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  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Bridging the Gap

it,” says Bo Drake, who attended YALP this year. In his role as VP of economic and workforce development at Chattanooga State Community College, Drake works with the school district as it View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
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Donor Societies - Alumni

remains the preeminent institution for educating leaders who make a difference in the world. They also join a special community of HBS entrepreneurs—founders, builders, and investors—and have opportunities to View Details
  • March 2023 (Revised May 2023)
  • Case

Akamai Technologies: Expanding the Talent Pipeline

By: Christopher Stanton, Lynda M. Applegate, Allison Ciechanover, Emily Grandjean and Sophie Beck
In 2022, senior executives of Cambridge, MA-based Akamai Technologies met to consider whether and how to scale a successful technical training program. The program, Akamai Technical Academy (ATA), was launched in 2016 to address a key challenge at Akamai and in the... View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Diversity; Talent and Talent Management; Technology Industry; United States; Boston
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  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

break up the airline and lay off thousands of employees if a consensual agreement could not be reached. Management made the threat real by developing an actual restructuring plan, containing detailed financial projections and valuations.... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
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Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online

refers to the process of reporting and communicating financial information. Accounting leverages past and present transactional data to determine a company's health, while finance is inherently forward-looking. Each can help you assess... View Details
  • 20 Feb 2020
  • Blog Post

Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Technology

Strategy, Marketing & Corporate Relations, Career & Professional Development Molly DeCastro – Recruiting Relations Manager, Career & Professional Development Cathy and Molly work closely with... View Details
Keywords: Technology
  • 14 Jan 2019
  • Op-Ed

These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership

contribute to society in meaningful ways, not just profit from it. They believed that organization had to benefit all stakeholders: their customers, employees, shareholders, and communities and that this approach would result in sustained... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George; Health; Banking; Food & Beverage; Consumer Products
  • Profile

Brice Fodouop

advance his communication skills and find a network that shared his interests in Africa. “I was looking for a program where I could voice my opinions in front of a group of people,” he says. “How do you present ideas? How do you persuade... View Details
  • 18 Aug 2022
  • Op-Ed

Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent

performative actions.” Schultz isn’t the only business leader struggling with this challenge. Many employees do not desire to return to the office. So, what should business leaders do? First, as a leader, it is helpful to listen to the members of your organization and... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson
  • January 2015 (Revised October 2018)
  • Case

Nasty Gals Do It Better

By: David Collis, Diane Chang, Matthew Shaffer and Ashley Hartman
In 2006, Sophia Amoruso started Nasty Gal, an eBay boutique selling vintage clothes. With a strong sense of style and personality, Amoruso poured herself into building the brand and developing relationships with her customers—typically the slightly edgy 18–24 year old.... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth; Brand Management; Online Retail; Clothing; Apparel; Expansion; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Management; Marketing Strategy; Strategic Planning; Social Media; E-commerce; Digital Marketing; Retail Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States
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Team - Entrepreneurship

Director of Rock and Foundry Thara Pillai, Director Emily Cronin, Associate Director LAURIE BISHOP, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR MARY ROSE SAINT-CYR, COMMUNITY MANAGER- ALUMNI PROGRAMS Ben McLarey, Community Manager... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows

for the underserved. It will provide me with a community of diverse perspectives in social impact, and the opportunity to learn from other sectors.” Madhav Datt. A joint degree student at HBS and SEAS, Madhav has founded two social... View Details
  • November 2022
  • Teaching Note

Proximie: Using XR Technology to Create Borderless Operating Rooms

By: Ariel D. Stern, Alpana Thapar and Menna Hassan
Founded by Nadine Hachach-Haram in 2016, Proximie was a digital medicine platform that used mixed reality and a host of digital audio and visual tools to enable clinicians, proctors, and medical device company personnel to be virtually present in operating rooms (ORs),... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Business Growth and Maturation; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Decision Making; Health Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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By: Jill J. Avery
Creating Brand Value (MBA elective course)

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In the consumer/retail space, brands are often companies’ most valuable assets and sources of their sustainable competitive advantage. But, managing brands to achieve their full value potential... View Details
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Alumni Engagement | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

HBS OnBoard To inspire and support alumni serving on nonprofit boards The OnBoard program was created to develop alumni leadership skills critical for modern governance. OnBoard consists of virtual synchronous sessions on current issues,... View Details
  • 15 Dec 2023
  • News

The Musts of 2023

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. At fall reunions, we set up shop on campus and asked alumni about what media moved them this year. What changed their minds or their hearts. And their answers ran... View Details
  • 06 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails

and quality of work product—the hybrid group members outranked their peers. “The new working paper may be the first to generate data on the impact of hybrid work schedules on enterprise communication patterns and work quality.” Hybrid... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 05 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

who the customer is. Traditionally, leading companies—both in the West and in developing countries—have operated under the assumption that the world's poor majority—those four billion people on the planet with a disposable income of $5 a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

School, 2014. William R. Kerr Dimitri V. D'Arbeloff - MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration William Kerr is the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Bill is Senior Associate Dean for Faculty View Details
  • 26 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener

skills who can: actively listen to others; empathize genuinely with others’ experiences; persuade people to work toward a common goal; and communicate clearly—or, as Sadun puts it, “touch the chords of listeners.” Top executives who... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald