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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Roadmap for Moms
process? You can’t just ask for a job if you don’t know what you’re looking for. You have to do a self-assessment. The book has a worksheet so you can do that. The other key issue is confidence. Women have to realize that confidence is an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Faculty News
With the 2000-2001 academic year in full swing, the expanding HBS faculty — now more than two hundred members strong — has seen a number of promotions, accessions to chaired professorships, movement of previously chaired professors to vacated chairs, and, in two cases,... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
year we set up a recording tent on Spangler lawn and asked alumni returning for reunions a simple question. What was your first job and what did it teach you? The first collection of these that we ran last year has been one of our most... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
Brisbane, Australia. The building was four times larger than she needed for classrooms and a serious stretch for her balance sheet. “I was scared to death,” Russo says, looking back on the experience. It was a risk she didn’t need to take. Her View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
New Career Wanted
transition to a new career for a variety of reasons. “Goals that seemed fitting for a particular job or stage in one’s life may not have as much significance later on,” Sullivan observes. Career-changers should consider trade-offs... View Details
- 11 Feb 2021
- News
Retraining for a Post-COVID Workforce
Tracy Palandjian (MBA 1997), could create a lifeline for many of these low-wage workers, according to an article in the Boston Globe. Social Finance’s pilot program helps train low-income people for jobs... View Details
- 04 Apr 2022
- News
Strengthening City Hall’s Foundations
mayors and key staff in Israel every year. Bloomberg writes that, while there are “all kinds of leadership training programs for CEOs and senior executives, mayors are thrust into the job and the crises that... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Leveraging Veterans’ Competitive Advantage
somehow victims. I don’t believe they are.” Describing his company’s mission as “helping organizations excel by leveraging America’s best talent,” the former Marine artillery and intelligence officer says military training emphasizes... View Details
- Web
Bibliography - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
the findings of a study conducted for the Harvard Business School Division of Research committee reviewing the Radcliffe Management Training Program and focuses on the level of demand for women in administrative positions. Batchelder,... View Details
- 08 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
New Year, New Career Goals: Coaches Offer Advice for 2019
them with your accomplishments. It's easier to summarize the work you're doing when you're enjoying it! – Kristen Fitzpatrick Networking is often thought of as an outbound activity. Who do I need to talk to about my career goals? How can they be helpful to me in my... View Details
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
designing extensive training programs. That’s when I started thinking again about the mismatch between the education and employment systems,” she says.” We couldn’t find good talent, and yet we were meeting so many young people who... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
recall two instances when he went out of his way to help me in my career. Toward the end of my first year at the school, I had a summer job offer which was cancelled about a month before the summer break would occur because of some... View Details
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Schlesinger Library Archives Collections - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
Archives at the Schlesinger Library, documents the various stages of the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration and includes records of the Training Course in Personnel, the Management Training... View Details
- April 2010
- Case
Manchester Bidwell Corporation: the Replication Question
By: Toby E. Stuart, G. Felda Hardymon, James L. Heskett and Ann Leamon
Bill Strickland, CEO of Manchester Bidwell Corporation, must decide the best way to replicate his innovative, award-winning approach to curing poverty. Manchester Bidwell's approach, which provides both adult job-training tuned to fill the needs of local industries and... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development; Social Enterprise; Poverty; Training; Competency and Skills; Jobs and Positions; Human Resources
Stuart, Toby E., G. Felda Hardymon, James L. Heskett, and Ann Leamon. "Manchester Bidwell Corporation: the Replication Question." Harvard Business School Case 810-097, April 2010.
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Research Brief: Developing High-Tech Talent
“Many of these jobs are in high demand,” says Fuller, “which means that apprenticeships play a critical role in training workers for the jobs of the future and providing... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 26 Feb 2008
- News
The Right Stuff at HBS
us who work at HBS, such gestures make us feel good about the place. Brighton kids and coach celebrate a job well done. Photos by Neal Hamberg The Brighton Bengals are an inner-city team. Its players take public transportation to practice... View Details
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Riding the WAVE | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
percent have been placed in or found jobs in the retail and hospitality sectors, earning at least twice the minimum wage on average. By 2019, its target goal is to train 25,000 unemployed youth annually. “We... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Unsung Hero
where, with her banking and diplomatic skills, she became a policy advisor to the State Department’s Counterterrorism Finance and Designation Unit. She trains foreign government officials and bankers on procedures for preventing money... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 29 May 2013
- Blog Post
A self-discovery journey
and challenging, but fun. End of the first exercise. Second exercise. Fill in a thorough analytical survey to detect your interests: manage people, influence others, apply technology, creativity, quantitative analysis. Third exercise. Pick 12 View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
GE’s Immelt Urges MBAs to Dream Big, Work Hard
here.” In his own career, Immelt said, that has meant experiencing and learning more deeply the import of four lessons that he initially absorbed at HBS: focus and discipline (“Very few jobs have been beneath my dignity; every View Details