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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
Achievement, the Model UN, the state math contest — if there was a competition, I would enter it.” Thus the youthful Howard became an early adventurer, an exchange student in the American Field Service’s first-ever overseas program.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
TUFANO: His new consumer finance elective is part of a broader effort to legitimize the field as an important area for research and teaching. Last spring HBS became the first top-ranked U.S. business school to offer a course in consumer... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Faculty Books
Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors edited by Rebecca M. Henderson and Richard G. Newell (University of Chicago Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research) Studies have suggested that significantly... View Details
Keywords: Utilities
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
(and Class Notes) stand as an ongoing testament that the connections formed at Soldiers Field won’t be broken by time or distance. Les Williams Williams Les Williams readily admits he’s a bundle of contradictions. There’s Williams the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Uhlmann Award Winners Focus on French Retailer
The winners of the 1996 R. Hugh Uhlmann Award for outstanding research in the field of agribusiness have a truly global perspective -- all three recipients are international students. For their prize-winning project, Peter Baeza... View Details
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
conversation with Coupounas immediately senses that she’s wide open to new ideas. These days, in fact, her Colorado-based activities are all about promoting new ideas. Coupounas is director of the first fully staffed field office of B... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right
consumers to open their wallets a little more? Yes, we believe so. In an 11-day field experiment, we designed a PWYW promotion for a pack of gum at a student café under two different scenarios. In the first, we set up a sign with a pair... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
every field of business endeavor. Their impact has been significant and broad-based: according to research by Associate Professor Amarnath V. Bhidé, more than one-third of HBS alumni currently manage their own firms twenty years after... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
group set its own record of sorts as the first set of MBA matriculants to enter the School in January as part of the new year-round MBA calendar. They were even setting records before they arrived at Soldiers Field as the first group to... View Details
- 24 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Beau D'Arcy (MBA 2010)
other person's shoes. Every case study that we read forced us to think about difficult business situations from the perspective of protagonists such as CEOs, engineers, accountants, and even celebrities or athletes. Before every meeting... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Supporting our Exceptional Faculty
practitioners. It was a particular honor for me to be named the George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business in 1998. Established 60 years ago, this chair helped launch agribusiness as a field of View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Books
think about these subjects. High Commitment, High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage by Michael Beer (Jossey-Bass) Drawing on many management studies and his work with senior managers, Professor... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Plunging Into the Net
coordinates elective field studies in information technology and has developed case modules on electronic commerce and emerging Internet-based business opportunities. Applegate has worked with a number of... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
physics to philosophy to math. But Wilson did meet Howard Raiffa, a renowned scholar in the field of game theory and decision analysis, and followed him to HBS. There, Wilson completed the obligatory MBA before going on to his doctoral... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
Reconstruction of Male Identity,” is based on a study she conducted while living among crew members on an offshore oil platform, 130 miles off the coast of southern Louisiana. “I interviewed men involved in all aspects of the platform’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
A Former Buyer Turns Designer
$900. Yaqub left an investment banking job in New York City in 2003 to attend HBS, where she unexpectedly changed her mind about returning to finance. “My favorite experience at HBS was the field study that... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
New Global Initiative Director Takes Broad Outlook
of staff for Tufts president John DiBiaggio and another five years coordinating one of the Fletcher School's academic programs with activities in Japan, China, Korea, Canada, and Russia. "Coming to the Global Initiative was a natural progression for me," says Ryan, who... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Faculty Updates
real estate in particular, Poorvu began teaching Real Property Asset Management and Field Studies in Real Property and writing cases at HBS in 1965. A former faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
The Well-Healed Athlete
to studying athletes of different ages, genders, and ethnicities to better understand the potential of the healthy human body and to improve knowledge of injury prevention and rehabilitation. The goal is to give people of all abilities... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
How did you come to focus on algorithmic pricing? In my doctoral work at MIT, I was studying optimization, probability, and machine learning, which are essentially mathematical tools that enable us to use data to make better decisions.... View Details