Diversity Training - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Apr 2019
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Leading Schools That Change Lives

strengthening diversity at Salesianum, where tuition is close to $16,000 annually, were top priorities. “From its earliest days, the school’s leaders reached out to educate children of immigrants who couldn’t afford tuition,” he notes.... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

26 Jan 2017
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Finding a Path out of Poverty

contribute to a better South Africa and world. Rather than ‘seeking new landscapes,’ I believed a profound change within my current field and gaining ‘new eyes’ on the world was what I needed most.” Magwegwe found his new way of seeing when, in 2013, he spent eight... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2018
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Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard

manage personnel, budget, facilities, and a diverse range of community stakeholders,” Grossman notes. “It’s not a stretch to think of them as CEOs, yet many have not been trained for that job.” To enhance... View Details

01 Dec 2010
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Ilene Lang

the foot if they don’t figure out how to incorporate that talent and experience into leadership. Why? Diverse teams produce better results. A study conducted by the National Center for Women & Information Technology looked at the number... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; interview; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame

the XXVIth Olympiad, opening next month in Atlanta. On an overcast morning in Atlanta, as the airport rapid transit train glides past auto-body shops and rain-swept intersections toward downtown, a passenger can glimpse in the distance a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

09 Mar 2021
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Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges

because of the belief that strong leaders with the right training can have an impact on those around them. “We want to build a high-quality, professional learning opportunity that’s accessible and compelling ” —MONIQUE BURNS THOMPSON “We... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jan 2006
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Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978

important to surround yourself with the best people who are different from you; diversity matters not just in terms of gender or ethnicity, but also in how people think about problems and their solutions. HBS taught me to nurture healthy... View Details

01 Jun 2001
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"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work

business, women as professionals, and women’s personal lives. Included are materials as diverse as the diaries of whaling captains’ wives, wills that show how 18th-century property laws affected women, advertisements for “female... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Professor Elton Mayo; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

04 Nov 2016
News

The Competitiveness of Lost Causes

existing strengths and capitalize on those,” advises Duch, who is currently applying that strategy to the challenge of helping rural farmers in Haiti sell their produce directly on world markets. Since joining the World Bank in 2013, Duch has taken bimonthly trips to... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 2000
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Vivek Ranadivé

for other industries under the umbrella of TIBCO Software. "In many ways, the trading floor of the 1990s was a microcosm of e-business today," he observes. "Starting a company to automate the financial industry was the greatest training... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Telecommunications; Information; Air Transportation; Transportation

18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

2019), Kimberly Foster (MBA 2020), Amanda E. Johnson (MBA 2014), Depelsha McGruder (MBA 1998), Zuhairah Scott Washington (JD/MBA 2004), and Michelle Morris Weston (MBA 1983). OCTOBER 13 “In this radically changing world, if your business is built on the assumption that... View Details

30 Sep 2014
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Life Lessons on the Open Seas

love, instantly,” he recalls. His passion for the water prompted him to start training to sail competitively—and to leave his job in wealth management at Goldman Sachs in order to skipper his first therapeutic sail, for eight disabled... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

14 May 2014
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(Re)moving the Needle

that of his father, who was trained as an engineer and ended up in the pharmaceutical industry. He holds MSc and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from ETH Zurich and MIT, respectively, and he spent a year pursuing advanced studies in... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; medical technology; Scientific Research and Development Services

13 Jun 2017
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Finding Common Ground

organization owns the problem, there can’t be one owner of the solution.” For example, the bees need diversity in their diet and can suffer from malnutrition in monoculture environments. But beekeepers have a hard time “going to a farmer... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

life as a trained assassin, working directly for the South African government to take down prominent political players when requested to maintain national security and apparent order. Join the Dots by Patrick Moffett (AMP 111) Vanguard... View Details

25 Feb 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020

Preface by Augustus White III, M.D. (AMP 94, 1984) Harvard University Press Growing up in Jim Crow–era Tennessee and training and teaching in overwhelmingly white medical institutions, Gus White witnessed firsthand how prejudice works in... View Details

17 Mar 2015
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The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)

people web development for fun, and getting them amazing jobs and careers. I was blown away. That’s when the light bulb went off. Since then, we’ve done fairly well. We’ve trained over 500 graduates and maintain a 99 percent job placement... View Details

Keywords: Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services

24 Mar 2023
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Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey

I have the power, what do I do with it?'" For his upcoming book, Bernstein and his coauthors are reconceptualizing career development post-pandemic and building new frameworks for understanding, designing, and supporting career trajectories based on over 1,000 View Details