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- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
the firm, though they do take bold business initiatives. Some firms like Southwest have no long term debt. Southwest self-financed because to grow too quickly would have undermined their ability to hire employees who fit Southwest's...
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by Martha Lagace
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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
opinion by hiring public-relations consultants and eventually founding corporate publicity departments.”14The economic strife brought about by the Great Depression in the 1930s instilled a sense of public misgivings about large...
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Connect with Alumni - Recruiting
Hire Talent Connect with Alumni Hire Talent Connect with Alumni Over 86,000 alumni, each with their unique skills and career journey, make up the robust and diverse HBS alumni community. Engage with alumni...
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- 27 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Managers, Your Employees Don’t Want to Be Facebook ‘Friends’
and beliefs online with the wrong colleague may expose employees to career consequences, such as not being hired or promoted and being discriminated against.” Workers are wary of friending bosses Across four studies, the authors examined...
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by Rachel Kim Raczka
- 20 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses
says. Managers push for liquidation One reason for the trend? Senior creditors typically hire external managers to guide a company through Chapter 11. But instead of reorganizing, the manager often persuades the judge to approve a speedy...
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by Rachel Layne
- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
determine coverages and set rates, explained very clearly to potential customers how their product worked and what was within coverage and what was not. AI is still a very imperfect technology that often fails. There should not be any surprises for customers on that...
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by Rocio Wu
- 23 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Break the Expert’s Curse
Recall In one experiment, Zhang hired 169 college undergrads to keep daily diaries of their summer internships, with the understanding that Zhang would hold on to the diaries in a "time capsule" to be opened at a later date. The interns...
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- 03 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First
Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,...
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by Rachel Layne
- 10 May 2019
- Blog Post
Advice for Mothers Pursuing an MBA
of us will deal with parenthood in one way or another. Many of us will become parents, some of us will be peers of parents at work, and many will hire parents. It is important to learn how to manage employees who are parents, and this...
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- 19 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career
shop” for employers and potential employees to find each other, even when labor markets are tight. But as hiring grows, tighter linkages between educational institutions and industry can yield better economic outcomes for workers and...
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by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
diverse tasks, global travel, and independence. It was a great ride! The lesson I learned is that your work ethic and luck both count, since you can’t always know how to pick a winning horse when you’re green. —Marki Ware (MBA 1975) The Company You Keep I was View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
region. After all, while it might have a Silicon Valley–like valuation and aggressive expansion plan, the organization can’t simply hire more software engineers in order to grow. And unlike the NBA’s efforts to operate in China, where it...
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Dan Morrell
- 05 Sep 2014
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Keeping Education in Check
help of a PR company hired by Berman. Their campaign worked. Other charities popped up as a result of Chess for Change. Moves for Life now coaches more than 12,000 students a week in South Africa. ChessKIDS Academy is also coaching 12,000...
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Maureen Harmon
- 10 Sep 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Branding Yoga
Women's Health and the Huffington Post. In 2008, after opening her own studio, Strala Yoga, the popular doctor and self-help author Deepak Chopra hired Stiles as his personal yoga instructor, a huge endorsement. Stiles created controversy...
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- 13 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas
than in recent years, indicating that a shift is potentially already underway. “The added uncertainties and costs of tough tech development and commercial exploration require a different approach to testing the startup’s hypothesis, raising capital and building teams,”...
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by Avery Forman
- 10 Sep 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBAs Need More Street Smarts?
outstanding service organizations, we have found that they invariably hire for attitude and train for skills. Are street smarts attitudes or skills? If street smarts are attitudes, should MBA program admissions offices look for them in...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
generated an operational loss. "My feedback was, 'You're in trouble,'" recalls Kahn. By the spring, Kahn was in Mumbai, part of a team tasked with turning Agrovet around—the first foreigner the Godrej Group had ever hired in a leadership...
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Mark Fuller
globalization; they wanted help and advice,” says Fuller. Seeing an opportunity, Monitor opened offices abroad and hired local staffs. As Monitor grew, it developed its own unique culture. The firm is divided into a dozen units, each...
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Men’s Discomfort with Women’s Health Starves Tech Companies Serving Female Customers - Blog: RaGE Report
Professor Koning’s research helps explain why tech startups geared toward women customers have smaller teams and often struggle to hire talented employees. About 80% of the people applying for startup jobs are men, and many won’t work for...
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- 11 Mar 2021
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Leading with Heart
CVS because I read that they were hiring 80 or 100,000 people. And I said to them, "Hey, listen, you are hiring people. I'm having to furlough people. Why don't you pick up my people? And then give them back...
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