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- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
What’s the story behind the Flatiron School, and how did you come up with the name? “The Flatiron School was born when I met my cofounder, Avi Flombaum, while researching innovations in higher education at Charles River Ventures. I had always been interested in...
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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
It was in grade school that James D. Gibbons (MBA 1994) first began to lose his sight, a process he retraces in terms of his ability to cope at school. “I started moving up to the front of the class but not because I was smart,” laughs...
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- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
and international students were underperforming relative to their American male peers. As a result of a campuswide effort, HBS has closed that grade gap, a feat that drew applause in Burden Auditorium on Friday. Still, HBS Dean Nitin...
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by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
- 24 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 24, 2007
attainment outcomes (measured primarily by students' completion rates at various grade levels). Deals with outcome trends within the general U.S. school-aged population and covers educational outcomes in various subpopulations of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
ISSUE FOCUS: EDUCATION INNOVATION Bright Idea #1 Training the Global Workforce, Gratis Mike Feerick (MBA 1993) FEERICK: At the grade school he attended in Ireland. "Knowledge and understanding," he says, "are being unleashed via the web...
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- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
strategic decisions on whether to go deeper (expand to grades 4 and 5) or go broader to more grade 1 to 3 children. They were wrestling with the question of which option would lead to more impact and leave...
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Carmen Nobel
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
Righting the Ship
creating one that did. The plan he assembled had three parts. The first was addressing the performance of CIP division managers by rating their execution performance. Here, Stuckey held fast to the familiar: an academic grading chart. If...
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Maureen Harmon
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Innovation and Renovation: Optimizing Product Line Architecture - Course Catalog
one stretch a brand as it expands in scope? The three modules taken together provide a comprehensive look at both the Innovation and Renovation of the product line over time, as well as at how to Optimize the Product Line Architecture. View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
rely on dirty or dangerous energy sources like kerosene lamps and diesel generators. The Soccket is not unlike Matthews herself: a bundle of energy using play to change the world. Creating things seems to come naturally to Matthews, who has been an inventor since View Details
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 10 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Coming Out at Business School
girlfriend a few months later, we held hands at lunch and kissed awkwardly at school dances just like any other 8th grade “couple.” How strange. How amazing. How ordinary. I dream of a world where all coming out stories are as boring as...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
surveys used by Bloomberg Businessweek and U.S. News are subject to bias by relying so heavily on judgments from recent graduates, deans, and administrators. Students understand the value of graduating from a top-ranked institution and may View Details
- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
of the twentieth century, the first twenty-two years of my life seemed to revolve around an unending series of tests designed to rank me versus my peer group. At the end of each grading period, my mom would ask me if I had made the honor...
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Creating Inclusive Recruiting Events in a Time of Innovation - Recruiting
meeting. However, these events can also lend themselves to bias that excludes and discriminates against individuals and groups when not unchecked. An example of bias in a group setting comes from our classrooms at Harvard Business School and the processes put in place...
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- 14 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Creating Inclusive Recruiting Events in a Time of Innovation
School and the processes put in place in 2009 to close the gender grade gap. Up until this point, female students were consistently underrepresented in the top tiers of academic achievement at HBS in large part due to classroom...
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- 08 Mar 2018
- News
HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact
the Super Bowl ad game is big business, and therefore very instructive for the 70 MBA students in his marketing classes, who review and grade the ads. “An ad need not be entertaining to be effective,” he explains, “but it does need these...
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Margie Kelley
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
minutes before class that he will be asked to speak. The opening question—usually one from the assignment—typically requires taking a position or making a recommendation. Since as much as 50 percent of their grade is based on class...
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by David A. Garvin
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Power and Influence - Course Catalog
both required and recommended, supplement the case material. Course Requirements Grades will be based on two components (each accounting for 50% of the final grade): (1) class participation (including class attendance, contribution to...
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- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
low-income backgrounds. Anderson says their reading improved more than two grade levels over nine months, and they earned high school degree credits at twice the rate of typical high schoolers. Reset’s first residential program facility,...
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- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
predicted he wouldn’t graduate grade school, yet he graduated college with honors because my family focused on what he was capable of and believed in him. “With ArtLifting, our mission is to empower disadvantaged individuals through the...
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- 26 Oct 2017
- Research Event
In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?
media that seemed to come out of nowhere. As Carroll put it in his opening presentation, Facebook had “put military grade PSYOP [psychological operations] weapons in the hands of anyone.” Abuses of digital technology are tearing at...
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