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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
industrial sector. From 2003 until earlier this year, Doug Brown (MBA ’85) was CEO of Ionics, Inc., a company based, aptly, in Watertown, Massachusetts, that specializes in water treatment and desalination. Brown points out that many View Details
- 06 Nov 2017
- Research Event
Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?
have to make sense of this.” It was a fitting introduction to a multidisciplinary panel called The Future of Cities, which considered urban growth from as many diverse perspectives as there were panelists. Hosted by the Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 27 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leadership Lessons From Outer Space
fits the corporate mold. Acknowledging that, Gupta posed a question that seemed to be on a lot of minds, based on the collective audience smiles and nods that followed. "What were you doing in GMP?" Gupta asked. "To be honest, that was the best commander... View Details
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Alumni Forums - Alumni
Forum placement process work? Organizers in an alumni club or SIG assemble forums whose members have commonality and diversity both personally and professionally, and who do not have any possible conflicts of interest. (For example,... View Details
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Departments | Employment
work with minimal structure and a desire to create something new. Attributes of Successful Staff Members Flexibility Attention to detail Ability to multitask and to embrace a broad spectrum of tasks from the mundane to complex Passion for Business and the Environment... View Details
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One-Year Action Plan Update - Advancing Racial Equity
and Chief Inclusion & Diversity Officer Terrill Drake . Brian Kenny: On September 23, 2020 Harvard Business School unveiled the action plan for racial equity, an ambitious plan to advance racial equity, both within and beyond the School.... View Details
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
be strongly immersed in quantitative training and have a disciplinary orientation. The social science disciplines in particular were economics, sociology, and psychology. Quantitative reasoning eventually took precedence. Q: What choices... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
looking at the health of America’s supply chains shouldn’t just consider large companies, but also small innovative suppliers of both goods and services. Are they getting access to the capital, the trained workforce, and the intellectual... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 04 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS
Recruiters reviewing hundreds of resumes for highly coveted roles in private equity and venture capital will often see candidates with backgrounds in banking and investing. This training and experience provides candidates with excellent... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
market often lacks one or more core infrastructure elements, such as a supply of trained business professionals, liquid stock exchanges, predictable contract enforcement, or quality service providers for auxiliary needs like printing and... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
existing strengths and capitalize on those,” advises Duch, who is currently applying that strategy to the challenge of helping rural farmers in Haiti sell their produce directly on world markets. Since joining the World Bank in 2013, Duch has taken bimonthly trips to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
for other industries under the umbrella of TIBCO Software. "In many ways, the trading floor of the 1990s was a microcosm of e-business today," he observes. "Starting a company to automate the financial industry was the greatest training... View Details
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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
studies of men and masculinity on offshore oil platforms, the impact of racial diversity on retail bank performance, and the design and delivery of women’s leadership development programs. For the past several years, Professor Ely has... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
Preface by Augustus White III, M.D. (AMP 94, 1984) Harvard University Press Growing up in Jim Crow–era Tennessee and training and teaching in overwhelmingly white medical institutions, Gus White witnessed firsthand how prejudice works in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard
manage personnel, budget, facilities, and a diverse range of community stakeholders,” Grossman notes. “It’s not a stretch to think of them as CEOs, yet many have not been trained for that job.” To enhance... View Details
- 24 Mar 2023
- News
Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
I have the power, what do I do with it?'" For his upcoming book, Bernstein and his coauthors are reconceptualizing career development post-pandemic and building new frameworks for understanding, designing, and supporting career trajectories based on over 1,000 View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
the foot if they don’t figure out how to incorporate that talent and experience into leadership. Why? Diverse teams produce better results. A study conducted by the National Center for Women & Information Technology looked at the number... View Details
- 14 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing
services. IT managers typically find themselves with diverse talents. People in IT are idiosyncratically talented. This case is about putting talent where it is most effective." Companies with in-house talent tend to focus on the... View Details
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
agenda of the discipline. Q: How does this new work differ from your previous research on multinationals? A: This new book reflects my longstanding interest in the diversity of the business past. Much of my own research has been concerned... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
because of the belief that strong leaders with the right training can have an impact on those around them. “We want to build a high-quality, professional learning opportunity that’s accessible and compelling ” —MONIQUE BURNS THOMPSON “We... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie