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- 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
- 04 Dec 2020
- News
Hour by Hour
employers for a mass exodus of employees in a post-pandemic world. The company predicts that 50 percent of organizations’ newly hired workers in 2020 will return to former positions when furloughs end. Syrg’s platform will help employers build a flexible 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
- 12 Jan 2017
- News
Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
Photos by David Kelly Crow Many women hit a point in their career when they are unsure of which path to take next or even how to move ahead. For some, that inflection point comes mid-career or after a successful run; others are simply hopeful for a smooth return to the... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
From Das’s Desk
current situation and are now looking to pivot. This broad category also includes those who are returning to the workforce after a pause or in the midst of a career change. Looking at our alumni population using this framework will inform... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Billion-Dollar Question
we say, "Not now." As Jeff said, "It's never an ideal time. If you have half a chance, do it." Taking a sabbatical every five to ten years is not just good for the soul, but good for your career. You'll return to the workforce with ideas... 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 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions
School's commitment to provide lifelong learning opportunities that address the needs of all HBS graduates. In recent years, both Hart and Dean Kim B. Clark have said that they often meet HBS alumnae who have left the workforce to focus... 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
- 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
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
home," 36 percent were actually working parttime, and another 12 percent worked on contracted projects. Of those who had left the workforce but planned to return, 61 percent said they were seeking nontraditional business careers and had... 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 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 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
costs of the epidemic to business, including lower productivity, increased expenditures, and declining profits and investment. “When 30 to 40 percent of your workforce is affected by HIV/AIDS, it forces corporations to confront the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Cracks in the Foundation
infrastructure, and insufficient workforce skills. While government must play a role in addressing these issues, Porter and Rivkin believe that business leaders should set the example by making choices that will build America's ability to... View Details
- 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
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
OnRamp: A Woman’s Guide to Re-Entering the Workforce by Catherine Clifford and Millie Froeb (MBA ’00) (YOR Media) A Time to Vote: Is It Too Late to Save America? by Jim Moyer (MBA ’70) (Tate Publishing) Free and Laughing: Spiritual... View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
of the villages have seen slow progress, and one dropped out entirely, but Ruhr focuses on what CREATE! is building, which includes a workforce trained in computer science and agriculture that can now use QuickBooks for accounting. “We... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 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