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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Alfred A. Checchi
Checchi puts it. "My grandparents symbolize what America is all about," says Checchi proudly, describing how his Italian immigrant forebears, from their corner store in rural Maine, first put the family on the path to self-betterment... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- Profile
Brandon Lovell
empathetic attitude from a recently hired investment banker who gave Brandon insights on how he got his job – and encouraged him to go to college. "That started the journey that ultimately led to HBS." On the move – with a smile... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
brothers returned to the United States, she argued, they somehow would find a way to make it work. Money, by necessity, became an obsession. Throughout his first year at HBS, Sityodtong sent $10 each week to his mother in Thailand, money... View Details
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
unprecedented to have a large cohort of people all over the world start working remotely at the same moment. The only parallel I can think of is from World War II, when waves of women entered heavy manufacturing for the first time. This... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Finding Pride
fellow alumni of the GLSA has proven to be lifelong. There’s a deeper layer of connection with people who’ve gone through similar experiences, and to have that bond mashed together with the aspiration of being business leaders—that’s been the foundational strength in... View Details
- September 2024
- Case
Xendit: Hiring for Growth
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Steve Castano, Quoc Anh Nguyen and Claire Wu
In 2019, Xendit, a growth-stage Southeast Asia (SEA) fintech venture based in Jakarta, was looking to hire a Head of Sales and Head of Product to lead its next phase of growth. Founded by Moses Lo and Tessa Wijaya, Xendit provided payment infrastructure, modeling... View Details
Keywords: Fintech; Financing and Loans; Entrepreneurship; Jobs and Positions; Sales; Product; Growth and Development; Selection and Staffing; Organizational Culture; Expansion; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Southeast Asia; Indonesia; Philippines
Rayport, Jeffrey F., Steve Castano, Quoc Anh Nguyen, and Claire Wu. "Xendit: Hiring for Growth." Harvard Business School Case 825-046, September 2024.
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The Idea of Instant Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
where Donald Brown, our Patent Attorney (in Santa Fe by coincidence) was staying, to describe to him in great detail a dry camera which would give a picture immediately after exposure.” 43 Correspondence dating to late 1943 reveals Land's early concepts for instant... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
programs in Haiti in the wake of the 2010 earthquake. His programs created over 1,500 formal and informal jobs and cleaned up more than 160 million bottles from streets and canals. (You can read more about Goodwin’s work in this article... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing
whether they would admit that they used drugs on a job application; a different set of participants acting as prospective employers were asked whom they'd rather hire, someone who admitted using drugs, or someone who chose not to answer.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 Jan 2017
- HBS Case
How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?
young woman able to secure a job as a sports broadcaster only after applying the product. And several famous actors have endorsed skin-whitening products. Although men share this desire for fair skin and sometimes dip into similar creams... View Details
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
forthcoming Harvard Business Review Press Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work By: Badaracco, Joseph L. Abstract—Part of a manager's job is making tough calls, and the hardest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2014
- What Do You Think?
Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?
Maxweles, who asked, "Was Steve Jobs possibly a 'brilliant jerk'? Could innovation be stifled by simply eliminating the uncomfortable individuals?" Lawrence Nwaru added, "We are all brilliant jerks in one form or the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services
SAS nodes, and can run for an unlimited length of time. Fairshare Without additional intervention, schedulers usall dispatch jobs by FIFO - first in, first out. This can lead... 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 months), the attestation... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
John Crowley’s Extraordinary Measures
had actually gone out and bought, or made, the exact outfits we were wearing in those pictures.” That was when Crowley, president and CEO of Amicus Therapeutics, first got a taste of how it would feel to be the subject of a movie.... View Details
- 26 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Office of Strategy Management
Scorecard work. Is a Balanced Scorecard initiative necessary as a first step before creating an OSM? If not, how might a company set up an OSM without it? A: A Balanced Scorecard is an important, though not a necessary, View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?
Campbell and Shang constructed a dataset of reviews from more than 4,000 publicly traded firms between 2008 and 2016, extracting a vocabulary of 11,772 unique words used in the reviews. At the same time, they obtained a database assembled by the nonprofit Good View Details
- 20 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism
he succeeded so convincingly playing the game of market capitalism that first emerged in the late 19th century and grew to great influence during the 20th century. This game or system has been dominated in many industries by large,... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy Koehn
- 27 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?
Women and Black professionals are more willing to join a team that’s predominantly male or white if it helps them stand out in hyper-competitive situations, despite the potential psychological toll of being a “token,” new research says. In fact, when a View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
deepened during the early 1990s, after he moved his family to New York from Provo, Utah for a big job with Morgan Stanley. One day he found himself sitting on a bench, immobilized: he worried whether he could aptly advise the CEO, whether... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard