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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
Wiley Stock investing is more prevalent than ever, whether directly or indirectly through brokerage accounts, exchange-traded funds, mutual funds, or retirement plans. Despite this, the vast majority of individual investors have no View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
board member hats and reverted to the roles of students and mentors. Dewey said that a board is there “to help you as an inner circle and you have to be open for dialogue. It’s like walking into a HBS class; your training in case... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
could be in a meeting at the same time. You’d hear someone answer a question and learn indirectly how to handle a difficult situation. As we grow, I think a lot about how we replicate that experience with training that is within the brand... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
post–Civil War era to commission-based canvassers hired and trained by manufacturers to sell agricultural products and books by Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant, for instance. “Drummers,” who acted as the middlemen between manufacturers... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
me in age, he was way more famous, way more successful, richer than I’d ever be, and he was miserable. I thought, “Dude, that’s future-me. That’s where I’m going.” So I said, “Look, what am I trained to do? I’m a ‘happiness’ guy. I’m... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 15 May 2018
- News
Spreading the Safety Net
team. Hyman writes that it will serve the best interests of its 1,200 employees, without whom Rent the Runway would not exist, but she also expects it to benefit the company itself—in the form higher retention rates, lower training costs,... View Details
- 25 Aug 2016
- News
Announcing the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative
do—how well cities are run will affect the future of the planet in profound ways.” Within the next four years, as many as 300 mayors and 400 top mayoral aides will participate in the initiative’s executive training programs. This... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Class of 1975 Endows Chair in Entrepreneurship
Starting New Ventures, and Venture Capital and Private Equity. The Class of 1975's major gift cochairs, Leo J. Corbett, Hamilton E.("Tony") James, and Kendrick R. Wilson, reported that their classmates have shown overwhelming enthusiasm for the gift's objectives: to... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundswells
remembered always,” the distinguished financier and philanthropist asserted, “that the standard of excellence which must be maintained comes not simply from the outside of the buildings, but from the work and training on the inside.”... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 10 Feb 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
“The lack of access to good education in developing countries is one of the greatest problems in the world today,” says Chris Crane (MBA 1976), who founded and leads Edify, a nonprofit that furnishes micro-enterprise loans and business View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
now the largest entrepreneurial training center in New England, with offices in Boston, Providence, and Worcester. While Silbert admits she spends more time on raising funds — from individual donors, foundations, and government agencies —... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
approximately 150 million children ages 3 to 8, making it an ideal partner for working at scale. Rocket develops and delivers digital training materials focused specifically on boosting the skills of this group of public-sector educators.... View Details
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
plans to build Project Bison. But Meghan Kenny, the project manager, can see the future. MK: Have you ever seen a train going by with many different sort of rail cars attached to it? That's probably not too far off of what it would look... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
create what we call “M-Work,” which is a co-working space, closer to the Mito train station. We also started a history project called M-History, because—even though Mito has contributed greatly to the modernization of Japan—that part of... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
successful economic development moment for Europe and Western countries. Poorer countries have had a much more difficult time, and lots of voices emerged with lots of disorder. We’ve been trained to understand that bias on the left or... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
past. And what I try to do is really focus on the things that need to change. I'm willing to delegate letting the trains run on time and the normal stuff that that's going well, I focus my time on the stuff that's not going well. And... View Details
- 04 Jun 2025
- News
Slice of Life
other thing is my manager told everybody, he says, "Hey, people will come back because of the food, but they leave a review because of how you make them feel." And so we spend most of our company training on how do we make people feel... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
trained to fill the role of the natural mother. Villages also run K-12 schools, vocational facilities, and medical centers in many countries, especially in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Kash Rangan first heard about SOS-KDI from Martin... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 27 Apr 2022
- News
Following the Flow of Aid
provide food, shelter, and services to people crossing the border from Ukraine. But the experience also underscored for McKenna some of the “uncomfortable truths of aid work,” according to an April article in SeattleMet. “You’d see people getting off the View Details