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Job Search 2.0: LinkedIn + ChatGPT Secrets Revealed

Jeremy Schifeling will dive into the most advanced LinkedIn and ChatGPT techniques to help alumni find a career path, build a fully tech-optimized profile, and ace your very next interview. View Details

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US Business Immigration Overview - Alumni

file labor certification applications. The system requires employers to first test the US labor market through a variety of standard recruitment methods. Following the recruitment period (generally 2 to 6... View Details

01 Jan 2012
News

Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993

retail stores sell their products online. Rather than rely on outside investors, Mikitani funded Rakuten with his own money, taking a significant personal risk, and recruited his wife, Haruko (an IBJ colleague), to run the back office. In... View Details

03 Dec 2014
What Do You Think?

Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

type of person in the first place. As Richard Fairbanks, CEO of Capital One, is fond of saying, "At most companies, people spend 2 percent of their time recruiting and 75 percent managing their View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

The Right Way to Manage Customer Churn for Maximum Profit

unhappy with customer service, or your prices went up, or a competitor offered a better deal. But if a company lets too many customers show themselves the door, then they’ll waste too much of their time recruiting new customers. “If 30... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service; Financial Services

October 2019 (Revised August 2020)
Case

The Predictive Index

By: Lynda M. Applegate and James Weber

Mike Zani and Daniel Muzquiz needed to decide next steps to create a new category in the human resources consulting industry and scale their company.
Zani and Muzquiz, serial entrepreneurs, acquired Predictive Index in 2014. Previously, as clients of the... View Details

Keywords: Human Resources; Selection and Staffing; Talent and Talent Management; Recruitment; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Change Management; Disruptive Innovation; Digital Platforms; Growth and Development Strategy; Consulting Industry; Service Industry; United States

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Purchase

28 Apr 2020
Blog Post

HBS African American Student Union

there, they are supported throughout the RC year with informative workshops, panels and alumni events. These events primarily focus on academic excellence, recruiting / career support and community building. Many of our events are... View Details

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Investor - Entrepreneurship

Student Journey Investor Required Curriculum Elective Curriculum FALL Attend the Rock/CPD Career Panels to learn about careers in VC. Learn about the role of a VC/Investor and recruiting approach. Meet with: Rock Venture Capital Partners... View Details

18 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask

management of the facilities, recruiting talent, or coaching young people. I asked how that could be possible, given that she had built a firm of more than a thousand people and had achieved a record of consistent success. She explained... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

My HBS Student Loan Story: Ina Foalea (MBA 2018)

or stress related to debt or how you would pay for HBS? If yes, how did you manage those feelings? There was huge anxiety around cost initially. But when you go through recruiting in your first year, you start to understand the job market... View Details

31 Jan 2014
News

Body, Heal Thyself

BANCEL Throughout 2009 and 2010, Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000) had received upward of 20 calls from biotech companies asking him to come aboard and lead the company. It made sense. He was a highly recruited CEO successfully running... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; biotech; Health, Social Assistance; Scientific Research and Development Services

27 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding

onboarding strategy and to dedicate twice as much effort and time to executing that strategy as compared to an in-person process. According to our research, when executives are asked to score their companies on the seven steps of the View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg

20 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms

don’t match the majority in the C-suite, but causing financial repercussions for businesses as well. “Investors may worry that executive teams are not hiring the best talent they can get, but are instead recruiting those with particular... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

24 Oct 2018
Blog Post

The Energy & Environment Club

Environment Club Co-President) interned at NextEra Energy and spoke about how she “met with NextEra representatives while helping organize the 2017 Energy Symposium, which gave me an edge in the recruiting process.” The Symposium will... View Details

08 Nov 2021
Blog Post

4 Ways the MS/MBA is Preparing Me for a Career in Health Care and the Life Sciences

business development at Genentech. An HBS alumna helped me narrow down what I wanted to do and made sure I understood how to best prepare myself for the recruiting process. I am now following the same process as I think through my short-... View Details

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Career Support - Business & Environment

(Ongoing) Career & Professional Development Office Once matriculated, you will have access to myHBS (login required) which connects you to classmates, course work, and the CPD website (login required) . You can access a wealth of information: lists of HBS View Details

12 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster

ventures, led by Harvard students and alumni, go further faster. All three groups jointly recruit teams, sit on the selection committee, and help support the Climate Circle offerings. We each do this out of a sense of joy. You mentioned... View Details

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Valerie Porciello | About

services is to enable a holistic view across the life cycle of the faculty, from recruitment through retirement. The DRFD team's singular focus is supporting an environment where faculty members at all stages of their career have the... View Details

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John H. McArthur | About

trajectory.” McArthur is credited with building the faculty through the recruitment and promotion of outstanding faculty members, strengthening research, enhancing Executive Education, and launching important initiatives in ethics and... View Details

03 May 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating the First HBS African-American Mother-Daughter Duo

across many organizations. This has further demonstrated the critical importance of supporting holistic wellbeing. As an entrepreneur, I’m often drawing upon the HBS experience to amplify the SoHookd journey. From recruiting amazing... View Details

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