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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
- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
Many companies follow a tried-and-true approach to pursuing corporate social responsibility practices. They set aside a certain amount per year to fund a CSR office, which then tries to help clean up the environment or improve the quality of life of people in the areas... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 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
- Web
Benefits & Compensation | Employment
workshops on our own campus. Additionally, the Center for Workplace Development offers training workshops and the Tuition Assistance Plan benefit allows you to pursue a degree or certificate, or, simply to attend courses through the... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Pooling resources to tackle India's social challenges
been improving lives in India for years. As CEO at Cummins, he helped establish the first engineering college for women; and later, at Microsoft, he helped create a computer literacy program that has trained 35 million children and nearly... View Details
- 06 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy
about language. Too often, talented professionals don't get the support or the training necessary to bring up their level of language competence, and that is why organizations need a language strategy. It's so fundamental and it drives... View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
- 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 Mar 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Qiao Ma (MBA 2010)
up—it was electrifying. After that, I helped him chart stock prices on the only empty wall in our house. I’m pretty sure my parents were disappointed that I took a job in investing, because stock trading is a universal hobby in many Asian... View Details
- Web
Connections & Relationships | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
role, I am able to draw on my HBS general management training to lead organization-wide strategy and operations planning and help coordinate and enhance the work of the senior management team. Stephen Chan, MBA/MPP 2009 View Details
- Portrait Project
Anjali Thakkar
“Time of death: 4:57am.” This was my first experience losing a patient. Around 4am, I was falling asleep, despite the constant din of the Emergency Room, when the Code Blue alarm sounded. I dashed out behind my team, and when we arrived, it was like a rogue wave during... View Details
- 07 Feb 2005
- What Do You Think?
If You Blink, Will You Miss?
process." Steve Carnevale puts it more graphically: "I think blink is very dangerous. Read the book Fooled by Randomness. The author does a good job of explaining that our brain is great at pattern recognition, but not suited to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
As much as Kendall loved the nuts and bolts of manufacturing — he even trained on the company's assembly line and became a certified welder — he decided that the demands of a career in manufacturing would leave little time for community... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Elizabeth Powers (MBA 2021) was thrilled to land a summer internship at a highly respected consulting firm. Then came COVID-19, and the firm announced it was shortening her View Details
- Web
Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog
rights to your codified labor and how you should navigate employment contracts or other business agreements over your direct labor and any data byproduct that can be used to train AI models. We will also re-think the power of collective... 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
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
portfolio firms, attend board meetings, and provide strategic guidance, just like independent venture capitalists. In some respects, their job may be easier: typically, the corporation provides all the funds, sparing them from having to... View Details