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HBS Online and Executive Education Leadership: Q+A with Patrick Mullane and Luis Viceira
creation and delivery of ExecEd programs takes different skills and structures than those necessary to create and deliver asynchronous online programs. Those skills and structures have been developed over... 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), every city can boost its education... View Details
- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
would triple the middle class from 400 million to 1.2 billion people, these business leaders were concerned about the growing inequality of income within many nations, across nations, and across regions. Half the world's poor would be in... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
believe I had the skills to turn around a troubled technology company," says the Long Island native, who had worked at McKinsey and American Express before becoming chairman and CEO of RJR Nabisco. "Over time, the IBM board members... View Details
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Tuce Zengin Van den Eynde
Both Tuce Zengin Van den Eynde and her husband, Alain, had completed master’s degrees, and had considerable experience in corporate finance. But Alain was eager to go the United States to get an MBA, and in what might be considered a foreshadowing of the negotiation... View Details
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Andrew Baxter
Like many children, Andrew Baxter was determined to follow in his father's footsteps. But in Andrew's case, his father was an engineer for Schlumberger and following in his steps meant "remote deserts of North Africa and the Middle... View Details
- 22 Nov 2013
- News
A Passion for Film
Massachusetts, he went to see Small Change, a 1976 drama directed by Francois Truffaut, with his middle school French class. "My parents had taken me to Young Frankenstein and independent films, but that blew me away," he says. But... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
self-confidence in financial skills improved by significant amounts, jumping as much as 50 to 60 percent. As an unexpected side benefit, Maynard notes that middle school and high school teachers are also... View Details
- 30 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
HBS Grad Drives Lori Systems to Success
"how can we change the system to prevent refugee crises in the first place?" That insight pushed Josh to "look for a systems-wide, macro-level shift I could be a part of." Eschewing the Peace Corps path, he chose a career in investment banking where... View Details
- 25 May 2011
- News
Race to the Finish?
Caldwell (MBA ’42) at Ford, to Rick Wagoner (MBA ’77) at GM, to Anand Mahindra’s (MBA ’81) Mahindra Automotive and Ratan Tata’s (AMP 71, 1975) Tata Motors in India, HBS alumni, in top and middle management, have made their mark in the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: ASIA - Alumni
countries and territories in Asia designated by the World Bank as Low Income, Low Middle Income or Upper Middle Income (view complete list: World Bank Country and Lending Groups ). Award amounts are designed... View Details
- 18 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry
inspiration, you meet such a broad spectrum of people at HBS - accountants, investors, lawyers, strategists – that you cannot help but wonder about the impact we could have as a community if we can bring these skills to bear on the... View Details
- 18 Jan 2017
- News
HBS Gains New Insight Into Africa
and developing MBA and Executive Education courses in the region. “Today, Africa is probably the most exciting continent because of its unlimited opportunities for growth and emerging middle class,” says Newton Omebere-Iyari (MBA 2016), a... View Details
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Private Equity Finance - Course Catalog
on closely related investing strategies such as distress and private debt. Students will examine a wide variety of investment settings: from lower middle market companies to mega-cap, from the United States to emerging markets, from... View Details
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Ari Medoff
one of those who want to have distinct careers in different sectors. HBS helps me round out my skills as an entrepreneur and future small-business owner." The Harvard Kennedy School extends Ari's undergraduate studies "around... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Fulfilling Their Promise
The founding of Girls Group began in 2003 with a single handwritten question pulled from a box. A group of middle school girls had scribbled questions onto scraps of paper and dropped them into the box to prompt discussions. The young... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
tangible results: The Walmart Foundation cited the research as part of its announcement of a new five-year, $100 million effort to address the skills gap. The initial competitiveness research also inspired the HBS Club of New York to... View Details
- 27 May 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Thinking About Global
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered Are global brands effective? How should I think about strategy in a flat... View Details
- 03 Jan 2008
- What Do You Think?
Does Judgment Trump Experience?
quote that "Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment." Andrew Obara assumed a middle ground, saying that "the two mutually enhance each other." Several felt that the premise depends on... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 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