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- 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
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
Program Aims to Develop a Generation of Global Citizens
people deep experience living and working abroad, while cultivating their skills speaking languages and navigating cross-cultural work environments. The need for such experience is clear, she adds. “Two-thirds of business leaders believe... View Details
- 17 Feb 2022
- News
A Big Bet
Tracy Palandjian (MBA 1997) and Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992) (Photos by Susan Young) When Google announced a $100 million fund to expand skills training and job placement programs for low-income Americans, two HBS alumni were standing by:... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
skilled outside workers and managers while providing good wages in a country where the average person makes under $100 per year. Equally important is the project’s catalytic impact on future investment. The... View Details
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- 02 Jul 2008
- News
No Pulp Fiction Allowed
case method of instruction, contending that it teaches skills largely irrelevant to what managers actually do. Mintzberg devotes the second half of his book to a description of what works in View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
William K.L. Fung
told my father that I didn't want to be in a family company," says Fung with a chuckle. The elder Fung challenged his son to use his HBS skills to breathe new life into the trading company, founded by Fung's grandfather in Canton, China,... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 06 Sep 2016
- News
The Solution That Doesn’t Get Discussed About How to Get More Women On Corporate Boards
fulfill, with no compromises, both the skill set and personality fit requirements of the board. For people who like to stick with traditional methods, this is traditional. For centuries we have interviewed one group of individuals... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
OPM Honors Marty Marshall with Professorship
Last fall, graduates of the Owner/President Management Program (OPM) honored one of their favorite professors by endowing a new HBS chair: the Martin Marshall OPM Professorship of Business Administration. A member of the HBS faculty for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity
Kyarisiima’s analytical skills and gave her the interpersonal connections she valued. After graduating in 2011, she worked at Goldman as an analyst for just over a year, and then set out to understand the public sector by working as an... View Details
- 30 Jan 2021
- News
Finding a Fresh Approach to Dry Cleaning
management skills and new technologies to double its revenue and expand the business beyond the basics of shirts and suits, according to a Washington Post story by Thomas Heath. About three-quarters of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
What I Do: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002)
that, not just because it’s the work that we’re doing, but also because I’m able to bring some of my skills from Google to help us run a user-growth campaign to reach people by using some reasonably basic tools of technology.” “A lot of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Fast Lane to Country Lane
feel like everything I’ve done has been leading to this,” says Lackley, who manages business operations for Mark Lackley Furniture Maker (www.lackley.com), a high-end furniture company in Quechee, Vermont. Lackley began her “training” for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Faculty Books
developing innovative products and services. He discusses the full range of activities required: learning about customer needs; managing experimentation and problem-solving; product-development process design and improvement; and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
Graduate School of Business, the University of South Africa, and the Iran Center for Management Studies. His books on teaching, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership and Teaching and the Case Method, are studied by... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
patents. If you look at the PhD workforce for science and engineering, the immigrant share is even higher at roughly 50 percent. The math and science skills behind many of these innovations are relatively easy to port across... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Past Informs the Future of Work
economies that are facing shrinking workforces due to aging demographics. But we must navigate the transition well.” Gross agrees: “As I discuss with students, these technologies are more likely to complement their skills as... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Go Team!
January cohort students attempt to swish ten free throws as one of many tasks in a "treasure hunt" that took place in February as part of Technology and Operations Management's Project Management module. The hunt involved student teams in... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
HBS and Stanford in Online Collaboration
His counterpart at Stanford Business School, Dean Robert Joss, added, "The worldwide need for management skills has never been greater, and the demand for innovative approaches to View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- News
Powering into the Future
bother. We want to make it a no-brainer. You pull into your garage, you don’t have to think about it, and the car will just start charging. “I really came to HBS to round out my skill set to be a general manager. My whole aspiration was I... View Details
- 27 Jul 2016
- News
Breaking the Cycle of Poverty
greater good that we should be part of. “Because of HBS, I was able to bring management skills into the nonprofit world. We bring social workers into schools where children are dealing with so many barriers,... View Details