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  • 28 Nov 2016
  • Blog Post

Why We Recruit: Wayfair

having students visit our office so they can meet a wide range of employees - from executives, to recent MBA grads, to people right out of college - and experience our culture up close. Give us your elevator pitch – what is the one thing... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
  • 23 Aug 2019
  • Blog Post

A Summer of Peaks and Swells: Interning at Patagonia

Before arriving to Harvard Business School, I had built my career around bringing crazy ideas to life at Google in a variety of operations, strategy, and design roles. I was surrounded by incredible people, learned from world class... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products / Retail
  • 01 Feb 2023
  • Blog Post

How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Jada Haynes

defer your 2+2 admission? I deferred for 3 years. HBS MBA students matriculate with 5 years of full-time work experience on average, so I wanted to get as close to that as made sense for me. What job(s) did you have during your deferral?... View Details
  • 28 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

City Metropolitan Opera's general manager Peter Gelb looks back on the first season of a daring experiment to broadcast performances live in high-definition to movie theaters across North America. While the "Live in HD" program... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Article

The Effect of Providing Peer Information on Retirement Savings Decisions

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian and Katherine L. Milkman
Using a field experiment in a 401(k) plan, we measure the effect of disseminating information about peer behavior on savings. Low-saving employees received simplified plan enrollment or contribution increase forms. A randomized subset of forms stated the fraction of... View Details
Keywords: Saving; Decision Choices and Conditions; Retirement
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  • 20 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/918037-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 618-034 McKinsey & Company: Early Career Choices (A) This case profiles the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jun 2019
  • Blog Post

Dance to the Music: How Noa Torok Found Her Dream Job at SoundCloud

Noa Torok, MBA 2019, came to HBS with a blank slate. “I arrived with zero expectations,” she says. “I had no idea what I wanted to do.” Her prior experience had shown her the opposite – what she did not want to do. After studying both law... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
  • February 2024
  • Case

ReSpo.Vision: The Kickstart of an AI Sports Revolution

By: Paul A. Gompers, Elena Corsi and Nikolina Jonsson
This case study explores the growth journey of Polish computer vision sports start-up ReSpo.Vision in an emerging entrepreneurial ecosystem. By providing 3D data and analysis to soccer clubs, ReSpo.Vision achieved significant milestones with a €1 million seed round, an... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Business Plan; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Decisions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Forecasting and Prediction; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science; Applications and Software; Business Strategy; Sports Industry; Technology Industry; Poland; Europe
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  • 11 Apr 2023
  • Op-Ed

The First 90 Hours: What New CEOs Should—and Shouldn't—Do to Set the Right Tone

hire), clean up the mistake decisively. Don’t let it linger. Don’t take the bait. Avoid accepting early speaking invitations, internal or external, before you have the lay of the land and have a better idea which engagements you should... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 24 Jun 2019
  • Blog Post

Dance to the Music: How Noa Torok Found Her Dream Job at SoundCloud

Noa Torok, MBA 2019, came to HBS with a blank slate. “I arrived with zero expectations,” she says. “I had no idea what I wanted to do.” Her prior experience had shown her the opposite – what she did not want to do. After studying both law... View Details
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

(pre-registered Experiment 3), and then were divided into minimal ingroups and outgroups in the laboratory. The findings offer mixed support for the hypothesis that novel rituals generate intergroup bias. Modest evidence from rituals... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Solving for Z

employee retention, engagement, and satisfaction, and filters it not only by age but by everything from career stage and line of business to ethnicity and sexual orientation. Breitfelder, meanwhile, solicits information on every aspect of... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Doug Chayka; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government
  • 2007
  • Working Paper

The Seer of Wellesley Hills: Roger Babson and the Babson Statistical Organization

By: Walter A. Friedman
Roger Babson was a pioneer of the business-forecasting industry in the United States in the early twentieth century. He built the largest private economic forecasting agency in the period and published a great range of economic statistics in his weekly newsletters. As... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Economics; Business History; Newsletters; Personal Development and Career; United States
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  • Web

Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care

grants to advance HarborSite’s early progress and IP. As a 2025 Blavatnik Fellow, Erik will be validating HarborSite’s platform through in vivo proof-of-concept studies and building the foundation for strategic partnerships. Joseph Sedlak... View Details
  • 10 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

of directors of Medtronic, Inc., a company known for its commitment to effective corporate governance, must prepare for the departure of Chairman & CEO Bill George and the retirement of four long-time directors. The company had experienced rapid growth in the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Sep 2023
  • Book

Thriving After Failing: How to Turn Your Setbacks Into Triumphs

teams appeared to have more, not fewer, errors. “All these years later, I can still remember viscerally how it felt,” says Edmondson, who recounts the experience in her new book about the importance of failure, Right Kind of Wrong: The... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 28 May 2024
  • In Practice

Job Search Advice for a Tough Market: Think Broadly and Stay Flexible

New graduates entering the job market will face a very different landscape from even a year ago, with a murky economy and potentially more limited career prospects. Though unemployment figures in the US remain near historically low... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 15 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

built her career on increasingly large line leadership positions, such as the president of ABC Network, and has no experience in getting things done without line authority. The case lays out the steps she... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Case Development - Faculty & Research

sources. HBS also writes "armchair" cases based entirely on faculty’s general knowledge and experience. Moreover, in 1995, the School’s Educational Technology Services began producing multimedia cases that provide a rich learning View Details
  • Web

Help - Alumni

alumni and students can view your profile, via the Privacy tab of Edit My Profile for your Alumni Profile. You may provide feedback about this experience at the Website Feedback & Support page. LinkedIn Why is my profile no longer syncing... View Details