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10 Skills Teens Need to Succeed in Today's Economy

In a recent study by Payscale, most employers surveyed said that college grads don't possess the soft skills they are looking for. This issue, along with the dramatic increase in the cost of a college education, suggests that parents need to become much more engaged in... View Details

10 Aug 2016
News

Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal

01 Jun 2023
HBS Case

A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?

street-to-prison cycle that had ravaged his youth. He had passed a high school equivalency test and had earned a college degree, and by that point could envision a bright future as a budding accountant at Arthur Andersen, the firm he... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Apparel & Accessories

09 Feb 2016
News

America has near record 5.6 million job openings

Claire Shi

Claire Shi is a doctoral student in Business Economics at Harvard Business School. Her research interests are in behavioral and household finance. She graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. in Applied Mathematics in 2021. For more information, please visit her... View Details

18 May 2023
Video

Tina Opie & Beth Livingston present "Shared Sisterhood: How to Take Collective Action for Racial and Gender Equity at Work"

28 Jan 2021
News

'Degree inflation': How the four-year degree became required

09 Oct 2013
News

What’s So Bad About Vocational Education?

Jorge Colmenares

Jorge Colmenares graduated from Yale College in 2020, where he studied Economics and Mathematics. Prior to graduate school, he worked as a research assistant for Profs. Lawrence Schmidt and Taha Choukhmane at MIT Sloan School of Management. His research... View Details

07 Aug 2015
News

America's persistent problem: Unskilled workers

06 Jun 2017
News

U.S. has record 6 million job openings, even as 6.8 million Americans are looking for jobs

June 2021
Case

Modern Endowment Management: Paula Volent and the Bowdoin Endowment

By: Luis M. Viceira, Emily R. McComb and Dean Xu

This case examines modern endowment investment management through the lens of a leadership transition between Chief Investment Officers (CIOs). In March 2021, Paula Volent is about to step down as the CIO of the endowment of Bowdoin College after twenty-one years, and... View Details

Keywords: Investment Portfolio; Investment Banking; Growth Management; Investment Return; Capital Markets; Interest Rates; Competition; Cost Management; Risk Management; Financial Liquidity; Performance Evaluation

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Purchase

Sage graduated from Covenant College in 2017, where she studied economics. Prior to graduate school, Sage worked as a research analyst at the Brookings Institution, conducting research on monetary policy and financial stability with Drs. Ben Bernanke, Nellie Liang, and... View Details

Matt DosSantos DiSorbo

I am a PhD student in the Technology and Operations Management Unit. My research focuses on helping human-AI collaborations translate sandbox performance into success in practice. My advisor is Professor Kris Johnson Ferreira. Prior to HBS, I obtained an... View Details

14 Apr 2016
Blog Post

What I Learned at SVMP

The Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP) at HBS is a one week management training program for rising college seniors. It’s designed to increase diversity and opportunity in business education, and give View Details

TeachingInterests

Research in Global Health and Health Policy

Teaching Fellow for Professor David Cutler - Harvard College Course GHHP 99 View Details

Ryann Noe

Ryann Noe is a doctoral candidate in the Organizational Behavior program jointly offered by Harvard Business School and the Department of Sociology at Harvard University.

Her research examines how industries and technologies emerge and evolve, with a focus... View Details

TeachingInterests

Why is There No Cure for Health Care?

Teaching Fellow for Professor David Cutler - Harvard College Course EMREAS 20

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August 2005 (Revised December 2005)
Case

Coach K: A Matter of the Heart

By: Scott A. Snook, Leslie A. Perlow and Brian DeLacey

Successful college basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski faces the decision whether to accept a lucrative offer to coach a professional basketball team or continue to coach at Duke University. Provides a context for discussing various styles of power, influence, and... View Details

Keywords: Power and Influence; Strategic Planning; Decisions; Personal Development and Career; Interpersonal Communication; Management Teams; Goals and Objectives; Decision Choices and Conditions; Sports Industry; North Carolina