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- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
she anticipated customer needs, many crews and companies requested she come back. “I felt that I changed some people’s perceptions of the fitness of a woman in such a demanding job and environment,” she says. Since those early engineering... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
Leanne Huebner (MBA 1997) was just out of college, working at her first job and volunteering her free time with foster children when a little girl asked: “Will you adopt me?” Just 22 and single, Huebner wasn’t in a position to raise... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Success Through Shared Effort
leaders in each section who did a fantastic job drumming up excitement about reunions and giving back to the School," adds Dorros. The Class of 2003 had the highest participation rate among all spring 2013 reunion classes, with 61 percent... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
A Force for Good
Photo courtesy of Ananth Kasturiraman Photo courtesy of Ananth Kasturiraman There is no shortage of evidence demonstrating that the hiring process is one of the ways in which economic inequalities are perpetuated. Take, for example, the finding that View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
It’s the Economy
ambitious $825 billion economic stimulus package was working its way through Congress. The rapidly deteriorating jobs picture heightened the sense of urgency to act. Employers shed more jobs in 2008 than in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The End of Cows?
example, there are roughly 1 million jobs connected to the beef industry—from companies that grow crops for animal feed to slaughterhouses. And the USDA reports that meat producers created more than $66 billion in added value to the US... View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Former Professor and Associate Dean Vernon Alden Passes Away
Vernon Alden (MBA 1950), has passed away at age 97. A former associate dean and faculty member at HBS, Alden would go on to become the president of Ohio University at age 38. He would later help support President Lyndon Johnson develop the View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
Plan, Harvard Business School has signed on as the first academic partner to the OneTen Initiative, a coalition of leading executives and organizations in America who have joined together to hire one million Black individuals into family-sustaining View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
Obviously, there's a huge amount of consumption in jobs that are at risk now because people are not spending money in the same way. On the other hand, I think work from home is a great analogy: Just like we'll probably continue working in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
same manner, creating a multiplier effect. For the future, I believe HBS should train managers for all parts of society, not just for business. Companies know that success means having managers with an open mind and a mindset of how to get a View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
really killing us in a lot of ways. And so my job with this book became to make plain those things, right? To counter the ways that we're taught to live or to die and to try to imagine what it would be like to truly live to be a better... View Details
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
so convinced that we have to build a high end, more sensitive, sustainable kind of tourism practice to the region. I was very convinced by the proposal. And I quit my job and started the business. But also, at that time, I did rationally... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
increased workplace opportunities for blacks and women, and heightened job security and compensation for workers generally, things began to unravel in the 1970s. As the manufacturing sector declined and the country transitioned to a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
do as an afterthought. And it’s not something you do after you retire. It’s part of the job description. Third, it’s not clear that the current system has produced the type of society that we want. We’ve had dramatic increases in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
officials show no signs of changing course and backing away from further market reforms. But external criticism of the country’s uneven progress in implementing the trade agreement has grown stronger in recent months. U.S. manufacturers complain of massive View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
imperative. IBM’s “new collar” program is one example on a large corporate scale; it creates points of entry for people who lack traditional credentials. The pool of people in this category is vast: Any job posting that requires... View Details
- 25 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
there are no continent-wide studies of this, a report last year by Adcorp, a workforce management company, found that in South Africa there were an estimated 470,000 private-sector job openings remain unfilled because of a lack of... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 02 Sep 2014
- News
Many of the best ideas for improving health care are quite simple
better together than people who haven’t—and most organizations could do a far better job of exploiting this simple but powerful insight,” he says. Huckman’s research points to five factors that make team familiarity powerful: the ability... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
2020 Vision
to make a difference,” Hodgson told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (November 9, 2006), adding that for most elected officials, “it’s become job preservation instead of service.” A Georgia Tech alum with a degree in aerospace... View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
leaders to recognize that, yes, you need to do a lot of time on plumbing, but don’t forget the job of a poet. In that context, then I try to unpack what is a poet as a leader. And one of the pieces I talk about is how they build a grand... View Details