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- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
radio spots 23,000, TV spots, and 588 billboards. And the goal of that campaign was for 80% of those teens to be exposed one of those ads five times a week. Well, you do that for you know 62 weeks and you've done some pretty heavy... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
GMAT Added to Admissions Criteria
Professor Steven C. Wheelwright, chair of the MBA Program, provides some background on the School's decision. It's been eleven years since HBS dropped the GMAT requirement. What developments have led to this policy change? There are a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Rethinking the MBA
were a time for institutions to reconsider their goals and direction, it is now. There is, for example, a growing social perception that the MBA degree needs to do more around the roles and responsibilities of business and business... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Classroom Lessons Put Into Practice Abroad
discovered while doing fieldwork in São Paulo, Brazil, in some countries, proximity to one’s neighborhood can be a more influential factor when deciding where to shop. During FIELD 2, part of the Required Curriculum course Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Celebrating HBS
considerable risk.” Clark noted that the School is in a period of equally significant change, which calls for “courage and investment to create the Harvard Business School of the future.” As of this writing, The Campaign for Harvard Business School has raised more than... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
doctors at least two weeks to sift through these mutations, searching for the ones that were diagnostically significant. But Watson was able to highlight within moments which mutated genes had likely developed into cancer. Based on... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
thinking about Mars as a way for NASA to show that we still have it.” (courtesy Lewis Braxton III) The agency is currently developing the necessary capabilities to send astronauts to an asteroid by 2025—sort of a trial run—and to Mars in... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
the Racial Equity Plan (REP), which was developed last summer by members of the Dean’s Anti-Racism Task Force and launched in September. “There always have been people dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion at HBS, and the new... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
coincided with both the rise of the home computer, marketed mainly as a toy for boys, and the rise of the male tech geek. This stereotype of a so-called brogrammer played an important role in the development of the now male-dominated tech... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovations
With overwhelming support, the HBS faculty in mid-January approved the most significant changes to the MBA Program in decades, affecting both the Required and the Elective curricula. Beginning next fall, first-year students will take a yearlong Field Immersion... View Details
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985
Jorge Paulo Lemann, Carlos Sicupira, and Marcel Telles have been primary figures in Brazil’s economic development for more than 30 years. The three friends and business partners have much in common: remarkable business acumen, a strong... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
much of her first post-HBS year managing the pilot. Resolving Crisis Situations Mendu and other members of the partnership developed a three-part initiative informed by the best practices they gathered from local stakeholders and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
another Midwest wind developer as much as it needed someone who could figure out the transmission problem.” The scope of the challenge becomes clear in Skelly’s description of Clean Line’s $2.5 billion Plains & Eastern Project, which will... View Details
- 09 May 2013
- News
Road Trip
and Amaris Singer (all HBS 2014). As Gerald explains: "With globalization, there's been a lot of attention paid to what's happening overseas, and rightly so. But our goal is to help MBAs better understand the challenges of being an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
@Soldiers Field
Photo courtesy of Harvard Business School Former Baker Scholar and Bain consultant Chad Losee (MBA 2013) succeeded Dee Leopold (MBA 1980) as managing director of MBA admissions and financial aid in March. “My goal as Dee’s successor,”... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
Course descriptions by Elaine Gottlieb, Judith A. Ross, and John Simon (sidebars by Elaine Gottlieb) Whether they come to HBS with a business plan in mind or become entrepreneurially inclined later in their careers, students who take HBS elective courses in... View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
In Harmony
After an unsatisfying stint as a consultant at Strategic Planning Associates in Washington, DC, Mark Weinstein (MBA 1981) developed a new strategic plan for his life with the goal of finding a job at the... View Details
- 29 Nov 2017
- News
Inbox: From Das’s Desk
opportunities that include judging the New Venture Competition and working on a Community Partners team. Our task is to make ourselves and the School more relevant in your lives. We can achieve this goal most completely when you join us.... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
financial terms.” Obremskey’s firm, RHIA, on the other hand, is a social impact fund focusing on reproductive health to improve maternal care and combat rising maternal mortality in the U.S. Avestria invested with RHIA to develop a fetal... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
Boston Green Ribbon Commission, a group of business, institutional, and civic leaders developing strategies to fight climate change and meet Mayor Marty Walsh’s 2050 carbon-neutrality goal. However, McCarthy added, “the city is slow to... View Details