Year Up - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Who Really Determines CEO Salary Packages?

unit at Harvard Business School. “For years I imagined this group of people sitting around a table, having to make very important decisions, such as defining the CEO’s compensation package. And I always wondered, what do they talk about?... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consulting

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

organizations. We can learn vicariously from their experiences. Consider the example of one manager who was about to undergo a critical transition in her career, only four years after first becoming a manager. When she was about to step... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

22 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance

Offering crime and safety insurance covering damages up to $5,000 increased the level of demand for those with criminal records by 12 percentage points. Limiting the pool of job applicants to those who maintained a clean record for at... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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Case Protagonists at HBS - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

04 Dec 2023
Blog Post

My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service

yet. The first two months of RC (first) year were a blur. I had never really thought about my career so holistically before—I studied biomedical engineering as an undergrad, and immediately became a biomedical engineer. The resources at... View Details

01 Sep 2007
News

Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered

CHANDLER: His great books “light up a landscape that had been only dimly perceived, if at all.” Alfred D. Chandler Jr., the renowned Harvard Business School historian who established business history as an indepen-dent and important area... View Details

13 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 13

responsible business founded on the principles of product quality, organizational alignment, and sustainability. A former environmental activist, Hirshberg built Stonyfield Farm (an organic yogurt maker based in New Hampshire) up from a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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When Ideas Become Reality: Entrepreneurship at HBS - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st... View Details

16 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

attitudes and perceptions, and those of their husbands, to catch up with households that were baseline, less restricted. We’re trying to get everyone on the same page.” Tearing down social stigmas Three View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

Profile

Sergio Velasquez-Terjesen

would go into biotech and genetics," he says of his initial ambitions. But after two years as a lab assistant at Louisiana State University, he found that, although the science was "fascinating," the work was "lonely,... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy; Consulting

10 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

last twenty years my colleagues at TruePoint and I have asked leadership teams to define a strategic direction (business strategy and values) and then commission a task force of their best performers one to two levels below them to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 Nov 2023
News

Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum

tunes,” according to club co-president Shyam Ayengar (MBA 2006). The club also uses the GNN as an opportunity to recap the club’s year and announce new initiatives. Many clubs shared these images from their GNN events as well: Alumni in... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Oct 1999
News

Eight Among Many: Peter G. Harf

The room lights up when Peter Harf talks about perfume. His enthusiasm is contagious as he discusses a new cosmetics collection. The chairman and CEO of Coty Inc., one of the world's leading fragrance and cosmetics companies with $1.7... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

06 Jan 2021
Blog Post

My HBS Student Loan Story: Gorick Ng (MBA 2018)

Business school is a valuable investment in your future. HBS supports that investment through generous need-based scholarships. In addition to scholarships, many HBS students utilize student loans to help meet their portion of the shared investment. If you anticipate... View Details

22 May 2018
Blog Post

How to Engage a Search Firm

who reached out to you, and the position he or she was calling about. Your conversation might go like this: "About two years ago you called me about a CFO position in East Overshoe, Minnesota. After some conversation we agreed that this... View Details

03 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?

hiring net, Choudhury points out. “There was a recent report that the diversity of [Twitter’s] workforce has gone up because of work-from-anywhere. If a company allows working from anywhere, then you can hire from anywhere,” he says.... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

09 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 9

assessing the environmental impact of BPS which incorporates the impact of the optimal operating and licensing strategies. Is Experimental Economics Living Up to Its Promise? Author:Alvin E. Roth Publication:Oxford University Press,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2024
News

Leveraging Generative AI

as if I had a private tutor in the room with me,” one student remarked, while others said the tool was not as reliable as they had hoped, causing them to lose trust in its capabilities. Nevertheless, Farronato sees it as an opportunity for further exploration: “GenAI... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

11 Aug 2021
Blog Post

The Equity Network: How HBS Helped Me Launch a Tech-Enabled Social Enterprise

open doors and set me up for success. Networks are critical in providing exposure and access to opportunities — and without them, I would never have broken into or thrived in Wall Street or Silicon Valley as a woman of color. I came to... View Details

11 Apr 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy

A dozen years ago, it seemed like all it took to launch a successful technology company was a vague idea, a PowerPoint presentation, a trade-show booth with a sexy spokesmodel, and a URL. Then the dot-com bubble burst and investors got... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Computer

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