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- 14 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Recruiting During Uncertainty: How to Meet Students Where They Are
the hiring manager – to ensure there is a good fit can decrease stress levels by allowing students to show up as their best and most authentic selves. Prioritize highlighting company values and culture While students understand that... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 18 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
4 Ways to Make Your Company Conversations Count
the life” perspective is invaluable either from recent interns or current full-time employees. What is your company’s commitment to diversity, inclusion, and belonging? Diverse representation in recruiting helps candidates see how they would be able to bring their... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 10 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: EF Education First
a great fit for you! There are numerous examples of HBS alumni joining EF and making an immediate impact through innovative projects that we’d simply never thought of before. One HBS alum launched a portfolio of eco-tours in our adult... View Details
- 15 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
On the Road: HBS in Israel
Tel Aviv. 30 women attended and learned a lot from our alumnae and incoming students. There was great energy in the room for this special event. What questions were asked during the event? There was lots of interest in the great work we do in Social Enterprise. HBS is... View Details
- 23 Feb 2018
- Blog Post
How to thrive as an Introvert at HBS
was a bit shaken. I had a hard time feeling like I fit in and wondered if it was possible to be myself here. But it is. Here are a few tips that helped me out: 1. Assess your experience by your own metrics. I came to HBS with specific... View Details
- 25 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Dealing with FOMO at HBS
probation. ;) Learning to prioritize is important I learned a great metaphor last week about how if you fill a jar with sand and then try to put big rocks in, the big rocks won’t fit. But if you put the big rocks in first, then you can View Details
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Product Management - Course Catalog
product market fit at technology companies. While the course also addresses how to generate new product ideas and how to find initial product market fit, these topics are not a primary focus. This course is a natural companion to... View Details
- 21 Sep 2018
- News
HBS Association of Southern California Boosts Support for Startups
can’t easily fit in a trek across town for lunch.” On the days when only a few alumni can make it, Kete says the conversations are that much richer. “That’s when you really get to know folks.” Lunches are set for the second Friday of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
success,” Bowen said. “An important part of that process is developing systems and measurements to ensure that the people you hire, beyond their résumé qualifications, will fit the firm’s culture. That’s a big problem for small companies.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Calling the Tune: Negotiation as an Improvisational Dance
taken." Valley concluded, "I can't teach you a best strategy for negotiation. But I can teach you how to react to the other party: how to recognize what they're doing, how to think about the impact of that action on your outcome, and how to make a transition if that... View Details
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
Abstract—New technology ventures often experience deviations from their original plans that oblige them to reorient in pursuit of better fit between their evolving products and target customers. Yet research is largely silent on how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
they’ll fit when people cradle them between head and shoulder. Innovation and process within a firm can coexist and even feed off each other, if you manage their different and sometimes opposing functions smartly. Indeed, if you want to... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
think about something that fits in your hand, people gotta stop thinking about robots as R2-D2. Imagining a little robot that has sensors on it that is just put on the bridge and crawling all over the bridge all the time. Taking in all of... View Details
- 09 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)
prototypes, artists made jewelry, and developers punched out low-cost housing. Machines that had cost upwards of $50,000 now cost a few thousand and could fit on a desktop. Formlabs brings 3-D printing home Formlabs developed a... View Details
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
strategy. Without such a strategy, companies will have a hard time weighing the trade-offs of various practices-such as crowdsourcing and customer co-creation-and so may end up with a grab bag of approaches. They will have trouble designing a coherent innovation system... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
highly reliable sources, are generally not believed unless they fit the company agenda." Others maintained that planning without prediction is impossible. After all, a plan is a prediction. As Vishu put it, "Managers should base... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
encouraging the growth of good companies that can replace imperial excess with values-based capitalism; (4) restoring respect for government by ending decades of contempt for the public sector and ensuring competence in that vital sector; (5) connecting with the world... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
forecasting, despite a number of characteristics that make it a challenge to fit to a dynamic supply chain environment, to be effective in that context. We further show that the forecasting process, together with the supporting mechanisms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
It’s Back to Business-Basics for Nonprofits
tightest fit between actions and intended impact. An organization's choices must reflect its priorities. Once leaders have asked the right questions, the resulting clarity will help them with difficult choices they need to make to be... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 16 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #9: Shelly Xu (MBA 2021) Reducing Waste Through Beautiful Design
create “a beautiful zero waste future that is beloved by consumers.” By January 1, 2023, she hopes to be able “to translate sketches to zero waste designs that match current fit requirements 75% of the time.” Shelly is tackling a... View Details