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- 14 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Recruiting During Uncertainty: How to Meet Students Where They Are
the hiring manager – to ensure there is a good fit can decrease stress levels by allowing students to show up as their best and most authentic selves. Prioritize highlighting company values and culture While students understand that companies need to make business... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 30 Mar 2022
- News
Giving Hope and Comfort
that staggering number will meet less than 10 percent of the true need in Massachusetts. Feingold has big plans for Hope and Comfort. Over the next five years, he hopes to expand the size and extend the reach of the organization, to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Of Value and Values
of investment management. “I think that vote captured a powerful tension inside the students,” she remarks. “They have plenty of mathematical and financial models to support the point of view that restricting the size of an ‘investable... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- Blog Post
BaubleBar Brought to Life, and Other Tales of Joining a Start-up
company size is important for anyone looking to join a start-up. Have a sense of how you would perform given the challenges of wherever the firm is in its growth. What are the operations like? Amid all the opportunity, are you ready for... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
My Misperceptions about HBS
here. I'll never forget the moment that my perceptions of HBS turned around: my interview day. I expected most of the people I met to be quite pretentious and arrogant—to be sizing up each others' chances of getting accepted. However, I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Flight Path
goggles. “You need to be able to see a wall, and react, before you hit it,” he explains. Because DRL provides broadcast-ready content to networks, it helps that Horbaczewski has a background in film production and special effects. “Filming something the View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
Rotemberg Abstract A model is considered where firms internalize the regret costs that consumers experience when they see an unexpected price change. Regret costs are assumed to be increasing in the size of price changes and this can... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
calculate breakeven, and charts and graphs that help visualize the results. Purchase this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510080-PDF-ENG Marketing Analysis Toolkit: Market Size and Market Share Analysis Thomas Steenburgh and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
amount of waste generated to improve the efficiency of the by-product process. In addition to the managerial implications, this analysis can inform policy as we show that increasing disposal cost decreases the size of the primary market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Balancing the Ideal with the Real: Conveying Corporate Culture to Candidates
opportunities might be.” RBI amplifies its recruiting presentations by speaking from the top. “We’re probably one of the only companies of our size where the CEO participates in our presentations,” says Saeed. “It really signifies the... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Kids Are Alright: Alumni Children Crack Case
the proceedings on closed-circuit television in a nearby room.) Ranging in age from 6 to 15, identified by name cards, some eighty kids filled a Hawes Hall classroom. Not all feet reached the floor, but hands of all sizes were soon waving... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
electrified, both because of the greenhouse-gas issue and economics. “Here’s an interesting piece of data: The size of the storage market for transportation is potentially 10 times the size of the storage... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
— JH Jenny Abramson Abramson When Jenny Abramson arrived at Stanford from a “progressive” high school in Washington, D.C., she was concerned about the large size of her classes. Seeing an opportunity to bring this up with then–Stanford... View Details
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
Throughout history salespeople have come in all sizes and stripes—peddlers, drummers, canvassers, agents, sales reps, and of course the iconic door-to-door salesman. But it's only been relatively recently that historians have focused... View Details
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
of what it takes to launch the business? Do women invest less because they lack confidence in their businesses or the size of the opportunities? Do they have reservations about their ability to see the venture through hard times? Is their... View Details
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
Another difference is the sheer size of the industry. Telecom is now of comparable size by some measures but certainly wasn't initially. Before the Second World War there was no information technology... View Details
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Putting the Project Puzzle Together
McFarlan: Fifty percent of all capital investment today is being done in IT projects. The way this money is spent deeply impacts the organization's future. It is because of the size of investment as a percentage of capital expenditure... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Point, Click, Give: Internet Fuels Philanthropic Fundraising Revolution
size of the database the WEBSE offers users. Whether a WEBSE is operating an online giving directory, workplace-giving center, or any other transaction-based service, it must decide how many nonprofits will be eligible for the service.... View Details
- 01 Jul 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
explanations for the phenomenon and its success or failure. These included such things as the nature of the industry or product, the way such goals are implemented, and the size of the organization making use of them. There were,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
used in the iPod as a foundation for an entirely new product, the iPhone. And then it increased the size and added functions to create the iPad, a portable tablet computer. "It was already halfway to becoming a computer, and they... View Details