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Rawiah Abdallah
Why was getting a business education important to you? Getting a business education among people with diverse backgrounds exposes you to many different skills and opportunities. After working for four years, it has been a great time to... View Details
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Partners - Managing the Future of Work
and labor market demand. Burning Glass’s job seeker tools power several government workforce systems and have been shown to have substantive impact on reemployment outcomes and on labor market literacy. Burning Glass is working with HBS to close the View Details
- 25 Aug 2021
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
Back in 2011, when Melissa Zaikos (MBA 2000) first began digging deeply into the standardized test scores of the Chicago Public Schools system, she saw that elementary schools seemed to be getting better in the Chicago area. But once students reached View Details
- 16 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
capital campaign and expansion of the nonprofit organization’s programs, which include science education, character development, and summer learning opportunities for 6,500 local adolescents annually. A key initiative is a multiyear experiential learning program for... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- News
Motivating Middle-Schoolers to Get up to Speed with Math
2010 that leverages the popularity of NBA basketball to help middle school students master the fundamentals of math. “STEM skills are driving innovation across all sectors today,” Daugherty notes, “but 67... View Details
- 24 Jul 2020
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
reached middle and high school, the gap between the high-achieving students and those who needed academic support grew considerably. A few years later, Stanford University released a study that confirmed her observations. “Chicago had... View Details
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Maliha Khan
Why was getting a business education important to you? I saw an MBA as important for two reasons: I wanted key analytical and quantitative skills that would help me make decisions and give me more confidence in my judgment; and secondly,... View Details
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Shaun Miller
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Earning an MBA has been a career aspiration of mine since my undergraduate studies - I had always looked forward to the idea of not only expanding my technical skill set, but also learning... View Details
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
for the survey included primarily middle managers in manufacturing plants, although over time the data collection was extended to other industries, such as retail, schools, and hospitals. The approach was to interview those who were high... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
School gave me the ability to have a broad overview that focused not only on the financial dimension of a business but on its many other facets, including management, strategy, manufacturing, and marketing. I began to rely increasingly on these View Details
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Sarah Bua
Sarah (HBS ’98) is an executive coach and career advisor with 15+ years of experience coaching students, alumni and executives at Harvard Business School. She has a diverse business background, having worked across multiple industries and functions, including View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Breakthrough International Negotiation
Susan Rosegrant urge business leaders to learn from the lessons of negotiators who have helped to shape recent world history. Watkins, who teaches the popular HBS elective Corporate Diplomacy, worked with Rosegrant, a political case writer, to cull the most essential... View Details
- Portrait Project
Yaw Agyenim-Boateng
in middle school — they believed in us. Later, I got fellowships endowed by generous others to attend Wesleyan and HBS. It's my turn to pass it forward. In moving back home to Ghana, I have chosen to answer what I believe is our... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
INK: The Bookshelf
of this book is that the volatility through the messy middle of any project is about achieving a positive slope. Your job is to manage the lows and maintain a focus on optimizing the highs.” CLASSIC Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible... View Details
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Scott Wu
monitored refugee camps and volunteered in AIDS orphanages. He spent eight years as president of Aim High, an educational organization focused on inner-city, disadvantaged children. He was also cofounder of a Gates Foundation–funded View Details
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Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021
for good in society. This report features a selection of stories that highlight the School’s influence and impact around the world during fiscal year 2021 (July 1, 2020–June 30, 2021). Africa Developing the Skills to Drive Change in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Education Innovation
populated, in part, by HBS alumni. Doug Lemov (MBA 2004) is pushing to "reteach" teachers, equipping practitioners with real-world skills to improve learning ("5 Bright Ideas"). Scott Given (MBA 2010) and his fellow charter school... View Details
- 03 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment
state colleges and universities for families with incomes below $125,000. "A bachelor’s degree may once have been a ticket to the middle class, but that is no longer a sure thing" Such a plan has obvious appeal. It would reduce... View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
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Innovating for International Aid
monitored refugee camps and volunteered in AIDS orphanages. He spent eight years as president of Aim High, an educational organization focused on inner-city, disadvantaged children. He was also cofounder of a Gates Foundation–funded View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
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FAQ - U.S. Competitiveness
unconventional energy? Early research identified PK-12 education, middle skills, and transportation infrastructure as a significant weakness or deteriorating strength for the U.S. Understanding each can help us to explain one of the most... View Details