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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Education: Investing in the Next Generation of Workers
for a successful educational experience in later years. And second, there is a new “culture of completion” in higher education, in which institutions are focusing on improving graduation rates for all students. Smart business leaders... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Evolving HBS Campus
The School’s unique residential campus continues to evolve to meet the needs of the HBS community. With support from the Campaign, the School has completed two new buildings and a third is expected to open in 2018. Tata Hall is now an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Faculty Learn Firsthand about Chinese Business
Related Links More faculty takeaways on the IXP Read about the Harvard Center Shanghai View upcoming executive programs in China Find HBS Alumni Clubs in China MBA students aren’t the only ones honing their global knowledge by traveling abroad. In June, a dozen HBS... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Comings and Goings
A snapshot of the MBA Program’s newest recruits reveals that this year’s incoming class — chosen from a pool of 7,140 applicants — represents a select, diverse group of individuals hailing from 67 countries around the world. As the new MBA candidates settled into life... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Books
Predictable Surprises by Max H. Bazerman and Michael D. Watkins Seeing What’s Next by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony, and Erik A. Roth The Keystone Advantage by Marco Iansiti and Roy Levien Confidence by Rosabeth Moss Kanter Innovation and Its Discontents by... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Checking In, Catching Up
Related Links Help plan the Class of 2011 reunion View photos from the Class of 2010 reunion More than 450 members of the MBA Class of 2010 and guests returned to campus in mid-May for the one-year reunion, a program now in its second year. Dean Nitin Nohria welcomed... View Details
- 2016
- Working Paper
Cohort Turnover and Operational Performance: The July Phenomenon in Teaching Hospitals
By: Hummy Song, Robert S. Huckman and Jason R. Barro
We consider the impact of cohort turnover—the planned simultaneous exit of a large number of experienced employees and a similarly sized entry of new workers—on operational performance in the context of teaching hospitals. Specifically, we examine the impact of the... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Operations; Hospitals; Productivity; Empirical Operations; Service Delivery; Training; Performance Productivity; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
Song, Hummy, Robert S. Huckman, and Jason R. Barro. "Cohort Turnover and Operational Performance: The July Phenomenon in Teaching Hospitals." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-039, September 2015. (Revised September 2016. Finalist, 2015 POMS College of Healthcare Operations Management Best Paper Competition.)
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Eyeing the Dominoes?
Is America ready for another Harvard MBA as president? As the final years of the George W. Bush (MBA ’75) presidency wind down, there seems to be no lack of potential candidates eager to replace him. In the event that the Democrats and Republicans choose candidates... View Details
- 02 Jul 2008
- News
No Pulp Fiction Allowed
With vacation season upon us, it's time to consider what good read to pack before heading out to your favorite beach or resort. I have the perfect antidote for all those mindless pulp fiction novels that fly off the shelves this time of year: two books on what's wrong... View Details
- 18 Jul 2012
- News
Modernizing the HBS Experience
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Henry M. Paulson Jr., MBA 1970
Nature Conservancy. He and his wife, Wendy, have worked tirelessly to protect natural resources around the world, and the Paulson family foundation supports numerous environmental and educational causes. Now... View Details
- 11 Oct 2019
- News
Balancing Act
listening to their concerns. The response she received at Princeton Review and at PresenceLearning was overwhelmingly positive. Most of the staff at PresenceLearning, as in much of the education sector, already consisted of women, and... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Research Brief: Ending the Legacy of Poverty
provide direct engagement in skills development, support parents on the cusp, and mentor first-generation college students. The dividends of those investments, Kominers says, could be passed down to successive generations. View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Reconsidering Retirement
ins-and-outs of retirement savings, creating more than 70 videos on the basics of investing, and lobbying for regulatory changes that would benefit consumers. Puritz testified before the United States Senate in support of an Obama-era... View Details
- January 2021 (Revised March 2021)
- Supplement
Juno (B): Leveraging Student Power
By: Joshua Schwartzstein, Kathleen L. McGinn and Amy Klopfenstein
In March 2020, Juno co-founders Chris Abkarians and Nikhil Agarwal decided to pitch banks in anticipation of their annual auction while negotiating directly with private lender Eager. Responses from the majority of private lenders—including Juno’s 2019 partner—were not... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Cost vs Benefits; Judgments; Education; Higher Education; Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Strategy; Adaptation; Alignment; Negotiation; Negotiation Deal; Negotiation Offer; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Types; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; North and Central America; United States; Massachusetts; Boston
Schwartzstein, Joshua, Kathleen L. McGinn, and Amy Klopfenstein. "Juno (B): Leveraging Student Power." Harvard Business School Supplement 921-033, January 2021. (Revised March 2021.)
- 10 Feb 2016
- News
Helping Young African MBAs Go Home
As a student member of the Africa Business Club, Tomiwa Igun (MBA 2012) learned how companies on the continent are struggling to find experienced managers to lead their organizations—and also how many young Africans are leaving their homeland for business View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
IXP 2009
Now in its third year, the Immersion Experience Program offered nine topics and destinations to students in 2009 (see complete list below), six in 2008, and three in 2007. “Faculty involved in the IXP consistently come back excited about the View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Big Turnout for Business Plan Contest
The dream of starting their own business inspired 110 teams of students to enter the 2010 HBS Business Plan Contest, which awarded $170,000 in cash and in-kind services to winners and runners-up in separate business venture and social... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Social Enterprise Initiative Marks 20th Anniversary
through class reunion and individual gifts are among a growing portfolio of offerings that further extend the SEI's impact. The MBA Class of 1973, for instance, supports activities ranging from summer fellow- ships for MBAs to Executive... View Details
Keywords: SEI