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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Peter W. Olson: By the Book
sense of humor at all times. "We have an unusually talented team of publishers," he says. "They're very individualistic and very challenging. As a result, I have the most interesting job I could imagine." When Olson graduated from Harvard... View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Running a Decathlon
first president of Academic Decathlon and subsequently helped guide its transformation from a small local event to the international competition it is today. After Patton left the Olympic committee, he became the president of the Academic... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
or culturally inclusive, she’ll be the first one that will pause the conversation and call it out.” She also sees her communication style, even when uncomfortable, as a way to treat employees with humanity. When Xbox experienced layoffs... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
setting up their own digital service teams. That's a big win for us, and we're always trying to encourage people to take jobs in government and have government hire technologists. And the final thing is to turn this into a movement, and... View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
Top 10 MBA Voices Blog Posts of 2018
We're wrapping up 2018 with a roundup of our ten most popular MBA Voices blogs this past year: In my second marketing class ever, only two weeks into my first semester of RC year, it happened. I was cold-called. As soon as the professor... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy
practice and Joseph L. Rice III Faculty Fellow. It wasn’t until the idea of “lean” corporations came into vogue that companies began to treat employees as just another resource to be allocated as needed. In the decades since, layoffs have become normalized. “Often,... View Details
- 11 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #2: Sam Steyer, Greenwork
“But we will also need more software engineers and marketers in the climate tech workforce.” He added, “We need to make these jobs more attractive to the young and dispel the notion that college has to be a View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
we knew we were going to be able to put it all together again. We told people, “If you had a job at Oreck before the storm, you still have a job at Oreck.” And we continued to pay people even as we were... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Energy Sources: Daniel Yergin and the EP Team
Daniel Yergin is a founding partner of Cambridge Energy Research Associates and the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Prize, which chronicles oil’s rise and impact on the world. He was winding up a postdoctoral fellowship in international affairs at Harvard and was... View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
songs since its April 2003 debut. No wonder then that Steve Jobs was a recent BusinessWeek cover boy. But for longtime Apple watcher David Yoffie, the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Your Personalized Experience | MBA
coaches or student advisors. Manage an Offer Understand and evaluate your offer with confidence and gather the research to negotiate. Success on the Job CPD helps students make a lasting impression during their View Details
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How to Onboard Recently Graduated MBAs - Recruiting
Insights & Advice 28 Apr 2025 How to Onboard Recently Graduated MBAs tag All Industries All Locations Recruiting Advice Recruiting Strategies For large numbers of Harvard Business School MBA graduates, the first post-degree position is... View Details
- 20 May 2019
- Blog Post
Makeup: How Kenya Hunt Transformed Her Career Through Cosmetics
of job that could lead to.” Her parents suggested chemical engineering. “I thought it would be a good way to get through college and become self-sufficient.” At first, the plan seemed sound. An undergraduate internship with Chevron became... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
John R. Sculley
Leaving his position as CEO of Pepsi-Cola, Sculley’s first task as head of Apple involved cutting costs and cutting people, most notably, Apple’s founder and symbol, Steven Jobs. Though the firing of Jobs... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
I was 14. It was a completely foreign world from working-class Detroit where I grew up, and it was terrifying. In my first job out of business school, my boss affectionately nicknamed me “Pitbull” because I... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 08 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
On the Road: HBS Midwest Tour
often told me as a child that if you always carried a book, you’d never be bored how true! I finished The Children Act by Ian McEwan on the first leg of my trip and then picked up Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain. Also, my... View Details
- 20 May 2020
- News
Keeping Families Connected
call. “We could not live with ourselves if there was a child who couldn’t have a magical, memorable, experience with a grandparent because a parent had just lost their job and couldn’t pay the monthly fee,” explains Tuchman. “We’re a... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO
Gary T. DiCamillo (MBA '75) was second in command at Black & Decker Corporation and leading a turnaround of that company's power tools division when Polaroid snapped him up in late 1995. The world-famous instant-imaging company made him the View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Author Charley Ellis on Goldman Sachs
You’re writing fresh material for a paperback edition of The Partnership that’s coming out in the fall. What’s new that you’re focusing on? First and most important, the larger business environment in 2008–2009 has been completely... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
Australia, and Wichita, Kansas. "Boeing Company: Moonshine Shop" - A case by HBS professors Robert Austin and Richard Nolan details front-line innovations implemented at Boeing by a small group of creative generalists. Sailing instructor, ranch hand, and paperboy are a... View Details