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- 26 Jul 2016
- News
HourlyNerd Rebrands as an Enterprise Talent Platform
role in redefining how enterprises access top talent to solve critical challenges,” according to a press release. The news follows the firm having received $22 million Series C funding earlier this month from General Catalyst Partners.... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Optimizing search technology
Olivier Dumon (MBA 1998) is managing director of academic and government markets for global publishing giant Elsevier, where he’s working on optimizing online search protocols. He believes that the more the technology is improved, the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Building business for a better Brazil
consumer goods, jobs, and global markets. Since selling the company to Credit Suisse First Boston in 1998, Lemann and his partners, Carlos A. Sicupira (OPM 9, 1984) and Marcel H. Telles (OPM 10, 1985) have focused on acquisitions that... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
Concluding a successful tenure at Mazda, Mark Fields was appointed on April 19 to head the Premier group, a London-based unit of Ford Motor Company, which controls Mazda. The Premier group, a $23 billion company, includes brands such as Volvo, Jaguar, Aston Martin, and... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
On a Mission to Have an Impact
After founding the online cosmetics service Eve.com, Varsha Rao (MBA 1995) is now heading global operations for Airbnb, helping customers of this mission-driven company gain richer travel experiences by connecting them more closely to the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
“It is not at all clear that when firms expand abroad they contract at home. If anything, you see the opposite.” — HBS professor MIHIR DESAI noting that foreign profits made by American firms put them in a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
international firms, “corporate culture trumps national culture,” is in line with what other studies show. They indicate that as high-performing global companies implement transnational strategy and strive to achieve competitive... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Brazil Banks on Experience
Ranked among the world’s largest economies, Brazil and the left-leaning government of newly elected President Lu íz In ácio Lula da Silva soothed wary financial markets by selecting Henrique Meirelles (93rd AMP), former head of global... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Fostering a synergy at work that benefits associates as well as customers
build great companies, and Zensar's success is a visible result." He knows employees personally, and adapts his style to suit their individual needs, but still expects a high level of performance. As Zensar has acquired firms in Boston,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
Rakuten.” “Students have strong reactions to this. On the one hand, some insist that this is a poison pill that must be swallowed—there’s no choice,” comments Neeley. “Others say, ‘This is impossible, the CEO is crazy. How can you do that?’ ” For her part, Neeley... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
The Changing Nature of Research
The problems facing business and society are increasingly complex. Developing solutions to global challenges requires a faculty adept at field work, cross-sector collaboration, complex data analysis, and intensive laboratory work, as well... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Washington. With Gratitude: Barker Steel and the People Who Made It Work by Robert B. Brack (OPM 2, 1977) ArchwayPublishing When Robert Brack returned to Barker Steel Co. (the business started by his grandfather in 1920) several years after college, the View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
making. In 1979, he was part of the first, small HBS delegation to visit a newly opened China. “It was the single most important trip of our lives,” he recalled. He glimpsed the future, and it now has come to pass: China has emerged as an economic force of major View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Faculty Research Online
HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’ CEOs of global companies increasingly mandate that their employees learn English. The problem: these workers can experience a loss of status and believe they aren’t as effective in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
What Is Harvard’s Impact in the World?
It’s safe to assume that Harvard University alumni collectively have a significant impact in the world, but just how significant is hard to know. That is why Harvard Business School is leading a University-wide effort to quantify the View Details
- 18 Nov 2014
- News
Leveraging entrepreneurial expertise
Bert Twaalfhoven (MBA 1954) created companies in 13 countries and cofounded the European Foundation for Entrepreneurship Research, which has trained more than 500 professors from European universities in the field of entrepreneurship. (Published November 2014) View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Setting the standards higher for safety and success
Cynthia Carroll (MBA 1989), former CEO of Anglo American PLC, talks about the impact of her decision to make mining safety the company's highest goal. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 26 Jan 2015
- News
Seizing opportunities as they come
Being open to possibilities has given Marne Levine (MBA 2005) the chance to work for the president of Harvard, in the Obama administration, and as Facebook’s VP of global public policy. (Published January 2015) View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Maiden Voyage
More than 80 countries have national space programs, spending a collective $64.5 billion in 2014, according to Euroconsult, a global consulting firm specializing in space markets. Approximately a dozen... View Details