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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Chandler Donates Papers to Baker Library
CHANDLER: The historian's papers find a fitting home. Alfred D. Chandler Jr., the School’s Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, is known for his sweeping volumes chronicling the growth of modern capitalism, corporations, and management.... View Details
- 16 Sep 2010
- News
Idea Takes Root
to create a new corporate reporting model fit for the 21st century.” Indeed, Eccles and others are pioneering a new way for businesses to operate. Too bad the American press missed the story. View Details
- Web
1939 De Soto luggage locker has increased capacity - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
“bustle,” has 23 cubic feet of usable trunk space, 27 percent more than the big trunk on the 1938 De Soto models. Fitting right into the smooth flowing contours of De Soto’s new streamline styling, the luggage locker is completely... View Details
- 01 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?'
enough? Do companies often try to fit square pegs in round holes when they hire exceptional managers? Does finding a “good fit” matter and does a “good fit” create value for a team or a company? Research has shown, quantitatively, that... View Details
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Read excerpts from DENIAL
The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears
Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)
From Denial: Why Business... View Details
- 03 Mar 2010
- News
Last Look - March 2010
one wonders what the sign, carefully held up by Collins, was for. It reads, “Scholars under the Baker Foundation,” with the words “Non Hokum sed but Veritas” circling a shovel. If they’re not suffering a fit of existential ennui, this may... View Details
- 30 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Candidates Seeking Opportunities After Graduation: Lessons Learned
opportunity.” Matt Severson: Starting over for the right fit In the spring, Matt Severson (MBA 2019) directed his search toward venture capital, exploring his options among friends and family in the Bay Area around San Francisco. The... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
New and Improved
shaped and honed the class. We've selected eight classmates whose professional expertise ranges from Girl Scout cookies to e-commerce and whose stories suggest the diverse endeavors of the class as a whole. While "older and wiser" is an appropriate label for this... View Details
- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
for casual apparel, such as from Eddie Bauer or Lands' End, returns have been reported in the 12-18 percent range; for more fitted fashions, 20-28 percent; and for high fashion, they have been reported to have been as high as 35 percent.... View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Recruiting HBS MBA Students in 2017-2018
for that ‘just-right’ fit versus being one in a big hiring class of MBAs. Use the resume database to find the dozen or so candidates that fit your profile – and invite them to a 20-minute chat. These quick... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 20 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability
accepted a role at battery startup called Natron Energy. My summer at Natron Energy taught me a lot about the assumptions I had made about myself and my career journey. I thought that I had found the perfect fit because the role checked a... View Details
- 15 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Be Unapologetically Yourself: Interview with Singer-Songwriter and Banking Strategist Andrea Mendoza
Be Just One Thing.” Growing up in Peru, Mendoza developed a love of music alongside the quantitative skills that made her succeed in the classroom. She completed her undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering and found a fit for her... View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
of consumers towards high fee inferior products. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54865 forthcoming Manufacturing & Service Operations Management The Value of Fit Information in Online Retail: Evidence... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Profile
Jessey Jin
prepared you for your current role & your long term career? The idea of helping students prepare for a long term career can be found in case discussion, club events, alumni activities and so on. The school put together lots of resources to help students understand... View Details
- Portrait Project
Kathy Yuh
are each other’s home. Feeling more at home than ever, I’ve turned what I once saw as a flaw in myself, into my purpose. That purpose is to create a sense of community and belonging, wherever life takes me. Home is not something to find, but to actively create, for us... View Details
Kenneth Salas
Harvard Business School and a BA in Political Economy from UC Berkeley. As an Entrepreneur in Residence, Kenny is passionate about empowering fellow entrepreneurs. He offers valuable guidance on building early teams, achieving product-market View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 15 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
MBA Voices Blog: A Year in Review
more I knew an MBA there was the perfect fit for me.” Read More Take a Seat in the Case Method Classroom The case method presents big challenges confronting organizations - including the constraints and incomplete information found in all... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Your Fullest Self
personal life, fitting in those 207 miles was just a part of the routine.” It was a continuation of the substantial time and money she had already spent over the years on relaxers, weaves, and extensions. Eventually Winters grew to... View Details
- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 02 May 2017
- Webinars: Career
Finding Your Fit: The 6 Essential Elements You Need to Thrive at Work
Research shows that only 30 percent of Americans, and an even lower percentage of employees around the world, strongly agree that they have a chance to do what they do best every day at work. There is much talk about organizational culture, authenticity and well-being,... View Details
- Portrait Project
Phillip Jones
our family plot, just feet away from the same land my family had toiled on, sharecroppers and slaves. As I stood there, my family’s personal, political, and military destiny swirling around my mind, I thought about where I fit in the... View Details