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26 Sep 2016
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Steward gets $1.25b to fund expansion, repay Cerberus

December 2016 (Revised August 2017)
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Tesla in 2015

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Arnold B. Peinado

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12 Mar 2019
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How Goldman Sachs is using technology to redefine banking

Goldman Sachs, a bastion of Wall Street for over 150 years, has been remaking itself using new technology. Marty Chavez, co-head of securities and former CFO, has played a key role in this transition as workflows, position titles, and business models across the bank... View Details

20 Nov 2018
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Retraining road-trip: New skills for older workers

From South Carolina, to Appalachia, to Wisconsin, Professor Willy Shih set out across the country to understand the plight of older workers coping with the changing nature of jobs. His conclusion: the challenges are enormous, but finally, a grassroots movement is... View Details

25 Oct 2018
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How advanced technology is lifting the business of cranes

Panu Routila, the CEO of Konecranes, which makes port cranes and industrial lifting equipment, discusses how technology is transforming the business of moving many of the things we buy every day. Technologies such as data analytics and virtual reality are not only... View Details

23 Feb 2022
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MFW research: Rethinking low-wage work

What's the business case for upgrading low-wage, high-turnover jobs? Joe Fuller joins his Managing the Future of Work co-chair and podcast co-host, Bill Kerr, to unpack the project's recent report, Building From the Bottom Up. View Details

20 Sep 2018
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Ep 13: Work without borders: How digital platforms are transforming the way firms get things done

As the world gets smaller, the talent pools available to firms are getting much, much bigger. By bringing employers and workers together and solving key challenges of contracting at a distance, digital labor platforms are changing the way work is done. Professor Chris... View Details

31 Jul 2018
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Ep 10: Collaborate in the classroom, compete on the grid

As regional utilities across the country faced a silver tsunami of retiring workers, they came together as an industry to develop a pipeline of middle skills workers like linesmen and technicians. From identifying critical roles and competencies to developing... View Details

25 Aug 2021
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Coursera: From virtual lecture hall to platform for lifelong learning

Coursera Chief Enterprise Officer, Leah Belsky, on how online education is facilitating workforce development, mitigating Covid job losses, promoting diversity, transforming teaching, and enabling lifelong learning. She also discusses the company’s decisive shift to... View Details

28 Jul 2021
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Veeva’s distributed approach to building institutional knowledge and shared culture

Life sciences cloud software company Veeva's origins as a highly decentralized organization and its early adoption of video conferencing paid off when Covid-19 forced the switch to remote work. The business was able to help speed up the vaccine pipeline. Co-founder and... View Details

11 Jul 2018
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Ep 8: What can businesses learn from the present crisis of trust in tech?

Professor Sandra Sucher, an HBS faculty member who has studied trust in business for over a decade, discusses “techlash.” With customers, employees, and governments reacting to transgressions by some of the world’s largest companies, the importance of trust is more... View Details

05 May 2021
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US plans for AI primacy

As the US vies with global AI rivals for technological and strategic advantage, where will it find the human brainpower and skilled labor to compete? Is the government prepared for the challenge? Artificial intelligence is crossing boundaries, transforming markets, and... View Details

03 Jun 2018
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Ep 1: How Vodafone’s CEO is using AI to transform the way the company works

Vittorio Colao, CEO Vodafone, is bringing about sweeping change at one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies. In a conversation with Bill Kerr, Colao shares the management challenge of using bots and advanced technology to transform activities like... View Details

04 Nov 2020
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IBM P-TECH and SkillsBuild: Narrow the skills gap, broaden opportunity

Can public-private partnerships do the heavy lifting of workforce development while promoting upward mobility? And can they help underserved groups participate in a post-Covid recovery? IBM’s P-TECH high school STEM program works with community colleges and industry... View Details

13 Aug 2020
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How Guild democratizes employer-sponsored education benefits

For many workers, company-sponsored education benefits are a perk that’s hard to translate from employee handbook to reality. Guild Education bridges this gap by aligning incentives— matching students with appropriate programs, having employers profitably front costs,... View Details

August 2019 (Revised December 2022)
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Endeavor in 2019: Leading Through Inflections

By: Lynda M. Applegate

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15 Oct 2019
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Advancing China’s Impact Investing Ecosystem

As a second-year student, Cissy Chen (MBA 2019) worked with Jingsheng Huang, managing executive director of the Harvard Center Shanghai, to organize an impact investing conference in Shanghai. (photo courtesy Harvard Center Shanghai) As a... View Details

01 Jun 2017
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The End of the Noncompete Clause

since 2009. Those efforts, however, have been slowed by strong opposition from EMC, one of the state’s largest tech companies. That led Johnson to consider an innovative approach to changing noncompetes. With advice from a team of labor law experts, he founded the... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos

20 Jul 2022
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Wired to be Inspired

be in everything they did. It informed their strategy, it informed their organizational practices, it informed their culture and hiring, it really permeated the organization in two significant ways. The first was purpose was like a... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

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Working with Spaces, Files & Folders - Research Computing Services

preference files, work that is considered 'in development'. Project folders are shared locations, and ideally used for collaborative project spaces. Please see our recommendation below on organizing project spaces. NOTE: Only those... View Details

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