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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
organization is involved, we charge. Advertising also brings in revenue." ALISON enables potential employers to immediately test the skill of certificate-holding ALISON graduates through 20-question "flash tests" that assess their... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
small, regional employment agencies have existed in the space for decades. But Nomad’s digital marketplace is an innovation, allowing clinicians to advertise their availability and health care institutions to advertise their needs. Once a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 23 Apr 2016
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Tipping His Cap to Open Source
deconstructs the traditional software value chain at big tech employers like Oracle and IBM. “What are the boundaries of an organization going forward in a world where information and content are open or can be made open? Institutions as... View Details
- 24 Mar 2023
- News
Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
posted jobs, and people applied for them. For many people, though, the pandemic brought back into focus the critical job they "hire" employers to do for them—make progress in their lives and careers—and how divorced that progress has... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2007
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Letters
Program she founded. In New York City, we are launching a similar program, called Inner City Start-ups, that will set up qualified individuals, with or without criminal records, in small, legitimate businesses under a strict set of controls. Although most 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 rewire the entire education and... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
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Laser focus on medical breakthroughs
a number of groundbreaking companies, including Transgenic Sciences, a developer of novel manufacturing processes for new drugs, which was acquired by Genzyme. She also founded Lumenos, a consumer-directed health plan for self-insured View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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From a ‘blank slate’ to ‘Mr. China’
hiring more than 50 “New China” managers, Perkowski grew his company into $500 million ASIMCO Technologies, twice named one of the Best Employers in China. Known by the moniker “Mr. China,” Perkowski retired from ASIMCO in 2009 and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Business Plan Contest Has Many Winners
contacted the 705 alumni who took part in the Business Plan Contest between 1997 and 2004. The survey’s 269 respondents reported starting 254 enterprises, with nearly 200 businesses still up and running and generating $550 million in sales and View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
in the Networked Age by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, and Chris Yeh (MBA 2000) (Harvard Business Review Press) The employer-employee relationship is broken. The old model of guaranteed long-term employment no longer works in a business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Faculty Research Online
who are increasingly willing and able to care for their own conditions. The result: changing models of health-care delivery. The Bias of Wall Street Analysts Historically, stock analysts’ recommendations have been swayed by business relationships between the analyst’s... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
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The Past Informs the Future of Work
leaders at these telecommunications giants confronted issues such as pacing innovation, enhancing the customer experience, and managing the workforce. “By the early 1920s, AT&T was the biggest employer in the United States, on par with... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Turnaround Situation
was homeless,” Cordova noted with a smile. When Cordova came to RS&VP in 1997, its operating budget was $30,000. Under his leadership, it has grown this year to $1.7 million, which helps provide housing, employment training, and legal... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Over the last half century, capitalism has created... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
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The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
ride-hailing apps are big employers in the city. Grab says it has 330,000 drivers signed up throughout its network, most of those in Indonesia, and Go-Jek says it has 270,000 drivers. (Many people drive for more than one service.) The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
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Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
of $6,000 to get linked to the second-year teachers. "Having revenue from the employers is a kind of accountability that's good for us," says Leschly. "And the program is success-based: The master's students pay us only after the second... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
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Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
spending on R&D. It’s unclear whether manufacturing’s overall contribution to the economy will shrink along with its employment base. The sector’s future is a topic of heated debate between those who see the United States shifting to an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
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The Power of Cultural Understanding
Jafar says that it is important to understand and tackle the root causes of the problems. He also believes in empowering the private sector and building an eco-system that supports economic growth, improved education, and more employment... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HP's Fiorina Speaks at HBS
underemployment at home and abroad, before eventually earning an MBA at the University of Maryland. In 1999, after almost twenty years in the executive ranks at AT&T and Lucent, the one-time HP secretary returned to her former employer as... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
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Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
the case of Gojek, they've created a million roles and employment through their ecosystem, but are also offering a range of critical services that weren't offered before. And one of the ones that I think is really potent example is what's... View Details