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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
disparity of wealth and income in many countries and across regions. In turn, they thought these gaps could lead to populist politics that would adversely affect the conduct of capitalism. A second major concern was that our productive... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Education Innovation
CHILDRESS (MBA 2000) Illustration by Peter Hoey Related Links 5 Bright Ideas Charter Revolution Redux Lesson Plans Minding the Gap In an article for Harvard Business Review last year, former HBS lecturer Stacey Childress (MBA 2000)... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- News
Motivating Middle-Schoolers to Get up to Speed with Math
2010 that leverages the popularity of NBA basketball to help middle school students master the fundamentals of math. “STEM skills are driving innovation across all sectors today,” Daugherty notes, “but 67... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Field Course Helps Nascent Entrepreneurs Connect with Customers
200 second-year MBA students signed up for ESM’s 60 available seats. “Student demand, as well as feedback from alumni entrepreneurs, identified a critical skill gap in this area,” says Eisenmann, who... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller
talent pool, whether by upskilling their workers or collaborating with schools to embed the learning about the skills needed in their curricula and in work-based opportunities like co-op programs or paid internships. So that View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Beantown as a Beacon
COMMUNITY-SPECIFIC EDUCATION Online learning tailored to the skills gap of the unemployed Boston is an education mecca, but with the emergence of online education and MOOCs (massive open online courses),... View Details
- 18 May 2011
- News
U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
Don’t give up on American manufacturing yet. There are signs of new life that give rise to optimism about a U.S. manufacturing renaissance. A new analysis by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) estimates that within the next five years the wage View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Leading Questions
teams of consultants who did extensive and time-consuming one-on-one interviews. Synthesis, launched in 2017, aims for a middle ground: a focused but customized evaluation. “We ask ourselves what are the things you need to know right now... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
emergency We are increasing class time, but increasing it at home and fulfilling our obligations through distance learning. JH: Khan Academy stepped up to fill the gaps when school went online around the world in 2020. SK: I remember it... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
strengthened his belief that those who prosper in business are obligated to serve the greater good. His decadelong presidency of the World Bank provided the ultimate opportunity to pursue that mission on a global scale. Wolfensohn’s subsequent involvement with the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping
with the men: the midlevel skills gap. “That was the spark,” says Kane, who along with Bockmann and other members of the HBS Club of New York launched the HBSCNY Skills Gap... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Sep 2016
- News
The Solution That Doesn’t Get Discussed About How to Get More Women On Corporate Boards
fulfill, with no compromises, both the skill set and personality fit requirements of the board. For people who like to stick with traditional methods, this is traditional. For centuries we have interviewed one group of individuals... View Details
- 11 Jan 2016
- News
Guiding Students to Out-of-School Programs and Resources
Marie Schwartz (MBA 1985) is founder and CEO of TeenLife Media, which produces online and print directories of STEM, gap year, pre-college, overnight summer, and community service programs for students in grades 7 through 12. In this... View Details
- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Charter Supporter
headquartered in Waterloo, Wisconsin. While there, she set up Trek’s sales and distribution companies across Europe and worked in forecasting and planning. Since 2007, she has devoted her energy and skills full time to the nonprofit... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Over the last half century, capitalism has created... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Benaree Wiley
affairs. Working with area companies and institutions, The Partnership facilitates interactions among current and emerging leaders and provides opportunities for individuals to share their knowledge and skills to bring about change in the... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
growing number of students from high-poverty neighborhoods. “Our core mission is to help close the STEM achievement gap among students of diverse backgrounds in Boston,” Pearson explained in a traveling conversation this summer that began... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we're going to highlight another one of the great podcasts here at HBS: Managing the Future of Work, hosted by professor and visiting fellow at the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
welfare,” Desai noted. Middle-Skills Gap Senior Lecturer Joe Fuller worked with consulting firm Accenture and workforce analytics company Burning Glass Technologies to produce a report highlighting the ways employers can foster the... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
shape Energicity’s future as it expands from 25 communities in mid-2020 to 50 communities by the middle of 2021 and beyond. Poindexter: Ultimately for a business like mine, the rules and the context of Silicon Valley are still applicable.... View Details