Insights & Advice
6 Best Practices for Creating an Inclusive and Equitable Interview Process
Becca Carnahan
Are your organization’s interview processes inclusive and equitable? Or, are there more opportunities to counter bias in your interviews and welcome candidates with a variety of backgrounds and experiences? HBS experts weigh in to help organizations think through the details of their interview process to achieve their recruiting goals and create more diverse, welcoming, and successful organizations. [...]
Breaking Barriers and Building Community: Get to Know the HBS Women's Student Association (WSA)
- 12 May 2023
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The WSA, or Women’s Student Association, is a student-led organization at Harvard Business School for anyone who identifies as a woman. We’re the largest student organization on campus. Our role is to make the women at HBS feel supported, both professionally and personally. [...]
Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World
Kara Baskin
- 04 May 2023
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Nonstop flights generally make traveling more pleasant—but can they lead to innovation, too, especially in the global context? Research suggests that they can, with important takeaways for managers reinstating business travel in a world emerging from the pandemic. [...]
How Employers Can Support LGBTQ+ Employees
Becca Carnahan
If your company is actively asking the question “How can we best support our LGBTQ+ employees?” then you are already part of this important conversation. But it’s important to directly answer this question with concrete steps you can take today, this week, and this year to create a culture of support and inclusion that will benefit every member of your team. [...]
How to onboard recently graduated MBAs
- 06 Apr 2023
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For large numbers of Harvard Business School MBA graduates, the first post-degree position is not merely a return to the workforce, but a deliberate pivot toward a new ambition. “Many MBAs are switchers,” notes Kristin Brennan, HBS Career Coach. “They’ve used their education to go from one functional area to another. That can be exciting, but as new hires they’re navigating a new set of norms, expectations, and signals of what’s valued in their new organizations.” [...]
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