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- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
Prospects from small schools are being hurt even more. The first ever HBCU Combine was cancelled, many college pro days were cancelled, and with the NFL cancelling in-person interviews the hurdles faced by HBCU and other small school... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
navigate life’s most difficult situations. The book is filled with stories of people facing a range of challenges, from going on job interviews to asking someone out; scientific research on how our bodies... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
Harvard Business School professor Stuart Gilson fielded some questions regarding his new book in an email interview with HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean SilverthorneSilverthorne: When should a company consider a major restructuring? Are... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono
escalating, high-profile campaign against Third World debt, poverty, war and disease. “Any CEO who thinks his or her job is about maximizing shareholder value is living in the past.” Koehn, a Harvard Business School historian who has... View Details
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
résumé audit study, we examine racial minorities’ attempts to avoid anticipated discrimination in labor markets by concealing or downplaying racial cues in job applications, a practice known as "résumé whitening." View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
so, it can improve performance and grow faster than an organization that does not conform to industry norms. As one founder I interviewed put it, "Customers are used to doing things in a certain way [with established organizations],... View Details
- 11 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
table were Yosemite, Point Reyes, Grand Canyon, Puerto Rico, Denver, and many other incredible locations. I was in the middle of a few other interview cycles for various health care roles, and I was completely torn. Do I accept the role... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
giving advice and not being in the position to actually execute it." Today, as president and CEO of CNBC, the financial news network viewed in almost 200 million households worldwide, the Detroit native's job is all about execution. Her... View Details
- Web
The Arts of Communication - Course Catalog
you have another class across the river, or you scheduled a job interview at the same time, or you have a speech elsewhere, is an unexcused absence and will reduce your final grade. Copyright © 2025... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
matters, the study suggests, because people who are more connected are 36 percent more likely to stay in their job and 37 percent more likely to perform at a higher level. As leaders consider flexibility as a tool for retaining and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
important for company leaders to see themselves as facilitators of progress, as being there to serve the people who are in the trenches. If they do a good job of planning and organizing projects, and keeping in touch with how things are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Brown and Company) Beginning in 1979 as a cable channel televising sporting events in Connecticut, ESPN is arguably now the most successful network in TV history. The authors tell the inside story of this amazing rise, drawing on over 500 View Details
- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
status quo will put their jobs or reputations at risk, even if that fear is unwarranted. "We're all especially hard-wired to be wary in hierarchies," said Amy Edmondson. "Nobody woke up this morning and jumped out of bed because they just... View Details
- 08 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
The Drive to Succeed: Silvio Memme (MBA 2020) of OMERS Ventures and His Career Switch into Venture Capital
at analyzing companies. While it was tempting to broaden his geographic focus, Memme also remained committed to returning to Toronto and dedicated his time to networking with HBS alumni in the area. By spring of his EC year, Memme was in conversations for several... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
hamstrung in their jobs because they lacked up-to-date information on a tax code that had been revised myriad times. "We faced a classic crisis situation with an immense amount of pressure, so my new colleagues and I put together a... View Details
- 17 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020
Let’s face it: 2020 was a tough year, as COVID-19 surged across the world, killing more than 1.5 million people, shuttering companies, causing widespread job losses, and fundamentally altering the way people work and live. Given the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Closing the 'Network Gap'
Schrier. Interviews with potential advisees helped the cofounders create a viable business model. The Equity Network would be a mentor marketplace to give the next generation of Black, Latinx, and Native American business leaders greater... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-036.pdf PublicationsIl leader interno che guarda all’esterno. (The Leader which Looks Outside) Author:Joseph L. Bower Periodical:Harvard Business Review-Italia, no. 12 (December 2007) Abstract In his View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
intuits a developing bottleneck in the assembly line and creates a fix before a problem occurs. It's also the CEO who draws on years of experience to solve a strategy imbroglio that has paralyzed top staff. It's the venture capitalist—who has sat through hundreds of... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
How will my children learn via Zoom? We interviewed 10 CEOs in July about how they are managing the unprecedented stressors of the COVID-19 pandemic, and then checked in with them again at the end of 2020. The interviewees hail from... View Details