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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
includes real-life case examples, Connecting the Dots gives managers the tools to make the most of their technology- and projectrelated investments as they optimize expenditures on the new business frontier. — Deborah Blagg Selling China... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
Cofounder & Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Former Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Yale University, 1953 B.A., American Studies LIFELONG LESSON FROM... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
the discussion groups—I only needed some courage to speak up." "The difference between the Swiss system of lecture and exams and the case method was like night and day," he says. "I learned so many things... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
all comes together. “I also rely on tools I learned in the Marine Corps to empower my team members to excel in their jobs without micromanaging them. I believe in setting expectations and milestones and then letting people work within their own style and View Details
- 01 May 2013
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Catherine E. Kuehn Price, MBA 1986 & Malcolm K. Price, MBA 1987
decided to shift his focus to business. Now heading the Financial Sponsors Group at Credit Suisse in New York City, he views the case method as “an incredibly powerful way of learning.” Cathy, who worked at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
professions, organizations, and industries. Extreme Teaming provides new insights into the world of complex, cross industry projects and the ways they must be managed. The authors analyze contemporary cases that expose the complex demands... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Giving Tree
that legacy, one branch of which is shown below. William H. Draper III (MBA 1954) Founding Cochair, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation “The case method was a brand-new concept to me. I was on a very steep... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 May 2015
- News
Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
students; to inspire and inform case studies; and to share our insight and experience." Mission and Priorities "The mission of Harvard Business School is to educate leaders who make a difference in the world," says Nohria. "By joining... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
rehabilitation projects have won numerous state and local awards and two have received a total of five national awards, including two from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Freeman believes he knows why his “I’ll give that a shot” approach to business has... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
as a child and worked at the Museum of Natural History for a year before applying to HBS. “We have to decide on the most user-friendly method of con-veying exhibit information to, say, a parent with three small kids and no spare hands. We... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Leadership in Practice
Jenrette (DLJ) when he applied to HBS. “I already had the analytical skills,” he recalls, “but the rigors of the case method raised the bar for me.” Dawson greatly admired his HBS corporate finance... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Shared Vision for a Better World
because he was impressed by, among other things, the case method and by several alumni colleagues at Chemical Bank. “It was clear they had been superbly educated,” he says. Upon arriving on the HBS campus,... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Classroom Hijinks: Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
and making it fair, but it was 1974I, apparently, that removed the biggest obstacle to smooth, somewhat undisruptive playing of the game: they used an agreed-upon bingo phrase rather than shouting out “bingo” itself. If you got “bingo,” you had to get called upon in... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
of business, and it taught me how to think as a businessperson,” says Fisher. “The case-study method is fantastic at making you assess all the factors you have to deal with. It says, Here’s the situation; what’s the action plan? And... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 18 Jul 2018
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Ensuring HBS Remains a Dynamic Community
students—their intelligence, passion, and diverse experiences—stand out most from my time at HBS,” she enthuses. She particularly liked class discussions, as the diversity of backgrounds and perspectives made for interesting debates. “Nothing before or since the View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
help get us—whether as a school district, county, state, country—where we need to be.” At Treasury, Cognetti staffed meetings between high-level officials and European foreign ministers. Coming into HBS, she wasn’t afraid to speak her mind. But the View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
Hannah and directed by Steven Spielberg, is a riveting case analysis of business leadership in action through the lens of Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham’s decision to publish the then classified Pentagon Papers—a decision that... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
included fax numbers. Cell phones did exist, but they were rare, heavy as a brick, and available only to a privileged few. States — and in some cases entire U.S. regions — had just one area code. Numbers-crunching was done by hand with an... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes
folks aren’t without blame. Because of their need to be on-the-ground, in-the-moment thinkers, it can be difficult to get them to look beyond the next handshake and sealed deal. To combat this, Cespedes has written Aligning Strategy and Sales as a kind of View Details
- 07 Mar 2017
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From Harvard to INSEAD: Change Management in a Disruptive World
familiar with private enterprise and with strong ties with the business community, rather than a traditional academic. That’s how it all began, and the reason why they reached out to me.” On the value of the case method: “The case-study... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services