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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Research Brief: Developing High-Tech Talent
“Many of these jobs are in high demand,” says Fuller, “which means that apprenticeships play a critical role in training workers for the jobs of the future and providing... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
GE’s Immelt Urges MBAs to Dream Big, Work Hard
here.” In his own career, Immelt said, that has meant experiencing and learning more deeply the import of four lessons that he initially absorbed at HBS: focus and discipline (“Very few jobs have been beneath my dignity; every View Details
- 25 Jan 2018
- News
Investing in India’s Nonprofits to Overcome Poverty Sustainably
right. If you see the kind of jobs they've been trained for, though the income level will almost remain the same, the inflation will grow faster than that. So as the time progresses, within a year or two or... View Details
- 11 Sep 2009
- News
I Network, You Network, He, She, It Networks…
second grade. A lunchtime “Beyond the Job Bank” session in Spangler Auditorium with Jodi R.R. Smith, president of “etiquette consulting” firm Mannersmith, taught me otherwise. Smith, whose advice has appeared in the Wall Street Journal,... View Details
- 04 Apr 2022
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Strengthening City Hall’s Foundations
mayors and key staff in Israel every year. Bloomberg writes that, while there are “all kinds of leadership training programs for CEOs and senior executives, mayors are thrust into the job and the crises that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
sell on the street. Here, you need to be able to write a business plan.” With the vision of creating a training center for women, Silbert returned to Boston, took a job at a nonprofit, wrote a business plan,... View Details
- 06 Jul 2017
- News
Leadership on a Global Scale
Special Forces, planned to make the military his career. But a training accident brought that plan to an end, forcing a course correction that took him to Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and to HBS, where he became the first... View Details
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
designing extensive training programs. That’s when I started thinking again about the mismatch between the education and employment systems,” she says.” We couldn’t find good talent, and yet we were meeting so many young people who... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Roadmap for Moms
process? You can’t just ask for a job if you don’t know what you’re looking for. You have to do a self-assessment. The book has a worksheet so you can do that. The other key issue is confidence. Women have to realize that confidence is an... View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
Fostering Great Leadership
letters to Bay Area companies, he landed a summer job at Dodge & Cox, an investment management company headquartered in San Francisco. “The top three people there were HBS alums,” he remembers. “That summer View Details
- 15 May 2012
- News
Finally Finding the Right Fit
Heffernan: From one who's tried on many hats, a tip of the cap to HBS. Photo courtesy Andrew Heffernan As a young man in Dublin, Ireland, Andrew Heffernan (MBA 2006) worked in a variety of summer jobs with the family business, the... View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- News
The Pursuit of Impact
successor. “I'm very interested in government and what mayors do to improve people's lives. So we have the Bloomberg Harvard program. Professors from the B school and the K school have provided real help to cities around the country and around the world in View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
recall two instances when he went out of his way to help me in my career. Toward the end of my first year at the school, I had a summer job offer which was cancelled about a month before the summer break would occur because of some... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Pooling resources to tackle India's social challenges
been improving lives in India for years. As CEO at Cummins, he helped establish the first engineering college for women; and later, at Microsoft, he helped create a computer literacy program that has trained 35 million children and nearly... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Qiao Ma (MBA 2010)
up—it was electrifying. After that, I helped him chart stock prices on the only empty wall in our house. I’m pretty sure my parents were disappointed that I took a job in investing, because stock trading is a universal hobby in many Asian... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Charting the Year Ahead
impact within months! Volunteer Cultivation and Recognition. The global HBS community thrives on an unequaled level of volunteer initiative and effort — on campus and through clubs, reunions, fundraising, and more. HBS does an outstanding View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
34,000 Pages and Counting
with each issue. When Keith started at HBS, he was looking for a paycheck, not a career. He needed a job while finishing his dissertation. A piano major at Oberlin Conservatory, Keith earned a Ph.D. in musicology from Harvard in 1985,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Outside Voices
In just 15 years, Greece managed to seesaw from one economic extreme to the other, from almost breaking the eurozone at the depth of its debt crisis to becoming one of the fastest growing economies in Europe in 2023, according to the IMF. Now wages are rebounding,... View Details
- 23 Oct 2024
- News
Running Man
There aren’t many people on this planet—let alone septuagenarians—who can contemplate running 50 or 100 miles at a time. But for 77-year-old Eric Spector (MBA 1972), a retired entrepreneur and CEO in the tech, consumer retail, and media sectors, running long (long,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Centennial Goes YouTube
struggles. John Whitehead (MBA 11/’47), former cochairman of Goldman Sachs, recounts how he struggled as an incoming Haverford College freshman to earn enough to cover the $900 tuition. With pluck and luck, he landed a job in the... View Details