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- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
flipping it and saying, "We'll be remote, so that your job becomes your university campus." And our thesis here is that the employer has skin in the game. This is their future workforce—and not in an ethereal, aggregate sense. This... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
faculty members hired this year, eight are people of color. We became the first academic partner to the OneTen initiative, which aims to create jobs and career paths with family-sustaining wages for one million Black individuals in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
innovator. In this playbook, Schultz makes the case for not raising outside money, finding mentors, and doing every job before hiring others and also discusses how to pivot when things go wrong and why failure is an outdated concept. What... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
"Adults have a great time at Club Med, but especially for kids, there simply is no better place." He further observes that as people spend more time on computers on the job and at home, the greater their need to break away. "The more the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
worked after serving as a Navy lieutenant in Hawaii from 1969 to 1971. There were early signs of his interest in the Thoroughbred industry, however — a thesis on the economics of the business written as an undergraduate at The College of William & Mary, then a View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
the highest “yield” rates in higher education. And on the other side of graduation, HBS alumni traditionally enjoyed astonishing success. It seemed an easy job to walk into. McArthur, however, knew better. He had spent more than two... View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
cousins was good so I kept going. By 2009, I quit my day job to work on the videos—and the software—full time. To date, I’ve personally made around 3,000 videos—I love doing them—on dozens of subject areas, ranging from physics to finance... View Details
- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
drive capital to businesses that are creating jobs and economic opportunities in West Virginia and other underserved areas of the country." What is the best part of this work? What do you find most challenging? Christine: "The best part... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
feedback from my cousins was good so I kept going. By 2009, I quit my day job to work on the videos—and the software—full time. To date, I’ve personally made around 3,000 videos—I love doing them—on dozens of subject areas, ranging from... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
dating apps now, maybe five or 10 dates a week. So you really have to be good at making a first impression and standing out. And that's the same in job interviews or pitching your company to investors. You have to really know how to make... View Details
Keywords: Zoom
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
don’t know what the answer is. They have to act, not plan their way forward. Hill began to despair of finding an answer to her problem until a chance meeting with Pixar executive Greg Brandeau in the lobby of a biotech firm—Hill was there for research, Brandeau for a... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension
Pandemic project: When COVID-19 hit, Thoren led a pitch to the UK government to create jobs for unemployed and disadvantaged young people, in restoring the UK’s depleted natural infrastructure, based on the US Civilian Conservation Corps.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes
Hospital. My uncle is president of the United States and my cousin will take over the same job in a decade. Big things are expected of me. But I’ve always had troubles succeeding along traditional Bush family lines. Surrounded by a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
for loved ones, improving the job prospects of disadvantaged young people, or enabling us to communicate in new ways, the successful enterprises built and led by the 2014 awardees have had a deep impact on business and society. Gerald... View Details
- 26 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)
elements in life that drive you away from working on something you're passionate about. It can be peer pressure (e.g., 'you should do consulting or finance'); money (e.g., 'a hedge fund is the job with the highest odds of making good... View Details
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
The Good Writer
one-hour world,” recalls Dick, who was then invited to write for Lost in its first two seasons, work that earned him a Writers Guild of America Award as well as an Emmy for best drama. “You’re a nomad, a kind of creative Bedouin,” says Dick, who has also written for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Whit Sears (MBA 1959)
as hard or get as much out of HBS as I might have. Nonetheless, HBS was a good experience for me: The community was solid, the teaching superb, and the cases challenging. I still use class discussion whenever I can in teaching. Despite many rewarding View Details
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
of dangerously close to the job I left? Tapon: Yeah, there's certain things like that. I agree. It sometimes can get in that danger zone where I'm like this is becoming a job that I regret. But a job, to me,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
1.4 taxis for every 1,000 people in Jakarta compared with 10.2 in Bangkok, and most of those were concentrated in the downtown area where the office jobs and wealthier residents congregate, despite the fact that taxis were often seen as a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
Midwest, commented, “Lincoln workers receive high pay and job security, and there is no need for a union there. But I’m not worried that there will be a diminishing role for unions, because most of you are too dumb to run your companies... View Details