Mills Scofield
MAY 5, 2015
Educating myself about the fall of the Roman Empire may not provide direct, transferable skills to the corporate office, the quirky startup, or any particular field of work. A career advisor once told me that those who pursue liberal arts majors and enter finance, consulting or technology are not the exceptions. They are the norm.
Mills Scofield
MAY 5, 2015
Educating myself about the fall of the Roman Empire may not provide direct, transferable skills to the corporate office, the quirky startup, or any particular field of work. A career advisor once told me that those who pursue liberal arts majors and enter finance, consulting or technology are not the exceptions. They are the norm.
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Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 1, 2013
She imagined a future when her family would be out of poverty AND her kids would start their adult life educated. Sasikala, a Block Development Officer (BDO), talked to the Kodapattinam villagers about microfinance , only Shantha, of all the villagers, saw the opportunity and took action. She went door to door, pleading and pitching.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 2, 2014
My organization, The Bridgespan Group, received 1,800 applications for 18 entry-level positions consulting to nonprofits and philanthropy. Razia Jan, the founder of Zabuli Education Center in Afghanistan, for example, is empowering Afghan girls to speak up in their homes and communities by providing them with free education.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 2, 2011
Microfinance (Bangladesh), securitization of revenues (Saudi Arabia), and royalty-pay-back funding (Israel) were all invented overseas. Dr. Isenberg has been an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, consultant, and educator, having taught at Harvard, Columbia, Technion, INSEAD, and Reykjavik.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 30, 2018
A management consultant told us about learning to treat his family as being as important as a client, in order to help him ensure he was able to carve out time for them during his workweek. We interviewed a designer who was part Mexican and part white and worked on social impact projects.
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