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- 25 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
South Africa—are seeing the gap and saying, Why don’t I go improve my skill set and maybe in the long term I could go back.” The desire to improve his own skill set was what... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
developing economic powerhouse. In the evening light, silhouettes of high-rises under construction punctuate the modern skyline, and a gleaming urban mall stands ready to serve Mumbai’s growing, consumer-oriented middle class. This is the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
serve the emerging middle class in Mexico. IGNIA represents Rodríguez’s commitment to his homeland as well as his belief in tackling social problems with market solutions. “We support entrepreneurs because we want to have a positive... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
rigorous case discussion at any HBS section including people with knowledge of Iraq and the Middle East, we would never have gone to war. The best way to avoid post-conflict problems is to avoid conflict. If conflict were forced upon us,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
skills and strategies required to move from entry-level and middle management roles to the executive ranks. Pierre offers key lessons and short stories containing practical advice designed to help readers... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
here’s your process for innovation.” Ross thinks she has the answer — simple in its expression but profound in its implications: “It’s all about reinventing the way we work together.” Back to the Drawing Board Since January, Ross has been spreading her ideas about... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
organization is involved, we charge. Advertising also brings in revenue." ALISON enables potential employers to immediately test the skill of certificate-holding ALISON graduates through 20-question "flash tests" that assess their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
skills tied to specific disciplinary knowledge that are increasingly vacuous and superfluous.” And HBS professor Rakesh Khurana contends that many business schools have been complicit in creating recent corporate scandals by turning out... 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
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Over 50 and Job Hunting?
head, stay focused, and be able to show that you have the skills to get there,” she advises. Lassiter tells her clients to scan help wanted ads, not because they’re likely to find a job in a newspaper or online, but because “employment... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Code Breakers
recent decades, the number of women in tech jobs remains far lower. And the figures for women in leadership roles still hover around a far-from-equal 25 percent. Girls Who Code is on a mission to close the gender gap in STEM education and... View Details
- 12 Apr 2011
- News
Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS
'03 David Merle, MBA '03 Superdome building integrated photovoltaics India HBS Club of India Vikram Sharma, MBA '06 Crossover Energy sustainable energy services Latin America HBS Club of Brazil Thomaz Srougi, GMP 6 2009 Dr. Consulta affordable healthcare solutions... View Details
Keywords: Multiple alumni
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Getting on Board
that keep the CEO up at night?” A strong advocate for increased board member diversity, Chin cites a recent Catalyst study which showed that companies with boards that are diverse in terms of gender, race, and perspective have better overall profitability. “Look for... View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
general manager in its Tokyo office, and later in New York managing multinational accounts. He’d later land in Houston, where he was sent to fix banks in trouble. “I used my skills from Professor Lodge’s Organizational Behavior course,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
things," says Greg Thompson (MBA 2005), CEO of the Tennessee Charter School Incubator, which provides managerial training and school launch support for charter school leaders. "Now we need systems to make sure high-quality people have the View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
nonprofit focused on improving urban economies, and ICV Partners, a Black-owned private equity firm focused on companies in the lower middle market. Willie Woods is cofounder, president, and managing director of ICV Partners, and in this... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Breakthrough International Negotiation
Susan Rosegrant urge business leaders to learn from the lessons of negotiators who have helped to shape recent world history. Watkins, who teaches the popular HBS elective Corporate Diplomacy, worked with Rosegrant, a political case writer, to cull the most essential... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
the nonprofit raised more than $650,000. Mariano Parro MPP/MBA 2020 Mariano Parro helped launch ProTalento, which seeks to bridge the skills gap among young people in Latin America. “The pandemic is severely... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
School gave me the ability to have a broad overview that focused not only on the financial dimension of a business but on its many other facets, including management, strategy, manufacturing, and marketing. I began to rely increasingly on these View Details