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- 20 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)
the world this summer to develop skills and knowledge while having significant responsibility and high impact. What were you working on this summer? This summer, I worked with the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (MMAC),... View Details
- 10 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Summer Fellows Focus on Racial Equity and Justice
undergraduate students with the skills they need to succeed in corporate America. Fellows get one-on-one mentorship from an advisor, participate in a weekly speaker series on topics like career prep, mental health and leadership, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
back up to speed academically? Sal Khan: As we look to the next several months, we are thinking about how students are going to show up to school with huge gaps in their knowledge. Some kids will keep learning and might even accelerate.... View Details
- Profile
Kaki Ettinger
engineer to launch new functionalities for his nonprofit coding website, and leverage human-centered design principles to do research for a large corporation. During the final semester of my MBA, I applied analytic skills learned in class... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
skills for our students. We’re fully convinced this is going to be fundamental mainstream investing in 20 years. Vikram Gandhi: One key driver is investor demand.If you look at the big pools of capital—family offices, pension plans,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 14 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing
particular skills and needs. People with ASD may also have little preparation or capacity for the common social interactions required on a daily basis at work. As Sonne and his family adapted to life raising their son, the nature of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Leadership Project Codifies Elusive Traits
have an impact on business managers on an everyday basis. In essence, we want to bridge the gap between theory and practice,” says Mayo. Mayo, who spearheaded the legacy project along with HBS professor Nitin Nohria, notes that the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
skills tied to specific disciplinary knowledge that are increasingly vacuous and superfluous.” And HBS professor Rakesh Khurana contends that many business schools have been complicit in creating recent corporate scandals by turning out... View Details
- 01 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
How Scott Linzmeyer Crafted a Business He Loves at Reveler Beverage
build a business he loves. After graduating from Boston University, Linzmeyer joined General Electric in their financial management program which gave him the opportunity to develop his financial skills and determine where he wanted to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
disparity of wealth and income in many countries and across regions. In turn, they thought these gaps could lead to populist politics that would adversely affect the conduct of capitalism. A second major concern was that our productive... View Details
- 21 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
3 Things Women Need to Know About Business School
background in chemistry and history, I had learned all of my business skills in a haphazard way at my previous job; I wanted to fill in the gaps in a systematic way. I also wanted to test different... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
Benefits of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
in two years, and will have the chance to combine these two skill sets in a really structured way.” Though there are many students interested in technology and entrepreneurship at HBS, Damjan admits he would have appreciated the cohort... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
country. “What we do is invest in businesses that are growing faster than the GDP, which is climbing now because of the recovery, but traditionally, it’s been 2 to 3 percent over the last 10 to 20 years,” Perez says. “We want to bring our View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
The organization pays for the individual to enhance his or her skills—and résumé—and thereby benefit from participating. The second is the gap between the skills that executive development programs build and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 May 2017
- Blog Post
The Diverse Community at HBS
musical theater bridges the gap between our vastly different upbringings and large height differential. I’ve found it particularly inspiring that there are so many students here willing to share their cultures informally and even organize... View Details
- 26 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Driving Change in Education-to-Employment
are working around the world to develop skills and knowledge while having significant responsibility and high impact. What are you working on this summer? I’m working at Year Up, a leading workforce development nonprofit that is helping... View Details
- 16 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020
their voter engagement strategy by developing a granular data-driven understanding of youth voter turnout. I loved putting my new skills to work for such a worthwhile cause! Joshua Rodriguez (MBA 2020): For our first project, we were... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job
way for them to put their theories into action and see what a large gap there often is between thinking about and communicating a decision,” Zuzul says. Of the fourth-semester course, Edmondson and Zuzul say their job isn’t to weed out... View Details
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
while creating new jobs more or less commensurate with the skills of the displaced workers. But things have changed since the technology is now able to think as well as perform tasks It is not easy to convert today's manual laborers to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
practice designed to "bridge" the gap between the seemingly disparate worlds of corporate management consulting and nonprofit organizations worldwide. Tierney, who serves on the Board of Directors of the Associates at HBS, is also at work... View Details