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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
doing, because that is precisely what brought their success. Still, it is important - indeed critical - to recognize that organizations have both capabilities and disabilities. Developing strong capabilities in sustaining innovations, by definition, creates View Details
- 02 Apr 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?
disability expenses, (2) Health insurance affects health status positively, (3) Layoffs are harmful to everything from mental and physical well-being to work behavior, (4) Work schedules and length of hours affect physical well-being and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
from its main competitors such as multinational Danone in that it is a 270-person workers' cooperative with 60 percent of its membership made up of mentally disabled individuals. Since its establishment in 1982, the organization has aimed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
what's going on with the security people, concessions, merchandise, and on and on. You can learn something from virtually any event. "Then yesterday, by contrast," she continues, "I spent two hours huddling with our advisory group on View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 19 Jun 2018
- News
Pittsburgh Alumni Annual Meeting Features PPG’s McGarry
that serves the employment, training, housing, and education needs of people with disabilities in Oregon and Washington, and Serendipity Center, a Portland school for at-risk youth. Chussil says the HBSAO program will place about six... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 24 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 24, 2007
and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Although these laws account for less than 7 percent of U.S. public funding for education, their mandates strongly influence the activities of schools and school districts.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
Internet, rank novices can disable an organization’s Web site, hurting business while giving the firm an embarrassingly public black eye. More serious are the sometimes devastating and often indiscriminate internal intrusions perpetrated... View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
Mexican for-profit social enterprise that makes eye care, including much-needed cataract surgery, accessible to thousands of people annually. Blindness is the second leading cause of disability in Mexico, with more than 2 million people... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
job but can’t make ends meet? —Rick Holliday (MBA 1963) OAKES: Yes, their needs are quite different. For individuals with mental illness or disabilities or who have experienced homelessness, we have learned that just providing an... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
hard for them to accept the fact that a lot of the debt obligation is for commitments that have already been made—things like social security, disability benefits, and Medicaid. That said, I am reminded of a paper co-written by my... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- Career Coach
Pamela Harder
Pam (HBS / HKS ‘13, Stanford ‘08 Economics) has spent the last 12 years working at the nexus of business and government. Currently, she runs Virginia's state-wide economic development talent investment strategy. As a Managing Director within state government's economic... View Details
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
the social objective function, tagging generates costs that must be weighed against the benefits it generates through conventional channels. Only tags that are sufficiently predictive of ability, such as disability status, will be used.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
The Spiritual Lives of Leaders - Course Catalog
Faith Shapes Boardroom Debate Faith as An Enabler and Disabler Linking Spirituality, Health and Leadership Poetic Justice: Islam and Business III. Moving Beyond – Locating Purpose in the World Moral Growth as a Business Leader Spiritual... View Details
- Web
Demo Day | New Venture Competition
tasks, and real-time feedback, it helps learners build confidence and communication skills, unlocking education, career, and global opportunities. Remarcation Hannah Wong (MDes 2025) Remarcation fosters the autonomy of disabled users in... View Details
- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708053 Work Is Good: Branding the Employ+Ability Mission Harvard Business School Case 809-028 Employ+Ability, a small company employing developmentally View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity
adjustment to a job or work environment that makes it possible for an individual with a disability to perform their job duties. Accommodations may include specialized equipment, modifications to the work environment or adjustments to work... View Details
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
Why is the mission of ArtLifting so important? “We’re demonstrating how something as simple as optimism can change lives and create jobs. This is very powerful and very personal to me. My older brother has a rare metabolic disorder that caused him to have View Details
- Web
Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
and PCs. The team is based in India is currently focused on developing an affordable mobile phone based diagnostic platform for Diabetes. No longer a disease of the wealthy, Diabetes is the one of the leading causes of death and View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
disabilities and degenerative neurological conditions. (In one of several such tragic incidents, in 2011, 10-year NFL veteran Dave Duerson (OPM 30, 2001)—who had been suffering from a deteriorating mental state—instructed his family... View Details
- Career Coach
Juan Leung Li
Juan draws on his own career journey and his experience supporting tech entrepreneurs and executives to coach students. Most career paths look like a straight line in hindsight -- those cases are rare. In reality, discovering fulfilling jobs and leading impactful... View Details