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- 15 May 2012
- News
Finally Finding the Right Fit
Heffernan: From one who's tried on many hats, a tip of the cap to HBS. Photo courtesy Andrew Heffernan As a young man in Dublin, Ireland, Andrew Heffernan (MBA 2006) worked in a variety of summer jobs with the family business, the... View Details
- 25 Sep 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
Misan Rewane (MBA 2013) had an ambitious goal in cofounding WAVE Academy, an innovative vocational education program that connects its graduates with entry-level jobs within six to eight weeks of completing the program. “We are trying to... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
An investment in meaningful results
nearly $1.5 billion in grants to the city's neediest residents since 1988. Robin Hood is New York City's largest funder of emergency food programs and largest private funder of job training and housing... View Details
- 16 Feb 2011
- News
Healthy Growth
Ayers After gaining experience in strategy consulting, M&As, systems engineering, and running a multibillion-dollar refrigeration company, Jonathan Ayers (MBA ‘83) has come full circle to a job that relates to his Yale undergraduate major... View Details
- Web
Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator D uring the 1930s, in addition to his classes at HBS, Doriot taught at the US Army Industrial College where he trained officers in the preparation of adequate military supplies and equipment. At the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Karen Tumulty Reports on America
perhaps the most prestigious bad job in journalism." At HBS, Tumulty discovered that "the case method is the best kind of training in the mental discipline that a journalist needs, especially for covering... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Charting the Year Ahead
impact within months! Volunteer Cultivation and Recognition. The global HBS community thrives on an unequaled level of volunteer initiative and effort — on campus and through clubs, reunions, fundraising, and more. HBS does an outstanding View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
34,000 Pages and Counting
with each issue. When Keith started at HBS, he was looking for a paycheck, not a career. He needed a job while finishing his dissertation. A piano major at Oberlin Conservatory, Keith earned a Ph.D. in musicology from Harvard in 1985,... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- Blog Post
Harnessing The Power of Collaboration to Create Opportunity in Chicago
Operating Officer of Accion Chicago, a nonprofit that helps communities grow by providing capital, coaching and connections to aspiring entrepreneurs who build businesses and generate jobs in their neighborhoods. I spent most of my career... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 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 Mar 2008
- News
Centennial Goes YouTube
struggles. John Whitehead (MBA 11/’47), former cochairman of Goldman Sachs, recounts how he struggled as an incoming Haverford College freshman to earn enough to cover the $900 tuition. With pluck and luck, he landed a job in the... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- News
Election ’08, HBS Style
council with representatives pulled from the many student clubs and regular “office” hours in the Spangler Grille. Jyoti Agarwal, running with Fred Smith, talked about working across university constituencies to effect change, from coordinating with Career Services to... View Details
- Profile
Matthew Boys
Matt continued his music trajectory, getting a job as a booking agent in London. But, Matt says, “the day-to-day work of a booking agent just wasn’t that interesting." And in a journey more familiar to nascent business leaders, he... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- News
Horse-Powered Healing
includes experience at Citicorp, Conseco, and the Boston Consulting Group, and, more recently, leadership of an academic research institute. She first became involved in the center as a volunteer strategic consultant, but soon found herself View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Class All His Own
lived in the basement of the Dean’s House. His job was to keep Dean Donham’s car clean, put wood on the fire, do chores, and wait tables in the dining hall for his meals.” He also reminisces about fellow classmates like Robert McNamara... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Nancy Hall (MBA 1974)
business when I graduated. We were trained to work in established companies that had tens of thousands of employees. We didn’t spend much time on international business or study nonprofit management. Entrepreneurship was a novel idea.... View Details
- Profile
Janelle McDonald
personal risks. Initially trained as a systems engineer concentrating in computer science, she started her career as a software developer and later became intrigued with consulting. “I liked the variety of work, the exposure to different... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Charlie Rose Interviews Goldman CEO Paulson
audience, which included several previous Goldman employees. One former Goldman analyst asked how work-life balance — which Paulson urged his audience to seek — can be achieved when a job demands more than sixty hours a week. After... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Outside Voices
In just 15 years, Greece managed to seesaw from one economic extreme to the other, from almost breaking the eurozone at the depth of its debt crisis to becoming one of the fastest growing economies in Europe in 2023, according to the IMF. Now wages are rebounding,... View Details