Hiring Of Employees - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 1997
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Stacey Lawson (MBA '96)

illustrations of standard parts, such as valves, pumps, and gears. Today Lawson is the vice president of marketing at InPart, a company she cofounded upon graduating from HBS. InPart, now fifty View Details

01 Jun 2012
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A Better World, One Idea at a Time

A dozen budding social entrepreneurs pitched their ideas for innovative products and services during the annual Social Enterprise Conference in February, and four came away with top honors. The sold-out event marked the 13th year of the... View Details

Keywords: contests; awards; cosmetics; Crop Production; Agriculture; Chemical Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade

20 Jun 2016
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Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues

businesses concentrating on the bottom of the pyramid, such as microfinance, could profit from using the same tools and approaches as any other financial institution. “I hired a team that is a classic... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Oct 2002
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Thinking Outside the Centerfold

shop” (Adweek, January 28, 2002). With annual billings of $225 million and some 160 employees working in Miami and a new Los Angeles office, CPB is now garnering plenty of... View Details

01 Jun 2011
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Latin Flair

Daniel Kafie (MBA '07): social networking games for Latin America. Photo courtesy Vostu.com It may have taken them two years to finally find their entrepreneurial feet in the online world of social media, but the three cofounders View Details

01 Mar 2019
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A Wider Net

sportswriter Brian Phillips wrote in the New York Times. “The next thing I want to see from United States soccer is a jackhammer, not a news conference.” “It was heartbreaking,” says Carlos Cordeiro (MBA 1980), who at the time was vice president View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 1997
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Arthur Rock (MBA '51)

microprocessors. Equally important, the idea of stock options for employees and the use of venture capital financing became a standard part of... View Details

01 Dec 2014
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Instilling Production with Principles

Video Embed The Esquel Group has reduced water consumption at its factories by more than 50 percent in the last nine years. Asia–based Esquel Group is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of high-end... View Details

Keywords: April White; fashion; Manufacturing

14 Jul 2021
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The First Five Years: Nicolas Manes (MBA 2020)

did you and your company address the challenges that came with the pandemic? “Honestly, right now our biggest problem is keeping up with demand. We hired the head of product of... View Details

01 Oct 2001
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HBS Press Books in Brief

The War for Talent, by Ed Michaels, Helen Handfield-Jones, and Beth Axelrod, presents a strategic view of what managers must do to hire and keep the best employees. Drawing on five years View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management; Finance

01 Sep 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016

Conversational Firm: Rethinking Bureaucracy in the Age of Social Media by Catherine J. Turco (MBA 2003) (Columbia University Press) A fast-growing social media marketing company, TechCo encourages all of its... View Details

01 Jun 2016
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How Do I Get Your Job?

people would want to use because of what it looks like or how it functions. OW: Once you came up with your idea, what steps did you take to validate it? SK: I wish I could say that I hired consultants and... View Details

Keywords: April White

24 Apr 2014
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Empowering Japan through e-commerce

To further Rakuten’s global presence, Mikitani established English as the official language for the company’s 10,000 employees worldwide. His “Englishnization” initiative became the subject of an HBS case... View Details

01 Oct 1997
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Patricia ("Tosh") Rapoport Barron

Equanimity has been the hallmark of Tosh Barron's life, one filled with precipitous moments and tests of character that might have overwhelmed a lesser person. From her quiet, comfortable office at Xerox... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Oct 2002
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Faculty Research Symposium

Pay Check: Equity-Based Compensation and Incentives Creativity in a Crunch Nobody's Perfect. Now What? Last spring, a special symposium was held on campus in celebration of faculty research. The one-day event, sponsored by the Division... View Details

01 Jan 2012
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Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989

male-dominated mining community. The first woman and non–South African to lead the 95-year-old company, Carroll, a native of Princeton, New Jersey, was hired as a change agent, and her combination View Details

11 Sep 2018
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Bringing Government Up to Code

is one of the keys to fixing the system is having technologists want to work in government and having government have the ability to hire those technologists, and it becomes either a virtuous cycle or an... View Details

18 May 2017
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Pioneer Spirit

program in the 1960s to his role today as president and CEO of Pioneer Group, which creates affordable housing through the renovation and preservation of historic buildings in the American Midwest. Freeman... View Details