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- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
ideas about improvement opportunities. However, the hypothesized link between WalkRounds -based programs and performance has not been rigorously examined in a set of randomly selected hospitals. Objective: To fill this research gap, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Gifts Create Frist Financial Aid Fund
Expressing gratitude, Brit K. Dewey (MBA ’96), managing director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid, said the two gifts will allow the School to continue to innovate to meet student needs. “These gifts will help fund a new loan-assistance View Details
- Profile
Brandon Lovell
"I found myself hanging with not necessarily the right crowd," Brandon says. After graduating from high school and spending a couple years searching for a purpose, Brandon was introduced to Year Up, a nonprofit program founded... View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is
right number of machines and eliminate inefficiencies. Pilot programs by the company showed a huge amount of time lost, for example, while recalibrating CT machines between head and abdominal scans, each of which require very different... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Future Vision
about what we can do post-pandemic. We’ve already begun to experiment by inviting alumni to the hybrid classroom as participants in case discussions. Professor Karim Lakhani, for example, led a Short Intensive Program (SIP) last January... View Details
- 08 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students
experience for me. In college I studied computer science, and those classes usually don’t have much participation—just a lecture and individual exercises to complete. All of my previous schooling was in Israel, so I was used to a learning... View Details
- 14 Jun 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in East Asia
Starting last fall and continuing through the coming year, Dean Srikant Datar is traveling to meet with alumni around the world. On June 5 and 8, more than 300 alumni in East Asia gathered to celebrate and connect with each other at "An Evening with Dean Datar" events... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
A History of Women at HBS
for women was viewed as nothing short of radical. “A ‘Daring Experiment’: Harvard and Business Education for Women, 1937–1970,” tells the story of how coeducation at HBS evolved from an eleven-month certificate program in “personnel... View Details
- Web
Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
Courses on our course platform are designed to work on an internet-connected desktop or notebook computer running either the Chrome or Firefox browser. Tablet computers and smartphones are not supported for... View Details
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/316142-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 316-140 Rumie: Bringing Digital Education to the Underserved In fall of 2015, the Toronto, Canada–based education technology nonprofit Rumie had distributed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
are used as a modeling framework for such studies, this data inadequacy can manifest itself as imprecision in the elements of the transition matrix. In this paper, we study how to compute maximal and minimal values for the discounted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
Program and Executive Education. With physical distancing guidelines and international travel restrictions in effect, Executive Education pivoted to an all-virtual program portfolio from its traditional... View Details
- Web
Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Economics and Computation for “Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency in a Simple Labor Market” with Bobak Pakzad-Hurson. Ranjay Gulati : Finalist for the 2019... View Details
- 12 Jan 2023
- News
‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data
repaid in 98.2 percent of instances. “That’s an implied default rate of about 1.8 percent,” Ballard says. For comparison, one SBA loan program included in the data had a trailing 10-year default rate of 17.6 percent. “That’s pretty night... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 06 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
My HBS Student Loan Story: Gorick Ng (MBA 2018)
a sewing factory. I was 14 when she was laid off from her sewing machine factory job. Because I was proficient in English and had computer skills, I helped her to look for another job, which included searching online and writing resumes... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
problems that hold back the rest of their economy. The problem is, isolated zones for processing foreign inputs and exporting all these outputs are the antithesis of cluster development. Emerging nations must create programs and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Field remain strong. From 1994 to 1997, he headed the HBS Canadian Initiative, a program conceived by former HBS Dean John H. McArthur in part to enable a geographically and culturally diverse group of qualified Canadian students to... View Details
- Web
Charts & Statistics - Leadership
less than a day for the war effort Atomic bomb ENIAC computer Penicillin used extensively to treat soldiers' infections Synthetic rubberx Influence: High 50 1950 s 19 Television sales expand dramatically Transistors used in portable... View Details
- 05 Sep 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Making the Right Technical Hire
team forever. 3. Long-term need vs. short-term fix Another common mistake is hiring a full-time expert in an area that only needs occasional work—for example, performance engineering. Certainly, if you’re building a complex distributed application that has heavy View Details
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
neighborhood-development strategy of mixed-income housing, a cradle-to-college education pipeline, and community wellness programs that have helped to revitalize Atlanta’s troubled East Lake neighborhood. Funded by philanthropists,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg