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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Starting Off on the Right Foot
When business and career psychologist James Waldroop counsels young executives who are starting assignments in a new company, he urges them to act like anthropologists. “For the first six months on the job, your assignment is to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Pooling resources to tackle India's social challenges
been improving lives in India for years. As CEO at Cummins, he helped establish the first engineering college for women; and later, at Microsoft, he helped create a computer literacy program that has trained 35 million children and nearly... View Details
- 12 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Reading Between the Lines: How to Spot the Skills You Need Among the Resumes You Get
pump Tamblyn recognizes that the traditional resume structure can obscure the very skills he seeks. To set the stage, he builds a request for core skills in the job description itself. “We ask for qualities that are universal across View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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Brett Lindsay Laffel
job and I loved everyone I worked with," Brett explains. "But I realized that with each year that passes, it would be harder and harder to leave baseball — it was best to get my MBA now." Brett's View Details
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
Photos by Kunle Ogunfuyi Even a college degree couldn’t help Temi Abiola, who grew up in Nigeria, land a job. Though he speaks fluent English, he lacked the problem-solving and customer relations skills required for his dream job in the... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
unexpectedly offered Williams an ad agency internship at the conclusion of his first year. Building on that 2004 summer experience, he’s headed for an advertising job in New York City upon graduation.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Angela Ruggiero (MBA 2014)
The first time I stepped on the ice, I was seven years old. When I saw my younger brother, Billy, in his goalie gear I thought it looked really fun and cool and asked if I could try. It was terrifying. I was crying. But by the end of that... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
about," he notes. A proud father of three, Cook now serves as Intuit's chairman of the executive committee of the board, having handed over the role of CEO in 1994 "to someone who is actually good at it," he says with a laugh. First View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The New Venture Competition Crowns a New Crop
first on-demand jobs platform. Prizes were also awarded to student teams in the business and social enterprise tracks at the event, with winners in all three categories each receiving $75,000, runners-up,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
City Hall’s Headbanger
Above: photo by Minesh Bacrania As mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Tim Keller (MBA 2005) is focused on bread-and-butter initiatives that drive down crime and attract business. And he’s been successful on both counts since taking office just over a year ago: Crime is... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Web
Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
Complex Number Calculator is demonstrated by George Stiblitz 1941 A. Philip Randolph threatens march on Washington to protest racial discrimination in defense jobs 1942 Enrico Fermi's University of Chicago team produces the View Details
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women at Work
a part-time, off-career job in HR for one year. Then, if and when things were under control, she could come back and see clients again. Kara Gruver Though it seemed like a step back career-wise, she took the offer. Why? "You have to... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
all jobs must be knowledge work, or that employees must work at the peak of their intellectual or creative capacity to be fulfilled in this drive. There are two main ways that the drive to comprehend is satisfied on the job. The View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
all jobs must be knowledge work, or that employees must work at the peak of their intellectual or creative capacity to be fulfilled in this drive. There are two main ways that the drive to comprehend is satisfied on the job. The View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
The Difference Fellowships Make
The Transformational Power of Diversity Each year the School welcomes more than 900 MBA candidates from all over the globe. These dynamic young people hail from a remarkable range of industries, regions, and life experiences. Some are the View Details
- 21 Mar 2019
- News
Helping Veterans Build Careers
like Watson regularly in the Reserves and has helped the Call of Duty Endowment—the largest private funder of employment for veterans—create a solid path forward for them. “Veterans tend to leave their first View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 05 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Environmental Change and Ground-level Impact
business & environment opportunities and risks. BEI helps to connect current MBAs with these alumni for learning and careers. We recently spoke with one such alum about his career journey. For the first part of his career, George... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
piloted a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter on sorties over Boston Harbor, recently spoke with the Bulletin. What was your reaction when first approached about the Massport CEO position? When I got the call, I didn’t really know much about... View Details
- 28 Sep 2018
- News
Pushing Progress at Panasonic
Yasuyuki Higuchi (MBA 1991) (photo by Akio Kon/Bloomberg) Yasuyuki Higuchi (MBA 1991) (photo by Akio Kon/Bloomberg) When he was fresh out of engineering school in 1980, Yasuyuki Higuchi (MBA 1991) got a job at Panasonic. He left just as... View Details
- 06 Aug 2015
- News
A Wall Street Pioneer Comes Home
“I went in [to HBS] with no preconceptions of what it would be like, except there would be mostly men and a few women,” says Lynne Sherwood (MBA 1965), one of the first of eight women admitted to the full-time MBA program in a class of... View Details