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- 13 May 2014
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Willing Hands
Frank Spencer (MBA 1986) helped to build his first Habitat for Humanity house in 1988. It was in the Belmont neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, and, like many Habitat homes, was constructed over... View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
companies, on communities, and, most of all, on employees. "The initial drive was to build empathy around the decisions that are so core on a human level," Sucher says. "They wanted people to learn about that." Green... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 03 Feb 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?
the right coaching in order to help to achieve a high self esteem...” Having inspired the question in the title, Joel then seemed to answer it by saying, “I think the answer lies in the demands of the role you hoped they’d fill. As a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Navigating a Career in Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
served as a panel coordinator for the annual conference. I served as conference co-chair during my second year, which was a great way to meet people from across the sector. I first worked at Teach for America as an intern through the... View Details
- 05 Nov 2024
- Research & Ideas
AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen
came from the human and which came from the bot.” Personal communication chatbots The experiment also asked employees to judge the helpfulness of the answers, without first being told whether they came from... View Details
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Take Responsibility for Rising Stars
bench strength. At Starbucks, for example, the board oversees a formalized succession-planning process for 2,500 positions. Its goal is to make sure the company always has the right people with the right... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
percent of the proposals get NIH funding. A researcher receiving his or her first major NIH grant is over 40 years old, on average. Lab leaders spend a great deal of their energy recruiting the right people... View Details
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Patrick Ferguson
Patrick Ferguson (he/him) has always been inclined to combine interests that might not seem compatible at first glance. During his undergraduate career at the University of Melbourne, he received a B.A. in English and History, and a B.Com... View Details
- 27 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
Fighting Cancer with a Novel Cell Therapy: Ananya Zutshi (MS/MBA '21)
Boston, Guardian Bio was accepted into the Y Combinator accelerator program and officially launched in June 2022. Zutshi’s desire to help fight cancer isn’t just a business choice – it’s personal as well. Her father died from cancer right... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Venture: Time Heals All
Assembling a nursing schedule for a hospital ward can be surprisingly difficult—a little like playing three-dimensional Tetris, says Ilana Springer Borkenstein (MBA 2022). “It is a really challenging, tedious task.” Nurse managers must take into consideration a host of... View Details
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
to be sure, but as Wilcox explained and E Ink's experience made clear, its prospects depend on a welter of fundamentally human choices. Twenty minutes after Sahlman's finance students finished dissecting E Ink and one floor up in Aldrich... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
with the right antibiotic on the first day they are admitted to the hospital—day zero—rather than being hit with multiple days of toxic broad-spectrum antibiotics. To enable their diagnostic tools, DZD has... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Ai Weiwei Strength 2019 | About
rust also alludes to ancient cultures and humanity’s first tools for tree felling and woodworking. Although the tree roots themselves were shaped by the soil and environment, Ai’s cast-iron roots are made by View Details
- 11 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
2+2 Admit Experiments with Career Options
Economic Section. Finally, I had the opportunity to pursue my passions at the nexus of business, technology, and policy before my HBS matriculation! While at Post, I contributed to enhancing U.S.-Bulgarian bilateral relations. My report on rule-of-law and View Details
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Shahar Ziv
funny” echoed in my head and imbued a sense of inferiority. Luckily, I wasn’t alone. My first friend, Renske, spoke only Japanese in response to my Hebrew. Together we learned to communicate and play cheerfully through the prose of games,... View Details
- 08 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?
With more data available than ever before, why would any executive gamble on a hunch—especially for decisions that involve their own employees? An emerging field that uses data to study human behavior at work, “people analytics” is... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
Conference on November 7. Beaulieu's research focuses on many aspects of healthcare—including contracting, quality competition in managed care, and human capital management and performance measurement. At the session, she prodded her... View Details
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Lynda Benglis Migrating Pedmarks 1998 | About
Lynda Benglis Migrating Pedmarks , 1998 Lynda Benglis (American, born 1941), Migrating Pedmarks , 1998, bronze with black-and-white patina. Courtesy the artist and Cheim & Read . © 2020 Lynda Benglis / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights... View Details
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
education and employment systems,” says Misan Rewane (MBA 2013), a native of Lagos, Nigeria, and cofounder and CEO of WAVE. In its first three years, WAVE, which only charges a fee once alumni secure a job, has served more than 1,000... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken