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entrepreneurs building edtech products; investors, policy makers and others involved with education. The Chronicle of Higher Education Primary news source dedicated to covering colleges and universities. The... View Details

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Summer Associates | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Experience Feedback from students and employers has helped us identify some key elements for a successful experience: A high level of responsibility with significant chance to explore issues of management in... View Details

Portrait Project

Josh Bronstein

practice trapeze tricks I learned that summer. If my job could be that fun, I reasoned, it wouldn't be work. I want to spend my life helping others realize that their work, too, can be that fun. I want to engage, motivate, develop, View Details

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

and participation. The group welcomed 12,722 participants across 179 programs, comprising 132 in-person programs, 28 hybrid programs, and 19 fully virtual programs. A combined 92 Focused View Details

September 2008 (Revised April 2009)
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Martha Goldberg Aronson: Challenges at Mid-Career (B)

By: William W. George

Martha Goldberg Aronson of Medtronic is trying to decide whether to accept the offer from Medtronic CEO Bill Hawkins to become senior vice president and chief talent officer. Aronson returned from an executive role in Europe just 18 months before as vice president,... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Job Design and Levels; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Work-Life Balance

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25 Feb 2020
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Task Force

money. But they also learned Mexicans loved their smartphones and wanted to earn more money, despite the hassle of two-hour job commutes. Given their backgrounds in retail, Campbell View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; gig economy; Retail Trade

01 Mar 2023
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Step Change

At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

31 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

have skills to cope. And it’s when workplaces need to make sure employees are getting the help they need.” Stressed-out workers seek online tools Whillans decided to explore whether an internet-based platform called Happify, which coaches... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

04 Feb 2014
What Do You Think?

Has Listening Become a Lost Art?

Wendy Zito believes that "when you feel you are being listened to then it helps you connect to the other person but it also helps you hear yourself." Gael raised the question to a more universal level with her comment: "Listening to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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HBS - The year in Review

colleagues. Professor Ryan Buell designs and leads the program with the support of the Division of Research and Faculty Development. Associate Professor Shai Benjamin Bernstein... View Details

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Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity

incidents involved sexualized conversations and remarks. Women up and down the organizational hierarchy experienced similar levels of harassment. At the junior, mid, senior,... View Details

20 Jan 2023
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Free Spirits

reduces the ethanol until the preferred level of alcohol remains, and finally that product is reconditioned with carbonation. These techniques were repopularized during Prohibition, when 0.5 percent alcohol... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Food Services and Drinking Places

29 Aug 2023
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Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

This episode of Climate Rising features a conversation between Professor and host Mike Toffel and Sanchali Pal (MBA 2018), founder and CEO of Commons, an app View Details

18 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?

especially for smaller tenants. Co-working space is here to stay and this is largely attributable to Neumann. Can the company ultimately be profitable? Probably, as there are other companies engaged in similar models that do make money.... View Details

Keywords: by Nori Gerardo Lietz; Financial Services; Real Estate

01 Jun 2004
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Working the Street

Stripped to the waist in a clinic examining room, Mike, a burly white guy in his late 30s, is an illustrated man. His arms, chest, and neck are a tattooed maze of letters, numbers, and View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; tattoo; removal; program; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities

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Ignacio Lartirigoyen

After applying his skills at ExxonMobil – "a very exciting time because of the company's size and its level of professionalism"– Ignacio moved to an agribusiness closer to his roots, Adecoagro,... View Details

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Online Business in Society Courses | HBS Online

right thing. Mayank Dubey Manager, Marketing Communications Sustainable Business Strategy The course content is well designed and helps investors get a basic understanding of what sustainable finance is, its... View Details

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Introducing One-Step Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

while the SX-70 group made the final push to complete the design of a camera that would make the complex process of one-step photography possible and the act of taking the picture amazingly simple. EXPLORE... View Details

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Skills-Based Hiring: The Long Road from Pronouncements to Practice

By: Matthew Sigelman, Joseph B. Fuller and Alex Martin

Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Competency and Skills; Job Design and Levels