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- 21 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
MBA/MPA-ID: The Intersection of Policy and Business
method sat on the opposite side of the pedagogical spectrum that I had experienced in my academic life, and I really didn’t know what to expect. My first year had provided a comfortable landing with the joint degree cohort, where I had... View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
quantity. Overall, athletic success has a significant long-term goodwill effect on future applications and quality. However, students with lower than average SAT scores tend to have a stronger preference for athletic success, while... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Whitney Wilson
could have more impact. What I’m trying to figure out at business school is where to make that impact.” “One of the main reasons I chose HBS is the case method. I sat in on a class and was just really impressed by the diversity of... View Details
- 06 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
The MS/MBA Technology Showcase: A Celebration of Our Startups
engineer. As a software engineer, I prioritized spending time on mentoring friends or peers in my network on how to break into tech. I even brought my learnings to the stage of major tech conferences like Grace Hopper Celebration and Women of Silicon Valley. But as I... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
In Pursuit of Academia
later informed her doctoral research in the School’s Organizational Behavior program. “I sat in one of the seats closest to the blackboards. I had a perfect view of the whole section,” recalls Fernandes. From there she saw a hierarchy... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
The Nature of Change
Before this year’s class of MBAs departed Soldiers Field, they sat down one more time and prepared for a ritual now in its fourth year. For this “Cap-stone Class,” all graduating students read an annually updated case that compares data... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Fulfilling Their Promise
her original dreams of mentorship through book clubs, discussion groups, and adventure clubs, but Girls Group also offers an intensive college prep program that includes college tours, SAT and ACT prep courses, and scholarship... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- News
Raising a Glass to Life-Long Entrepreneurship
Courtesy of Flatiron Books Courtesy of Flatiron Books When Jim Koch (JD/MBA 1978) sat down to write Quench Your Own Thirst, published this month, he realized he had told these stories many times before—usually over a beer, preferably a... View Details
- 04 May 2011
- News
Recipes from the COC (Chief Operating Cook)
A spicy chickpea dish © Kirti Poddar on Flickr When Dean Nitin Nohria sat down for an interview with us last September, we asked: "What do you like to do for fun?" His answer: "I love to cook. I'm vegetarian, and I cook Indian and Italian... View Details
- 13 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
"I Wanted to Move from Analyzing Results to Creating Them": Cynthia Samanian, MBA 2012
passion she'd had since childhood: food. "We always sat together at the table for dinner," she says. In her adulthood, "I used cooking to recreate that warmth and connect with friends." Although "going to culinary... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
contributed to the case discussion, their name was x'ed out. If you got "Bingo," you let the section know by incorporating a nonsense pre-arranged phrase into your verbal contribution, e.g. “This case reminds me of when Humpty Dumpty sat... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The New “In” Crowd
Student Interest in Social Enterprise Is on the Rise As I sat in Burden Auditorium on a dreary Sunday back in March, surrounded by upwards of 1,100 students, I wondered whether I was witness to the arrival of a new zeitgeist. The occasion... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Zanzibar: Something for Everyone
unripe peach. Covered in a bright, red, stringy substance that turns out to be mace, the nutmeg seed is dried and ground to form the familiar spice. At the conclusion of the tour, we sat on benches and tasted a variety of just-picked... View Details
- 29 Jul 2008
- News
An Educational Start-Up
Teachers” (with Professor Tom DeLong, and the session that I sat in on, “Finding Great Cases.” The case in question was Sahlman’s “Dr. John’s Products, Ltd.”, the story of serial entrepreneur John Osher and his quest to invent,... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
You can get anyone who has children who need help, right now, it’s 13 years and over, but there’s math, science, and SAT help. Live tutoring. You can get on particular subjects. You can join a cohort that meets regularly. And we now in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- What Do You Think?
To Whom Should Boards be Accountable?
approach to the dilemma. "Several years ago ... as a board we sat and discussed this very issue... [and decided that] the board should be prepared to sell to a lower bidder ... But the discount should be set by a third party [group... View Details
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- 05 Jun 2015
- Blog Post
The HBS Investment
seemed a nuisance at best, a career limiting move at worst. So why did I attend then? This summer, I had the privilege of working in Berlin and sat as a panelist for prospective students in Germany who were thinking about applying to HBS.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Tracking a Turnaround
Levy, who accepted the position in January 2002. “He said, ‘We don’t care. It will be a good case study either way.’” “I wanted to get the unvarnished story as it unfolded in real time,” says Garvin, noting that he and his coauthor, Assistant Professor Michael Roberto,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Turning Point: Sparking Change
Loyola University Chicago. I arrived early and sat in the empty classroom, reflecting on the fact that this was my chance to introduce the students to my passion—to get them excited about marketing as an art as well as a science. My... View Details
- 26 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
From Product Development to Business School
I sat there silently screaming. Eyes flitting across the room at the faces sitting around the table gathered for a Brita leadership team meeting. They couldn’t possibly do it, I thought to myself, clutching my 3D-printed prototype like a... View Details