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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Inside MBA Admissions
diverse: 35 percent are female, 33 percent are international representing 73 countries, and 21 percent are minorities. The median age is 27. Such diversity is essential to prepare MBAs to live and work in a global economy, Dewey explains.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Steven C. Watson
things.” Until he adjusted to the daily grind of preparing lesson plans and correcting tests and homework, Watson regularly found himself logging ninety-hour workweeks — after taking a 90 percent pay cut from the consulting job he held... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
invests in programs that merge education with workforce development and help low-income youth prepare for sustainable, productive careers. After starting at HBS in 2011, Anderson interned at Next Street, a Roxbury-based merchant bank that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
For the next eighty minutes Mr. Brown and his classmates are badgered, cajoled, and dazzled as the man guides them to a different, deeper way of looking at the issues. Dazed, they stumble out of the classroom determined to prepare better... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
directly to the auditory nerve. Sommer, who with her deaf husband, Paul, also mentors hearing-impaired children, was preparing to enroll at HBS when, in March 2004, she suddenly lost the remainder of her hearing. Tests revealed congenital... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
Tennessee and Florida to create dedicated funds for high-performing charters. In Tennessee, CSGF partnered with the Tennessee Charter School Incubator, where fellow HBS alum Greg Thompson is preparing to launch 20 charter schools.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
consumption being wrapped up in our personal lives and experiences with others,” observes Professor Koehn. “Great brands are all about psychology, not only mass advertising or a neat logo.” A Viking range, for example, could represent meaningful time spent View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
appropriate federal forms, which can sometimes exceed 600 pages, and independent immigration attorneys review the applications to ensure all the necessary supporting documents are included. The company tracks the application through processing, helps the client View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
The Businesslike Gourmet: Karen Page on America's Foodservice Industry
ten careers for the 1990s, with 50,000 to 85,000 new chefs needed annually. What's behind this boom? A big factor has been women entering the work force; they don't have as much time for shopping and cooking. Today, that traditional nurturing role of women - View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship
biology and chemistry to prepare for a career related to helping the environment. An introductory course in economics changed all that. "I realized that economic issues drove many of the decisions companies made regarding environmentalism... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Long and Winding Road
Eastern Business School prepare us for this long and winding road? Perhaps nothing could have. But HBS gave us tools for coping with challenges and encouraged us to stretch our minds, practice collaboration and cooperation, develop... View Details
Keywords: Wayne R. Vibert (MBA 1973)
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Heroines and Helping Hands
home, prepared to commit suicide, as most Pakistani peasant girls would do in that situation. Her parents, however, wouldn’t allow it. Mukhtar’s humiliation turned to rage, and she reported the rape to the police. It was such an unusual... View Details
- 01 Jul 2013
- News
The Nature of Business
their input as we refined our new conservation framework. Those conversations made a big difference in strengthening the plan and building the support to implement it." Given that TNC was his first CEO role, Tercek said HBS prepared him... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Corruption 101
crisis is identifying a real issue or just seeking a payoff (it has a reputation for the latter). It's clearly a quandary for Jim's employer, but withdrawing investment at the 11th hour would also put many poor farmers' livelihoods in jeopardy. Like many case studies... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
explored questions like “How can business, government, and nonprofit leaders come together to mitigate the effects of worker displacement? How should entrants to the workforce best prepare themselves?” Leaders from the City of San... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
of employees and what will help build a cohesive organization with a single set of ethical standards going forward." Be Prepared In management ranks, Professor Michael Beer, an expert in organizational effectiveness and change, has too... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
depends on a broad base of economic activity, including manufacturing. Whatever the future holds for manufacturing, alumni interviewed for this article agree that in a business that demands continuous innovation and improvement, change will be one of the few constants.... View Details
- 16 Jan 2014
- News
Learning from Helping Others
with local public and private schools, enabling students to volunteer at All Souls on a regular basis. Young school children set tables and make centerpieces while older ones prepare food and wait on guests. "Students come away from the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges
HBS professor Dwight B. Crane. Crane's research, prepared in partnership with Ulrike Schaede of the University of California, San Diego, chronicled the evolution of German business from a banking-led corporate finance environment toward a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors
School over the course of 2004. I am pleased to share our plans and our progress to date. Let me begin by reporting that the Global Leadership Forum Committee, with direction from its new chairman, Jean-Marc Daillance (MBA 1984), is continuing to focus on View Details