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03 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment

bachelor’s degree work in jobs that don’t require one. Many assume that this “malemployment” is a temporary condition primarily affecting only some recent college graduates. While it is more common in recent graduates, analyses suggest... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Education

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

Keywords: Susan Young; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

04 Sep 2019
News

In My Humble Opinion: Status Update

celebrities, developers, and news publishers. She also leads mergers and acquisitions. “Facebook’s mission is about giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together,” she says. “In the short time I’ve been in the View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

26 May 2016
News

W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975

find its way forward after a series of mergers and acquisitions, high-profile ethical missteps, and some tough business challenges. His job was to build on strengths, connecting what was good with what could be better. “Boeing had... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Dec 2005
News

Pedal Mettle

despite the fact that her lungs, scarred from her treatments, were functioning at only 50 percent of capacity. Said Berté, who trained for four months to prepare for the Tour, “I never in a million years thought I would be on a bike... View Details

Keywords: Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2007
News

HBS Launches Unique Deferred-Admission Program

YOUNGER FACES IN STUDY GROUPS: The typical MBA student has five years of job experience; the new program welcomes those with two. HBS has unveiled a groundbreaking deferred-admission program for outstanding college seniors who want an MBA... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Profile

Suchita Prasad

responsibility for training and development, talent acquisition and labor negotiations. Coming to HBS has truly been transformative for me. I have gained an insight into business as a way of life. I had focused so much on the single silo... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Manufacturing

Profile

Zihan Lin

Zi will fulfill two weeks of training in New Haven, then spend the remaining summer in several countries in Southeast Asia. "I'll be in the endomechanical division, supporting commercialization plans of surgical devices for the... View Details

01 Jun 1999
News

Ian Walsh

Ian Walsh was like many other students at Hamilton College - he majored in English and biology and played hockey and lacrosse. But he and his twin brother, Eric, were in a class by themselves when it came to career plans. While their peers were preparing for View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

01 Dec 2010
News

Ilene Lang

less in their first jobs even when differences in job level were taken into account, and didn’t catch up on either front throughout their careers. These findings still held true when we controlled for... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; interview; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

02 Jun 2003
What Do You Think?

What Can Aspiring Leaders Be Taught?

"preaching/teaching ethics doesn't work, but a scared-straight approach does. Create posters featuring the handcuffed children of lapsed ethics ... and wallpaper the classrooms." But does the responsibility rest solely or even primarily with business schools?... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Career Tools & Resources | MBA

HBS network. Coaching & Advising We know that every student’s career journey is unique. That’s why we offer 1:1 support from trained Career Coaches and Student Advisors who can help guide students through the career search process from... View Details

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The Strategic Case for Diversity in Digital Transformation - Blog: RGE Report

of job displacement and the fairness of the systems themselves. As IBM’s work shows, machine learning models can inherit and amplify human bias if the training data lacks representation or context. This can... View Details

05 Sep 2012
What Do You Think?

Will Business Management Save US Health Care?

will the necessary management skills come? Medical schools? Business schools? Will joint degrees in medicine and business be necessary? If so, just how many students will be willing to engage in a long and arduous course of training to... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

14 Sep 2021
Blog Post

How to Support Your Employees’ Career Development

one on one meetings between managers and direct reports are the norm and the career development conversation is ongoing. “I tend to think about things in 90-day terms, so managers and their reports look at what the employee needs to accomplish in their View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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Archival Collections - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Photographs from the HBS Archives document the activities of training schools and courses at HBS during World War II, including the Army Air Forces Statistical School, Army Air Forces War Adjustment Course, Army Supply Officers View Details

01 Feb 1999
News

Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office

IV (MBA '66), who has led this august institution for the last twenty years, is neither. In fact, Lazarus claims no formal artistic training beyond auditing a single art history class in college. "When they interviewed me for the... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar

14 Sep 2021
Blog Post

How to Support Your Employees' Career Development

between managers and direct reports are the norm and the career development conversation is ongoing. “I tend to think about things in 90-day terms, so managers and their reports look at what the employee needs to accomplish in their job... View Details

26 Feb 2019
Blog Post

Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

gift cards for pulling off impressive projects, or even just by saying “thank you” for a job well done. “Cash matters in people’s lives, but it’s not all that matters,” says Whillans, who researches what makes people happy. “What really... View Details