Middle Skills - Publications - Faculty & Research

Career Coach

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

Keywords: Consulting; Entrepreneurship; Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Government; Health Care; Clean Technology; Energy

Portrait Project

Linda Li

neighbors, who worked day in and day out, had started pawning their goods to pay medical bills. My high-school friends disappeared into rehab. My middle school was shut down due to insufficient funding, and my teachers were forced to... View Details

February 2024
Supplement

Dena Almansoori at e&: Fostering Culture Change at a UAE Telco Transforming to a Global Techco

By: Emily Truelove, Michelle Zhang and Alpana Thapar

Dena Almansoori, the first female and one of the youngest members of the United Arab Emirates-based e&’s leadership team, joined in 2020 just before e& began a strategic transition from being a regional telecommunications company to becoming a global technology... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Telecommunications; Employee Mobility; Leading Change; Human Resources; Organizational Culture; Transformation; Talent and Talent Management; Change Management; Employee Relationship Management; Telecommunications Industry; Technology Industry; Middle East; United Arab Emirates

Citation

Purchase

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

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Education

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

28 May 2019
News

Leading Questions

teams of consultants who did extensive and time-consuming one-on-one interviews. Synthesis, launched in 2017, aims for a middle ground: a focused but customized evaluation. “We ask ourselves what are the things you need to know right now... View Details

Keywords: April White

Profile

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

Keywords: Consulting; Other Financial Services

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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

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

Keywords: Michael Watkins; Susan Rosegrant; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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

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

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

Profile

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

Keywords: Other Financial Services; Consulting; Nonprofit / Government

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

Profile

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

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Retail

Profile

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

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services; Technology

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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

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South Asia - Global Activities 2021

offering designed to help senior executives in India, one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, elevate their leadership skills and drive success in this competitive market. Since then, some 300 business leaders have participated... View Details

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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

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