Filter Results:
(613)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,952)
- People (39)
- News (613)
- Research (1,178)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (8)
- Faculty Publications (624)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,952)
- People (39)
- News (613)
- Research (1,178)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (8)
- Faculty Publications (624)
Sort by
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
SCHARPF: Seeking cost-effective raw materials in Rwanda. Elizabeth Scharpf (MBA ’07) is on a roll. Determined to put her MBA skills to work addressing socioeconomic and public health problems in developing... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
approximately 150 million children ages 3 to 8, making it an ideal partner for working at scale. Rocket develops and delivers digital training materials focused specifically on boosting the skills of this... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
estimating that Germany could see a shortage of 3 million skilled workers by 2030; China, which accounts for about 20 percent of the world’s manufacturing production, will have a high-skilled labor gap of about 24 million by 2020,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
School of Public Health as a way to understand the policies and skills required to address the systemic challenges that many developing countries face. She then moved to Johannesburg to assist with efforts... View Details
- 10 Mar 2016
- News
Can Doug Lemov Save US Soccer?
Illustration by John Cuneo Illustration by John Cuneo Teaching guru Doug Lemov (MBA 2004) is taking his teaching talents to the pitch. Profiled in the March issue of The Atlantic, Lemov was contacted by US Soccer in 2010 in an effort to improve their youth View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
William K.L. Fung
skills to develop its infrastructure and revive heavy industry. "Guess who's going to be in there?" he says with a smile. "The guys who were sewing garments in Hong Kong in the 1970s will now be running... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
businessperson, or academic trying to address the developing world’s greatest challenges.” He believes this is the perfect opportunity to bring all his skills together in one project. “USAID itself has, at a... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
president for product design and development with the company’s Old Navy chain of casual-clothing stores. Her influence is evident even in the corridors of Gap’s unassuming Chelsea office building in Lower Manhattan. There for everyone to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
of the skills needed to be able to choose appropriate partners, forge alliances that work over time, and develop an exit strategy," notes Barrett, who this year is introducing some new material on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Stem Cell Man
Last year, Brock Reeve (MBA ’88) was named executive director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute to bring his managerial and diplomatic skills to bear on achieving organizational cohesion and help speed laboratory innovations to market.... View Details
- 09 Nov 2015
- News
Chuck (MBA 1970) and Sue Fienning
years in the MBA Program as well as the year he spent as a case writer after earning his MBA have been crucial to his success, both personally and professionally. “I developed communication skills at HBS,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
example, the HBSCNY Skills Gap Project has placed more than 30 interns with tech firms and helped LaGuardia Community College develop a new health care curriculum designed to meet the View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
from the firm’s Cranford headquarters, allowing its eight-person team to provide fast, personal service. The company also takes an “engineering approach” to services, investing in skilled technicians rather than relying on less costly... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
are focusing on retraining (upskilling/reskilling) initiatives aimed at either equipping “at-risk” workers with skills relevant to new digital technologies, or helping them leverage existing skills across... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
Our Favorite Stories of 2020
Can This Man Change the American Diet? Clover Food Lab takes a transparent approach to bringing its unique style of vegetarian, fast-casual food to customers. In this episode of Skydeck, we meet Ayr Muir, Clover’s founder, and listen in on a food View Details
- 25 May 2016
- News
Education Is the Key
Claudio (OPM 12, 1987) and Rosalie Haddad In 1998 Claudio Haddad (OPM 12, 1987) had achieved great success in a nearly 20-year banking career. He easily could have rested on his laurels, but instead, he left the world of finance to put his View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Building Community in the Bay Area
skills into community service. Since that time, more than 400 HBS alumni have volunteered business consulting assistance to over 150 nonprofit organizations throughout the Bay Area, including museums, symphonies, and social service and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Research Brief: Bargaining for Better
study takes a different tack: Something as simple and nonmaterial as negotiation skills can have a life-changing impact on a girl’s future. The study is detailed in “Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 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 percent of eighth graders... View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- News
Saluting Our HBS Veterans
Iraq military service in bestselling books, have shared their leadership skills and experience both inside and outside the classroom, as have other HBS military veterans. Collectively, the Armed Forces Alumni Association continues to be... View Details