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- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection
African-American clientele, have hundreds of products for blondes." In a labor market where youth seems to hold a premium, especially for marketing jobs, this notion is deadly for those trying to sell to an aging population of baby... View Details
- 25 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Alliances
apparel and footwear, when City Year requested fifty pairs of boots for its youth service corps program. "In the philanthropic relationship," Austin observes, "each side benefits modestly. The NPO receives funding, goods, or services,... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
Real Skills for Real Jobs with Real Success by Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992) (Viking Adult) As a Big Brother, Chertavian saw how many young, disadvantaged, yet motivated workers were stranded at the bottom of the job ladder. In 2000, he dedicated his life to helping... View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
program in El Salvador is giving unemployed youths the skills to work in the country’s growing service sector. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53719 2018 The China Questions: Critical Insights into a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part One]
discovered that the Internet was full of reinvented wheels, and that we needed that historical memory. Those youthful companies needed the wisdom of the established business world. And established companies that had the brand, management... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- Web
Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 - Recruiting
understand the drivers of voter turnout among young adults. Using census demographic data and surveys about voter behavior, we helped Young Invincibles focus their voter engagement strategy by developing a granular data-driven understanding of View Details
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
business, needs financing" so a vendor, for example, can pay for inventory. Radical Youth, Then Wall Street Chu's own background makes him uniquely situated to bridge the worlds of abject poverty and sophisticated finance. A self-described radical View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
where he endowed the Blum Family Venture Philanthropy Fund to promote discoveries with potential to benefit the Israeli life-sciences economy. Closer to home, Blum established the Tikkun Olam Youth Science Prizes for middle and high... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
working with the private sector, and 2) to address Nigeria’s massive youth unemployment problem by engaging young people in agribusiness. To achieve his first goal, Sanginga in 2013 established a business incubation platform (BIP), which... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic
our corporate employees to do volunteer work, sponsorship of arts endeavors, and a Gap foundation to help at-risk youth to realize their potential and experience success. Not to put you on the spot, but what do you usually wear to work? I... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
communities of color who include the voices of community members in their decision-making.” Unknown to Big Funders The NCF focuses on four pillars of underfunded structural challenges: policing and criminal justice reform; economic empowerment; health care equity; and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
savings, or fertility behavior in African nations. However we do find weak evidence that AIDS has lead to a slow-down in education gains, as measured by youth literacy, and a rise in poverty, as measured by malnutrition. Download working... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Vibrant Brand
In the course of an hour-long interview, Keith T. Clinkscales (MBA '90), president of Vibe magazine, drops close to fifty names. Those mentioned by this 35-year-old CEO of an enterprise that is considered "da bomb" (a high compliment) among its urban View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
and youth in Singapore’s “heartland.” He returned to Singapore three years later as a leadership consultant with McKinsey & Company, creating and delivering leadership training and development programs throughout Asia Pacific that were... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jul 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
Do Super Stretch Goals Require More Commitment Than a Large Organization Can Muster? Youth of an organization or its members is not the primary determinant of whether an organization successfully utilizes super stretch goals. The majority... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020
their voter engagement strategy by developing a granular data-driven understanding of youth voter turnout. I loved putting my new skills to work for such a worthwhile cause! Joshua Rodriguez (MBA 2020): For our first project, we were... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
search engine Baidu. Instead of striving and sweating for a good job, a home, and a family, it suggested a minimalist lifestyle of tang ping (“lying flat”). Although the post was later deleted by Communist Party officials, lying flat has nevertheless become a rallying... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.
Paper, THE FUTURE OF ENVIRONMENTAL PEACEBUILDING: Nurturing an Ecosystem for Peace: “The field of environmental peacebuilding still tends to see women, Indigenous Peoples, youth and other marginalized groups as passive targets for aid... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part Two]
about all those youthful excesses anymore, like fun and games in the office, and extra food, and casual dress." But that was not what we should learn from the dot-coms. The youthful, fun overlay was just superficial. That wasn't the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 18 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands
researchers say. "It wasn't authentic," Deighton says. "You really want to try to cultivate the opposite of that in the culture of your marketing team." Social media messages can also backfire when brands try too hard to be youthful and... View Details