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- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad
excellence. Xerox also realized that it had to hire a renowned local scientist as the initial laboratory leader. The leader needed to be able to understand the local scientific community, attract junior scientists with high potential, and... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
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Five Ways to Rethink Your Job Description - Recruiting
and professional growth: Finding a fulfilling career with Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991) Paige Arnof-Fenn Student Clubs Partner with one of the 50 career-related clubs on campus to engage with targeted groups of students. See all clubs Recruiting Contacts Work with a... View Details
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Connect with Alumni - Recruiting
Hire Talent Connect with Alumni Hire Talent Connect with Alumni Over 86,000 alumni, each with their unique skills and career journey, make up the robust and diverse HBS alumni community. Engage with alumni... View Details
- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
the firm, though they do take bold business initiatives. Some firms like Southwest have no long term debt. Southwest self-financed because to grow too quickly would have undermined their ability to hire employees who fit Southwest's... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
For its representative in these critical talks, the board should have hired an outside specialist, with properly aligned interests and incentives. More generally, you should look hard at a potential agent's other interests and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
at the societal benefit while at the same time taking care of the individual. That in essence is what we're trying to get at. McCaffrey: In a standard marketing situation, there's usually somebody who pays for it—such as a corporate employer who View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator
Any parent can tell you that a surefire way to turn joy into rage is to offer your child a big candy bar—and then turn around and offer an even bigger one to his sister. Suddenly, a special treat turns into a great injustice. "Hey! How come she got more? That's not... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career
shop” for employers and potential employees to find each other, even when labor markets are tight. But as hiring grows, tighter linkages between educational institutions and industry can yield better economic outcomes for workers and... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson
- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
determine coverages and set rates, explained very clearly to potential customers how their product worked and what was within coverage and what was not. AI is still a very imperfect technology that often fails. There should not be any surprises for customers on that... View Details
Keywords: by Rocio Wu
- 31 May 2023
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2023
not get one piece of business. Finally, Squibb Beech-Nut hired us for $50,000, which was less than any legal bill I paid at Lehman. And I was never so grateful for $50,000.” In retrospect: “We thought it was easy to be successful. We... View Details
- 10 May 2019
- Blog Post
Advice for Mothers Pursuing an MBA
of us will deal with parenthood in one way or another. Many of us will become parents, some of us will be peers of parents at work, and many will hire parents. It is important to learn how to manage employees who are parents, and this... View Details
- 27 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Managers, Your Employees Don’t Want to Be Facebook ‘Friends’
and beliefs online with the wrong colleague may expose employees to career consequences, such as not being hired or promoted and being discriminated against.” Workers are wary of friending bosses Across four studies, the authors examined... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
are hiring a manager to help run this system, what are the attributes of the ideal candidate? A: We observed that the best managers in these TPS managed organizations, and the managers in organizations that seem to adopt the Rules-in-Use... View Details
- 05 Sep 2014
- News
Keeping Education in Check
help of a PR company hired by Berman. Their campaign worked. Other charities popped up as a result of Chess for Change. Moves for Life now coaches more than 12,000 students a week in South Africa. ChessKIDS Academy is also coaching 12,000... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
generated an operational loss. "My feedback was, 'You're in trouble,'" recalls Kahn. By the spring, Kahn was in Mumbai, part of a team tasked with turning Agrovet around—the first foreigner the Godrej Group had ever hired in a leadership... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
diverse tasks, global travel, and independence. It was a great ride! The lesson I learned is that your work ethic and luck both count, since you can’t always know how to pick a winning horse when you’re green. —Marki Ware (MBA 1975) The Company You Keep I was View Details
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Summer Associates | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
How to Post Your Commitment Why Hire a Summer Associate? HBS students offer exceptional talent, a record of accomplishment, demonstrated leadership potential, cooperative spirit, and a commitment to making a difference. As part of their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing
prone to missing opportunities to form friendships or hire people by unfairly inferring [that] they are untrustworthy," she says. "There may be completely innocuous reasons someone may wish to keep personal information... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms
percent more likely to hire women as partners for VC funds—the equivalent of a random distribution of gender diversity. “We could then identify the component of gender diversity caused exclusively by having a daughter uncorrelated to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Larry Murphy
It was reading a Life magazine article (Ann Moore, take note) about Eastern colleges that helped propel Lawrence P. Murphy from a small town in Missouri to Williams College, followed by HBS. In 1985, after positions at Citibank, Bain, and Marriott, Murphy was View Details