Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

Those in the emerging adult stage (ages 18 to 28) are in a critical time for ownership development. Some may want to pursue a career separate from the family enterprise, while some who join the family business may feel an extra level of intensity around performance expectations. This entails: 1. It was a huge hit!

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2013

To achieve impact, it's critical that social entrepreneurs attract, retain, and develop skilled talent. Year Up is empowering urban young adults with the skills, experience, and support to move them from poverty to professional careers in one year. Many nonprofits are able to attract talent, but struggle to develop and retain it.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

In mid-September 2013, 10 professionals returning from multi-year career breaks walked into 270 Park Avenue in New York City to begin the J.P. The three new Wall Street programs follow a similar formula to Returnship in terms of timing and small class size. Morgan ReEntry Program. In full disclosure, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, J.P.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Here's what we believe, surveying the landscape: It would take something like 1,000 hours — and maybe a lot longer — to recover from a forced career change. Depending on how much you studied and how much time you spent in class, this quarter time might amount to 300 hours a year — that's about six hours a week.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

But social entrepreneurs alone cannot change the world.They need artists, volunteers, development directors, communications specialists, donors, and advocates across all sectors to turn their groundbreaking ideas into reality. But they should be founders of their careers. It was a transformative experience for her.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

But social entrepreneurs alone cannot change the world.They need artists, volunteers, development directors, communications specialists, donors, and advocates across all sectors to turn their groundbreaking ideas into reality. But they should be founders of their careers. It was a transformative experience for her.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

nearly 6 million entry-level jobs will be created from 2012 to 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Many come from families with incomes below the poverty line and suffer from lack of educational and career supports. They screened candidates for comfort with logic and numbers, and then brought them to class.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

Or so he thought, until one interaction changed the trajectory of his career. In 2012, Dinesh Seemakurty, a bio-medical engineering student at University of Southern California was visiting India. Dinesh’s grandfather developed complications between the checks and passed away. His life was set.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

We also found that the professionals we spoke with at Accenture, in offices on three continents, consistently lauded the firm for its willingness to support innovations, from Accenture Development Partnerships to professional programs for First Peoples in Canada and support for call centers in native communities.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2013

Our intention for Hook & Loop was not to hire the best and brightest software developers. A report by PrivCo shows that in 2012 there were 100 mergers and acquisitions for privately-held tech companies in NYC, with an accrued value of up to $8.3

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

” Education, then, is not usually an incremental step to a better way to make a living life or a waystation to another career. The constant saturation of negative school headlines took its toll: The public’s approval rating of public schools fell from 58% in 1973 to 29% in 2012. ” Except today, they’re not.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Almost every world-class, high-performance organization takes training and education seriously. As an educator, I fear world-class business schools and high-performance businesses overinvest in “education” and dramatically underinvest in “training.” I’ve seen it happen, and careers ended when it did.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Mocidade Alegre , which danced away with first place in the parade this year and in 2012, brings almost 4,000 people to the parade. The result is spectacular, and Brazil’s carnival parades have become a world-class show transmitted by TV to over 100 countries. It is also, for the great majority of the participants, a volunteer show.

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Building Personal Strength

OCTOBER 5, 2012

All classes were mandatory—over 20 credit hours per semester. I even attended classes on Saturday. There was a lot more to being a cadet than attending class. By the time I was a senior I had become a better student, and my GPA was in the top 5% of my class. Copyright 2012. My boyhood dream had come true.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

I have worked my entire career in great health systems with fabulous people. In December, 2012, the University of Utah health care system started posting on its “ Find-a-Doctor” sites all patient comments received after office visits. When I presented this case to a class at Harvard Business School last year, one student from the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

I have worked my entire career in great health systems with fabulous people. In December, 2012, the University of Utah health care system started posting on its “ Find-a-Doctor” sites all patient comments received after office visits. When I presented this case to a class at Harvard Business School last year, one student from the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The 2012 OECD Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) study showed the UK invested the 8th largest amount out of 34 OECD countries, but only came 19th in mathematics, 14th in science and 16th in reading. If more of them can be identified, developed, and appointed, we believe the whole education system will improve.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

I recently published research from the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project , comparing Wharton’s Classes of 1992 and 2012. It’s worth noting that these percentages are essentially the same for both men and women, both in 1992 and in 2012. mean at the time — the average 2012 graduate planned to have only 1.7.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

Securing those rights and protections is important, but it’s not clear that these changes alone will turn gig work into a stable, well-respected career. The kinds of work that are valued and the types that are disdained vary widely by culture, class, and other divides. Assembled careers, it’s worth noting, are not new.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Business development. They take what is said at face value because they have not or don’t care to develop abilities to discern what is hyped by others. Business writing and public speaking classes should be mandatory. ‘Develop the Drive to Accomplish Anything.’ World Class. ‘World Class.’

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

universities lost ground in the UK magazine Times Higher Education 2012 list of the world's top 200 universities. A 2012 National Science Foundation report notes that U.S. For traditional students, this might mean replacing large lectures with online courses, freeing up resources for smaller, more stimulating classes.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2015

That was the time when Chermayeff, a Harvard Business School graduate who’d left the workforce for 15 years to stay home with her four children, was a member of the inaugural class of J.P. Morgan, MetLife and Morgan Stanley — piloted re-entry internship programs for professionals returning to work after a career break.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2012

In the same survey, 61 percent said taking a class or going back to school is a great start. If becoming a permanent freelancer isn't in your plans, note that about one in four employers plan to transition some temporary workers into full-time, permanent employees in quarter two of 2012. So what do hiring managers recommend?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

These tax rates will remain in effect through 2012. Extends the repeal of phase-outs of personal deductions and limits on itemized deductions for higher income taxpayers through 2012. Extended many energy and business credits and incentives, such as the Research & Development credit. Stay tuned for more excitement!

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

But the conditions seemed to be ripe for one to develop. Entrepreneurs have long been able to tap into a range of grants and related programs to help with early development activities. In a previous generation, both would have likely followed a lucrative career in the government or perhaps even stayed overseas.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

As I learned during the 2012 Hispanic Voice Town Hall Tour my organization held earlier this year, Hispanics are a high-touch community and this level of interaction goes a long way toward earning trust and loyalty. Full disclosure: I teach classes on this topic at the Center for Hispanic Leadership.)

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

As I learned during the 2012 Hispanic Voice Town Hall Tour my organization held earlier this year, Hispanics are a high-touch community and this level of interaction goes a long way toward earning trust and loyalty. Full disclosure: I teach classes on this topic at the Center for Hispanic Leadership.)

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