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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
BEI helps alumni and other leaders by connecting them to resources or troubleshooting issues they’re facing in their companies, such as how to prepare the workforce to deal with sustainability and climate challenges, or questions... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
proceeded to close an assembly plant last year to take down capacity by 25 percent. We also reduced our indirect workforce by 20 percent, becoming one of the first major Japanese companies to take such a decisive step. Lifetime employment... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
“It's not you, it's me.” Well, today, the workforce equivalent is "My Wi-Fi isn't working right now." You know, this is an excuse that we're starting to see pop up everywhere because people, you know, are finding a time and place for... View Details
Keywords: Zoom
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
say, thematic concepts: foundations of arithmetic, critical thinking, and reading. Employers are very good at teaching discrete skills that you need for this particular role. You want a workforce that has both. So getting clear on when we... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
quantum leap into the future. You are waiting for us to act! We now understand. You have empowered us to lead change at the Bank." The World Bank at a Glance The World Bank is actually five institutions, formally known as the World Bank Group. Its View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
hospitals with its nursing workforce management platform. “We’re building the technological layer that hospitals and health systems need to adapt to the expectations of modern nurses in a post-Covid world,” says Borkenstein. “Nurses are... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
management; 97 percent of its workforce is Afghan. “It wouldn’t surprise me if in the next 5 or 10 years you saw an Afghan CEO or COO of Roshan,” he adds. Roshan’s franchise model extends the number of jobs it generates; in addition,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
journey. Eisha Armstrong, class of 2003. I'm thinking back to 2009, very interesting time. The company that I was working for was doing a reduction in force and was part of the group who had to decide how to reduce our workforce by 25%.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
feel more relaxed, happy, and connected to who I really am. So if I hire you, I want all of you. You don’t need to be like me. I want your personality. We’re a very diverse workforce with a diverse product line to offer, which fits with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
madeleines. The workforce is expected to increase from 19 to 25, possibly more. It’s the next phase of Jeannette—with added capacity, the company will be in position to expand its distribution exponentially and ship internationally. The... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
population is increasing faster than any other nation in history, while its birthrate is shrinking. That double whammy is reducing both the workforce to care for the elderly and the tax base to support its universal health insurance... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
attractive and a workforce that fits their needs - all within a comfortable community where key employees will want to live. Locales that offer an effective infrastructure, a skilled workforce, and business-friendly regulations will... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
and then in the winter term we broke the seal on our first OB class. I remember the first time an I-banker was laying out an action plan, and when the professor asked him why he thought the employees would follow it, he said, “Well, I’ll just tell them to!” Having... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
school, a neighbor, a charity, her political party. It was people like her who ran our neighborhoods.” While it’s been difficult for women entering the workforce to give back to society in the way they once did, Moore sees an upside to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
successfully balance the needs of their egos with the collective needs of their organizations, they can see increased profits and a workforce unified around a common goal. The War on Error: A Hospital Field Manual by W.T. Subalusky (AMP... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
there that you should try a bunch of things and broaden your horizons, but after having been in the workforce for almost 20 years now, I don't buy that anymore. I think getting an idea very early on of where your skills lie, and just... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
hierarchy, the firm has fostered an engaged workforce and a strong capacity for change. Turco was embedded within TechCo for ten months, and this book is her ethnographic analysis of what worked at the company and what didn’t. Something... View Details