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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Making Progress on Strategic Priorities
method courses, both immersive and extended, are offered during the second year of the program. HBS is extending its reach to new audiences through HBX, a unique online learning platform. CORe offers a primer on the fundamentals of business. HBX Courses cover critical... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
make a dramatic shift. “I wanted to put my experience to work being of service to the world,” he says. With a desire to build bridges between philanthropists and the social sector and to bring business skills to nonprofits, Tierney... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Fellowship Campaign Approaching Goal
Wien, advisory board member Laurene Sperling (MBA ’82) views fellowships as a way to ensure that students with broad interests come to the School. Having served on several nonprofit boards, she sees the need for leadership skills in a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Greater Than the Sum of its Parts
example of what results when people from throughout the Harvard community come together to pursue their ideas. "Five years ago people weren’t really talking about an interdisciplinary curriculum," says Joseph J. O’Donnell (AB 1967, MBA... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Pens Down
changes mark the end of an era for the traditional essay. To honor that era, we asked alumni in our Facebook and LinkedIn communities what they remembered about penning their pitches to MBA Admissions. "I recently found my application... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
more resources to hard-working families.” Do you do improv yourself? If you do, where can we see you perform? (Note: Pasquariello lists “improvisational comedy” as an interest on his LinkedIn profile.) “I took several improv comedy classes at Boston’s Improv Asylum—and... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
mitigation is the use of off-balance sheet project finance instead of traditional, on-balance sheet corporate finance. Consider, for instance, Iridium LLC, a $5.5 billion global satellite communications firm backed by Motorola that filed... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
aware that workers often underestimate their language capabilities. In many cases, testing and offering benchmarks can help calm anxieties, as could limiting meetings for low-confidence English speakers until their language skills... View Details
- 19 Jun 2019
- News
Connecting Patients and Providers
the average American hospital loses $80 million a year in neglected patient referrals and other processing inefficiencies. The solution, Jarzabek says, is Trustedoctor’s “E-Link”, a secure online platform which streamlines communication... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
of personality, coupled with the leadership of his successor, a former investment banker, extraordinary structural changes were made in the Seattle system. Nielsen retired from the school board in 2001 but remains active with a community... View Details
- 21 Mar 2019
- News
Helping Veterans Build Careers
designated more than $28 million to high-performing, nonprofit grantee partners across the United States and the United Kingdom, helping to place more than 50,000 vets in high-quality jobs since 2009. “But veterans often struggle to translate their time in the military... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977
Although Andrew Tisch might attribute the family’s philanthropic record to nature—“Being involved in the community has always been part of the family DNA,” he says—nurture has played a role as well. Tisch’s parents and aunt and uncle set... View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- News
The Pursuit of Impact
actually doing the job that they ran for. And you’ve got to remember, the skill sets to run for office have nothing do with the skill sets to do the job once you get there. “I'm not obsessed with numbers,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
stories embody what makes HBS such a remarkable community and hint at the potential contributions these talented young people will make as alumni. While we always enjoy talking to these students, we can’t say that selecting them is an... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Campaign Ends, Exceeds Expectations
also key to the Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning, which helps new and experienced faculty improve their teaching skills through one-on-one coaching sessions, seminars, and workshops. A Diversity of Voices About 75 percent of... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
It's an international celebration of sport and goodwill whose humble beginnings date back two millennia. Today, with the vastly expanded modern Games, putting on the Olympics has become as much of a test of management skill as athletic... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
“think different,” to borrow a slogan from Apple. And thinking differently leads them to act differently. From our research, consistent patterns emerged that led us to identify five primary discovery skills that underlie innovation:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
Math is where, historically, you see the biggest learning loss occur, and when those skills atrophy, it’s very hard to engage in the next level. Everything builds on the level before it. That’s true in other subjects as well—reading is... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Redesigning Schools for Today’s Learners
mindset and skills to find success over their lives. In this video, Childress explains the basis for these ideas. “The current way schools are designed and organized was really developed over a century ago. And so today, what we have are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
34,000 Pages and Counting
fleeting sense of community created by the experience. Upon graduation, he continued, we miss the togetherness of our campus years. “It’s the togetherness that people thrive on,” he said, providing the answer I was looking for. For HBS... View Details