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01 Dec 2018
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A Force for Good

customer service and administration. “We connect them to great candidates they might otherwise overlook,” he says. Skillist’s job application platform omits a candidate’s name and other identifying information, adding instead more robust details of an individual’s... View Details

27 Mar 2019
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Life Is a Startup

between a passion and analytical thinking. How is it that they managed to pull this off and what can we all learn from that example? Wasserman: I remember observing when I was teaching in HBS’s first-year course in entrepreneurship, that... View Details

25 Aug 2021
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Reimagining Chicago’s Schools

to individualize student learning. The result was a pilot school on West Belmont Ave in the Hermosa neighborhood of Chicago made up of large, open-classroom spaces called “Pods” for traditional class periods, each holding up to 60 students and broken into subjects... View Details

28 May 2019
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Ask the Expert: In Security

credit card companies have become much better at shutting that down quickly.” Now hackers look for personally identifiable information—think birthdays, social security numbers, and addresses—that they can sell on the underground market... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; cybersecurity

19 Nov 2014
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The Power of Yes

topic. “I didn’t feel like I had developed that muscle of saying ‘yes’ enough,” he explains by phone from Acumen’s New York office. “One of the things I learned is how expressive and personal philanthropy... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2011
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Donors Praised for Fellowship Support

some 500 guests. Dean Nitin Nohria spoke of his personal appreciation for such assistance, saying that neither he nor his wife would be where they are today had they not received fellowships. His brief, emotion-filled remarks initially... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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Strategy is About People

points to a key lesson learned. “Strategy in an educational institution is in part about institutional mission and institutional objectives, and how you get to those,” Light explains. “But it’s also about what’s best for the people, View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

23 Jun 2014
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Freedom to Explore

HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation. “I recognized the impact alumni giving has had,” she remarks, “and decided that this was the right time for me to make a gift that at least partially signals the benefits that I personally received,... View Details

08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work

lateral career move. There are benefits to being a working parent, of course—not only for family income and personal fulfillment but also potentially for children’s choices as adults. Research by Kathleen McGinn, Cahners-Rabb Professor of... View Details

25 Mar 2016
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New Head of MBA Admissions Is 2013 Grad

range of strategic projects, including HBX, where Losee helped launch and set strategy for the innovative digital learning platform. In particular, he co-led the exam and credential strategy for CORe (Credential of Readiness), which... View Details

01 Sep 2003
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Neil MacKenna on Effective Job Search Strategies

selected, on-purpose best, which is how anything you say will be heard. Project Passion. In all your communications with prospective employers, make sure that your level of enthusiasm comes across. Do your research about the company and show that you are willing to... View Details

21 Dec 2018
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Bridging the Gap

two-thirds are still going to western Europe, where typically they are in an enclave of other American students, speaking English, learning from an American professor; and it’s pretty far from the immersive, perspective-changing... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

21 Feb 2014
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The First Five Years: Evelyne White (MBA 2010)

local customs were. My best travel experiences have always involved having a local person on the ground, so I set out to launch a platform where travelers could connect with local people. Sharing a meal is one of the best ways to break... View Details

Keywords: Glocal; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

01 Feb 1998
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Innovative Course Brings Students and Alumni Together

online dialogues with students via the Internet. Forty-three alumni - all with vivid and fresh insights into their own successes and failures - agreed to participate in the innovative pilot project, which proved to be an extraordinary View Details

Keywords: Meg Gardner; photo by Joshua Lavine

24 Apr 2014
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Providing lessons in financial literacy

and personal finance curriculum to 5 million students. “It’s not just that (they) should save money. It’s about learning to make informed decisions, such as ‘should I go to college?’ And what are the... View Details

01 Sep 2003
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Class Day & Commencement

for his classmates to do similarly great things. Guest speaker A.G. Lafley (MBA ’77), chairman, president, and CEO of Procter & Gamble, provided some insights from his personal life and his 26-year career at P&G. Lafley said there is one... View Details

Keywords: commencement; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2009
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Once a Fulbright…

dream come true for a young girl who learned early to listen to my instincts — to pursue the seemingly impossible.” Active on several boards and a frequent speaker on corporate governance, Owades, who also founded Gardener’s Eden (later... View Details

Keywords: awards; Personal Services; Personal Services

30 Oct 2019
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Creating Agents of Change

health, education, and empowerment through life skills and employment. “Success for us is that, by the time the young adults leave our program at age 24, they're living above the level of poverty in their country. In most cases, this is the first View Details

01 Feb 2002
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HBS Press Books in Brief

(Harvard Business School Press) Information Markets: What Businesses Can Learn from Financial Innovation, by William J. Wilhelm, Jr., and Joseph D. Downing, is the finance professional’s must-have guide to understanding the changing role... View Details