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- 07 Sep 2011
- News
Lessons Learned from Skydeck
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Classroom Hijinks: Catchphrases, Mottos, Cheers, and Mascots
Let me sing the praises of the unknown genius who devised the system in which an MBA section is taught all its first-year courses in one classroom. According to A Delicate Experiment, Jeff Cruikshank’s history of the early years of HBS (p. 282), Dean Donham’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
which people can be encouraged toward healthier behaviors through the framing of choices. One approach that has proven effective in weight loss and smoking cessation has been leveraging “loss aversion,” even if that’s just the loss of a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
Christensen For the past several years, in his last class of the academic calendar, Professor Clay Christensen has made life after HBS the topic of discussion. Why is it, he asks, that despite considerable professional accomplishments, so many of his former HBS and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
What Happened to Leadership?
IMMELT: A prescription to fix failures at the top. Sgt. Vincent Fusco/Usma For a speech on “Reviving American Leadership,” General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt (MBA ’82) chose a discerning audience: the corps of cadets at the U.S. Military Academy. Citing the military as a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Noted & Quoted
“Some Democrats view Medicare as a successful cost controller, pointing to its low administrative overhead, which they peg at 3 percent. But that figure ignores an inconvenient truth: Medicare’s unfunded liabilities, estimated at about $34 trillion.” — Professor Regina... View Details
- 19 Jul 2013
- News
All in Good Time
Andrea Silbert Financial analyst. Grassroots organizer. Social entrepreneur. Candidate for political office. These are just a few of the titles held by Andrea Silbert (MBA 1991 / MPA 1992) over the years. Now president of the Boston-based Eos Foundation, a... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
Beginning in late January, the School's student clubs host a series of annual conferences that explore a wide variety of specialized business issues. Organized and staffed by hundreds of hardworking HBS student volunteers, the conferences bring in provocative speakers... View Details
- 03 Nov 2010
- News
He's Back to Baseball Cards
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
marketers can understand human behavior on a much deeper level and begin to use that knowledge to their advantage. Zaltman argues that marketers need to embrace a new paradigm that connects mind, body, brain, and society. Consider the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
addressing many of the complex issues related to business and the economy. One of Dean Nohria’s core aspirations is for the School to step up and be more engaged in policy and influencing behavior in the business community. This project... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
who has worked in London with United Technologies (in a department whose fifteen members represented seven countries) and in Paris with Bain, is currently in Moscow with BCG. “People are willing to adjust their behavior to facilitate... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Faculty Books
The CEO Within: Why Inside Outsiders Are the Key to Succession Planning by Joseph L. Bower (HBS Press) Professor Bower explains how companies can develop internal candidates for the CEO role by grooming “inside outsiders” — leaders with the perspective of someone who... View Details
- 02 Jun 2019
- News
A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy
and Prevention. “We spent the first year understanding the landscape around gun policy and research,” says Luca, whose research largely focuses on applying insights from behavioral economics to improve managerial and policy decisions. “We... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Moving Day 2012
Sandberg Photos by Russ Campbell (Commencement); Neal Hamberg (Class Day) As Dean Nitin Nohria told the audience on Baker Lawn on May 23, this year’s Class Day was an occasion for both celebration and mourning. Just days earlier, Nathan “Nate” Bihlmaier (MBA 2012) had... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
On February 1, 2016, a line of First Nations drummers in traditional regalia—elaborate headdresses, each cheek bearing two red streaks—entered from the rear of a packed hall at the University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology, and beat a slow, resonant path... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 10 Apr 2008
- News
The Sum of Our Own Greatness
As birthday parties go, this one was special. The faculty canceled classes, and the administrative staff collectively stepped away from their desks to join in daylong festivities marking the School’s 100th birthday on April 8. A big-top-style tent erected over the Shad... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
The Show Goes On
ACTION: HBS Show Director Kent Bennett at dress rehearsal for The Phantom of Baker Library. The 34th annual HBS Show, The Phantom of Baker Library, hit the stage in Burden in late April with a cast of fifty students and a support crew of some thirty more in writing,... View Details