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Jordan Amadio

Jordan Amadio is a scientist at heart. After studying theoretical physics as an undergraduate, Jordan entered Harvard Medical School as one of just 30 participants in the Health Sciences and Technology program. A joint effort by Harvard and MIT, HST is a medical... View Details

2012
Book

A Year Up: How a Pioneering Program Teaches Young Adults Real Skills for Real Jobs--With Real Success

By: Gerald Chertavian

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Training; Equality and Inequality; Income; Competency and Skills

2000
Chapter

Learning New Technical and Interpersonal Routines in Operating Room Teams: The Case of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Richard Bohmer and Gary Pisano

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Health Care and Treatment; Practice; Competency and Skills; Training; Health Industry

July 2002
Case

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago's Mentoring Program, The (A)

By: David A. Thomas and Gina Carioggia

Describes steps taken to implement and manage a successful employee mentoring program at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. A cultural change at the bank provided the context out of which the program grew. The case describes the development of the program,... View Details

Keywords: Design; Training; Human Resources; Employee Relationship Management; Public Ownership; Planning

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Wartime Schools Collections | Baker Library

Wartime Schools Collections When the United States entered World War II, Harvard Business School (HBS) found its enrollment dropping as men were called to fight overseas. At the same time, the U.S. military was facing an increased need for officers View Details

August 2011 (Revised November 2012)
Case

Michael Lester at Lachlan Consulting

By: Anthony J. Mayo and Joshua D. Margolis

Michael Lester, a consultant with Lachlan, was frustrated by his client's unwillingness to provide key data for an important presentation. Lester must decide how best to confront Nadine Robert, his client, knowing that his personal success and the reputation of his... View Details

Keywords: Outcome or Result; Training; Customer Focus and Relationships; Interpersonal Communication; Success; Reputation

Educators

June 2014
Article

Informal Peer Interaction and Practice Type as Predictors of Physician Performance on Maintenance of Certification Examinations

By: Melissa A. Valentine, S. Barsade, Amy C. Edmondson, A. Gal and R. Rhodes

Context: Physicians can demonstrate mastery of the knowledge that supports continued clinical competence by passing a Maintenance of Certification exam. Exam performance depends on professional learning and development, which may be enhanced by informal routine... View Details

Keywords: Training; Health Care and Treatment; Performance; Social and Collaborative Networks; Learning; Health Industry

Web

Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Kogutt (MBA/MPP 2024) Elan Kogutt 29 Aug 2023 The HBS Summer Fellows Program enables students to apply their classroom training as they explore... Public School Innovation in Georgia: SE Summer Fellow Niki Patel (MBA 2024) Niki Patel 14... View Details

01 Apr 1996
News

New Releases

text introducing risk-reducing strategies such as hedging, portfolio diversification, insurance, and derivative market mechanisms. In addition, the book trains the reader in relevant methodologies, including exposure analysis, the capital... View Details

23 Jul 2018
Working Paper Summaries

The Creative Consulting Company

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan, Richard Nolan, and David P. Norton; Consulting

Career Coach

Kendall Borges

Kendall (HGSE ’16) partners with students and alumni to discover and articulate what they bring to the table, ultimately gaining clarity on how to move forward in their journey. Combining her coach training at Harvard Business School and... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Research Brief: Bargaining for Better

eighth-grade girls in 41 schools throughout Lusaka, Zambia, who were trained in negotiation skills by local women. “Before this, there was almost no research telling us that negotiation training is effective... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Mar 2008
News

An American Odyssey

social change and very conscious that I was going to use my HBS training in different ways than most of my classmates,” America explains. “In class, I appreciated the pro-labor side in cases that had a union-management component. I was... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Lawrence Fouraker; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

06 Jul 2017
News

Leadership on a Global Scale

Special Forces, planned to make the military his career. But a training accident brought that plan to an end, forcing a course correction that took him to Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and to HBS, where he became the first... View Details

20 Jan 2017
News

Teaching a Solutions-Oriented Take on the News

solutions journalism and describes how his organization is training journalists in its techniques. “I am president of the Solutions Journalism Network, which is a three-year-old independent nonprofit organization founded to build in... View Details

March 2023 (Revised May 2023)
Supplement

OneTen At Delta Air Lines: Catalyzing Family-Sustaining Careers for Black Talent (B)

By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag

In January 2023, Delta Air Lines (Delta) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Ed Bastian and his team had just launched the third iteration of an internal skills-first apprenticeship program, designed to move frontline employees into "merit" positions in four job categories.... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Diversity; Race; Talent and Talent Management; Training; Human Resources; Air Transportation Industry; United States

Career Coach

Matt Spielman

the globe. To complement his training as a certified executive coach, Matt draws upon his operating experience working as a Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Revenue Officer, SVP Strategy & Innovation and Chief People Officer. Matt... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products; Entertainment / Media; Entrepreneurship; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Sports; Technology; Venture Capital; Financial Services (All)

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1.4.5 Required Internship & Internship Courses | MBA

student is required to apply for Curricular Practical Training (F-1 students) or Academic Training (J-1 students)). The position must be confirmed in 12twenty . It may not be feasible for every student to... View Details

1995
Article

The Positive Impact of Creative Activity: Effects of Creative Task Engagement and Motivational Focus on College Student's Learning

By: R. Conti, T. M. Amabile and S. Pollack

This study assessed the effectiveness of engaging students in a creative activity on a topic as a means of encouraging an active cognitive set toward learning that topic area. This technique was examined in three motivational contexts. Before reading a short... View Details

Keywords: Creativity; Cognition and Thinking; Behavior; Performance; Motivation and Incentives; Training