curriculum - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Jul 2018
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Running the Numbers

laughs. “I had to do everything—from creating a curriculum to hiring people to marketing the clinic to unlocking the doors on Saturday mornings.” The clinic inspired more than a few promising athletes to keep playing into their college... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

17 Aug 2015
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The Play Alchemist

energy-generating products to teach about science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM); inspire invention with limited resources; and encourage students to see life as a game that can be won regardless of age, religion, race, or gender. The products and View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

17 May 2018
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Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs

in New York, working with inner-city at-risk youth. He saw a presentation by then-NFTE president Steve Mariotti and was impressed by the organization’s practical curriculum for teaching entrepreneurship. Bhargava and his wife, Aruna, a... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Mar 2008
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Classroom Legend

HBS curriculum since the School’s inception, but the quality of case-method instruction was sometimes variable. Christensen’s charge, as he modestly described what was to become a ten-year undertaking, was “to observe, abstract, and... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Roland Christensen; George Albert Smith; Fritz J. Roethlisberger; Richard Meriam; Edmund P. Learned; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management

01 Jun 2004
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New MBA Leadership Course

values, and corporate accountability. In early 2003, Dean Kim B. Clark appointed the interdisciplinary group of senior faculty members to the design team. Meeting weekly to hash out their ideas, the group worked together closely to create a framework for the new... View Details

Keywords: HBS; LCA; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

05 Aug 2016
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Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier

program for neuroscience entrepreneurs. The company has assembled a core staff and a roster of more than 140 mentors who are experts in its four areas of focus—product development, operations, clinical and regulatory affairs, and business development. The View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 May 2015
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Celebrating and Supporting Leadership

create an inclusive environment where the world's best talent can thrive and be inspired to do their best work in support of the School's mission. Integration—Pursuing opportunities to encourage and support research and curriculum... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

01 Sep 2014
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Groundwork

recently announced Klarman Hall convening center are key elements of an ambitious campus master planning effort—one driven by practical, strategic goals developed to support curriculum innovations. “One of the things that makes this a... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; George F. Baker III; real estate; Tata Hall; Educational Services; Real Estate

01 Sep 2006
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Light Years Ahead

MBA curricula. Do you foresee any changes here at HBS? We are always evaluating the MBA curriculum and looking for ways to innovate. In recent years, for example, we’ve launched three new courses — Finance II, The Entrepreneurial Manager,... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Jun 2011
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A Growing Drumbeat

professor Bill Sahlman recalls that there were only 4 faculty members devoted to entrepreneurship when he introduced the elective Entrepreneurial Finance in 1985. “Now we have 35. The Entrepreneurial Manager became part of the MBA Required View Details

Keywords: Contests

01 Jun 2009
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Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support

new social ventures. “The MBA curriculum provides students with a variety of learning opportunities that prepare them for roles in social enterprise,” says HBS professor Bill Sahlman, a faculty cochair of the new program. “Now, with the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

29 Jul 2008
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An Educational Start-Up

that focuses on curriculum development and on the case method as a means of teaching students about entrepreneurship. Now in its fourth year, the EECPCL is sponsored in part by Bert Twaalfhoven (MBA ’54), president and founder of the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Dec 2022
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Contributing to a Better Future

Curriculum that focus our students’ attention on the role that business can, and perhaps should, play in addressing societal challenges. Some of this material is already in the MBA Program—and in the Elective View Details

Keywords: April White

29 Apr 2016
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The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)

progress. When thinking about our strategy and how to communicate it to teammates, I walk myself through the list of each class in the RC first-semester curriculum as a sort of outline/checklist. It’s an organized way to think about how... View Details

01 Dec 2003
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Business Answers the Call

Harvard grad student Jon Schnur. All currently serve as NLNS executives, with Burns spending the last three years as president and chief curriculum officer. To date, the organization has recruited, trained, and supported one hundred... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Mar 2009
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Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems

enterprise. Its fifteen core faculty members intend for the ALI’s innovative new curriculum — “life-stage appropriate and taking experience into account,” as Kanter put it — to serve as a model for other colleges and universities to give... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2002
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Bad Times for Business

organization. A Role for HBS Palepu: Is there anything in the curriculum or classroom we can do that might enhance some of the changes we've talked about? Lorsch: I think we can teach students more about what we mean by professional... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2013
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Commitment to Leadership

At its core, HBS is committed to educating leaders who make a difference in the world. In the early 1990s, I had the privilege of leading the development of an MBA course on leadership which was introduced into the required curriculum... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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From the Editors

have created an enduring record of the School's intellectual engagement in historic events. In their regular reports on social gatherings, curriculum developments, building dedications, and retirements, they have also helped to foster a... View Details