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- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)
seminars that culminated in recruiting partners extending job offers to students was an especially meaningful experience because she was a part of creating a life-changing impact for young people from underrepresented communities. It was... View Details
- July 2020 (Revised September 2020)
- Case
The Honor Foundation: Accessing Special Operations Talent
By: Boris Groysberg and John Masko
In 2020, The Honor Foundation (THF), a nonprofit dedicated to helping U.S. military special operators to transition into civilian careers, was facing a series of strategic challenges. THF had been founded in 2013 by former Navy SEAL trainee Joe Musselman, who observed... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Curriculum and Courses; Executive Education; Social Entrepreneurship; National Security; Recruitment; Retention; Job Interviews; Job Search; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Crisis Management; Mission and Purpose; Retirement; Nonprofit Organizations; War; Education Industry; San Diego; Virginia
Groysberg, Boris, and John Masko. "The Honor Foundation: Accessing Special Operations Talent." Harvard Business School Case 421-006, July 2020. (Revised September 2020.)
- April 2019 (Revised July 2019)
- Case
Aperture Investors
By: Krishna G. Palepu, George Serafeim and David Lane
Aperture Investors is a startup investment firm that seeks to disrupt the asset management industry through competitive differentiation by charging investors primarily when its portfolio managers outperform the marketplace. Headed by Wall Street veteran Peter Kraus and... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Talent and Talent Management; Investment; Investment Funds; Asset Management; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Marketing Channels; Emerging Markets; Partners and Partnerships; Motivation and Incentives; Financial Services Industry
Palepu, Krishna G., George Serafeim, and David Lane. "Aperture Investors." Harvard Business School Case 119-053, April 2019. (Revised July 2019.)
- January 2025
- Case
Netflix: Takedown Troubles
By: Clayton S. Rose, Tom Quinn and Maxim Pike Harrell
In October 2021, Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos sent an all-staff email addressing backlash to comedian Dave Chappelle’s new stand-up special, The Closer. Released on October 5, the comedian’s depiction of the transgender community and other LGBTQ+ groups prompted... View Details
Keywords: Disruption; Talent and Talent Management; Customer Satisfaction; Cost vs Benefits; Demographics; Ethics; Corporate Accountability; Employees; Recruitment; Retention; Leadership; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Strategic Planning; Adaptation; Decisions; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
Rose, Clayton S., Tom Quinn, and Maxim Pike Harrell. "Netflix: Takedown Troubles." Harvard Business School Case 325-021, January 2025.
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
As Rehm began to put together his team, he recruited Green for the Special Funds Branch, and the “physical defect” that had kept Green from joining the war effort was cured with a little strategic lobbying. In February 1943, Green... View Details
- 17 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Grads Launch Cybersecurity Nonprofit to Fight Infodemic
allow us to build a stronger tech backend and developer-console, giving us an edge to compete with Facebook login. We were also regular hustlers at all of the Harvard innovation lab (ilab) activities. For example, we participated in the i-lab startup career fair where... View Details
- 11 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Leadership and Diversity at HBS
business professional. What has surprised you the most about HBS? There is a myth outside of HBS that students here are not very inclusive and that everyone treats academics or recruiting as a zero sum game. This viewpoint cannot be... View Details
- 30 May 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the HBS Sound Society
talented musicians and singers, and Sound Society can serve as a communal gathering place for these musicians to get together and share their gift with the HBS community. Two: experience live music together with other students. People love going to concerts, but it... View Details
- 05 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Summer Internships in the JD/MBA Program
very excited to be joining the Acquisitions team at Starwood Capital, a private equity firm with a focus on real estate, in their headquarters in Greenwich, Connecticut. As with last year, HBS opened the door to a phenomenal amount of View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
host for January's WesTrek, a recruiting and networking event in Silicon Valley attended by almost 250 HBS students. In the global realm, our new Asia Pacific research office, due to open this fall in Hong Kong, will provide a unique... View Details
- 07 Oct 2014
- News
Network Effect
someone who was entrepreneurial, a self-starter. HBS teaches quite well the entrepreneurial spirit,” McCance said. The CAF partners asked Tanzi to recruit a dozen other researchers they had identified as standouts in the field and to urge... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
philosophy— "going for scale," as the dot-commers put it. This approach makes sense in certain contexts, especially for businesses like on-line recruitment sites, because their competitive advantage lies in the size of their... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
general manager was granted autonomy, capital, and freedom to recruit star engineers from other divisions. D'Arbeloff presided as chairman of Aurora's board of directors, believing that, "with things customers aren't asking for, in... View Details
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
Invitations to recruiting events Beyond the basics: Seek examples of job descriptions (JDs) and critiques of those you’ve written. Most investors were operators once and have a good sense of how to write a good JD. Investors may also have... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
took a job at Stride Rite. By the time eBay came along, I was at Hasbro in Rhode Island. Fortunately, my husband was game to move back to California. What was your first reaction when a recruiter asked you to consider interviewing at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
discussed the question with Marcela Sapone (MBA 2015), who had just launched Whitespace, a venture lab and startup incubator. The women then recruited fellow first-year MBAs Mike Chang (MBA 2014), Jessica Beck (MBA 2015), and Okalo Ikhena... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite
others. Finally, these mentors often became powerful sponsors later in the minority executives' career, recruiting them again and again to new positions." Beyond all this, for minorities to succeed in the upper reaches of Corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 20 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
“Business as Usual, In a Different Way” – Creating an Impactful Remote Internship at Actis
became a program of two to three-hour Zoom calls over a period of four weeks so that information could be shared in digestible chunks. “What was really lovely about this switch is that we were able to recruit more people from around Actis... View Details
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
U.S. areas where the two industries are not co-located. All three of Marshall's theories of agglomeration are supported, with input-output linkages particularly important. The Definitive Guide to Recruiting in Good Times and Bad... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
was selected as the start point for two reasons: First, it was when the CEO of BigAC observed that less than 10 percent of the candidates for partnership were female—this after a decade of actively recruiting highly qualified women. And... View Details