Fun fact - the resume is about 500 years old. It was invented by Leonardo DaVinci. Now back in the 1800s, this invention was revolutionary, but today, the resume is just not working for most job-seekers. For many of you reading, applying to jobs through the current system has been less than ideal. You’ve spent hours editing, included as many keywords from the job description as possible, tapped connections to put in a good word - and still felt entirely unclear whether you might be deemed a fit. Imagine how much harder this process is for the millions of Americans without a bachelor’s degree. [...]

This year’s graduating MBA class will re-enter the work force ten years after the onset of the greatest economic recession in a generation. While the stock market has since recovered, business leaders today face an increasingly complex web of ethical and legal challenges amidst a rising level of public scrutiny of their actions. As members of the MBA class of 2018 preparing to enter this world of uncertainty, we are reviving an effort launched by alumni who graduated into the depths of the financial crisis: to recruit our classmates to take an MBA Oath pledging to lead socially responsible and ethical careers. [...]

This year, the Social Enterprise Conference (SECON) goes back to basics. The central tension in this field has always been the interaction between mission and profit (or sustainable financing). The term social enterprise is so broad and all encompassing, yet two things are consistent: social enterprises are driven by a strong mission and utilize commercial strategies or seek sustainable funding sources. We seek to understand how mission and profit complement, strengthen, or even undermine one another. Our speakers and tracks seek to break down this tension across the various stages that a social enterprise goes through. [...]

When social sector organizations think about data, the conversation often begins and ends with measuring impact. This is an important question that needs data, but there are so many more ways to use data to drive impact. [...]

The Skills Gap Program (“SGP”), now in its fifth year at the Harvard Business School Club of New York (“the Club”), was initiated in response to Harvard Business School’s initial report on U.S. Competitiveness by Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin. Working with the school’s team throughout, the NY group has focused so far on solving the identified issue of a skills gap for middle income positions which we pegged as the $40,000+ range. By addressing the problem from the viewpoint of the employer we built a model for a partnership between business and education which allowed business to drive curriculum. The Club’s key role has been as “network integrator,” wherein we facilitate conversations leading to relationships between employers and NY community colleges. [...]