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- 25 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
Harvard Kennedy School’s Master in Public Administration in International Development (MPA-ID) is designed to prepare the next generation of leaders in international development. It is an economics-centered, multidisciplinary program combining rigorous View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Disaster Master
value concentration; there’s been such a focus on efficiency that there are way fewer redundancies in a company’s production capacity and inventories,” says Beer, who offers insight and advice to alumni seeking guidance in unprecedented circumstances. How do you View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 16 Sep 2013
- News
Canada’s Native Son
addition to their own seven) when local tribal members weren't able to care for them. "I was trained to be a public servant from a very young age." Favel's résumé, at first glance, might lead one to believe that he had a hard time getting... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Tony Sanchez - Team Builder
focus on the medical area while at HBS, including field studies at several local hospitals, has led to a job offer with Indiana-based Guidant Corporation, a medical devices manufacturer. Sanchez is eager to apply his experience in team... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 08 Nov 2011
- News
Saluting Our HBS Veterans
TroopSwap Nicholas Pinchuk (MBA 1976), Snap-on Ed Ellison (MBA 1991), St. Johns Country Day School Veterans Day, celebrated on November 11 in the United States, is a reminder that the military, through its personnel and its philosophy, has long been a key presence at... View Details
- Student-Faculty-Profile
Grant Donnelly & Michael Norton
all-too-rare students who want to get trained as social scientists, but in the pursuit of important problems. Grant: I feel extraordinarily fortunate to work with Mike. He once guessed that only 3% of human behavior has even been studied,... View Details
- 19 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work
2017, well before the COVID-19 pandemic increased remote work. “Two individuals have the same job and are doing the exact same kind of work. The only thing that changed is the temporal distance.” First, the team explored how being in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 May 2020
- Blog Post
Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12
leave the firm in 2014. “I left without a job prepared to engage in a period of exploration and a long term job search. I knew I wanted to do something small, entrepreneurial, mission driven, and with great... View Details
- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
December 16, 2020. Summing up last month’s column My column last month about job training inequality and economic growth sparked many insightful comments about the role of markets as arbiters of fairness and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
technical training for its long-tenured tool-and-die professionals. “We are now a core group, and for anything beyond that we bring in people on a project and per-hour basis,” Chirchirillo explains. “We are doing more just-in-time work;... View Details
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
strongly motivated to control and reduce costs. Yet the Army, the Navy, and, to a lesser extent, the Air Force provide limited industrial management training for military officers whom they assign to key managerial positions in major... View Details
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women at Work
caring partner is key to making things work. "But I've had to train my spouse," she joked. You have to manage your career for the long-term.—Kara Gruver, Bain Consulting Her advice? You can't be perfect and on top of everything... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 14 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Rewriting the Rules of Service Competition
well. As a result, these organizations staff very carefully, hiring for attitude and then training for skills, whether the business is fast food or cutting-edge medical organizations such as the Mayo Clinic. These are not good places to... View Details
- 14 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Trust the Process, and Trust Yourself Even More: Interview with Wellness and Empowerment Leader, Dilan Gomih (MBA 2019)
to start a fitness bootcamp at HBS and a virtual personal training practice, allowing her to test out entrepreneurship while exploring the business of fitness and wellness. It also built up her emotional resilience as she held out for the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
combination offered by Ford Motor Company’s management training program. While he excelled at leading teams to solve engineering-based manufacturing problems, it was a stint in sales and marketing that changed his life. “I was on the... View Details
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Diversity | Employment
provide leadership opportunities through service on our Executive Committee. Career Training at the Allston Brighton Resource Center Members of our Human Resources department regularly conduct career View Details
- 04 Feb 2020
- News
In Harmony
who just happened to love Gregorian chant. He even took the lead in an HBS musical. “I realized at the very top of that pyramid was the intersection of business and opera,” says Weinstein, “and if I could get a job combining those two... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
which trains disadvantaged inner-city youths and unemployed adults of southwestern Pennsylvania for jobs in high-tech, culinary, and medical fields, partnered with Bayer, a major pharmaceutical and chemical... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Joel Bines
Joel Bines has a knack for inspiring others to take a chance on him. Time and again this hard-driving member of a close-knit Boston family has found himself succeeding in jobs for which he's had no prior experience. In each instance, he... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
marketing job at Amazon, looking to reconnect with my creative side and do something entrepreneurial. Enter my cofounders, Shahil Patel and Mayuri Bhandari. In Boston, Shahil, a first-year MBA at MIT, was fresh off of the semifinals of... View Details