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04 Dec 2023
Blog Post

My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service

Rico, Denver, and many other incredible locations. I was in the middle of a few other interview cycles for various health care roles, and I was completely torn. Do I accept the role with NPS, or continue to engage with the career path I... View Details

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

these narratives A common feature of all resilient businesses we interviewed is that they proactively sought information from a variety of sources, including suppliers, trade associations, and health care professionals. Managers readily... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

03 Nov 2021
Blog Post

Recent Grad Reflections: From Being Cold Called to Becoming a Case Protagonist

interviews and to be present in the classroom to demonstrate to students that they could break into the VC industry even if they didn’t “look” like the traditional VC stereotype. As a student, I had experienced firsthand how a diverse... View Details

08 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching

fingertips,’” says Myers. Except this system often doesn’t get used. That fact was driven home to Myers while interviewing a tech manager. “He said, ‘I use the knowledge management system all the time—but I just scroll down to the bottom... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

26 Jun 2023
Blog Post

ClimateCAP 2023 & ClimateCAP Fellowship

innovations. The Summit featured speakers from companies such as Closed Loop Partners, NextEra Energy, Energy Impact Partners, Dow, United Airlines, KKR, BlackRock, Google, Walmart, KPMG, and others. The interview below is a feature of... View Details

21 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style

History at HBS, have been compiling an oral history project called Creating Emerging Markets, 130 video interviews of iconic business leaders from emerging markets discussing their careers and organizations in an unstructured format.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Nov 2010
What Do You Think?

Why Do We Chase Stars?

data for 1988 through 1996. It includes ratings before and after an analyst's transfer from one investment bank to another as well as the results of extensive interviews over several years of study. Among other things, they found that... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

22 Feb 2021
Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

interviews. The correlation between a manager's assessment of people in interviews and their actual on-the-job performance is less than 50 percent. In other words, less than flipping a coin, and usually much less in service jobs, like... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

19 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?

and delivery delays, and explains how dollar stores have been able to defy the downward trends that have devastated brick-and-mortar retail in recent years. This interview has been edited for clarity and length. Harvard Gazette: The... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Retail

Web

US Business Immigration Overview - Alumni

This can include the internet version of the required newspaper advertisement. Participation in on-campus recruiting events ( HBS campus presentations and/or interviews ) Posting with trade or professional organizations Having an... View Details

30 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Finding Pride

interview in 1990. When the owner of the company asked if I had any other questions, I made clear that insurance coverage for my domestic partner was a condition of my employment, which wasn’t really done then. Had I not had the fortitude... View Details

Fast Answer

How Do I Cite Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools?

including a general acknowledgment of AI if you use it as a tool to complete your writing or project work, even if you do not quote or paraphrase output: Interview questions used for the project... View Details

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Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online

Description of silent animated video above: Learner scrolls through video interviews from prominent business leaders About the Professors William Sahlman Entrepreneurship Essentials Baker Foundation Professor "Entrepreneurship Essentials... View Details

27 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams

out if yours was bogged down, the staff interviews revealed. "People were only affiliated with their pod for four or eight hours, and despite how temporary their team memberships were, they were still competitive with one... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

video interviews from prominent business leaders About the Professor Rebecca Henderson Sustainable Business Strategy John and Natty McArthur University Professor "In this course, we will explore what business can do to help solve the big... View Details

02 Apr 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Making the Move to General Manager

make." Students can continue to personalize their education as much as possible by accessing a proprietary Web site called Transition to General Manager. There they read interviews on forty topical areas with roughly fifty Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

27 Nov 2006
What Do You Think?

What’s to Be Done About Performance Reviews?

interview than the interviewee." According to Wally Bock, "When I conducted research I found that the more effective supervisors spent the bulk of their performance evaluation meeting time talking about the future." Forced... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

05 Nov 2019
News

Alumnus Named McDonald’s CEO

included a rekindling customer interest by refocusing on convenience. “There was a latent love for the brand,” Kempczinski told the Bulletin. “We had just been underdelivering on what their expectations were.” In an interview with the... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

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Introducing One-Step Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

New Medium Medium of Artistic Expression A NOBLE PROTOTYPE OF INDUSTRY Harvard Business School and Polaroid Innovation and Entrepreneurship TIMELINE POLAROID FILMS RESEARCH LINKS Digital Archival Resources Archival Collections Bibliography SITE CREDITS 60. Ibid. 61.... View Details

29 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas

tracks startup funding, with each Kickstarter entrepreneur. Of the 314 entrepreneurs studied, some 76 percent missed their initial deadline. Peterson and Wu followed up, interviewing 11 entrepreneurs in-depth to find out why each product... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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