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- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Marking 10-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake Region
Takeuchi’s decision to embark on the inaugural Japan trip involved a realistic assessment of both the logistical challenges and educational opportunities of the experience. But taking students to a disaster area entailed unprecedented... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
they can assess their ROI. He will also research how others across the country are trying to develop and advance such metrics. "For decades, people have said there is just no way to measure nonprofit value creation. How can you value a... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
School Ties
important barriers to greater engagement, including significant differences between education and business leaders in their assessments of America's schools. Notes Rivkin, "Compared to the typical superintendent, HBS alumni are far more... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
Thomas J. Bolam (MBA ’64) (McFarland & Co.) The Bolams examine 407 commercial films that include an American president as a character. They summarize each president’s administration and discuss its films, giving plot summaries, credits, descriptions of the president’s... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
11 trainees, chosen through the Specialisterne Assessment process, in Adelaide. During the assessment, candidates completed individual and team projects using Lego Mindstorms, as well as undergoing psychometric testing for... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Job One: Alumni Engagement
student knowledge of the resources available to them once they graduate. It has become clear to the board that most alumni are not aware of the broad array of resources and programs made available by HBS. The Alumni Engagement Committee, chaired by Jacqueline Heslop... View Details
Keywords: Peter Cooper
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Cup Runneth Over
right to outfit and sponsor individual teams? Sophisticated sports marketing outfits, often subsidiaries of the top marketing services firms, conduct detailed assessments to help companies like Nike and Samsung determine what value to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Inside Executive Search
source will become a candidate for a search. Developing and Presenting Candidates. After determining a candidate’s potential interest, we arrange a confidential meeting to assess the person against key selection criteria. We then write... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advanced Statistics Are the New Foam Fingers
and RBIs—is WAR (wins above replacement). What was once a weird new metric, which caused panic among traditionalists, has become industry standard shorthand for assessing player value. “If anyone tries to explain how WAR is calculated, it... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
An American Story
1959. Thirty years after arriving at Soldiers Field, with eight books, dozens of articles, and hundreds of students transformed, Levitt assessed his accomplishments with the usual dry-eyed perspective. “What I’ve achieved is I’ve made... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Job Interviews
could come even before any formal conversation begins. “When you are walking down the hall, the interview is already under way,” he notes. “That initial handshake, eye contact, and assessment of your energy, enthusiasm, and confidence... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
assess their reading and listening comprehension of business English, and to continue to take the test until they pass. A second phase involved bringing in lecturers to discuss how to study English and manage learning the language. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Staying the Course
helps school districts—many of which cancelled assessment testing—predict year-end math proficiency and better plan for post-pandemic instruction. Woolley-Wilson believes that ed tech products that prove to be useful during the pandemic... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
has collected the best of her wit and wisdom on management thinking and practice. Looking back across the changing landscape of business, Kanter helps reveal what has worked, what has not, and what businesses still need to learn. She also offers her View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Courting the Poor
the questions posed by the case is the classic conundrum of where and how Magazine Luiza should expand while preserving its identity and culture. The case describes a large acquisition of another Brazilian retailer with a very different culture. The students are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Books
strategy for effective transitions, giving practical guidelines on how to assess individual strengths and weaknesses, diagnose specific corporate situations and recognize challenges and opportunities, establish credibility, create... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Turning Point: Eternal Returns
Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in the middle of Typhoon Gloria in 1957 and spent my early childhood in Kowloon’s Walled City, which at the time was an extremely poor and densely... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Ink
strategy and assessing your place in the competitive landscape. Tool 15, “Taming Co-opetition,” helps one determine the risks and rewards of sleeping with the enemy. Essentially, the advice is, don’t. “With few exceptions, being in... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Class Day and Commencement 2001
small, with everybody around you. That's a hell of a lot more important than some finite strategy." Asked about how he assesses people, Welch replied that he insists on integrity and then asks four "E" questions: "Do they have the Energy... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs
for alumni to use their business skills,” says Sanchez, noting that the group will assess and refine its strategies before entering the next project cycle. Richard Gehrman (MBA ’76) and Tony Levy (MBA ’88) serve as cochairs of the... View Details