training programs - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2006
News

Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum

Interest.” Declaring that nothing could be more important in the 21st century than the forum’s theme, Dean Jay Light recalled in his opening remarks that the School’s founders conceived of HBS as “a school of public service and business” intended to View Details

01 Sep 2008
News

The MBA Turns 100

Six months before Harvard Business School officially opened in October 1908, the School had no classrooms, no faculty, and no curriculum. But its proponents had a Big Idea: Create a professional school designed to train managers for a... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

15 Aug 2019
Blog Post

The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS

further at HBS—from organizing conferences, to leading student clubs, to launching new ventures. In addition to on-campus opportunities, the Social Enterprise Summer Fellows program supports about 80 MBA student internships per year.... View Details

12 Dec 2018
News

Lesson Plan

College is launching Level Up, a program that will partner with Scranton and other local high schools to enable juniors and seniors to work toward an associate’s degree at the cost of $100 per credit. “Despite the uphill battle we still... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

26 Sep 2016
Blog Post

An Interview with Corporate Relations Director, Kurt Piemonte

classroom training to explore career opportunities in roles or regions where compensation is generally lower than the traditional MBA level. This program gives students the freedom to realize their unique... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

12 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide

retailers empower their workers to improve processes at the store and also give them the tools and training needed to use the empowerment appropriately. Enlightened retailers also realize the importance of not overloading their store... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Retail; Auto

02 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

Sanginga had founded a youth “agripreneurs” program, which would train young university graduates on improved agricultural practices, food processing, and strategies for starting an agribusiness. Since its establishment in 2012, the View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 1996
News

Starting Up and Starting Over

Norman A. Berg, OPM's faculty chairman. "The program is devoted entirely to training practicing entrepreneurs and is the most distinctive entrepreneurial offering of any kind anywhere." The predecessor of... View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

The HBS Fund

Most alumni gifts go to the HBS Fund, which provides flexible resources the School can spend immediately on both core priorities and new initiatives. Your gifts support the people and programs that have a tremendous impact on business... View Details

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games

specialty training programs well over a year in advance. Athletes are often recruited into coaching contracts while still very young. This can interfere with making good matches, if the qualities that will... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Sports

13 Jun 2017
News

Finding Common Ground

American Management Systems on accounts with corporations, big NGOs, and several government agencies, including the Department of Defense. In 1999, AMS nominated him to attend HBS’s General Management Program. “It was a great honor,” Crespin says of his View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

21 Jan 2014
First Look

First Look: January 21

several mechanisms: by conferring employer recognition, by enhancing social visibility, and by facilitating social comparison. In a nationwide health worker training program in Zambia, we design a field... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2010
News

The MBA at a Crossroads

students straight from undergraduate programs and promoting internally without requiring an MBA. The global economic crisis only added to the chorus of concerns about the MBA degree. The Carnegie Corporation and Ford Foundation reports in... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

18 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas, April 18

service to society. Beyond his research, Lawrence was committed to building the field of organizational behavior at HBS and more broadly in our profession. He had a lifelong passion for participant-centered learning and for the training... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

28 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries

launched a mobile money service, eZ Pay, only 13,000 customers signed up. The CBSL later allowed customers to register without having a bank account and also allowed for remote customer registration through a mobile phone. With these changes and others, the revised... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Telecommunications

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Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity

mentorship programs. In the case of mentorship, it takes a thoughtful workplace to design programs that are not predatory in nature. By default, many of the members of underrepresented communities will have been expected to assimilate.... View Details

01 Jun 1997
News

Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference

dynamism. China's economy, he reported, has been growing at a rate of over 10 percent a year in this decade, on a scale the world has never known. China's chaos stems from the lack of preparation before reforms began - including a lack of View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Organizational Behavior (LEAD). Rae Johnson Rae Johnson, PhD, RSMT is a scholar/activist whose research centers on the intersections between embodiment and social justice. Chair of the Somatic Studies doctoral program at Pacifica Graduate... View Details

11 Oct 2016
First Look

October 11, 2016

October 2016 Harvard Business Review Competing with a Goliath By: Avery, Jill Abstract—A Peruvian apparel company struggles to position itself against a global brand. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51646 October 2016 Harvard Business... View Details