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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Nancy Hall (MBA 1974)
of the board of the local YWCA and decided to come in once a week to help out. I soon realized that nonprofits could really use the skills I had — finance, marketing, planning. I saw that many nonprofits didn’t know who their customers... View Details
- 11 Apr 2017
- News
Keeping the Missions Under Control
human space flight activities. What that means is that all operations that take place for human space flight, real-time operations, and development fall under my purview. “The skill set that I have to have... View Details
- 01 Jan 2010
- News
Susan L. Decker, MBA 1986
Decker has put her analytical skills to work as a director of three major companies — Berkshire Hathaway, Intel, and Costco — and as a trustee of Save the Children. Her interest in entrepreneurship led her back to HBS, where she served as... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
best people you can find and then let them do their job." CURRENT READING Political Education: National Policy Comes of Age, by Christopher T. Cross As head of Hazleton, which he turned into the largest independent contract laboratory in the world, Don Nielsen was... View Details
- 23 Sep 2010
- News
How Did You Spend Your Summer Vacation?
hoping to test out a special area of interest or potential career path. Others looked abroad, pursuing their interests in solving business and social problems in the developing world. Canadians Alyza Keshavjee and Ameel Somani spent their... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Short Takes
employers and employees. "The growth of staffing agencies suggests that we may be witnessing a slow recasting of the economy's institutional matrix where people are emerging as bundles of skills, organizations as constellations of projects, and agencies as brokers,... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
employer so that you are getting the skills they know you will need in their setting today and tomorrow. And I think that's something that's applicable well outside of K–12. What we hear from employers in every sector is that higher ed... View Details
- 26 Oct 2018
- News
A Chance to Lead
competing with, which is one of the skills I learned at Harvard, of course, where there were few women and lots of men. And the other thing, I think, is that I try to instill in them--which I also think is attributed to my Harvard... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Jacek Makowski (MBA 1960)
for Shell Oil until enrolling at HBS to broaden his skills and career options. “For me,” he says, “HBS was a step toward rebuilding the respect our family had enjoyed in Poland before the devastation of the war.” Makowski’s business... View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Advancing Change
It’s not enough to be a good leader, says HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. Today’s societal challenges require advanced leaders—ones with the skills of an experienced CEO, the big dreams of a new entrepreneur, and the rare ability to... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
an appendix detailing 10 math facts numerate people should know. Perfect for undergraduate and graduate students entering advanced data analytics courses, as well as data analysts and C-suite executives just starting out, The Numerate Leader can help View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Field Course Helps Nascent Entrepreneurs Connect with Customers
200 second-year MBA students signed up for ESM’s 60 available seats. “Student demand, as well as feedback from alumni entrepreneurs, identified a critical skill gap in this area,” says Eisenmann, who View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
In Dot-Calm Era, Conference Examines Options for Entrepreneurs
"doing isn't leading." Asserting that the math skills needed to build a company are simple, he said, "If you buy something for a dollar and sell it for five dollars, you will be rich. The key is OB, social psychology, and leading. This is... View Details
Keywords: Information
- 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 management education is high. The partnership will offer... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
other. Its findings will lead to recommendations for HBS programs and initiatives that would meet the needs of this ever-growing overseas constituency. In addition, a subcommittee is working with the School to develop a sustainable... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Teaching and Learning Center Established, Honors Christensen’s Legacy
will also help faculty in their efforts to develop case-writing skills and design new courses. As part of its capital campaign, the School is in the process of building an endowment for the center. A number... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
“There’s a lot of relationship-building behind a development like this,” Oakes says of the housing project. “I’ve always wanted to be the bridge between ‘hard’ business skills and nonprofits — and since I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
doesn’t look like what I thought it would, but I have learned, once again, that people are so much more varied and interesting than what I could imagine on my own,” writes Margulies, who worked on improving health-care systems and rural economic View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible
Swedish in advance of a trip. “People are studying practical skills, like project management, and with more commitment than ever before.” The company’s mission is to provide the necessary resources for learners who lack access to the education and View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
Our class has lived and worked in a prolonged period of unprecedented economic growth, resulting in great wealth for our nation and opportunities for individual prosperity. Our gift affords us a modest, yet critical role in providing stewardship View Details