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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Giving business tools to small farmers so they can compete and succeed
Sylvia Wachsner (PMD 35, 1978), director of Sociedade Nacional de Agricultura, runs business training programs for small organic and sustainable farmers in Brazil. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Research Brief: Bargaining for Better
eighth-grade girls in 41 schools throughout Lusaka, Zambia, who were trained in negotiation skills by local women. “Before this, there was almost no research telling us that negotiation training is effective... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
it a fad that amounts to little more than sensitivity training in New Age clothing, or does it reflect something more profound about the way we are beginning to conceive of and relate to work? In the following pages six HBS alumni who are... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 30 Sep 2022
- News
Scaling Hope
son’s life and D’Antonio’s. Today, both men work in the addiction treatment industry. D’Antonio’s son, now with more than six years continuous sobriety, is trained as a peer recovery coach, supporting others struggling with addiction.... View Details
- 15 May 2012
- News
Finally Finding the Right Fit
pursued a variety of career aspirations. Heffernan trained as a doctor (graduating first in his class), practiced briefly, and decided that medicine was not the right fit. He tried investment banking with Goldman Sachs for a few years,... View Details
- 06 Jul 2017
- News
Leadership on a Global Scale
Singapore three years later as a leadership consultant with McKinsey & Company, creating and delivering leadership training and development programs throughout Asia Pacific. Under President Barack Obama,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
change throughout the advertising industry. Already, Deighton notes, people who were not traditionally attracted to advertising -- MBAs and technology buffs, for instance -- are entering the field. At WPP, in fact, Sorrell has successfully initiated a View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
HBS Creates Life Sciences Fellowship Fund
the MD/MBA joint degree program with Harvard Medical School in 2005. “We’re proud of this new fellowship program and its focus on students interested in science-related careers,” says Deirdre Leopold (MBA... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
now the largest entrepreneurial training center in New England, with offices in Boston, Providence, and Worcester. While Silbert admits she spends more time on raising funds — from individual donors, foundations, and government agencies —... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
of Children's Television Workshop in New York, which produces educational TV programs for children such as Sesame Street, is finding that using business strategy has been critical to the success of his nonprofit organization. "In an... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
How the Ron Brown Award Was Born
firm, be part of its business strategy, and include the involvement of top management. Programs have to be innovative and effective and have a measurable impact on the people they are designed to serve. "Nearly five hundred nominations,... View Details
- 26 Oct 2018
- News
A Chance to Lead
started my business, I put some emphasis on making sure women had opportunities to grow within the industry. “I set up training programs at my company, so that women could aspire to higher-level management,... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- News
Beating Pain with Brain Power
in Palo Alto, California. There was this very scared young Vietnam veteran whom one could even get on the table. That’s when I saw the first time how a quick hypnotic intervention could make a difference. “I built a research program... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
HBS Clubs and Associations
offered by HBS Executive Education every summer. The program with the broadest content and largest number of scholarship recipients is Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management (SPNM). It helps nonprofit executives sharpen leadership... View Details
- 25 Aug 2016
- News
Announcing the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative
do—how well cities are run will affect the future of the planet in profound ways.” Within the next four years, as many as 300 mayors and 400 top mayoral aides will participate in the initiative’s executive training programs. This... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
newfound commitment to employee training resulted in E Ink University, with courses offered in Six Sigma, lean manufacturing, and project management. “We absolutely expect that others will figure out ways to create a competitive product,”... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Honored for Addressing Business and Societal Issues
program of The Aspen Institute, surveyed programs at 313 schools. They discovered that less than 20 percent of business schools are training MBAs to manage the social and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns
was created in 2002. Since then, the School has borrowed nearly $1.6 million for over a dozen projects, including: Energy-efficient lighting at Burden, Kresge, Morris, and Teele halls. A recycling program that now collects more... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
cloud. Not long thereafter, Microsoft introduced a new programming language designed specifically for quantum computing. (In addition to novel hardware, quantum computers require new software to exploit their unique capabilities.) Since... View Details
- 01 Apr 2020
- News
Happy Because He’s Blind
forward,” he recently told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. At a month-long training program with a seeing-eye dog, Foster met others with multiple challenges: in addition to being blind, some had mental... View Details