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11 Feb 2021
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Retraining for a Post-COVID Workforce

in a four-month user-experience design course underwritten by Social Finance, which also provided access to emergency funds for basic necessities such as food, housing, and child care, as well as access to a social worker and View Details

24 Mar 2017
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Alumni New Venture Competition Finalists Named

allows businesses to design and order industrial equipment online. Alumnus: Etienne Lacroix, MBA 2011 Region: Canada These teams will make their final pitches to a panel of judges on April 25 and a winner and crowd favorite will be picked... View Details

01 Dec 2015
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Enjoying the Chance to Reconnect

Despite the significant demands of his job as a partner in the fast-growing New York venture firm Thrive Capital, Patrick Chun appreciated the opportunity to be a major gifts cochair for his 5th Reunion. “It’s great to reconnect with... View Details

27 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad

Companies change strategy, operational processes, and policies all the time, each shift creating a new group of winners and losers. When Steve Jobs became CEO of Apple for the second time, the culture shifted, with View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

13 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis

behavior whose work includes corporate consulting. "And I thought, did I ask an awkward question? So I asked again, 'How do you add value to your organization?' I got more nervous laughter." “If you're tied down by your job... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Apr 1998
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Booting Up

cater properly to larger-footed women. One day a shoe manufacturer finally said to me, 'Why don't you do something about that?'" Intrigued by the challenge, Thornton interviewed shoe retailers and manufacturers and even took a $6-an-hour View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Jun 2000
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Seeing the Light

biotech job for Kirlin, a company her great-grandfather had founded. As she told the Detroit News (March 20, 2000), "Detroit is the hub of resources important to manufacturers like Kirlin. It was my first home. I could be part of the... View Details

Career Coach

Carole Carlson

Carole (HBS '98) has a wide ranging business background, with particular expertise coaching MBAs and executives. She has a passion for helping individuals develop their career vision and implement it via practical job search skills,... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Education; Entrepreneurship; Government; Health Care; Hospitality; Real Estate; Social Enterprise

01 Dec 2003
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Spreading the Words

When the youngest of his three sons went off to college in 1994, Carey Cook (MBA 1969) finally had time to pursue a lifelong dream: creating word games and puzzles designed to build the vocabulary skills of school-age kids. At the same... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

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Peek into Business | MBA

definition of "business" and consider how understanding it can be valuable—from a strawberry farmer managing supply chains to a food scientist meeting market demands, or a software engineer designing solutions to a content creator... View Details

01 Mar 2018
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What I Do: Philippe Hellich (MBA 1996)

Founded in Sweden in 1943, IKEA is the world’s largest furniture retailer, outfitting dorm rooms and designer homes around the globe. A company that engages nearly a billion customers every year and employs over 194,000 workers in 49... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Peter and Maria Hoey

03 Feb 2017
Blog Post

The Making of an Internship

share the career criteria that drove their internship searches and how their respective organizations aligned with their passions. An effective onboarding process can have many benefits for both employers and their new hires, including increased View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Dec 1998
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New Senior Executive Programme Strengthens African Managerial Leadership

Senior Executive Programme, an initiative developed through the collective efforts of HBS, Wits Business School in Johannesburg, and several other private, public, and international organizations. Designed for the region's experienced and... View Details

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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: ASIA - Alumni

projected tenure of 12 months or longer. The Review Committee's preference is to fund graduates who are joining operating companies over those joining investment funds/vehicles. Your job is based full-time in a country or territory in... View Details

01 Sep 2004
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Alumni Board Wraps Up Year

year-end report. The Alumni Career Services Committee, chaired by Jim Gibbons (MBA ’94), found that alumni are changing job responsibilities and employers more frequently than in the past, and that many are interested in making the... View Details

Keywords: Ted Fischer; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

02 Aug 2019
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Helping Veterans Build Careers

designated more than $28 million to nonprofit grantee partners, helping to place more than 50,000 vets in high-quality jobs since 2009. At HBS, Goldenberg served as co-president of the Armed Forces Alumni... View Details

01 Jun 2017
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The New Venture Competition Crowns a New Crop

first on-demand jobs platform. Prizes were also awarded to student teams in the business and social enterprise tracks at the event, with winners in all three categories each receiving $75,000, runners-up, $25,000; and crowd favorites,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Oct 1999
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A Constructive Summer at HBS

contractor William A. Berry & Son for a "superb job," Moffatt has been pleased with progress on the building. "The whole project has been characterized by good fortune," he says. While the outside structure is going up, planning has also begun for the interior View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Jun 2003
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Unsung Hero

where, with her banking and diplomatic skills, she became a policy advisor to the State Department’s Counterterrorism Finance and Designation Unit. She trains foreign government officials and bankers on procedures for preventing money... View Details

Keywords: Finance

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