Filter Results:
(310)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,265)
- People (8)
- News (310)
- Research (620)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (11)
- Faculty Publications (295)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,265)
- People (8)
- News (310)
- Research (620)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (11)
- Faculty Publications (295)
Sort by
- 31 Jan 2019
- News
A Global Mission
currently focused on recruiting students from Syria and northern Iraq. Elsewhere, DeFehr has developed an idea for an overland shipping route in southern Mexico to rival the Panama Canal. Business opportunities in that part of the world,... View Details
- 04 Feb 2020
- News
In Harmony
months later, he was introduced to Beverly Sills of the New York City Opera, where the orchestra was about to go on strike. They needed someone with experience in labor relations. When Sills asked Weinstein if he had the experience, he... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
A Trusty Board
leadership skills to work as trustees. In fact, each of the people interviewed for this article works with a board member (or several) who is an HBS graduate. Witness John McCarter's answer to how he ended up at the Field Museum: "Two... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
There and Back Again: The Challenges and Rewards of Working Abroad
environment that may force them to question their own identity, values, and basic assumptions. That kind of change requires preparation, advise two specialists in senior international recruitment at Russell Reynolds: Patrick Delhougne... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
leaders through Bridgestar, a nonprofit executive recruiting service leveraged by technology; and to create a robust source of knowledge from those activities that can be shared freely — and free of charge — with others. “The vast... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
places over the past several years. The fact that so many factory workers had to leave their families for extended periods was untenable in the long run. There were the terrible Foxconn suicides. The one-child-per-family policy was beginning to create a population... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA
later that she fully recognized that the decision-making skills she learned as a young Marine officer were not all that different than those valued in a CEO. The stakes on the ground in Iraq were higher than in a boardroom, but in the... View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
after the initial cleanup operations are finished. Once they’re on the ground, the mission includes repairing homes, rebuilding schools, health clinics, community centers, and whatever else is needed. It’s a job that taps into his entire View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
- 19 Aug 2016
- News
Lending a Hand to Small Businesses in Emerging Markets
lenders a better understanding of both the skills and the personality of loan applicants. Based on psychometrics research conducted at the Harvard Center for International Development, the questions on this test seek not to mimic the data... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
leveraged as a skilled global workforce. With a shortage of qualified teachers and access to quality education still limited in many parts of the country, that condition remains a significant barrier. “If the Indian government privatized... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 14 Jan 2014
- News
Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship
recruiting manufacturing firms into rural communities and helping them create jobs," explains Schultz. "As a result of this work, in 2001 I embarked on a three-year research project that began by looking at 15,800 small towns across... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
Professor Bill Poorvu recruited him to help manage a $27 million pool of capital in the newly formed Baupost. While the starting salary was an underwhelming $35K, it turned out to be the opportunity of a lifetime. In 26 years, Baupost has... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
realized that because of where things are in this part of the world—namely underdeveloped infrastructure, underdeveloped skill sets, probably nascent understanding of new spaces altogether—I think it is, more than ever now, that it's... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
HBS Collaboration Helps Management Education for Minority Students
recognition," Aguilar says. "To attract top students, they need to offer career opportunities by providing skills relevant to targeted corporations." Recently, the Alliance turned its attention to connecting member corporations with... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
to that,” he says. The ability to build something new, especially the critical thinking required of such a task, was foremost among the skills McMinn honed at HBS, he says. “It taught me to think for myself, not to regurgitate facts and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
as a Nonprofit Management Fellow at a UN economic institute in Belgrade in 1990. “And with so many international students at the School, one truly becomes a world citizen through one's HBS friends.” Meanwhile, at the Kennedy School, Djelic met economist Jeffrey Sachs,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 02 Dec 2021
- News
Learning Curve
told Melcher, but she also needed interaction with other children. “They also said there were lots of other kids in Houston who needed this,” Melcher observes. The Joy School began in 1997 as an experiment, with just four students—Katie and three others View Details
- 31 Jan 2025
- News
New York, Boston Alumni Volunteer to Boost Small Businesses
area small businesses that “were in serious trouble” due to COVID. Kane and Bockmann quickly pulled together a plan, formed a leadership team, recruited about 60 alumni volunteers, and set up virtual coaching sessions that initially... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
the area. Marietta also had an ideal mix of skills and experience. In addition to launching Giant Otter at HGSE, he founded a consultancy that helped schools across the country improve labor, management, and community relations; so he... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Cutting Edge
brand, Silk explains, "Different skills are required, but notable among them are creativity, analytical know-how, the ability to seize the opportunity, and the passion to make it a crusade. Another key element is that our 150 employees... View Details