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- 29 Apr 2014
- News
"Pull People Through"
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
The rapid changes at Merrill Lynch and Citigroup highlight the problem many firms face as they consider succession. What we are seeing should be surprising and disturbing to us all: At investment banks of great importance, the board of directors has decided to change... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
explain how we have arrived at this point, he says: Businesses everywhere are short staffed, and call volumes are at record levels, so the human-to-call ratio doesn’t work in the customer’s favor. Plus, with wages as high as they are, View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
A few years ago, H. Kent Bowen, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration, undertook a study of smaller companies (firms in the $5 million to $50 million range) in order to develop cases and teaching materials for the elective course Running and Growing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs
can adapt it to their situation,” she observes. “It’s a question of managing the projects and assembling strong groups of volunteers to achieve quality output for each project.” Twenty–seven volunteers staffed five projects for the... View Details
- 08 Jun 2023
- News
Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner
dinner raised $1.3 million toward the club's extensive programming, pro bono consulting, and student scholarships as well as club staffing and operations. The evening opened with a welcome from Club president Clare Peeters (MBA 2000) and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History by Walter Mirisch (IA ’43) (University of Wisconsin Press) The producer of such film classics as West Side Story, Some Like It Hot, In the Heat of the Night, and The Magnificent Seven, Mirisch tells the story of his climb to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
than most emergency response networks in the United States. Each shift is staffed with three doctors who are available to interview and question callers and to advise EMTs on treatment. Out of the 13,000 calls a day, some 800 are medical... View Details
- 06 Sep 2013
- News
More Seats at the Table
Beth Stewart Corporate America's glass ceiling doesn't stop at the C-suite. Only 16.6 percent of Fortune 500 companies have a woman on their board of directors. Beth A. Stewart (MBA 1982) is uniquely qualified to change that. And she is changing it—one board at a time.... View Details
- 21 Nov 2015
- News
Machines Beat Humans at Hiring Best Employees
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
sexy. He has called in plenty of favors from friends and staffed up by cobbling together a team of freelancers spread across Turkey, India, Greece, the United States, and the Philippines. But like Unger and Lin, he believes it can lay the... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 10 Jul 2023
- News
Why Everyone Is Mad about New York’s AI Hiring Law
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
conversation with Coupounas immediately senses that she’s wide open to new ideas. These days, in fact, her Colorado-based activities are all about promoting new ideas. Coupounas is director of the first fully staffed field office of B... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
MeraDoctor, a consultation-by-telephone business staffed 24 hours a day by eight licensed physicians. A for-profit company that charges subscribers a monthly fee of 100 rupees (about $2) for unlimited consultations for up to six household... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
Art by Craig Frazier Related Links Alumni New Venture Contest Opens Webinar series (ongoing) Entrepreneurship at HBS (video) Harvard Launches Innovation Incubator Why is it that even when smart, educated, well-networked people launch new companies, a few strike gold,... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
Institute, Joe Fuller. Fuller's guest in this episode is Mallory Dwinal-Palisch (MBA 2015), Chancellor of Reach University and CEO and cofounder of teacher staffing firm Craft Education System. Reach offers accredited, teacher... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
useful research project could focus on the role of venture capital in financing and nurturing high potential ventures in the Valley. Presently staffed with a director and a full-time senior researcher, the Center will provide... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
A Force for Good
Photo courtesy of Ananth Kasturiraman Photo courtesy of Ananth Kasturiraman There is no shortage of evidence demonstrating that the hiring process is one of the ways in which economic inequalities are perpetuated. Take, for example, the finding that job candidates who... View Details