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- 20 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee
resettlement in the US, which made our first task simply mapping out what problem we wanted to solve. Did we care most about employment rates, language outcomes of health and wellness? Fortunately, we had the structure of the... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible
platform he launched in 2007. Alison’s first six courses were among the first MOOCs—massive open online courses—to take advantage of the reach of the internet, debuting even before the term was coined. Now, 14 years later, Alison offers some 2,000 different courses... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
about which the English language literature is minimal. Related Reading: Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time What do you think about this research? Have you led... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers
privacy notice at checkout, with language drawn from actual notices used by Nordstrom and Macy’s; other’s didn’t. Asked to rate on a scale of 1 to 100 how likely they were to go through with the purchase, the notice-aware group averaged... View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
genome, Goldberg has focused his most recent efforts on explaining the impact of this revolutionary discovery on the agribusiness system. "All industries that deal with living things or organic compounds will have a common language... View Details
- 30 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Latina Women in Leadership: Jacqueline Burgos (MBA 2014)
Entertainment to better represent and target US Latinos. The data was powerful – Latinos were the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States and not well represented in English language media. To make this industry change, I needed... View Details
- 02 May 2023
- Blog Post
Sustainability Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office
to connect with. Are there any other common questions that you get from students or last pieces of advice? If a student is new to this space, I often suggest they talk to ECs and faculty. It's a safe environment to learn the language and... View Details
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Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online
important to consider. This course helps you see the world in a new way. The language it uses is beneficial not only in the tech world but in innovation. Fulgence-Guy Yango Principal Designer, Protah Ideation: Performance Design &... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
contracts filled three floors. Next, she restarted her English language school for international students, a side of the business that faltered after the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in China and Beijing-mandated withdrawal of all... View Details
- 24 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?
research is unlikely to influence managers’ day-to-day decisions about whether to apply for patents. Indeed, many companies already attempt to have it both ways, as patent attorneys can use obfuscating language in patent applications in... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why dot.coms Will Rise Again
United States in Internet use by mid 2004, he predicted. By 2007, the predominant language on the Internet will be Chinese, he said. As a frequent traveler to Asia in his role as director of the School's Asia-Pacific Initiative, which... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
the steering wheel and started driving the boat,” Callahan remembered. “I let go and the high-functioning student was teaching the low-functioning child. There was a language there I’ll never understand. They made that unexplainable... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)
through HBS, in 1939, I went on active duty for a year. That was when I, a platoon leader, first met George Smith Patton Jr. during large-scale war games in Louisiana. He was a lieutenant colonel at the time and one of the umpires who assessed our performance. Despite... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
for restaurants. However, cities (which are responsible for inspections) have limited resources to dispatch inspectors, which in turn limits the number of inspections that can be performed. We argue that Natural Language Processing (NLP)... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand what they were saying. Her father and his brothers were... View Details
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Instagram Takeover Policy | About
that the account is public-facing, which means a wide range of people, of all ages, locations, and backgrounds are able to access the content you produce. Be yourself, but always be appropriate and avoid the use of vulgar language or... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
satisfactory answer for her. No matter what language negotiations are conducted in, understanding the local etiquette can seal the business deal, says Sara Jane Ho (MBA 2012). A graduate of a Swiss finishing school, Ho founded Institute... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
will be judged when you are ready to move on. Are there lessons for more seasoned managers? There are certainly implications for hiring. Bringing in a lot of people with the same organizational career imprint makes it more likely that they will all speak the same... View Details
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
dollars if the stations don’t work!” Terry’s activism has paid off. By mid-February, the Transportation Department included language – that Terry pushed for – in its initial standards for federally funded charging stations. Specifically,... View Details