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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Nagisa Manabe (MBA 1991)
automation in the Postal Service, but also this true attention to detail. It’s a little bit ironic, but we are doing much more marketing right now through direct mail, which is a very effective recruitment tool for engaging small... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side
admire him for that, and did from the beginning. He always sticks up for people who are in trouble.” — Former HBS Dean John McArthur “In a single afternoon, I was stunned by Howard’s skill at cutting to the core of knotty research... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Tech for the People
instead of waiting until disaster strikes? “San José’s CIO Shireen Santosham (MBA 2008) and Mayor Sam Liccardo immediately supported the idea,” says Tsai, which led to the October 2018 launch of Host Corps. This public/private initiative drew on a concept Airbnb... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 19 Oct 2011
- News
A Good Look
Kemin Personal Care ramps up production, Levy has had ample opportunity to put her MBA skills to work. “HBS prepares people to think analytically, and about the details of the business, but it also teaches us to look at the broader... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
kind of a tight box, and you have to think on your feet to articulate your way out of it,” he says. “It’s a skill that’s been tremendously helpful to me in all the different things I’ve tried to do to make the world a little better.” View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Managing Family Assets
responsibilities. You wouldn’t give resources to people in your business who you think are likely not to succeed. But if you can transfer both values and financial assets from one generation to the other and the resources and skills to... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
are focusing on retraining (upskilling/reskilling) initiatives aimed at either equipping “at-risk” workers with skills relevant to new digital technologies, or helping them leverage existing skills across... View Details
- 21 Mar 2019
- News
Helping Veterans Build Careers
successfully reenter the working world after military service. “Three out of four people who walk into a recruiting station are rejected, so even the most rudimentary military job is held by a talented person,” says Goldenberg, executive... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 02 Feb 2022
- News
AI Could Cut Hiring Biases as Companies Make Push to Find Workers, Proponents Say
Photo via Pymetrics Photo via Pymetrics A recent piece in the Wall Street Journal highlights the efforts of Frida Polli (MBA 2012), a neuroscientist and CEO of Pymetrics, an AI-powered recruiting and job matching platform, to employ... View Details
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
centers across India, creating more than 3,000 entrepreneurs and 12,000 jobs. The first program, Change the Mindset (CMS), works with students in secondary schools and colleges, introducing them to entrepreneurial skills and opening their... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA
later that she fully recognized that the decision-making skills she learned as a young Marine officer were not all that different than those valued in a CEO. The stakes on the ground in Iraq were higher than in a boardroom, but in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
leaders through Bridgestar, a nonprofit executive recruiting service leveraged by technology; and to create a robust source of knowledge from those activities that can be shared freely — and free of charge — with others. “The vast... View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- News
Juan Salgado Honored for Immigrant Education Efforts
(John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation) An Executive Education alumnus who has dedicated his career to helping low-income Latino workers gain the skills they need to improve their employment and earning prospects, has been selected... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Impact: The Changing Nature of Work
Advanced technologies, shifting demographics, and new business models are transforming the nature and scope of work globally. As a result, the skills leaders need—today and tomorrow—also must evolve. Since its inception, HBS has aspired... View Details
- 31 Jan 2025
- News
New York, Boston Alumni Volunteer to Boost Small Businesses
area small businesses that “were in serious trouble” due to COVID. Kane and Bockmann quickly pulled together a plan, formed a leadership team, recruited about 60 alumni volunteers, and set up virtual coaching sessions that initially... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
as a Nonprofit Management Fellow at a UN economic institute in Belgrade in 1990. “And with so many international students at the School, one truly becomes a world citizen through one's HBS friends.” Meanwhile, at the Kennedy School, Djelic met economist Jeffrey Sachs,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
industry during the previous decade, the company posted its first losses ever, and for the last five years, American has strived to trim some of its excess growth. Donald Carty, American's president since March 1995, says that dealing with the ramifications of... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
(suite mates). He kind of volunteered as a mentor and even then showed skill in giving guidance, which was quite useful and readily acceptable. He was confident without being arrogant; interested without being meddlesome; loyal, without... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light
new ways to think about how financial markets work. That made him a remarkable teacher. He also became a skilled leader at the School. He was able to succeed in each of these positions because his colleagues trusted him.” Throughout his... View Details
- 19 Aug 2016
- News
Lending a Hand to Small Businesses in Emerging Markets
lenders a better understanding of both the skills and the personality of loan applicants. Based on psychometrics research conducted at the Harvard Center for International Development, the questions on this test seek not to mimic the data... View Details