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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
Design Institute address these trends? KL: Our aspiration is to help invent the future of capitalism. Let’s figure out how companies can operate ethically with digital technologies and how we can get all of our workers trained up... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
his family and his small North Carolina town after a nuclear electromagnetic-pulse attack wipes out America’s electrical infrastructure. The book struck a chord with Popik (MBA 1988), who was a captain in the US Air Force before attending HBS and had been View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
president of operations. There, he oversaw all global aviation services: public transport, charter, freight, surveillance, search/rescue, and training operations across 10 countries, with a fleet of 140 aircraft. A few weeks after... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
of his native Indonesia. The first iteration of the company was a network of community leaders who sold “top-up”—or these additional cell phone minutes. The top-up industry was not unusual, but the network approach was. Ruma would train... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
desk on two consecutive weekends and wrote what became known as the company’s “I Can Make a Difference” philosophy defined by ten tenets or “Grooves” that aim to empower individuals to realize their potential. Over the years, the Grooves have taken on a cult-like... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
entrepreneurship courses have evolved from being all case-based to include those that are learning-by-doing, project-based courses. That’s particularly important for training future entrepreneurs so that they can practice the necessary... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 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
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
assistant. At that time, they had a training program there. It was basically, your first job was very much training. I absolutely hated it because they took every person who came into the program, as somebody who absolutely knew nothing,... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
women into a 18 month program. They give them intense therapy. And then they also go through training classes. So they learn basics like business skills, how to write a resumé. They get apprenticeships with local companies. WIR has... View Details
- 03 Jan 2018
- News
Finding Faith in an NFL Locker Room
attempt to answer it over time. Some things we come to understand immediately. Other things take time to underscore and relate to. Hanna: A few businesses are starting to investigate the benefits of meditation training and awareness for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
me in age, he was way more famous, way more successful, richer than I’d ever be, and he was miserable. I thought, “Dude, that’s future-me. That’s where I’m going.” So I said, “Look, what am I trained to do? I’m a ‘happiness’ guy. I’m... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
Wiley Stock investing is more prevalent than ever, whether directly or indirectly through brokerage accounts, exchange-traded funds, mutual funds, or retirement plans. Despite this, the vast majority of individual investors have no View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
board member hats and reverted to the roles of students and mentors. Dewey said that a board is there “to help you as an inner circle and you have to be open for dialogue. It’s like walking into a HBS class; your training in case... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
could be in a meeting at the same time. You’d hear someone answer a question and learn indirectly how to handle a difficult situation. As we grow, I think a lot about how we replicate that experience with training that is within the brand... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
post–Civil War era to commission-based canvassers hired and trained by manufacturers to sell agricultural products and books by Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant, for instance. “Drummers,” who acted as the middlemen between manufacturers... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
trained to fill the role of the natural mother. Villages also run K-12 schools, vocational facilities, and medical centers in many countries, especially in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Kash Rangan first heard about SOS-KDI from Martin... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
plans to build Project Bison. But Meghan Kenny, the project manager, can see the future. MK: Have you ever seen a train going by with many different sort of rail cars attached to it? That's probably not too far off of what it would look... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
create what we call “M-Work,” which is a co-working space, closer to the Mito train station. We also started a history project called M-History, because—even though Mito has contributed greatly to the modernization of Japan—that part of... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
successful economic development moment for Europe and Western countries. Poorer countries have had a much more difficult time, and lots of voices emerged with lots of disorder. We’ve been trained to understand that bias on the left or... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
past. And what I try to do is really focus on the things that need to change. I'm willing to delegate letting the trains run on time and the normal stuff that that's going well, I focus my time on the stuff that's not going well. And... View Details