Interviewing - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Company Loyalty

both employers and employees to strike a brand-new balance when it comes to loyalty—one that gives organizations the focus and expertise they need to compete and employees the career development opportunities they demand? According to the experts View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson

Web

Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online

industry-leading experts from media, nonprofits, fashion, and agricultural technology. Description of silent animated video above: Learner scrolls through video interviews from prominent business leaders About the Professor Julie... View Details

05 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software

Contributing: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Contribution to Crowdsourced Public Goods, published in the journal Organization Science, Nagle interviewed technology professionals and examined data from the Linux Foundation on... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Computer

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

attending industry conferences, visiting their companies, interviewing them, developing a practitioner advisory team, and maybe spending some time working as a practitioner. (For his own part, Toffel worked as director of environment,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

differences in interest rates across the banks. Careful probing through interviews indicated that many customers defected because they were irritated by the fact that they had been aggressively solicited for a bank-provided credit card,... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

01 Jan 2002
News

Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)

search firms in the world, with billings last year of almost $300 million. Applicants-all of whom must have an advanced degree such as an MBA or Ph.D.-face a gauntlet of 25 to 35 interviews with partners and associates in at least 3 of... View Details

13 Apr 2021
Book

How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

very quickly ... It's really within that first year that they start to say, ‘This doesn't feel quite right.'" “It happens very quickly,” says Groysberg, reflecting on interviews with college students and young professionals conducted for... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

09 Sep 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Perspectives from the Boardroom--2009

Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch, Joseph L. Bower, Clayton S. Rose & Suraj Srinivasan

20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?

impact your chances of success?" Of course, with so many new incubators entering the space, it's important that entrepreneurs interested in going that route find the right one. "I'd spend a lot of time with the people," said Rowe. "Interview them... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

20 Jan 2023
News

Free Spirits

start in the world of sports. Because, in baseball they stop selling alcohol at the seventh inning, but you can still buy a Bud Zero,” CEO Whitworth said in a Zoom interview last fall. A few weeks later, just days before the start of the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

Web

2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Bruce Wasserstein, Richard Holbrooke, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, and Charlene Barshefsky. In a closely related initiative, faculty have also conducted detailed, videotaped interviews with former American secretaries of state—Henry... View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

Generation Next

Pennsylvania's Wharton School in 2000, she spent a year in the company's home insecticides joint venture with US-based Sara Lee and another in human resources before shifting to the Group's inaugural attempt to market tea. "It was a big failure," she notes during an... View Details

Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management

Research Summary

Reverse Innovation

VG and Chris Trimble reveal a bold discovery with far-reaching implications in REVERSE INNOVATION: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere (Harvard Business Review Press; April 10, 2012;... View Details

01 Mar 2018
News

Every Trick in the Book

vinyl record sectors, has been studying the independent bookstore for the past five years. After more than 200 interviews with bookstore owners, authors, and publishers, he has developed a hypothesis for their unexpected renaissance: They... View Details

Keywords: April White

29 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The History and Influence of Andy Grove

Business School. Tedlow spent several years researching and interviewing Grove, to the point of inhabiting a small cubicle in Intel's Santa Clara, California headquarters. Although Grove participated with Tedlow, he did not review the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

September 2021 (Revised December 2023)
Case

On the Bubble: Startup Bootstrapping

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Tom Quinn and Annelena Lobb

Bubble was a software company in the low-code/no-code market, making tools that allowed users without traditional programming backgrounds or technical skills to build software. The case covers cofounder Joshua Haas’s engineering background, as he experienced a high... View Details

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Educators

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01 Feb 2002
News

It's academic. (Not!)

Groysberg. "The stipend, the budget, the library - there are faculty at other schools who don't get the same level of assistance."That assistance means students can take on the topics that interest them most without worrying about funding for in-the-field View Details

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

Career Coach

Becca Carnahan

Becca (HGSE, '13) is a career coach, writer, and entrepreneur passionate about helping students and alumni find fulfillment and joy in their work. She spent 12 years at Harvard Business School, most recently as Associate Director, Recruiting Operations in Career &... View Details

Keywords: Education; Publishing / Communications / Advertising

17 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?

Some companies have begun relying more on computer-administered tests than human interviewers to find the best applicants. New research by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Danielle Li and colleagues suggests that in this case,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment

01 Mar 2011
News

Ace That Interview; Go Global, Too

The HBS Alumni Career and Professional Development Office is presenting an April 6 webinar on interview strategies and techniques. “Interview with Confidence” will help participants identify their competitive edge, market their skill... View Details