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Shelly Nooner (GMP 33, 2022) had already proven herself to be visionary and execution-focused during her two decades at Trimble, an industrial technology company that provides hardware, software, and services across agriculture, construction, geospatial, and... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jun 2024
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In My Humble Opinion: Career Change

learned that she had a talent for communication that helped bridge cultural gaps, a skill that has served her well in a career that has included roles in think tanks, consulting firms, an embassy, a parliamentary commission, and—most... View Details

Keywords: Michelle Cassidy; recruitment; demographics; Japan

07 Nov 2023
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Love and Money

looking for in a mate is a height and a religion and a geography and an education background – that's what you want. But look at this list that makes you happy. The person that makes you happy has a sense of humor, isn't judgmental, and so forth. And I tell them that... View Details

22 Nov 2023
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So You Want to Join a Startup

the things I've found, particularly with really early stage startups is that you never quite know what you're going to be working on from day to day. And so if you need a lot of structure and you know, let's say you have a particular sort of narrow View Details

01 Jun 2023
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An Engine of Innovation

while others will realize entrepreneurship is not for them. And so, we’ve evolved our mission so that it’s not just about people founding a venture, but also about developing the skill set and mindset for bringing innovative,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jun 2023
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From Big Pharma to Startup

pitch their experience and skills to each other. That’s how Goble met Dr. Wayne Lencer, a Harvard Medical School professor who had spent a decade developing technology to enable the oral delivery of biological medicines—therapies created... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2023
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Step Change

experience,” she says. “No one ever spoke about culture; it was embedded. We were in it together.” That interest in the very human aspect of how work gets done is more than clinical. When asked, anyone who has worked closely with Enan mentions her strong sense of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

innovative solutions, especially Black female knowledge workers. We found that 42 percent of Gen Z Black women are “the first to know when something new or cutting-edge is released.” The gap with the other races was almost two-to-one. Jim... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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Business Suits You: Experimenting with Professional Identity

Role-playing is not just for the psychiatrist's couch or the acting student, according to new research by HBS professor Herminia M. Ibarra. In studying how junior professionals learn the skills required to move into senior roles, Ibarra... View Details

25 Jan 2016
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Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home

South Africa—are seeing the gap and saying, Why don’t I go improve my skill set and maybe in the long term I could go back.” The desire to improve his own skill set was what... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

16 Sep 2016
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Offshore Learning

building partnerships with Boston public schools to bring students in grades five through eight out to the island for hands-on science education,” Pearson notes. The goal is a sequential, four-year curriculum that is intended to develop leadership View Details

20 Nov 2014
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Strengthening America's Public Education System

and infrastructure, and closing America’s gap in preparing workers for jobs requiring “middle skills”—that is, competencies beyond a high school diploma but less than a four-year college degree. Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L.... View Details

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