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- 16 Mar 2018
- News
Douglas Spreng (MBA 1967)
surrounded by technology in other ways, he applied to business school. After four undergraduate years of problem sets and lab work, he found the class participation required by the HBS case method a bit... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Expanding Horizons
confidence that Nishant needed to help him launch his own firm after leaving a larger company. “The case method emphasizes practical learning, which prepared me for my role at Kedaara,” he says, noting that... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Jill Applebaum (MBA 2015)
months into working full time on Spruce & Co, so everything we are trying to do we are doing for the first time. In the HBS classroom, I learned the importance of having conviction in my decisions and charging ahead. The amazing thing about the HBS View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
creating a powerful learning environment via the case and field methods in our educational programs. We achieve it through a faculty that is close to practice, dedicated to teaching, and remarkable at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
FIELD 3 Tests Students
In an innovative complement to the case method of instruction, the entire Class of 2013 spent the 15-week Winter Term practicing what they were learning from their required courses as they worked in small... View Details
Keywords: FIELD program
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
stint at Ford Motor Company and with the network equipment provider Linkabit, he decided to enroll at HBS. "I wanted to get the best education, and I felt that Harvard was the best business school," Ranadivé states, citing the case View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
that presents a wide array of commitment decisions. He analyzes the match between case outcomes and model predications both qualitatively and quantitatively. The case method... View Details
- 13 Jun 2016
- News
Brenda Bence (MBA 1991)
Brenda Bence (MBA 1991) Harvard Business School was the only business school to which Brenda Bence (MBA 1991) applied for admission. “I wanted a learning process that was practical and pragmatic,” explains Bence. She liked that HBS used the View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Faculty Books
Jane Wei-Skillern, James E. Austin, Herman Leonard, and Howard Stevenson (Sage Publications) This book presents HBS research and cases about international and U.S. organizations in the nonprofit, for-profit, and government sectors. It... View Details
- 02 Jul 2008
- News
No Pulp Fiction Allowed
case method of instruction, contending that it teaches skills largely irrelevant to what managers actually do. Mintzberg devotes the second half of his book to a description of what works in management... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Getting Personal
HBS associate professor Youngme Moon teaches the MBA elective Consumer Marketing and several Executive Education marketing courses. With her research and course development work focusing on innovative consumer-marketing strategies, she is the author of numerous View Details
- 28 Jan 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovation
is the right time to act to take the Harvard Business School MBA program to the next level," Dean Nitin Nohria said of the curriculum changes. "HBS has always been a pioneer in the field of management education," he continued, most notably with the introduction of the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Class of 1975 in Review
business?" Of course, the case method provided ample opportunities for all of us to show our brilliance. I remember "expanding" on some of Walt Manley's comments in Earl Sasser's Management of Service... View Details
Keywords: J. Hans Stumm
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John R. Davis
and accounting for all 800 “cow units” (a standard measurement that in this case means about 1,175 actual cattle). Calving season calls for constant monitoring of the pregnant cows and helping them give birth — including stitching them up... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovations
is the right time to act to take the Harvard Business School MBA Program to the next level,” Dean Nitin Nohria said of the curriculum changes. “HBS has always been a pioneer in the field of management education,” he continued, most notably with the introduction of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
enterprise run out of cash.” Over the past three years it seems like a lot of people missed that lesson. Looking ahead several decades, do you think the case method of instruction will remain a firmly rooted... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Portraits from the Class of 2003
Scott St. Germain “When my children are asked, ‘So, what does your father do?’, I hope they will reply, ‘He’s the coach of my baseball team.’” Grew Up: Raynham, Massachusetts Why HBS: case method allows... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Ruling from the Bench
time. The decision was practical and personal: Her goal upon graduation was to land a well-paying job to support her fiancé through law school; once he’d completed his degree, it would be her turn to attend. The engagement ended, but Snyder does not regret her HBS... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Great Expectations
exercises — some of which were pioneered in our Executive Education programs — that were immersive, field-based, and action-oriented. Our goal was to complement the case method with a more field-based... View Details
- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Charter Supporter
when she enrolled at HBS, she found numerous role models at the School that helped her become a businessperson. “I highly value the HBS experience,” Burke says, “particularly the case method for learning,... View Details