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01 Mar 2012
News

Competitiveness at Risk

responsibility in enhancing US competitiveness. When businesses build partnerships with community colleges to train workers, they are enhancing American competitiveness and improving the business environment. When a number of businesses... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Apr 1997
News

A Conversation with Dean Clark

important initiatives. BULLETIN: There have been a number of obvious manifestations of progress on the technology initiative, including the shift to an Internet-based communications system at the School, the availability of full-motion... View Details

Career Coach

Lauren Murphy

Lauren is the Founder and Principal Coach of Pivotal Executive Coaching, partnering with senior business leaders to accomplish their professional and organization goals. She works with executives in technology, healthcare, real estate, consumer products, and financial... View Details

17 Nov 2020
In Practice

How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other

communities in the United States and the world are experiencing very different realities as the year draws to a close. While you might have an idea you believe in, I would err on the side of humility and test if and where your ideas might... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail

07 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

biotechnology hopes to have on the future of human life, all agree that one of the industry's biggest tests—in addition to maintaining its focus and delivering on expectations—will be communicating with the public it would like to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

02 Feb 2023
News

Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?

essentially is the gathering of the global community to discuss climate. I think all those things combined with the experience that humans are having, living in the world with changing weather patterns, with rising sea levels and changing... View Details

01 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

event: gaining endorsement of the startup's technology standard, openly developing the startup's technology within the community (but not necessarily gaining endorsement), simply attending physical meetings of the community, and having... View Details

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

social sector, the results are not at the firm level but in a community or society. To really see impact, we have to ratchet it up a notch and talk about entire ecosystems—collections of organizations working on a common set of problems.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Apr 1996
News

Stewards of the Seventh Generation

and emissions by half, reduced virgin materials in packaging by a quarter, and eliminated nearly one-fifth of the polluting emissions released by its products. The company also conducts ongoing educational outreach on environmental issues to schools and View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb

01 Mar 2017
News

A Summit Higher Than Everest

raised in a wealthy community in southern New Jersey, Moore spent most summers at his father’s family camp near the lake in the wilderness of central Maine. When his parents divorced—an unusual occurrence in 1920—12-year-old Moore took... View Details

Keywords: April White; mountain; climb; climbing; adventure

12 Feb 2016
Op-Ed

The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills

by advances in communications and information technology and dramatic improvement in global logistics, fueled the outsourcing of jobs to emerging markets. More jobs disappeared as American companies opted for automation, which replaced... View Details

Keywords: by Joe Fuller and Matt Sigelman; Manufacturing; Electronics

24 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Debora L. Spar

the basic communications infrastructure) and it allows for a whole range of media to be combined in exciting and innovative ways. But I still don't think that gives it any particular edge on history. Society has not been fundamentally... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Jan 2003
What Do You Think?

China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?

the Chinese banking system on reasonably firm footing. Less optimistic views envision everything from a more violent transition to a pull-back to a more dogmatic form of Communism by a threatened leadership. Is it possible that the very... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

30 Sep 2022
Blog Post

Latina Women in Leadership: Jacqueline Burgos (MBA 2014)

what we think of ourselves and what we think of others not like us. The fact that we have not yet seen a Latino superhero on screen does not mean we are not capable of greatness; it just means that all the stories have not been told.” I am optimistic that we will get... View Details

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Values Matter—No Matter Where You Are | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

“That was what I wanted for a career.” Shilla’s ambitions have deep roots within her family. Her mother grew up under a military dictatorship in South Korea, where she was “an activist under great peril.” Her father grew up in the deep South; as a high school student,... View Details

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Launching Tech Ventures - Course Catalog

interact with the other functions, particularly product and marketing? When is the right time to build a community team? How can modern, flexible product development techniques, such as agile and continuous deployment, be utilized to... View Details

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FAQ - U.S. Competitiveness

competitiveness. How can educators contribute to improving U.S. competitiveness? Project research has focused on more effective engagements between business leaders and K-12 educators as well as community colleges . How can policy makers... View Details

06 May 2019
News

Startup Talk in Chicago

venture community and startup ecosystem.” The HBSCC hosts a wide variety of business and civic leaders for the benefit of alumni, according to Club President Steve Wasko (MBA 1986). “Penny Pritzker is at the pinnacle of both of these... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Pritzker; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Mar 2005
News

A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue

it." Fred held my wallet and I walked out onto the ice which gave way immediately. I did a sort of butterfly stroke to break the ice to the dog. I don't, and did not then, speak "dog", but I can tell you that I distinctly recall the very strong sense of encouragement... View Details

Keywords: Jim Hawes; heroism; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

03 Apr 2019
Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

entrepreneurs are critical to innovation and the creation of the next companies like Google, they do not make up a large part of the small businesses community who are seeking loans. Lagace: How does the US small business landscape look... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services

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