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- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
RapidVisa to expand the types of cases it can handle.) The company’s online immigration applications function much as TurboTax does for IRS filings, translating the arcane language of government documents into easy-to-answer questions... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
school and college? And where are you starting to see the idea get traction? Falik: It starts with the language we use. The metaphor of a gap year is exactly the wrong one—this idea that you’re sending your kid into a gaping hole that... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand what they were saying. Her... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
promotions to local holidays and customs, incorporating idiomatic language and local tastes so that each country's customers will relate to their site in an emotional way." The Uruguay-born Juan Peirano of Velox Group has firsthand... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Brand New
the conversations were not about business. They were about what the Detroit Lions did that week or what was happening with a kid in my class. Coming into the corporate environment felt like a foreign language to me.” Pass it on: “Having... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
financial losses, and a large amount of wasted time for everyone involved. This book was written to help a person, family, or team transform any challenge or problem using a proprietary six-step process. It brings organizations together with a common View Details
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
become an aruaba, ‘a woman who goes to work in a business suit,’ in the West African language Twi,” says Crane, founder of Edify, a nonprofit that provides micro-enterprise loans to faith-based schools in Africa and Latin America. “I’m... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Leading Questions
standard products also employ natural language processing for analysis. Arieli (left) and Schlatka (right) cofounded Synthesis to offer a mid-range solution for the growing executive assessment industry The key, Schlatka says, is not to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
auction design or market design and stuff like that, the fact that I wasn’t just a completely nerdy academic I also had some connection by having gone to a business school. And, I can sort of talk to businessmen in their language if I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
more familiar legal and judiciary system, better protection for intellectual property, and strong English language and engineering skills. The Indian banking system is improving and has a much lower percentage of nonperforming loans than... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
crisis, but they don’t build homes, and a bankrupt government doesn’t build new infrastructure, he says. The outlook changed dramatically with the July elections. By speaking the language of business, showing up on day one with a plan,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
will soon move from HTML programming language to XML. Ballmer stated that this shift would alter the current Internet balance of power in which consumers are in a reactive position as they relate to company (or "publisher's") Web sites.... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
satisfactory answer for her. No matter what language negotiations are conducted in, understanding the local etiquette can seal the business deal, says Sara Jane Ho (MBA 2012). A graduate of a Swiss finishing school, Ho founded Institute... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
language so that they can have a conversation they couldn't have otherwise. So it doesn’t feel dirty. Because progress isn't dirty; progress is positive. If you have 30 pushes and pulls, if you have prototyping language, if you have... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
a month. Hanna: Right. DiDonna: What I would encourage people to do is substitute out the work intensity and life intensity for intensity in something that you're passionate about and that's meaningful to you. Whether that's an immersive foreign View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
the hum and clunk as blackboards rumble into position, the urgent tap-tap-tapping of chalk as an important point is recorded by the instructor. I see how the professor’s body language and a student’s tone of voice convey subtle messages.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
language you can imagine.” To sharpen his business skills, Hustead traded his cowboy boots for loafers and traveled to Boston for a three-week OPM session every year for three years. “Most businesses don’t know how or where they’re making... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
generation of startups and serving as the connecting point between technology, business, and agriculture—all languages she happens to speak fluently. Such fluency is unusual, and it makes Lambert an ideal fit for this newly created role... View Details
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
get into that behavior pattern and language pattern where-- I'm so knowledgeable, I'm working so hard, I'm trying so hard to reach out to others, and they still don't agree, therefore they must truly be bad people with dumb ideas. That... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
which is the ability of computer systems to learn from a language as it is spoken, in all its idioms, colloquialisms, and technical-ese, and without having to be explicitly programmed to learn these things. The IBM computers answered... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page