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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

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Accommodation; Hospitality

01 Jan 2002
News

Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)

that distinguish top performance." What matters to Egon Zehnder? Sure, the founder of one of the world's largest executive search firms believes that new hires must possess piercing intellectual skills and résumés that ring with... View Details

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Brandon Lovell

empathetic attitude from a recently hired investment banker who gave Brandon insights on how he got his job – and encouraged him to go to college. "That started the journey that ultimately led to HBS." On the move – with a smile... View Details

Keywords: Tech; Financial Services

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

made a series of upward and lateral moves that entailed a number of tough assignments across many functional areas. Beginning as the director of regional operations in New England, this manager had profit and loss responsibility for fifty underperforming stores. View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

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

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Wilder House | About

when it became home to what is today called MBA Career & Professional Development, which supports students to identify and pursue their career goals, as well as partners with global organizations throughout the year that are interested in 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

21 May 2012
Research & Ideas

OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?

never seen," Toffel laughs. "They were Memorex tapes about three-quarters of an inch tall and six inches square. We had to hire someone to make them machine-readable." The team brought on Matthew Johnson, then an HBS research associate... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

02 May 2025
Blog Post

How to Work with Search Firms

firm? Explore the Coach Directory to filter coaches by industry and function expertise. Search Firms Work for the Organization The most important thing to remember when engaging with an executive search firm is that they do not work for you — they work for the client.... View Details

13 Jun 2011
HBS Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

receive money conveniently. In order to use the service, the customer hands his money to the agent, plus a transfer fee (about 40 cents). Through a computerized process secured by multiple passwords and PINs, the agent transfers the payment to the customer's phone.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications

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

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Joiner - Entrepreneurship

about HBS Resources by attending E-ship Day and reading Rock/i-lab Newsletters Build relevant skills and experience: Startup Bootcamp team HBS Clubs’ workshops Rock and i-lab workshops Apply for a Student i-lab Membership Meet with potential startups who might be View Details

26 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

The Office of Strategy Management

HR, marketing, and so on? A: A typical OSM in a large and complex company seems to require about six to eight full-time people. Typically, these people are not new hires and consist of the scorecard team and elements of the strategic... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2022
News

Full Court Press

region. After all, while it might have a Silicon Valley–like valuation and aggressive expansion plan, the organization can’t simply hire more software engineers in order to grow. And unlike the NBA’s efforts to operate in China, where it... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

29 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas

expose them to a lot of heat or cold. There's all these different environments,” Peterson says. “They want to figure out what breaks before it causes a delay down the road.” Recruit people who think differently. Entrepreneurs should hire... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

to let go of commanding by fear and trust they’ve hired competent people who aren’t slacking off. One caveat: While most workers thrive with a hands-off approach, Choudhury’s research suggests that junior workers who are new to a company... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

25 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout

however, wider organizational changes are probably needed. “One way to make a difference is by increasing the amount of administrative support doctors receive, so they are relieved of those burdens,” Goh says. “It may seem costly to hire... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

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

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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

Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management

16 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense

companies. As one of my CEOs put to me, wryly: “In my January board meeting, I wasn’t hiring and scaling fast enough and told to ‘go, go’, go’. In my April board meeting, I was burning too fast and was told to ‘stop, stop, stop’.” Her... View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang

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