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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Transforming the IRS
think it’s fair to say that the IRS successfully copied many of the things that well-run big companies do. It’s an objective that’s often articulated but not often implemented in government. — Ann Cullen Read the entire HBS Working Knowledge View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- News
Living the Legacy
but interviewers commented that they felt “all law students would benefit from such a program.” “I would be lost without the knowledge I gained in CORe,” says Cera. “Because I now have a foundational understanding of how businesses... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dean Clark Reflects on the School’s Key Initiatives
applicants with the greatest potential for leadership. This past year, for example, we interviewed eighteen hundred candidates, including every admitted student. On all dimensions — including academic, leadership and work experience, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
All in Good Time
from home after leaving the corporate world in 2004. When her workload overwhelmed her, she got some friends involved. “I realized that there were many other people who had the same need for flexibility,” O’Kelly says in a phone interview... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Booting Up
cater properly to larger-footed women. One day a shoe manufacturer finally said to me, 'Why don't you do something about that?'" Intrigued by the challenge, Thornton interviewed shoe retailers and manufacturers and even took a $6-an-hour... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
HBS Alums Help Jailhouse Entrepreneurs Go Straight
law-abiding start-up enterprises. The brainchild of former venture capitalist Catherine Rohr, who founded the program in 2004, PEP has seen dozens of participants benefit from its demanding regimen. Multiple interviews and tests are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Flex Time
elsewhere.” Many alumni interviewed for this article also mentioned the degree of flexibility manufacturing offers. Although Linda Katz (MBA 1994) of Molded Dimensions has been spending more time at home with the couple’s three children,... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
A New Platform for Alumni Engagement
was part of a self-designed study of the future of the sector and her place in it, which included extensive interviews with entrepreneurs and venture capitalists and several Executive Education classes, including an AI-focused course with... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path
that businesses are much more flexible than any of us thought. Early in the crisis, I interviewed a number of executives in HBS’s Owner/President Management program, who run small and medium-sized businesses around the globe, and listened... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Jan 2019
- News
Not Waiting for Progress
the industry-shaping gathering. Recalling the moment in a 2017 interview with the LA Sentinel, he noted, “I was the only African American, single, and gay man in the house.” Long an advocate for expanding access and inclusion for black... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
HBS Faculty Explore Ideas Around the World
interviews have been completed that provide a unique perspective on the last 40 years of business in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The majority of these are now available on the Creating Emerging Markets website as... View Details
Keywords: faculty research
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Analyze This
(239), Chile (159), Colombia (83), Ecuador (39), Peru (82), and Venezuela (85). On the African continent? Answer: South Africa (775), followed by Nigeria (239), the only other country in triple digits. It hasn’t always been this way. In fact, Dean Jay Light remarked in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Righting the Ship
important, particularly in moments when hope frayed, pessimism sunk in, and dissention threatened. Shackleton always understood that instilling credible hope in his followers was one of his most powerful weapons for accomplishing his mission. Many years later, the BBC... View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Well Said
And then on an interview setting, You could definitely feel a sort of disconnect. And it's not just a feeling, by the way. There is, unfortunately, lots of studies that back all of this up. Having a non-native accent has been proven to... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Cathy A. Nichols
shock, Nichols credits HBS with providing excellent skills and training for her subsequent career: consulting. After graduation and work as an investment banker in New York and Los Angeles, on a lark Nichols interviewed with McKinsey's... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Teaching and Learning Center Established, Honors Christensen’s Legacy
Harvard’s Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning (where Chris Christensen remains a revered figure); interviewing directors of teaching and learning centers around the country; and consulting with HBS faculty on what services are most... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Job Hunting in a Tight Market: Strength in Numbers
wants the reader to know. Thank-you notes after a job interview are ineffective. Instead, a job hunter must influence the hiring manager in any follow-up correspondence, addressing the key issues discussed in the meeting. Unemployed job... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
research and interviewing women executives who attended a program held at the School in the early 1980s, Hart enlisted the help of HBS professor Teresa Amabile, an expert in creativity and motivation and a director of Research at the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 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
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Facing Ambiguity
video interviews and audio reenactments of meetings that take them from the shuttle’s launch to Day 8. On that day, a critical Mission Management Team (MMT) meeting determined that foam strikes that had occurred during the shuttle’s... View Details