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- 01 Jun 2013
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Education Innovation
CHILDRESS (MBA 2000) Illustration by Peter Hoey Related Links 5 Bright Ideas Charter Revolution Redux Lesson Plans Minding the Gap In an article for Harvard Business Review last year, former HBS lecturer Stacey Childress (MBA 2000)... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
From Das’s Desk
whenever you need us. With that in mind, we are piloting some new programs to make the learning and the connecting that happens at reunions more relevant and lasting. At the spring reunions, we’re offering Pathbreakers sessions, where associate professors—our next... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds
of Cambridge and Boston, approaching any independent business owner who might have a business problem the “nerds” could help them address. They also convinced Professor Lynda M. Applegate to allow them to pitch the idea to her Executive... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
the foundation of HBS’s entrepreneurial management program. Since then, students interested in developing their own for-profit or nonprofit startups have come to the School to gain the skills, insight, and practical experience necessary to turn great View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Clubs Hopping
in the midst of a digital revolution, Sandy Carter (MBA 1989) told attendees of the HBS Healthcare Alumni Association’s annual conference during the November gathering in Cambridge. Carter, IBM’s general manager for ecosystem development... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
perspective, he says the 2008 crisis can be seen through the lenses of bad beliefs and bad incentives—the latter being the idea that there was a common understanding of risk in the financial system, but people were motivated to ignore the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
Citizen Year — SEF 2009 honoree Global Citizen Year is disrupting the traditional path to college and creating a new generation of global leaders through a "bridge" year of service learning and leadership training in Africa, Latin... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia
wreaked by Pol Pot and his followers (the Khmer Rouge regime killed nearly 2 million Cambodians), the next generation was building a new society. Their idealism and their hopes were palpable, and their enthusiasm was contagious. I wanted... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Clubs Offer Popular Management Programs
HBS management training without a trip to Boston to get it. The Charlotte club is the second to offer a management course. The HBS Club of Buffalo pioneered the idea in 1951 when it developed a case-based management course for local... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Reemerging Technologies
industries have in common? When an industry faces a shock, it can attempt to compete directly with the new technology or retreat into a niche. However, some technologies are well suited for a third strategy, one that’s anchored on the View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
of academic research programs and initiatives. For example, we launched an open and global "ideas challenge" to generate research topics around type 1 diabetes, with $30,000 in awards. Winning ideas came... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
system generates such unequal access to opportunities for people, which leads to dysfunctions in the system and lack of meritocracy. I asked myself why this is happening and looked into the idea that we’re... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 29 Feb 2016
- News
How Joe Shoen Got U-Haul Back on Track
prints out a P&L statement and asks the manager what Shoen can do to make the business better. He jots down ideas on a pad, then snaps a photo of his notes with his phone to text to his assistant, who then often turns it into a memo to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
HBS's Unique Economic Model
potential. While the endowment largely comprises restricted funds that likely will generate only modest returns in the next decade, gifts to the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation (formerly known as the Dean's Fund) can be used in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
To Market, to Market
and other tasks necessary to determine the best route for product commercialization. "By increasing the collaborative efforts between HBS and Harvard's scientific community, we will empower the next generation of life science... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
Skills”—has generated much interest nationally in the role of business in closing the skills gap. The Walmart Foundation, for example, cited the research in its recent decision to grant $100 million over the next five years to... View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
status quo, at the expense of searching for (and investing in) the kinds of novel breakthrough ideas that originally propelled them to the top. Atari, Wang, Polaroid, DEC, the examples are so numerous it is actually harder to point to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
outside counsel do so at their companies’ peril. To avoid the kinds of recent blunders that have brought scandal and financial disaster to some of the country’s best-known corporations, Bagley believes that general managers need to raise... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
conversations in class where someone says, 'I've got something sort of like this but I approach it differently,' and those are the inspiration for new cases. Those conversations inform the way we approach the discussion and the examples we use." It also gives the... View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- News
Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab
Harvard students, equip scientific startups with the lab resources and programming needed to grow and scale life science ventures, and generate insights and expertise about what it will take for Harvard to continue to build a successful... View Details