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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Delivering HBS-style training for teachers
teachers. “Almost all NAATE participants report improved classroom practice, more impact outside the classroom with their peers and school leaders, and a renewed commitment to classroom teaching,” says Klemmer, whose observations of a... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
White knight in the rye
When Sotheby's recently auctioned off fourteen love letters that reclusive author J.D. Salinger had written 27 years ago to Joyce Maynard, his then college-age companion, many observers derided Maynard's decision to sell the letters,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Positive impact that hits home
religious heritage. Not least among these is the belief that “you can be a highly performing business executive and also be a very religious person,” observes Seck Mercier. “Those two things can go together without any issue.” She is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
Photo courtesy Jeff Madrick When I graduated from HBS in 1971, I chose journalism (at BusinessWeek) over business, a career decision that enabled me to observe “up close and personal” the coming Wall Street revolution. It was a revolution... View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
- News
Last Look - September 2009
was performed at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre for an audience of about 1,200 people on November 28, 1942, the evening of Boston’s deadly Cocoanut Grove fire.” George Hanford (MBA ’43 March) wrote, “I can’t help observing that they all look... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Dean Clark Addresses Journalists
HBS experience. As for the “barrel,” Clark observed that HBS and other business schools can also make important contributions by studying ways to design markets more effectively, reduce conflicts of interest, and build stronger governance... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Ideas
Web Extras Watch Professor Wasserman explain key insights from his book, Founders Dilemmas Listen to a webinar recording for alumni entrepreneurs Faculty Q&A with Professor Noam Wasserman When Noam Wasserman (MBA 1999) spent his MBA summer internship working for a VC... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Yurt Man
the skin-ripping heat.” Observed Zwern, “Every CO2 molecule out there came from a carbon atom somebody burned. With mirrors, lensing, and focusing, we can use the sun directly instead of in the form of ‘batteries’ like wood and coal that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Venture Capital, Post-Dot Bomb
At Cyberposium, a student-run technology conference held last November at the School, HBS professor Bill Sahlman sparked a frank discussion on the current climate for venture capital investing. “In the future, I see a median rate of return of zero or less,” Sahlman... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
The Mind Speaks, Marketers Listen
word — to grill them about their tastes, buying habits, and favorite brands — [Zaltman] seeks to converse directly with their brains instead,” the Times observed (February 23, 2002). The Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique (ZMET), the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Mandela in Triumph at Harvard
partnership between those of the North and the South in helping to shape a world order that answers to the shared and common needs of all peoples." Mandela, noting that many of his countrymen have benefited from Harvard and its programs, View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Learning to Speak the Language of Business
poses a barrier to the firm’s global ambitions. “There was a huge language barrier between the Tokyo office and our subsidiaries outside Japan,” he observes in a 2011 HBS case study on Rakuten. “One day the idea just struck me: ‘Why don’t... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
2006 MBAs Go to Work
$134,438 for the Class of 2005. Another uptick was measured in the number of graduates entering the financial services industry, with a shift from 36 percent to 42 percent. Kierstead observes that the Class of 2006 is the first to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Entrepreneurship Program in Fourth Year
globalizes, we need to give back, and pedagogy happens to be something we’re good at,” observes HBS professor Howard Stevenson, who cochaired the program with HBS senior lecturer Mike Roberts and professor Youngme Moon. Stevenson adds... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
All Aboard
management is essential, too. Another key is public support. “I think the public is way ahead of the politicians on this,” Gunn observed in the Toronto Star (July 7, 2002). “They drive, and they know what's happening out there. I think... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life
edited by Ted A. Adams "When you study the tire industry," HBS professor Richard S. Tedlow told a Class Day audience of graduating MBAs last June, "you are confronting the meaning of life." A distinguished authority on business history, Tedlow then went on to put that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Research Brief: Lessons from Last Place
the operational implications of that behavior for service providers. Buell’s research, which included observing the behaviors of people both in a physical line at the grocery store checkout and in virtual lines when asked to take an... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reflections on the “Artistry” of Teaching
are taken from various written accounts of Christensen’s observations about teaching. Truly effective classroom teaching is artistry, and I believe those artistic skills and techniques can be taught and learned. >>>> To me, the very first... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Feedback
June 2016 (Cover illustration by Victo Ngai) Our new podcast Not everything we learn as we’re assembling the Bulletin makes it into print. Our alumni interview subjects often have more to say—additional perspectives or personal View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Just Super
Moments after the New England Patriots upset the heavily favored St. Louis Rams 20-17 in Super Bowl XXXVI, Patriots owner Robert Kraft (MBA '65) thanked the team's fans "for helping us bring this championship home" and observed that "our... View Details