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22 Sep 2015
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Promoting a Healthy Policy Agenda

productive. We'll also be able to better contain rising health care costs. “The skills that I gained at Harvard Business School, the relationships that I formed at Harvard Business School, the experiences are very valuable. A lot of... View Details

March 2023 (Revised May 2023)
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OneTen at Delta Air Lines: Catalyzing Family-Sustaining Careers for Black Talent (C)

By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag

In February 2023, Delta Air Lines (Delta) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Ed Bastian, celebrated the airline’s OneTen partnership in a room full of Atlanta’s prominent business leaders, educators, and public servants in Atlanta, at a OneTen/Delta Launch Event. To support... View Details

Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Community Relations; Race; Leading Change; Air Transportation Industry; United States; Atlanta

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Outdoors Club | MBA

Outdoors Club The Outdoors Club provides opportunities, education, and community for adventurers at HBS. Whether you are an experienced outdoorsperson or a beginner weekend warrior, this club is for you! In addition to a great line-up of... View Details

02 May 2016
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Motivating Middle-Schoolers to Get up to Speed with Math

2010 that leverages the popularity of NBA basketball to help middle school students master the fundamentals of math. “STEM skills are driving innovation across all sectors today,” Daugherty notes, “but 67 percent of eighth graders... View Details

01 Dec 2012
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50 Years & Counting

manifested in individual women," McGinn stresses. "It's evident in family and community dynamics and local and national economics. We can see how change happens woman by woman, family by family, and View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Jun 2015
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Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness

also focusing on the middle skills gap, including Richard Kane (MBA 1968) and Bruce Bockmann (MBA 1967), who are leading HBS Club of New York members’ groundbreaking efforts to connect tech and health care firms with interns from View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson; Walmart; Health, Social Assistance; Retail Trade

31 Mar 2017
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Turning Teachers into Leaders

innovative technologies, for implementing higher standards, for providing better feedback and support to teachers. “HBS gave me the skills by helping me to think as a systems thinker. By that I mean to consider the marketing angles, the... View Details

09 Jun 2023
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Learning Curve

professor, and Shara Bumgarner, a Houston elementary school teacher. Melcher located some classroom space and then watched as her daughter began to acquire social and communication skills in the new... View Details

28 Sep 2016
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Tackling Inequality: An HBS Independent Project

Like many of my classmates, I embraced this type of leadership prior to HBS by volunteering with community organizations. I came to HBS knowing that community leadership would live alongside my professional... View Details

30 Oct 2019
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Creating Agents of Change

health, education, and empowerment through life skills and employment. “Success for us is that, by the time the young adults leave our program at age 24, they're living above the level of poverty in their country. In most cases, this is... View Details

10 Aug 2020
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HBS Summer Fellows Focus on Racial Equity and Justice

and in-tune with the communication and leadership styles of others. This internship is my first time starting a new job with career experience under my belt and the skills I've learned at HBS gave me a new... View Details

18 Jan 2012
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Charter Supporter

headquartered in Waterloo, Wisconsin. While there, she set up Trek’s sales and distribution companies across Europe and worked in forecasting and planning. Since 2007, she has devoted her energy and skills full time to the nonprofit... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2020
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Homeschooled

Math is where, historically, you see the biggest learning loss occur, and when those skills atrophy, it’s very hard to engage in the next level. Everything builds on the level before it. That’s true in other subjects as well—reading is... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; online learning; Educational Services

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Fatou Bintou Sagnang

and how the world hangs together, then bringing it down to the corporate and personal levels." She references a case study about a young HBS graduate who assumes an executive position, bringing analytical skills more mature than his... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Tech

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Kayode Ogunro

employer. How has HBS prepared you for your new job? My job will require a substantial amount of travel to Europe and Africa and more hands on management of deals and projects than I would face with a typical investment firm. My HBS experience has definitely helped me... View Details

Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund; Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services; Energy / Extractive Minerals; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2012
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Taking Time to Make Time

takes a lot more than organizing your schedule to be productive. I wanted to discuss skills that have been critical in my own career. Communication is one—reading, writing, and speaking. Another is how you... View Details

Keywords: Time management

01 Mar 2007
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Winter Break Just Got Educational

the student-led Hurricane Relief Trek. The experience gave students an opportunity to apply their management skills and make a personal contribution to the city’s recovery. HBS lecturer Stacey Childress, HBS assistant professor Romana... View Details

Keywords: immersion; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

08 Apr 2019
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Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career

C-suite executive. “I took a year off to decompress and do some fun things,” Kloeblen explains. As a skilled woodworker, an experienced health coach, and a licensed sea captain, he had many interests to explore and enjoy long subordinated... View Details

Keywords: Technology

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Collaboration Across Knowledge Boundaries within Diverse Teams: Reciprocal Expertise Affirmation as an Enabling Condition

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Kate Roloff and Lucy H. MacPhail

We review research on expertise diversity, psychological safety, team collaboration, and role identity to propose a model in which reciprocal affirmations of expertise identity among team members—a feature of the team environment that we conceptualize as a dimension of... View Details

Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Experience and Expertise; Learning; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Groups and Teams; Familiarity; Identity; Cooperation