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- 25 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
The Internship Search: “Is this just a personal interest, or is there a real professional opportunity here?”
“But I didn’t want a large, established organization – I already had that experience at Morgan Stanley,” Aaron explains. He wanted to experience something more dynamic with a fast-growth and an entrepreneurial culture where he could work... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Learning from the Past
led it back to profitability during the oil boom of the 1970s. By 1983, however, boom had turned to bust. After restructuring the company to a more suitable size, Strassler cashed out and helped his brother launch a family-run investment... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
Leading the Way for Women Entrepreneurs
they lead.” Hyman expressed some optimism on that front, saying she thinks the startup culture will evolve over the next decade, as more women find success. And she is helping to create that change. Last year, Hyman launched the Rent the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Truth in Lending
someone who thinks a high percentage of managers steal from their companies is more likely to do so himself—and you ask the same question in a variety of ways. The Entrepreneurial Finance Lab also collects a second level of data on the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ink
testing of content, technology, and facilities. Education’s work is never done, so creating a culture of continual improvement is vital. “Making progress and never standing still is a hallmark of a healthy society and healthy schools, and... View Details
- 07 Jun 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Important are Big Ideas?
distributed today that it’s relatively easy to access them no matter where you’re located." In Thomas Kermorgant’s words, "Outstanding companies create the concepts that are then formalized and spread by gurus. Outstanding View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leadership Lessons From Outer Space
Virts replied. Regarding what it's like to work with an internationally diverse team in close quarters, Virts indicated that it's a matter of character and attitude. "The ability to work with other cultures is absolutely mandatory... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Can Our Parenting Struggles Make Us Better Leaders?
its culture as an amalgam of “freedom and responsibility.” By freedom, the company doesn’t mean a free-for-all. Yes, workers have the freedom to express opposing viewpoints, and they also have wide leeway... View Details
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
"shameful," especially for companies in need of federal bailouts. Such pay, he said, is "exactly the kind of disregard for the costs and consequences of their actions that brought about this crisis—a View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
ultracompetitive business world, the difference between success and failure lies in the ability to get every employee to think and behave like a strategist. This book helps business leaders expand strategic thinking from the purview of “the elite few” into the whole... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
position.” While organizations (and individual workers) don’t win by “brain collecting,” they do benefit from strategies that take cultural and skill matches into consideration. Groysberg notes that he’s heard from View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
Alumni Books The Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth by James Allen (MBA 1989) and Chris Zook (Harvard Business Review Press) Based on their decade-long study of companies in more than 40 countries, the... View Details
- November 1999
- Case
SUPERVALU, Inc.: Professional Development Program
By: Francis Aguilar
SUPERVALU examines the creation and implementation of a training program for attracting and retaining college graduates for the nation's largest wholesale food distribution company. It addresses: 1) program design and 2) the management of the design effort and program... View Details
Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Recruitment; Retention; Training; Organizational Culture; Design; Business or Company Management; Higher Education; Programs; Food and Beverage Industry; Distribution Industry
Aguilar, Francis. "SUPERVALU, Inc.: Professional Development Program." Harvard Business School Case 900-019, November 1999.
- 21 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google
Gerstner gave Irving Wladawsky-Berger the assignment of his life – put together an Internet strategy for a company that had fallen on such hard times that it was being described by many as a dinosaur. As it turned out, he helped IBM... View Details
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future
The unparalleled size of Asia's markets has always caught the eye of multinational corporations. More recently, as government policies and cultural attitudes in the region continue to evolve, the strategies of multinational View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 03 Mar 2014
- Blog Post
Align Your Social Media and Recruiting Strategies
lets candidates get a glimpse into your firm’s goals and objectives, enticing them to learn more. Tout your Company Culture and Opportunities AvailableIn addition to using social media platforms to broadcast... View Details
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Bibliography - The Art of American Advertising
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1987. Laird, Pamela Walker. Advertising Progress: American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing . Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1998. Lears, Jackson. Fables of Abundance: A View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
country that had missed the industrial revolution that happened in many other countries in the 19th century, and then had suffered terribly under Mao since 1949. The so-called Great Leap Forward in 1958 triggered a famine that killed 40 million people, and in 1966,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 28 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience: Recruiting HBS Students for Investment Banking
students where people can thrive in the culture.” This is the case for both the bulge bracket banks with significant brand recognition on campus and the boutique banks. Students see the value of experience in both types of organizations and are actively looking for a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Channel by Connie Sage (University of Virginia Press) Among his many accomplishments, the late Frank Batten Sr. (MBA 1952) created the Weather Channel in 1982, which became the largest private weather company in the world and an American... View Details