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HBS OnBoard | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Alumni Careers Being on Boards Resources Resources for joining your first board, finding additional board roles, increasing effectiveness as a board member, and finding qualified, diverse candidates for your board seats. HBS Alumni Clubs HBS Alumni Clubs offer... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Action Plan: To the Letter

most of his career in travel and in private equity. In 2019, the private equity firm HGGC acquired Monotype for $825 million and recruited Chacko in 2021 to run it. At Monotype, he learned to view type differently—and he also helped the... View Details

Keywords: April White; design; typography; change management; leadership; Special Design Services; Professional Services

29 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

How Organizations Create Social Value

on board. Close alignment between strategy and mission. How can organizations get the right people with the right skills to develop social value? The recruiting processes should be centered on personal values. Then, hold on to the good... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

13 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding

Even as COVID vaccines begin early deployment, pressure on leaders continues to mount to engage in “Big C” change: rapid course corrections through job cuts, recruiting a fresh management team, and redesigning roles and responsibilities... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt, and Sebastian Flegr; Sports

11 Mar 2021
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Leading with Heart

fantastic job with the brand. And now the brand was in transition from being founder-led. We need to now create an empowered, team-led organization, which meant that I had to recruit and onboard a world-class leadership team. And I had to... View Details

01 Jan 2013
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Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987

threat," recalls Jacobson, who also led the product development team. "It was an incredible turnaround. The team grew the company by $200 million." With Converse back on its feet, in 1994 Jacobson left to work as a consultant and was then View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

08 Feb 2017
Blog Post

How I Chose My HBS Recommenders

platform to explore future career options. The summer after RC year is an (almost) risk-free opportunity to experiment with career options that one is interested in, but is unsure about. I chose to work for a startup in San Francisco, named Rinse. Also, View Details

September 2021 (Revised December 2023)
Case

On the Bubble: Startup Bootstrapping

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Tom Quinn and Annelena Lobb

Bubble was a software company in the low-code/no-code market, making tools that allowed users without traditional programming backgrounds or technical skills to build software. The case covers cofounder Joshua Haas’s engineering background, as he experienced a high... View Details

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21 Feb 2019
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Machine Learning and Behavioral Economics

This is a repost from the recruiting blog. For John Bracaglia, his academic and professional careers have been driven by two themes: “machine learning and behavioral economics,” he says. “The two work together. Machine learning is about... View Details

30 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

company’s user base, developer incentives, the value of information to advertisers, and the ability of the organization to continue to hold and recruit outstanding talent. The US stock market had already begun to weigh in on the company’s... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology

12 Mar 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO

good leader and a kind father, he protected the core values of his company and endured serious conflict in his family. The son went on to start another company and did well as an entrepreneur. The father stepped back into the role of CEO. After a couple of years, he... View Details

August 2023
Case

Beamery: Using Skills and AI to Modernize HR

By: Boris Groysberg, Alexis Lefort, Susan Pinckney and Carolina Bartunek

Unicorn human relationships startup Beamery evaluates it's growth versus depth strategy as its strategic partners and customers could become future competitors in a quickly changing AI based human resources and talent management industry View Details

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Harvard Business School

COGME was a consortium of ten leading business schools, including Harvard and MIT, designed to recruit outstanding minority students and provide them with financial aid and jobs after graduation. Nearly 2,000 minority students benefited... View Details

25 Mar 2015
HBS Case

Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum

conversation." From 1.0 To 2.0 The museum's head of digital, John Stack, and head of content and creative director Jane Burton, recruited curators, conservators, and archivists to blog about their behind-the-scenes experiences in a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

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Involvement in Faculty & Student Ventures | About

himself or herself from the recruiting process and the hiring decision. Note that these restrictions do not apply to the practice of hiring students for non-graded academic duties such as being a teaching assistant or a research... View Details

12 Oct 2017
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Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time

copresident gave me a chance to help others in the spirit of those who had led the organization before me. It was really an honor.” Majors says helping corporate recruiters think through how they could more effectively engage with... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

Business schools are positioned on increasingly unsteady—and unpopular—ground. MBA enrollments fluctuate or decline; recruiters voice skepticism about the value of newly-minted MBA degrees; and deans, faculty, students, executives, and a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)

(AMS), an international business and IT consulting firm. "The impact the professors were having on my sectionmates and me made a deep impression." Wasserman recalled that one of the most enjoyable aspects of his work life had been helping new View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

13 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding

the February Journal of Consumer Research is based on the results of a series of lab and online studies with over 2,000 consumers recruited from national online samples. We tested their response to underdog brand stories. Our studies... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Jun 2018
Blog Post

How to Create a Presence Without Being Present

Recruiting Relations Manager, “Many of our students want these kind of companies, but if they don’t recognize your name, they may not give you their full attention.” Fortunately, there are alternative ways to connect. “Don’t feel pressure... View Details

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