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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
with a recruiter in an HBS corridor in 1969 led Hawes to a small Connecticut company that focused on insurance company mergers and acquisitions. In 1972, he ventured out on his own and founded Insurance Investment Associates, which soon... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
programming vision, to recruiting and motivating a growing team of employees (some of whom, like Swan, were commuting from other cities at the time). Also in play: managing a tight, closely watched budget... View Details
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
other stakeholders in society. If academic critiques were not discouraging enough, Datar and Garvin distilled more bad news from their research. “There’s an escalating drumbeat of concerns from alums, from students, and from customers — the companies that View Details
- 02 Dec 2021
- News
Learning Curve
Courtesy Patti Melcher Patti Melcher (MBA 1986) never intended to open a school. After getting her start in investment banking in Houston’s energy sector after her time at HBS, Melcher became an early employee at SCF Partners, helping to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
start-up, from raising money and recruiting employees to closing business development deals. Do you have any advice for would-be entrepreneurs? We live in a time and place where there are amazing... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
of an American icon. Part corporate biography and part memoir of a rare CEO/consultant partnership, this book chronicles Harley-Davidson's transition from a command-and-control culture to an open organization in which employees take... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
close connections between economies and governments around the world. "It isn't sufficient that I try to maximize the company's bottom line," Smith says. "Other constituencies affect our success in the long run." Starbucks employees... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes “We have been very successful at finding people of color to be operating partners, to be employees at ICV. We've been doing this for two decades. We've had no problem finding... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
As this existential crisis unfolded, a customer called FedEx in tears because her wedding dress hadn’t arrived yet, with less than twenty-four hours until the ceremony. A frontline service employee named Diane jumped into action, tracked... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
California. How is the California market being served today? Does your model (people) allow for significant differentiation? Does the California marketplace have an abundance (compared to other markets) of the skilled employees you will... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
as a Nonprofit Management Fellow at a UN economic institute in Belgrade in 1990. “And with so many international students at the School, one truly becomes a world citizen through one's HBS friends.” Meanwhile, at the Kennedy School, Djelic met economist Jeffrey Sachs,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
done. Any contractor offering a payoff to Roshan was immediately blacklisted. Any employee caught taking or offering a bribe was instantly fired. “In emerging markets, you have to be very persistent and clear in your messaging—dogmatic,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
and philanthropy and executive director of the Mattel Children's Foundation, based in El Segundo, California.) “Business can be the greatest force for good on this planet.” At ExecWB, Goodwin and his team recruit for-profit partners to... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Bradley merged the Atlantic magazine’s Boston operations with those of the National Journal and Government Executive, just 3 of 55 employees elected to make the move to Washington, DC. Nearly 150 years after its founding, the Atlantic’s... View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
president of operations. There, he oversaw all global aviation services: public transport, charter, freight, surveillance, search/rescue, and training operations across 10 countries, with a fleet of 140 aircraft. A few weeks after quitting his job, Gower was contacted... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
leaders through Bridgestar, a nonprofit executive recruiting service leveraged by technology; and to create a robust source of knowledge from those activities that can be shared freely — and free of charge — with others. “The vast... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
graduate, our students will be joining organizations with increasingly diverse workforces. Making the most of these differences will be crucial. Inclusion also is key, because diversity is only the first step. Even as we recruit more... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
Lang Related Links “It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t”: New research by HBS associate professor Jordan Siegel finds that multinational companies can spin gender bias into gold by recruiting and hiring well-educated female... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
in 1968. Since her appointment to the faculty in 1971, she has been a driving force in recruiting women for prominent roles at HBS and has inspired legions of MBAs to pursue careers as health-care entrepreneurs and managers. As a pioneer... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
various stakeholders, including customers, suppliers, and most importantly the employees of an organization. Having only worked as an investor professionally, I used to think about a given business simply through that investor lens, but... View Details