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- 11 Feb 2021
- News
Retraining for a Post-COVID Workforce
Many of the low-income employees who lost their jobs when white-collar workers stopped commuting may never get those jobs back, according to some economists, who point to COVID’s lasting impacts on the labor market. Now a national... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
tireless student president also trained for and completed the Boston Marathon (a feat he repeated in this year's centennial anniversary of the race). How did he accomplish it all? "I got about three hours of sleep a night," smiles Dobron,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
Image by Chuan Khoo / Getty Images Learning to Speak the Language of Business In March 2010, CEO Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA 1993) stood in front of his employees at online retail giant Rakuten’s Tokyo headquarters and made a stunning... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
headphones provided, and different chairs procured,” Fieldhouse said. Training sessions were developed to assist the autistic employees with life skills, such as travel planning, financial awareness and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
fraud? What kinds of internal control levers, employee training programs, or perhaps even internal (nonfinancial) rewards and recognitions lead to a greater number of internal whistleblower reports? Subject... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Courting the Poor
procedure for credit approval, using nontraditional metrics to enable customers with lower, less easily established incomes (a pushcart vendor, for example) to make purchases. “Their loan repayment rates are the envy of the world, and the customers are deeply... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
problems we’re now facing, including unfunded pension obligations. It has done nothing to stop corporations from making promises to their employees and shareholders without the resources to back them up. Extensive reform is necessary. To... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
explores new wrinkles in this age-old formula — and how government policy may affect entrepreneurship. Visit http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5865.html. Marketing Your Way through a Recession In a recession, consumers become value-oriented, distributors are concerned about... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Core Values Keep Airline Flying High
Good people are essential for success. Keep the product and the process simple. Deliver the most reliable service at the lowest cost. Invest the time to connect with employees and customers. These are the basic tenets fueling the... View Details
- 04 Dec 2020
- News
Hour by Hour
Courtesy Rahkeem Morris Courtesy Rahkeem Morris Rahkeem Morris (MBA 2018) spent the first 10 years of his work life as an hourly wage earner, moving from one minimum wage job to the next, often unable to transfer learned skills or 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
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
employees and their families to a cookout. The idea was that in the middle of this train wreck people could do something normal that would give them hope. You clearly put people ahead of the business in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
From Bytes to Bites
Silicon Valley a natural fit. It’s a path that worked quite nicely for Thomas, who eventually rose to vice president of marketing at SuccessFactors, a software firm focused on employee performance and strategy solutions. Then, in 1995,... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Future Source
education and collaboration beyond the company’s training program. “Andela employees will become founders and executives,” says Sulyman. “They will deploy what they’ve learned elsewhere in Africa.” Based in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Charlie Rose Interviews Goldman CEO Paulson
wouldn’t be there — but the kids would,” he said with a laugh. From then on he took the 4:42 p.m. train home, gave his kids a bath, and read them stories before continuing to work after they’d gone to sleep. Another former Goldman View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Transforming the IRS
traditional services on the telephones and in local offices, and offered new electronic services for filing, paying, and information. Why did you change the way the IRS measures employee performance? Performance measures have an enormous... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
@Soldiers Field
told the Burden crowd. The HBS Student Association—headed by its first female copresidents, Libby Leffler and LaToya Marc (both MBA 2017)—offered an unconscious bias training session facilitated by Harvard’s Project Implicit and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
low-income youth and companies needing skilled labor. His yearlong training program offers 18 through 24-year-olds the technical, professional, and communications skills needed to transition into careers and college. The award-winning... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Notebook
Name: Sasha Novakovich (MBA ’99), President & CEO Company: GetConnected, Inc. (founded 1999) Size: $20M annual revenue, 100 employees Location: Boston, MA Web: www.getconnected.com Elevator pitch: GetConnected processes voice, data, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
assist the city's children. It was during this time that he became involved with the Outward Bound USA organization, which he saw as an educational resource for the Boys and Girls Clubs. After participating in the program himself, O'Neill was so impressed with its... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg