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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation
Illustration by VectorStock As a doctoral student at HBS, Prithwiraj “Raj” Choudhury identified a little-studied phenomenon in innovation: Managers from emerging markets who migrated to the United States for jobs at multinational...
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April White
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
jobs an average of 11 times in the course of their careers, and beyond the potential to misplace all that paperwork, any number of things can happen before a person reaches retirement age, says Romina Savova (MBA 2012). “The institution...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
team, how to measure progress, and more. The Virtual Manager: Cutting-Edge Solutions for Hiring, Managing, Motivating, and Engaging Mobile Employees by Kevin Sheridan (MBA 1988) (Career Press) As more and more View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
An American Story
helped edit his dissertation, “World War II Manpower Mobilization and Utilization in a Local Labor Market.” “His sentences sometimes ran on and on in the Germanic way, so I would tighten them up a bit,” she remembers. In a tough View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
environmentally sound reconstruction of decaying neighborhoods by training at-risk urban youth in construction and putting them in line for good jobs. City Year, an education-focused nonprofit on whose national board I serve, mobilizes...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Rebooting Europe
it easier for researchers to settle throughout Europe while also improving job security and pension options. In the speech, Moedas also lauded the newly launched European Fund for Strategic Investments, an effort that will View Details
- 14 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as a Beta Site for Business Innovation
Despite its long economic boom, America's social problems abound. To ensure future economic success, the country needs dramatic improvement in public schools, more highly skilled workers, jobs with a future for people coming off the...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Jul 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: Which Companies Are Transforming Work?
initiative, recently answered reader questions on Instagram, as part of our ongoing “Office Hours” series. Fuller’s research probes the "skills gap" and the paradox that many employers struggle to fill jobs while millions of Americans...
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Marques Torbert
Educational Opportunity (SEO), led to a full-time position in the M&A department after graduation; a job Marques held for two years. “Playing” with the school’s money After another three years with Clarion Capital, Marques “was...
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- 26 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future
2001 to 9 million today), especially girls. But the bad news is they have no jobs to look forward to. Although stability and security facilitate investing for the long term, they are not enough. Afghans must have credible information...
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by Tarun Khanna
- 11 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP and the Bonus of Climate Educator Collaboration
the audience for engagement, and navigating and aligning the needs of different stakeholders. Helpfully, Katie Kross and Jessica Wingert at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, who lead ClimateCAP and all of its year-round activities, send summaries and insights to keep...
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- 05 Oct 2016
- What Do You Think?
Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?
Whose Job Is It to Rebuild the US Middle Class? Optimism among respondents to this month’s column concerning future United States growth rates hinges on whether the middle class can be restored. That’s a big contingency. Those commenting...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
considerably. He went on to earn advanced degrees in biochemistry and management science and immigrated with his new wife, Shainoor, to Vancouver. After a brief stint at a pharmaceutical company (“I’m an entrepreneur; I just didn’t fit”), Khoja took a View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
What I Do: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002)
impact?” “One of our big projects was to enable people in California to get food assistance from their mobile phone. To promote that, we started running Google AdWord campaigns. We’ve found that for every $10 that we spend, we can get...
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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
City released the 'New' New York Plan focused on transforming the city's job centers to support the ways people will live and work in the future. A set of initiatives emerged to serve as a roadmap to make New York City the best place to...
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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Eric C. Feagler: Against the Odds
his mobility slowly returned, residual paralysis throughout his legs and trunk prevented him from flying. Realizing that his naval career was over, he reluctantly turned his thoughts to rebuilding his life. Feagler began a lengthy View Details
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Colt Stander
Chances are there haven’t been many MBA candidates who have designed eyeglasses for Nickelodeon and Geoffrey Beene, or the mobile console for a micro-ablation tool used in surgical suites. “I’ve had the unusual experience,” Colt Stander...
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- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
to provide early childhood education, post-trauma psychosocial support for children, parents, and women, and preschool learning materials and hygiene kits for families in container villages and other locations in the region via mobile...
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- 01 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?'
team. And these findings hold value in the world of corporate hiring, as well. In 1996, Jeff Borland and Jeanette Ngaire Lye studied data on Australian football coaches to investigate whether a good match plays a role in a coach’s View Details
- 06 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness
earlier. Worse, he knew that mobile phones, which were also being made outside the United States, would start stealing business away from digital cameras. "Much of the camera technology was invented in the United States, but US...
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