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- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Helping Women Executives Return to Work
Katerina Gould (MBA 1990), cofounder of Women Returners and founder of Thinking Potential, is helping executive women in the United Kingdom re-enter the workforce after extended career breaks. “They are going to be more stable than other... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
An Unconventional Suggestion
Consulting Group proposed an 11-point plan of regulatory reforms, technological advances, and infrastructure and workforce development. The goal: to realize the economic benefits of unconventional gas and oil (already adding more than... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Blue No Longer
(“Baby Blues”) and concentrated instead on cutting costs (by paring the workforce and closing plants) and expanding IBM's capability to help companies meet the full range of their computing and IT needs. Keeping IBM intact “was a big... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Extending goodwill to all in the global community
As a person who is blind, Jim Gibbons (MBA 1994) is no stranger to workforce challenges. In his role as president and CEO of Goodwill Industries International, he leads initiatives that improve lives, benefit communities, and help the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Replicating Toyota's Success
itself is also unique. Rather than adopting the first good idea, workers create iterative, structured experiments to test hypotheses and foster continuous learning. The result is a workforce that can explore problems independently, an... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fast Casual
Covey (MBA ’57) and believing that employees’ personal growth is key to PRG’s success and its future, the Cherngs have their workforce attend human-potential seminars and courses. While Andrew is known as the expansive thinker and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
development opportunities, or proper rewards. Expanding on their previous books, The HR Scorecard and The Workforce Scorecard, the authors recommend that workforces be managed like portfolios, with more... View Details
- 17 Mar 2020
- News
A Bid for the Future
it,” says Moret. “But what really matters is creating a great operating environment for companies: stable and attractive tax and regulatory climate, outstanding talent, workforce development.” The 14-month Amazon bid process was both... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
state workforce development programs in the United States. “People think about economic development folks making pitches to companies, and wining and dining, and that is part of it,” says Moret. “But what really matters is creating a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
HBS Alums Help Jailhouse Entrepreneurs Go Straight
endeavors often borrows on traits that are valuable in legitimate commerce: a cool head, decisive decision-making, and the ability to read people. Texas-based PEP helps prepare prison inmates, upon their release, to join the regular View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Venture: Time Heals All
Assembling a nursing schedule for a hospital ward can be surprisingly difficult—a little like playing three-dimensional Tetris, says Ilana Springer Borkenstein (MBA 2022). “It is a really challenging, tedious task.” Nurse managers must take into consideration a host of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
New on the Web at Alumni Career Services
HBS alumnae seeking to return to the workforce and all alumni interested in board positions now have new tools on the Alumni Career Services Web site to assist in their search. The “on-rampers” résumé database was designed exclusively for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
advantage,” featuring a workforce that will be youthful for decades to come, Chidambaram said, “More and more Indians, especially young Indians, have discovered the virtues of an open polity and open economy. I have faith that the next... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
support. And the Rwanda-based staff traveled to India to procure machinery to make sanitary pads. Meanwhile, a team at North Carolina State University has developed the fiber process for the filling of the pads, and the Rwanda Workforce... View Details
- 27 Sep 2021
- News
Sewn with Love
established to mobilize the American workforce quarantined at home, and began offering their MadeByUS kits that include everything—from assembly instructions to precut gown panels—for anyone with a sewing machine and knowledge of fabric... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Shaping the Way Business Does Business: HBR at 75
approach to performance measurement, and the importance of workforce diversity were first introduced." While HBR has served as a platform for innovation, the inner workings of the magazine itself these past 75 years have been marked "more... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
in organizational success and personal growth. He also provides a 28-day program for mastering innovation’s key steps: finding insight, generating ideas, building businesses, and strengthening innovation prowess in the workforce and... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- News
A Voice for Diversity and Impact at Scale
its Pharmaceutical and Medical Products Practice in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. And as a member of the global board of directors, she has spearheaded flagship research linking diversity to performance, championing the notion that increased participation in the... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
On Balance
but also from kindergarten, so that young people are thinking and dreaming differently about their futures.” The scope is daunting but, for Wooldridge, success will entail changing the conversation. “We can change hearts and minds,” she concludes. “For me, success will... View Details
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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Action Plan: Brewing Awareness
rental expenses to preserve jobs. Now, as India begins a massive vaccination program, Murad is glad to have made it through the worst of the pandemic with White Owl’s workforce of 120 employees largely intact. “It’s easy to abandon ship... View Details