Hiring Of Employees - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2017
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Lego Stays on Script

you ask to use a company’s main brand, because that affects all of its employees and business,” he says. “But the way we play with Lego is a mash-up. My son’s Batman minifigure interacts with a Star Wars... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2009
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Remembering “Mr. Harvard”

later that the collapse occurred because “young men thought they could do anything.” Inside his own firm, Gordon maintained “an air of positive gentility, giving employees a free hand to pursue deals,” the... View Details

23 May 2019
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Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998

decision to buck the industry standard and invest in employees. “Our business model gives employees a career path,” she says, noting that half of the company’s top managers started as sales associates. As... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Mar 2007
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Letters to the Editor

small group of private-equity investors, then there would have been few employee shareholders or any kind of shareholders at risk. Yes, the board failed all Enron stakeholders.... View Details

01 Dec 1996
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Meditations on the Bottom Line

order that has survived this kind of transition." Despite ongoing challenges such as establishing cash flow, keeping up employee morale, and maintaining the organization's core spiritual values in the face... View Details

28 May 2019
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A More Perfect Union

the interest of business in my mind. There is also a real role for businesses to play in strengthening democracy by helping reach people at scale by giving employees time off for voting, for example, and... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar

10 May 2022
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2022

2008 terrorist strikes in Mumbai, when we had 30 employees in the two hotels that were targeted. Looking back, it’s those trials by fire that reinforce the importance of always, always relying on the... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence

illustration by Taylor Callery illustration by Taylor Callery Artificial intelligence is not a replacement for the human brain. At least not yet. “That is decades away,” says Rudina Seseri (MBA 2005), answering one of the most common... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2023
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March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Over the last half century, capitalism has created... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

19 Oct 2012
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Past and Present

Sullivan: Fulfilling an age-old human curiosity. Photo courtesy Ancestry.com For Tim Sullivan (MBA 1991), the case method was the perfect way to learn. Sullivan, who is president and CEO of Ancestry.com—the world’s largest online... View Details

Keywords: genealogy; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

01 Dec 2022
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In My Humble Opinion: Natural Fit

is that their employees have a sense of emotional safety and can bring their best selves to work. The same is true in sports, especially when you have younger athletes performing under immense pressure.”... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; skiing; leadership; organizational culture; leadership; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Jun 2020
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Inside Out

example, the Building Owners and Managers Association International 2018 Office Experience Exchange Report indicates average office gross rents of $30.35 per square foot for private-sector office buildings, average utility costs View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

08 Jun 2018
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My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses

grown up in the business all of my career, and when I finished college and came back I was a full-time employee for the first time. After a year or so I was promoted to work under my dad as one View Details

26 Aug 2016
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Connecting with the Past

Photography by Owen Egan Stanley Diamond (MBA 1958) was thinking about the health of future generations of his family when he went searching for records of his relatives in... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Apr 1997
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How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries

they'd never hired a Harvard MBA before." Initially denied an on-campus interview with Apple due to her lack of experience, Dubinsky persevered and succeeded in meeting informally with the company's... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Aug 1998
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Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories

technology and entertainment. Since graduation, his career path has wound its way through pay-per-view television programming and new media business development to his current job as president of E! Online. Based on his experience writing... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Dec 2015
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Giving Advice

establishing your intent as a donor, setting strategic priorities, hiring staff, and managing compliance, administration, and governance. It typically makes more sense for families looking to invest millions View Details

01 Feb 1997
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Conversing in Cyberspace: Students and Alumni Talk Management

Does a new general manager who delegates decisions run the risk of appearing indecisive? Is an "open-door" policy a good way for a general manager to get information, or a terrible waste of time? What... View Details