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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
others have zero case discussion experience. As an example, we had a discussion of medical ethics where I asked one of the physicians to role-play a doctor trying to convince a patient to enroll in a study. Not one of the fifteen... View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
the naming rights to the team’s Maryland stadium and, in 2003, FedEx’s CEO became a minority owner in the team. In protest of the shipping-services giant’s involvement with the football team, a group of impact investors—including the Oneida Trust View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Measured Approach
the Free Senior High School (FSHS) program, which made tuition-free high school available to all students. Before that, even government-run schools were cost-prohibitive for many families. So students enrolled in significant numbers when... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 27 Mar 2014
- News
From Marx to Marketing
Admissions, made the overseas connections that led to the admission of the first MBA students from the former USSR, four of whom enrolled in 1990. More would follow as Vlachoutsicos continued his travels to Central and Eastern Europe,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
students, some 80,000 teachers, and an annual budget of more than $12 billion. Bloomberg’s commitment to change helped convince Shannon D. Kete (MBA 2000) to make the leap from investment banking into the public sector last February. Kete, who had View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Terence P. Stewart
happens, lawyering didn't come first for Stewart. After graduating from HBS, he worked for several years in the business trenches, in marketing at J.C. Penney and later as product manager at Kroehler Manufacturing Co., a furniture manufacturer. In 1976, he View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence
Joseph L. Bower. Relatively new to her position as vice president and general manager of North Carolina/South Carolina Consumer Services at BellSouth Telecommunications, Gloria R. Cockerham enrolled in TGM last spring, because she wanted... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
C.D. Spangler, Jr.: A Leadership Role in Business and Academe
(UNC) tenure were his appointment of fifteen new chancellors and other university leaders; a systemwide enrollment increase of more than 27,000 students, to a total of 150,000 at the university's sixteen campuses; the near doubling of the... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; photo by Ann Hawthorne
- 16 Apr 2013
- News
A Walkabout to the Ocean
the air outside New York City's JFK airport and eventually hitchhiked across the country." Merkl fell in love with California and decided to stay. Enrolling at the University of California at Santa Cruz, he studied environmental science,... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
final exams, received a scholarship, and left for college." Parija attended BJB College, a state school with low fees, where he majored in economics and political science, graduating in 1974. He took a clerical job at a local Indian bank and View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
Industries for the Blind (NIB) in Alexandria, Virginia, a post he assumed in 1998, Gibbons is the first blind person ever to lead the 63-year-old agency. Previously, he had worked at AT&T, first in operations management and later in marketing, before View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey
and travels around the world, although writing was still on his mind, Barron enrolled at HBS intending to build a business of his own. After graduation, he took a job with Prospect Group, Inc., a New York City venture-capital firm,... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
School of Hard Knocks
Illustration by Richard Downs, Theispot.com When I was in sixth grade, I used to spend recess hiding under a truck in a garage at school. One of the few Caucasian students enrolled in what was my "neighborhood" school—on a Native American... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Doctoral Alumni Take Stage
about career opportunities.” The HBS Doctoral Programs enroll about 25 students each year out of roughly 800 applicants, an acceptance rate of approximately 4 percent. Some 130 students currently are working on doctoral degrees. View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Shaking Up the System
noted Sternberg. “The difference-makers here are the adults.” As a teacher, Sternberg felt that children’s education suffered from a dearth of strong school leadership, so he decided to enroll at HBS. “The core tenets of leadership that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Two Decades of Social Progress
research and teaching. More than 500 students have enrolled in social enterprise electives this year, and more than 300 are currently involved in the Social Enterprise Club—one of the largest clubs on campus. Alumni, too, continue to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
who spoke no English, and enrolled in a French lycée. It was a sign, perhaps, of things to come: a leap (albeit well-considered) into a strange, exciting environment where there was little under his control but no shortage of opportunity.... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
professor for a father and an enthusiastic community volunteer for a mother, Anderson recalls that talk at the family dinner table often revolved around social problems such as the exploding US prison population, and how to fix them. After graduating from high school... View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
- News
Educating the Whole Student
the typical school admits students at age five, The Primary School enrolls students as close to birth as possible. “We know the majority of brain development happens in the first few years of life,” Liu explains. In the future, she hopes... View Details
- 03 Feb 2023
- News
Immersive Field Courses Take the Classroom on the Road
As part of the HBS Elective Curriculum, MBA students can enroll in an Immersive Field Course (IFC). These courses are driven by faculty research and industry connections and provide students with an opportunity to get out of the classroom... View Details