Attractions - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 May 2018
Blog Post

Internship Success: Mutual Growth Brings Intern and Enterprise Together

tracks and attract more candidates to our campus.” In October, she hosted a joint HBS/MIT recruitment talk that attracted Czapski. “I really liked the types of projects they were working on,” says Czapski.... View Details

Keywords: Technology

30 Apr 2001
What Do You Think?

Dot.Com Shakeout: Chess or Roulette?

highly attractive deals, they may find that their prospective partners no longer exist. By the time they are ready to transact or invest, that talent they found so attractive may be gone. What is happening... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

20 Oct 2017
Blog Post

Taking Care to Prepare Leaders: Lessons in Leadership Development from DaVita Kidney Care

DaVita’s program is not only an attractive benefit to potential recruits, but a powerful way for the company to instill its values throughout its leadership team. These reciprocal benefits should drive leadership development programs... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

15 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Amazon Prime Day: The Logic Behind a Retailer’s Made-up Holiday

billion in revenue during the 24-hour sale. Another e-tailing competitor, India's Flipkart, hosted its own "Big Billion Day Sale" in October of 2014 and managed to attract 1.5 million shoppers and top $100 million in sales in... View Details

Keywords: Re: Sunil Gupta; Retail

16 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 16

incentive scheme over a linear one, even though this reduces pay for many subjects and despite the presence of clear feedback. Additionally, the linear scheme attracts demotivated, underconfident workers who perform below their ability.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Sep 2015
News

Looking to Rwanda’s Future

advisor at the private equity firm TA Associates. “They asked, ‘What do we need to do today to help us attract international investors in the future?’ They were considering investments in infrastructure, resources, and education that... View Details

01 Mar 2005
News

Gaining Currency

Kim Reynolds (MBA ’79), the weakness of the dollar is a good thing: It makes Markel’s products — insulated wire and tubing for cars — attractive to buyers from Europe where locally manufactured goods have grown pricey due to the euro’s... View Details

Keywords: Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2010
News

You Haven’t Changed a Bit

first HBS-hosted campus reunions for all classes within PMD, GMP, and five other alumni status–granting Executive Education programs, all of which attracted a combined total of some 600 participants. (Executive Education alumni are... View Details

Keywords: reunion

21 Sep 2016
News

Fashion’s Transparent Translator

(BoF) was born. Nine years later, the London-based website attracts 1 million unique monthly users, with a social media following of 3.5 million. Nearly 250,000 subscribe to the BoF newsletter, which many see as a source of more objective... View Details

10 Jan 2020
Blog Post

Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Retail

makes them important partners for retail companies seeking to attract and retain talent. What Students Want HBS student interest in retail has remained steady over the past five years with approximately 3% of the class joining the... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

01 Dec 2020
News

The Camel and the Unicorn

whaling industry. Morrell: In the early nineteenth century, it was the whaling ships of New England that offered the kinds of high-risk, high-reward stakes that attracted investors. Lazarow: At the time, 70% of the whaling industry was... View Details

Profile

Gopesh Mittal

awakened a desire to work on products that “target the ‘bottom of the pyramid.’” Real value of soft skills Like many MBA candidates, Gopesh was attracted to Harvard for its “360-degree point of view, which would help me develop skills in... View Details

01 Apr 2024
News

Generosity Multiplied

called Gift Aid, which adds another 25 percent to the public donations. In this case, if all donations were eligible, that would add an extra £5,000 for the cause. “We call this the ‘generosity multiplier,’” says Reed. “It’s very View Details

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Margarita de la Piedra Carrillo

Margarita de la Piedra Carrillo was attracted to industrial engineering (her undergraduate major) for one of the same reasons she was ultimately attracted to business: "to optimize processes, not just... View Details

01 Sep 2015
News

@Soldiers Field

graduating ECs—and named in honor of professor and Senior Associate Dean Youngme Moon—were visited by their namesake during their final concert. Photo courtesy of @dwyanewade The four-day seminar on “The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports” View Details

Keywords: Dwyane Wade

01 Jun 1998
News

Generation Next

New York Times Company are all family enterprises. Yet until recently, the phenomenon of family businesses has attracted little formal attention in academia. Building on a long tradition of research on family companies, HBS has started... View Details

01 Dec 2011
News

Uncle Sam’s Business Man

economic growth, and promote American competitiveness. ÃÂ That means that Johnson, who had previously led several Obama administration regional innovation initiatives, logs a lot of time on the road touting the United States as an View Details

21 Sep 2016
News

Ideas with Economic and Social Impact

Corporation (IFC) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Her report, Financing High-Growth Firms, the Role of Angel Investors, written for and published by the OECD in 2011, has attracted interest from... View Details

17 Dec 2015
News

Design Thinking: Hands-On Learning At The Harvard Innovation Lab

original Design Thinking and Innovation course in fall 2012 attracted some 200 applicants from across the University for the elective’s 50 seats. The course has now expanded to three sections. Buoyed by the increasing interest in the... View Details

01 Dec 2014
News

The Far-Reaching Impact of Fellowships

half of these voices might never have the chance to be heard at HBS. Some 600 fellowships established by donors—in addition to gifts of all sizes made to the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation—enable the School to attract students... View Details

Keywords: fellowships

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