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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
California, Boston, sometimes London,” recalls Gotsch. “Nobody was looking locally.” Gotsch is president and CEO of the Partnership Fund for New York City, which invests in local ventures to create jobs and grow the Big Apple’s economy.... View Details
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business background. 165 Participants from 76 colleges More on PEEK Jul 2015 Summer Venture in Management Designed to increase diversity and opportunity in business education, the Summer Venture in Management Program is a one-week management View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
employers to check a job applicant’s legal status. He also opposes awarding amnesty and supports building a wall along strategic sections of the U.S.-Mexico border. Edwards’s centrist leanings can also be seen in his votes with the... View Details
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
concentration and are correlated with differences in firm performance. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2363528 Return on Political Investment in the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 By: Chen, Hui, Katherine Gunny, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
management practices. Using data for 58 countries, we show that after the adoption of mandatory sustainability reporting laws and regulations, the social responsibility of business leaders increases. We also document that both sustainable development and employee View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
high-status people who have gained a wide-ranging knowledge of the business based on long, varied experience across clients and even industries, as well as their formal training and education. Customer-specific experts know their client... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
feel joy even while you're doing something painful, like training for a marathon or lifting weights, or whatever it is, working on a big project. And she said that 50% of our happiness is genetic, 10% is your circumstances, or in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
the yield and quality of various cuts of beef to determine if he wants to repeat prior cow-bull pairings or emphasize particular traits or grazing conditions. The physical demands of farming are on par with an endurance athlete's training... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
think that may be where he picked up the cornet and began to get some early training and maybe participate in some jam sessions out after hours. So he becomes Kid Bolden. He's clearly a very creative guy and you have to now understand the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
had an engineering degree from Princeton and an MBA from HBS. He had a good job at a sugar company in his native Mexico City. His career path seemed set. Music, though, was innate. His grandparents on his father’s side had been friends... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
space. We have to figure out the places that are critical to progress where people aren’t working. That’s where we will have the most impact.” Gayle Lemmon: Life Stories RESHAPING THE NARRATIVE: Lemmon in California. Lemmon in Afghanistan, interviewing an Italian... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
tireless student president also trained for and completed the Boston Marathon (a feat he repeated in this year's centennial anniversary of the race). How did he accomplish it all? "I got about three hours of sleep a night," smiles Dobron,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
it a fad that amounts to little more than sensitivity training in New Age clothing, or does it reflect something more profound about the way we are beginning to conceive of and relate to work? In the following pages six HBS alumni who are... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
Q: Your case leaves off around 2001. The current Mars Lander program has apparently been a success. Do you think the program is back on track? A: NASA certainly did a good job recovering from the failures of 1999. They had to cancel a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
papers. He noted while “some of the first-year students felt that their painful literary efforts deserved male consideration,” HBS had discovered that “competent young ladies could be employed and trained to do a more careful, dependable... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 14 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing
If there is one job that many software analysts and programmers cannot stand, it is testing software on the path to launch. The grinding concentration and repetitive nature of the tasks serve to drive many techies around the bend.... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
in the case of Sheryl, it really boiled down to two things. Sheryl cared about me not just as an employee but as a human being. When I moved from New York to California to take the job at Google, I didn't really know very many people in... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
student-run answer to the popular Training The Street program offered to those interested in finance. “When you are working in the tech sector, it’s important to be tech literate,” says copresident Tatiana Louneva (HBS 2015). “You need to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
kicked out of the game?” The first case HBS Archives Photography Collection, Baker Library Special Collections In 1980, just as he was joining the HBS faculty, Bill Sahlman met an interesting character named Jeff Parker. Parker, then 37 years old, was in the process of... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
frontier innovators share? Lack of resources. Lazarow: There's a lot less capital, there's a lot less depth of trained startup human capital, the been-there-done-that crowd that have already scaled with businesses. There's less corporate... View Details