Publications

April 2000 (Revised October 2002)
Background Note

Career Strategies and Tactics in Professional Service Firms

By: Ashish Nanda, Thomas J. DeLong and Scot H. Landry

Presents suggestions for ensuring a good start in a professional services career. View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Performance Expectations; Performance Effectiveness; Customization and Personalization; Practice; Valuation; Performance Evaluation; Business Startups; Competency and Skills; Learning; Talent and Talent Management; Management Skills; Consulting Industry

September 1993 (Revised January 1997)
Case

Serengeti Eyewear: Entrepreneurship Within Corning, Inc.

By: David A. Garvin and Jonathan West

An entrepreneurial division within Corning, Serengeti Eyewear, has grown rapidly in its brief 10-year history. Now it must decide whether to launch a new line of sunglasses and take on the industry leader. The company has prospered by developing and cultivating... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Design; Management Style; Competitive Strategy; Customer Relationship Management; Employee Relationship Management; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Talent and Talent Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Manufacturing Industry

Web

Recruiting Full-Time Employees | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

HBS can help organizations meet their talent needs, from hiring a graduating MBA student for a full-time position to hiring an alumnus for a senior-level position. There are numerous ways to get involved in recruiting at HBS: Learn more... View Details

Portrait Project

Aahan Bhojani

Anxiety flooded every inch of my body. As a gawky teenager, I braced myself for the most frightening ten minutes of my life. I was about to recite The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss in front of a thousand classmates in my school’s talent... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Necessity became the mother of invention for staffing-firm founder

development firm that matches qualified professionals—women and men—who want flexible schedules with businesses in need of high-caliber services. “It doesn't make a lot of sense to lose talent just because we aren't having conversations... View Details

01 Jun 2007
News

New Program for Science-Based Businesses

innovation with market opportunities, and how financial markets value scientific knowledge. Participants will also discuss issues associated with finding, retaining, and motivating scientific talent and collaboratively managing technical... View Details

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

01 Dec 1997
News

A Conversation with John Doerr (MBA '76)

students? Doerr: What's in the shortest supply is great marketing talent for technology-based companies. So in addition to entrepreneurship, HBS should emphasize education and research into understanding and marketing technology products... View Details

01 Jun 2009
News

Crisis and Creativity

talent pool. Many Web 2.0 developments, including blogs and social networking, grew out of the large number of talented Web-literate workers who lost their jobs after the collapse of the Internet bubble. In... View Details

Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti

02 Jan 2024
News

How to Mentor More People—and Not Get Burned Out

January 2023 (Revised April 2024)
Case

First to Fight? Culture, Tradition, and the United States Marine Corps (USMC)

By: Ranjay Gulati, Akhil Iyer and Joel Malkin

Over a history of more than 240 years, the United States Marine Corps has forged a distinct culture and institutional identity centered on its “warrior ethos.” In the wars of American history, Marines fought with uncommon valor, rising to international prominence for... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Talent and Talent Management; Government Administration; Management Practices and Processes; Management Systems; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness; United States

February 2022 (Revised January 2024)
Supplement

Winning Business at Russell Reynolds (C)

By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco

In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting—and... View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Talent and Talent Management; Compensation and Benefits; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives; Consulting Industry