talent - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2001
News

Up Side Story: HBS Show a Sold-Out Success

year’s show was a collaboration of more than 150 “incredibly talented directors, producers, actors, singers, dancers, band members, and crew who made the magic happen in the blink of an eye,” according to John Lippman (MBA ’01), one of... View Details

Keywords: HBS Show; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

Blog

Why Does Your Company Exist?

motivating a diverse array of stakeholders. Sparked by the pandemic, employees have begun to seek greater meaning in going to work every day. In the midst of the resulting Great Resignation, companies are finding that having a deeper purpose can help them retain,... View Details

10 Mar 2016
News

Can Doug Lemov Save US Soccer?

Illustration by John Cuneo Illustration by John Cuneo Teaching guru Doug Lemov (MBA 2004) is taking his teaching talents to the pitch. Profiled in the March issue of The Atlantic, Lemov was contacted by US Soccer in 2010 in an effort to... View Details

01 Jun 2007
News

James McKenney Remembered

MCKENNEY: The first information systems expert at HBS, he led its early IT efforts. HBS professor emeritus James L. McKenney,an expert in management information systems and the use of computer systems for teaching management, passed away on March 28in Belmont,... View Details

Keywords: Information

February 2024
Case

Continuity & Change at Boston Consulting Group

By: David G. Fubini, Suraj Srinivasan and David Lane

As the new CEO of Boston Consulting Group (BCG) since autumn 2021, Christoph Schweizer had big shoes to fill—his predecessor, Rich Lesser, had tripled the partnership’s total revenues and created digital initiatives that contributed 40+% of 2021 revenues, more than... View Details

Keywords: Business Organization; Change Management; Talent and Talent Management; Governance; AI and Machine Learning; Environmental Sustainability; Leading Change; Risk Management; Organizational Culture; Partners and Partnerships; Revenue; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Succession; Consulting Industry

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Educators

Purchase

09 Mar 2021
News

Becoming a Manager Doesn’t Always Feel Like a Step Up

09 Apr 2016
Blog Post

Meet The HBS Sound Society

entertainment powerhouse on campus. It all starts with the students. One of the goals of the club has been to showcase the amazing talent that HBS students possess. We’ve hosted Pub Night and Spangler Night Live events featuring... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

10 Feb 2016
News

Helping Young African MBAs Go Home

sharing information on what to expect.” YAM is an asset to companies that want to recruit from the diaspora of African talent that has gone to the US. “Now people reach out to us to recruit,” he says. “Every month we send out a... View Details

March 2002 (Revised August 2002)
Case

Microsoft.NET

By: Alan D. MacCormack and Kerry Herman

Set in the summer of 2000, following the unveiling of Microsoft's .NET initiative to the public. Three of the key figures in .NET's development are considering the next steps they would have to take to keep the initiative moving forward. Specifically, the challenges... View Details

Keywords: Applications and Software; Growth and Development Strategy; Change Management; Talent and Talent Management; Policy; Business Model; Computer Industry; Web Services Industry

Citation

Find at Harvard

01 Oct 2018
Blog Post

Josh Latson and his Fellowship: “It’s like a pie eating contest.”

platform for a Leadership Fellow opportunity at Boston Medical Center. Alastair Bell, MD (HBS MBA 2006), Executive VP of Strategy and COO for BMC Health System, notes, “From our standpoint, Leadership Fellows is a way of accessing the great pool of View Details

Keywords: Health Care

26 May 2016
News

Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999

around his vision, Sunil Mittal easily could have followed in his father’s footsteps and earned a name for himself as a politician. Instead, he chose to focus his talents on changing the world as an entrepreneur. Growing up in Ludhiana, a... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Sep 2003
News

Joe Badaracco

HBS students who, Badaracco says, are better than ever: “The talent and energy in the classroom is just amazing.” This fall, many of the eager faces he surveys look younger than usual: Badaracco and his wife, Patricia O’Brien (DBA ’86),... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

21 Jan 2014
Blog Post

Kick-off to summer internship recruiting starts today

This week is always a memorable one for first year students as it marks the first time they have the opportunity to sit down one on one with multiple recruiters in such a short period of time. Good luck to everyone! Interested in hiring View Details

Portrait Project

Shani Carter

achievements. Mommy encouraged me to write poetry and plan the first of many mother-daughter vacations. First Baptist Church members called on me to share my talents for spoken word. By compelling me to give from the best parts of myself,... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Helping one child led to improving the lives of thousands

company, Chertavian turned this concept into reality in 2000 by launching Year Up, a job-training program for urban youth ages 18–24. By providing participants with technical and professional skills as well as six-month corporate internships, the program is also an... View Details

04 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From

While managers feared that all the top talent would leave, instead Recruit grew to become a $20 billion tech company (roughly the equivalent of Salesforce) that employs 50,000 people globally. They have created a suite of products... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

30 Oct 2017
News

Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success

who have the playbook to apply successfully; underrepresentation at the B-schools continues; and companies that recruit from MBA programs are constrained by the lack of diversity in the MBA talent pool.” MLT’s solution is to provide the... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

26 Feb 2025
Podcast

David Deming on workforce shifts and the future of college

AI's early impact on the labor market: Are claims of revolutionary change overblown? The Harvard economist presents the long view on technological disruption and updates the post-secondary picture. View Details

24 Feb 2021
News

Factoring high-skills freelancers into the enterprise equation

30 Apr 2016
News

Executive Q&A: Bain’s Bob Bechek

Keywords: Bain; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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