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- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
a token hire. Knowing the extended team around the business is diverse, can allay these concerns. Ask your investors to help sell the business to prospective candidates. This can be especially critical if you’re trying to hire a senior... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 05 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference across Borders
During the pandemic and the disruption in business worldwide, the HBS Career & Professional Development team made an appeal to alumni and recruiting partners that resulted in nearly 1,000 new full-time and internship opportunities for... View Details
- 06 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?
teaming up with some local firm in Europe that offers a complementary product? Couldn't we get what we need through a joint venture?" If we don't make this move, we get killed by VisiDat—or some other competitor we don't even know... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships
that HBS provided the ideal preparation for launching a new company. “You become familiar with all the roles in a startup, from CEO to HR director,” he says. He and his business partners also benefited from HBS faculty advice. “It’s like... View Details
Keywords: fellowships
- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
quantitative strategy, digging into numbers many ignore; others look deeply into industries or countries they are familiar with that many analysts don't understand. Successful investors learn how to put their unique knowledge to work... View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones
zones As companies expand operations across the globe, they must grapple with time gaps during which employees cannot collaborate (i.e., lost productivity). To study this phenomenon, a research team studied communication patterns among... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
How Alumni Can Recruit When They Aren’t Recruiters
some tips and tricks to tackle hiring at HBS like a recruiter. Reach out to our Corporate Relations Directors and Recruiting Relations Managers for support The Career & Professional Development team is here to support you in... View Details
- 03 Feb 2020
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization Have Too Much 'Rebel Talent'?
while hiring and assigning conventional managers to deal with more familiar and common tasks and goals.” “The right question is therefore not the amount of ‘rebel talent’ but how to focus it on the right causes.” Grace was more cautious.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
How Alumni Can Recruit When They Aren’t Recruiters - Recruiting
Insights & Advice 21 Nov 2024 How Alumni Can Recruit When They Aren’t Recruiters Jess Hopper Author HBS Team tag All Industries All Locations Recruiting Advice Recruiting Strategies If you’re a Harvard Business School alumnus, you’ve... View Details
- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
To illustrate the old adage that birds of a feather flock together, there may be no better example than the venture capital industry. A recent study finds that venture capitalists have a strong tendency to team up with other VCs whose... View Details
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
she worked on Moroccan agricultural policy with a team of consultants. "I was just an intern," Ashraf says, "but as I looked around the boardroom I realized that not one of these people had ever actually talked to a farmer in Morocco. And... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
examine the effects of team familiarity and diversity in experience on performance for software development projects. We find the interaction of team View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
particularly in developing, technology-poor countries. Harvard Business School professor Diego Comin teamed with Harvard University's Philippe Aghion and Brown University's Peter Howitt to research the issue and write the working paper... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
provides, it forces senior executives to become more familiar with how younger, even entry-level, people think, how they work, and how and what they are consuming. To make it work, senior executives have to make themselves vulnerable to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?
professor in Harvard Business School’s Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit. Beshears is an expert in behavioral economics, which uses insights from psychology and economics to explain individual decision making and help people make wiser choices. “You’re... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
VEDP is to be a “super-collaborator.” Economic development is really a team sport, he says. The process was both familiar and unprecedented. “It was similar to any RFP in its elements, but the stakes were... View Details
- 15 Nov 2021
- News
Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959)
technology, health care, telecommunications, and software. “When they founded the company, venture capital wasn’t a familiar term,” says daughter Bishop. “My father felt like he was an entrepreneur. That was how he explained their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
collaborated with doctors and college students to produce information on sexual and mental health topics that was both accurate and interesting to young women. But as the Confi team talked with students about subjects such as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
varied experience) and learning by groups finds inconsistent results. We hypothesize that repetition of interaction may help explain this difference, as familiar teams may be able to use the knowledge gained... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
to examine the effects of team familiarity and variation in experience on multiple measures of performance for software development projects. In most cases, we do not find evidence of a significant main... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace