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- 06 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
Henry McGee: From HBO to HBS
they offered me a job in a sort of informal publisher’s training program. The plan was for me to start in circulation, rotate through the different business functions and, if I was any good, eventually... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
of successful investment in the inner city that Porter has written about are Sprint and Walgreens. In Missouri, Sprint decided to locate a new call center in a struggling section of downtown Kansas City and provide job View Details
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
if city regulators wanted to see the impact of licensing three new businesses on a particular block, they could monitor changes in Google Street Views, cross-referencing that data with online reviews in the neighborhood and housing estimates by real-estate sites such... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
ISSUE FOCUS: EDUCATION INNOVATION Bright Idea #1 Training the Global Workforce, Gratis Mike Feerick (MBA 1993) FEERICK: At the grade school he attended in Ireland. "Knowledge and understanding," he says, "are being unleashed via the web... View Details
- 25 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Walking Away from a $3 Billion Deal
return rather than the perhaps easier task of increasing dollars under management. Judging by how fast the typical private equity firm has grown over the past several years, Yudkoff and his firm may well be in the minority in how they viewed this choice. "The... View Details
- 12 May 2020
- Blog Post
The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership
partners, “we have an ecosystem for digital equity, twenty-three organizations trained to help schools get connected.” In addition, Pasricha had been working on an AI-powered Chatbot to help San Jose residents access City services in a... View Details
- 28 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership
partners, “we have an ecosystem for digital equity, twenty-three organizations trained to help schools get connected.” In addition, Pasricha had been working on an AI-powered Chatbot to help San Jose residents access City services in a... View Details
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An Educated Investment | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Executive Education course Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management (SPNM) because, “To lead such significant scale and growth, I needed leadership training and support to reduce operational complexity and drive the organization... 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
- 01 Jan 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?
have observed it in operation. Familiarity breeds contempt. Julie commented, “So, at how many companies have American workers been rounded up, coerced into training their replacements, then terminated? This is not supplementing our... View Details
- 06 Jun 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?
the office to benefit from the stimulus of solving client problems while "preferably working in a garden or even petting the dog or cat." If the problem is us, the solution may lie with us. Joe Fernandez recommended that we View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Alumni Career Journey: Rob Self (MBA 2021) – Integrating Climate into Consulting
strategic response to data center penetration as well as residential solar penetration. In my role at BCG, I also had the opportunity to attend a weeklong immersive training at Columbia Climate Institute in New York with other BCGers... View Details
- 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
- 01 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Investing in Career Switchers - Cyril Straughn-Turner & Invesco US
growing up in Atlanta, Delta was like a second home,” he shared. “I was also a big train geek as a kid, so I’ve always loved transportation, and I found there was a lot happening in terms of the future of mobility and the customer... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
bring along more successful people, and you’ll have more career endurance. Thirty-three million Americans have quit their jobs since the spring of 2021. What can good leaders do to make sure that workers are engaged and happy? The Great... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 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
- 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