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What Foundations Are Missing About Capacity Building

Harvard Business

Over the past five years, more and more foundations have come to understand that their nonprofit grantees’ infrastructure needs more love, and more grant money. These include administration, facilities, information technology, employee training, equipment, human resources and sometimes – just sometimes – fundraising.

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Types of Consultants - Free Management Library

Consulting and Organizational Management

These consultants often use a wide variety of approaches, tools and techniques to affect various systems and functions across the organization, for example, technical assistance, coaching, facilitation and training. For training on consulting skills, see the Consultants Development Institute. Types of Consulting Can Overlap.

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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business

Toyota hired Deming to train hundreds of the company’s managers, eventually capitalizing on his expertise to develop the famous Toyota Production System — the primary source of today’s “lean” thinking. Shewhart taught this iterative and incremental-development methodology to his mentee, W.

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Hiring Data Scientists from Outside the U.S.: A Primer on Visas

Harvard Business

Here’s what we found: F-1 Visa “Optional Practical Training” Who’s eligible? This year of employment is known as “Optional Practical Training” or “OPT.” Most F-1 students apply for their optional practical training employment cards on their own and without the assistance of an attorney.

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The H-1B Visa Debate, Explained

Harvard Business

The H-1B Visa Process The H-1B visa was established, as part of the Immigration Act of 1990, to let companies recruit trained foreign workers (with at least a bachelor’s degree or the equivalent) to work in “specialty occupations” for which there are few qualified local candidates.