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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
Illustration by Dave Cutler At the peak of his career as CEO of Bain & Company, Tom Tierney (MBA ’80) quit his job to form a nonprofit professional services organization. Frustrated by the plodding pace of Alzheimer’s research,... View Details
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Minal Mehta
And when Bollywood was exploding across college campuses in my undergrad years at UC Berkeley, I was leading my dance team to sweep national competitions. It feels like BollyX had always been in the cards. "It was 18 months after I had graduated from HBS. I had... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Aaron…
laptop, at work and at home! How has having an MBA impacted your career? Every day I am faced with an issue to which there is usually no real precedent and thus no clear answer. The training I received at HBS is directly applicable to my... View Details
- 01 Feb 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?
of $1 trillion. It’s a figure deserving the attention that remote work seems to be stimulating. The Big Quit is really not new. While significantly more employees are currently quitting their jobs than even a year ago (roughly 30 percent... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Joan Colligan Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
McKinsey & Company, Inc., as Vice President Marketing/Planning and Research for CBS/Sony Music Entertainment and as Managing Consultant of the Training and Organizational practice within The Human Resource Partnership (TRP), LLC. Her work... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
INK: The Bookshelf
of this book is that the volatility through the messy middle of any project is about achieving a positive slope. Your job is to manage the lows and maintain a focus on optimizing the highs.” CLASSIC Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Angela Ruggiero (MBA 2014)
Trump offered me a job right after he fired me on The Apprentice. That was cool. I ended up not taking it because I was still training to come back and play in one more Olympics. I played golf with him one... View Details
- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
improved job training and relocation incentives for workers, he sees a future of continued market expansion, business profitability, greater social equality, and the increased social stability that this can... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions
$3.94 billion in sales from its more than 3,000 retail stores and its online auction site. Even so, Goodwill’s core mission is to provide job training and placement to people with disabilities, criminal... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Oct 2015
- What Do You Think?
What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?
column. Anne, for example, pointed out that the German system assigns a certain number of immigrant families to specific villages, has them take German lessons, and gives job assignments with benefits conditioned upon taking a View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Actively Addressing Unconscious Bias in Recruiting
financial gains of diversity are not limited to venture capital but also expand to goods and service-based businesses. Addressing Unconscious Bias in Recruiting There are excellent resources to help train your managers and employees to... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 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
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
with General Dynamics Electric Boat to prepare people to build nuclear submarines for the US Navy and work with Bank of America on programs that prepare individuals for jobs in the financial services sector. We also have a partnership... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
The women were then allowed to apply for the second year at HBS, and fewer than ten were accepted. In the second-year program, they were given no housing or section designation, and a professor could deny entrance to his course. When job... View Details
Keywords: Roland Christensen; Roberta Moniz Lasley; Diana Greer; Edna Homa; Anne Jardim; Eunice Jensen; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training
- 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
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Brooke Carter (MBA 2019)
your jobs is acting as a translator between business and engineering. I think about how to build a mass-market product that will help us hit our company KPIs. It allowed me to leverage my MBA, as well as my undergraduate View Details
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Betty J. Diener Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
time they [Young & Rubicam] had never had a woman in their executive training program. They'd had women in research and women in media buying, but none in the account training area. So I went with them, and... 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
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
mine, we are spending millions of dollars on socioenvironmental efforts in the surrounding region: schools, a hospital, electrification, job training in support enterprises, health-care programs,... View Details