Filter Results
:
(2,110)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(14,171)
- People (57)
- News (2,110)
- Research (9,162)
- Events (19)
- Multimedia (360)
- Faculty Publications (7,512)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(14,171)
- People (57)
- News (2,110)
- Research (9,162)
- Events (19)
- Multimedia (360)
- Faculty Publications (7,512)
Sort by
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
States to provide affordable housing. Song knew of Habitat before coming to HBS, but didn’t fully understand the organization’s model until it was the focus of a case discussion. “I always thought that Habitat was just building homes and...
View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Action Plan: Role-Play
her. In one instance, Carson suspected the woman in charge of payroll might turn out to be a separate problem from the case she’d been hired to investigate. “I watched her,” Carson says. “She never did any work.” And voila: The do-nothing...
View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Barreling Ahead
being the case with the craft beer revolution? —Roger Ellis (MBA 1967) BUECHLER: The next 10 years are going to be interesting. In the short term, expect both the production side and the support side to continue to do well. Tank...
View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
instead of getting spread too thin and possibly losing quality control,” he says. “Similar to the HBS case study method, in life it’s hard to achieve a goal that’s so big, by yourself. Consequently, by bringing people together with...
View Details
Keywords:
Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)
first entered the Olympics competition in 1996. A frequent speaker on finance, investment, and General Patton, Stillman is president of R.J. Stillman Company, his writing and publishing operation. HBS was a memorable experience for me, in particular because of the...
View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
HBS Expands Global Presence
an academic institution, and a business school in particular, is to be at a state-of-the-art level in research and case writing," notes Dessain, who visited the HBS campus in November. "In order to achieve that level of excellence, it's...
View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
administrative challenge. The railroad at the heart of the legal proceedings had been pieced together through more than 7,000 separate acquisitions. The bankruptcy judge told McArthur that the average railroad reorganization up to that point had taken 23 years, that...
View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
outcome. But it’s not going to happen in this one.” Two cases authored by HBS professor David Yoffie and taught in the elective course Strategy and Technology track E Ink’s evolution and highlight some of the challenges it has faced over...
View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
help get us—whether as a school district, county, state, country—where we need to be.” At Treasury, Cognetti staffed meetings between high-level officials and European foreign ministers. Coming into HBS, she wasn’t afraid to speak her mind. But the View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
include whether high-performance Asian companies can provide a business model for success in the region, the role of accounting infrastructure in transitional economies, restructuring diversified businesses in emerging markets, and exploring the Asian management...
View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
from his study group and from Recordings for the Blind, which made audiotapes of all his cases and other required texts. He became the first blind person to graduate from HBS. “The Business School was awesome, from the Dean down to my...
View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
minority college juniors and seniors to general management issues through the case method and encourages them to consider careers in business. A Saturday morning packed with sessions covered topics ranging from consolidation in the media...
View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Preparing Global Leaders
Kim Wahl (MBA 1987) Kim Wahl (MBA 1987) credits the case method with providing training that has helped him address difficult and unexpected business challenges. “The two years that I spent at HBS shaped me intellectually and provided me...
View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
true in the work I do in Sri Lanka, is that the technical solution is easy,” he reflects. “It’s navigating the human side that’s much harder—that’s what I found in my LEAD cases at HBS. There’s never an A, B, C sequence that you can put...
View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Powered by the HBS Fund
alumni.hbs.edu/facultyresearch to watch: Professor Jan Rivkin talk about his passion for case writing and the origin of his case on LEGO’s return from bankruptcy. Associate Professor Raffaella Sadun discuss...
View Details
- 25 Jul 2024
- News
Mentorship Program in Singapore is Still Lighting the Way to Success
enhance its impact. Furman and Tan say the biggest management lesson has been the realization that “less is more,” and that in most cases it’s far better for the central steering committee to take a hands-off approach. “The main role of...
View Details
Keywords:
Margie Kelley
- 23 Sep 2021
- News
Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies
Co-lead Carol Barnett (MBA 1990), Founder of the Creek School, LLC and director of operations for Medline Industries, LP, says the program signed its first client—a hybrid tech incubator and downtown revitalization real estate developer in Jackson, Mississippi—in July....
View Details
Keywords:
Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
to the case method of separating the wheat from the chaff.) Nixon led McGovern in our Presidential class poll, the reverse of '73's, probably because fully 38 percent of our class were veterans. Thanks to Professor John Kotter, there's no...
View Details
Keywords:
Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Early Impact
field method—a powerful complement to the case method—to give students opportunities to develop the "doing" and "being" dimensions of leadership. Just as the yearlong required FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development)...
View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Karen Tumulty Reports on America
perhaps the most prestigious bad job in journalism." At HBS, Tumulty discovered that "the case method is the best kind of training in the mental discipline that a journalist needs, especially for covering politics, which is really all...
View Details