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- 12 Sep 2019
- News
Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Today's episode of Skydeck features alumni weighing in on where and when they do their best thinking. The podcast team collected these thoughts during Spring Reunions this year and several... 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
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
fortunate. On the first day when I sat down, I don’t know whether study groups are still basic to your success at business school, but I thought, will I ever have a study group? And this wonderful guy who 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
- 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
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
Last winter, a senior admissions officer at Claremont McKenna College resigned, after admitting to inflating reported SAT scores of the incoming class for six years and sending the falsified reports to U.S. News and World Report. “It's... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
economic growth, which identified the tech sector as an area of potential growth. The key factor in attracting technology companies would be the strength of the talent pipeline, VEDP determined. The near-final draft of the comprehensive plan that View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ink
Future-proof Handling his first consulting job after years of experience in accounting and academics, Vijay “VG” Govindarajan (MBA 1976, DBA 1978) sat down to sketch out a strategy for his client. Literally written on the back of an... View Details
- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
complicated than we typically think,” she says. Huang arrived at that conclusion after interviews and observations of more than 100 angel investors over the course of the past decade. She also conducted dozens of interviews with the entrepreneurs they funded; 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 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
quantity of shrimp deveiners and clam knives from Ekco, which makes high-end kitchen implements. I grew up on the East Coast, and I knew these items were useful and a great value for a buck. But they sat on the shelves for many years. I... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 1/5
Break, Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative addressed the Class of 2021 in Klarman Hall and spoke, in vivid language, about the importance of proximity. For those of you who elected not to attend the talk, who sat on your... View Details
- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
think the data exists." (In these instances, I came up with estimates and went on with the necessary calculations.) I wasn't surprised. How many of us have sat in on board meetings where the analysis of historical financial data went... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Jan 2018
- Blog Post
HBS Global Opportunity Fellowship: Making a Difference in Africa
returned to Kenya for his summer MBA internship and then again after graduating to continue his career. We sat down with Karibu to discuss his experience with the changing landscape in Africa, the growing economy, and the impact that the... View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
throughout Latin America for GTECH, a Rhode Island–based firm, but when the company expanded into casino gaming and wanted Dyson to manage the portfolio, it was finally too much. He was already spending 80 percent of his time traveling abroad, and his three kids were... View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
computers loaded with out-of-date information sat amid rows of overflowing filing cabinets. "Our most fundamental problem was that we didn't have accurate, up-to-date taxpayer records," he says. "We were like a bank that couldn't tell you... View Details
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
had sat hidden in a repository called Hanslope Park, 10 miles south of Northampton. (Known colloquially as spook central, it’s the real-life version of the fictionalized intelligence branch in James Bond films, where the government keeps... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior
pencil-and-paper maze to each student, in which the goal was to help a trapped cartoon mouse find its way out. In some mazes, a picture of a piece of cheese sat outside the exit, next to a hole in the wall where the mouse could escape.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Web
Smaller Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
Karsh traveled to Harvard Business School to photograph prominent faculty members. Karsh did extensive research on each professor before he met and photographed them and even sat in the classroom to get a better feel for his subjects. He... View Details
- 08 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year
This study may have been more difficult to conduct if the authors were reliant on government grant funding, as is the case in many public health and medical schools. “We’re encouraged to study problems we think are important to address,” Luca explains. “So when we... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman