feasible robot designs To test how open experts are to unique ideas, the researchers worked with NASA and Freelancer.com to View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Aerospace

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Frequently Asked Questions - Health Care

field-based learning . Complete an independent study with faculty sponsorship Find summer internships with leading recruiting partners in biotechnology, pharmaceutical, health services, venture capital, and consulting organizations... View Details

22 Apr 2022
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Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance

Employers looking to fill critical job vacancies may want to turn to a largely untapped pool of willing workers: people with criminal records. Employers are often wary of hiring workers with past convictions, leading to double-digit unemployment rates for formerly... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

14 Mar 2018
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Feeling Stressed? Try Sniffing Your Romantic Partner's Shirt

professor at UBC. The research team recruited 96 heterosexual couples to participate in the study. The men were instructed to wear a plain white t-shirt for 24 hours, and to refrain from using deodorant, smoking, or eating foods like... View Details