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- 01 Mar 2012
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Speak English, Please!
assess their reading and listening comprehension of business English, and to continue to take the test until they pass. A second phase involved bringing in lecturers to discuss how to study English and manage learning the language. The last phase was View Details
- 13 Jun 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Momchil Filev and Ben Faw (both MBA 2014)
FIELD, several EC courses, the Innovation Lab, and multiple start-up competitions, HBS allowed both of us to learn by doing. Combining those experiences with encouragement from professors, and the lessons gained from cases, created a nice... View Details
- 02 Jun 2015
- News
Pointing the Way to a Better World
problems and how people are coming up with solutions,” WuDunn says. “We invite everyone to learn and act in some way.” WuDunn, also a former New York Times reporter, and Kristof won a Pulitzer Prize for their reporting on China’s Tiananmen Square uprising in 1989. They... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: Frozen Assets
bland presentations have led most people to associate ready-made meals with “sacrifice and denial.” With health-care advocates from the Mayo Clinic to Michelle Obama encouraging Americans to shop the perimeter of the grocery store—where... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
2007) entered the doctoral program in TOM directly out of HBS at the encouragement of faculty member Frances Frei, chair of the MBA Required Curriculum. “They say getting an MBA is a transformational experience, and it really was, just... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
On Balance
small, 35-person Workplace Gender Equality Agency not only as a resource for business, but also as an advocate for societal change. Its current initiatives include a toolkit for companies that want to perform a gender-pay-gap audit and a campaign to View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: On the Fly
industry. Would the industry be best served by a model in which these three entities operate under one umbrella? —Marguerite Soeteman-Reijnen (AMP 190, 2016) CARTY: The growth and development of the airline industry over the last 30 years has been based on deregulating... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Taylor R. M. Keen
environmental improvement efforts. Encouraged by Mankiller, he applied to Harvard as a joint degree candidate at both HBS and the Kennedy School of Government, but deferred admission for a year to help the Omahas reinvest profits from the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Work of Art
to raise them.” “The most important thing is that we continue to encourage young people to be able to imagine. It sounds so trivial but it’s a skill to imagine—not from a place of fear but from a place of feeling empowered—that... View Details
- 03 Dec 2019
- News
Two Tales of Connection: Over Meals and Mentoring
To help keep the dinners interesting and encourage alumni of differing backgrounds and experiences to connect, Gupta says each dinner is open to guests according to age groups, with one seat per age group. Building Bridges dinner, HBS... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 21 Sep 2018
- News
HBS Association of Southern California Boosts Support for Startups
in the service sector. A primary goal of the workshop series, according to McCulloch, is to boost the southwest region’s NVC participation. “We’re doing these workshops to encourage our local alumni entrepreneurs. We want them to know... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Classmates Rally to Help Family Stricken with Rare Disease
In a speech he delivered the day before his graduation from HBS, Class Day speaker John Crowley (MBA '97) observed, "In time, we will all acquire a certain amount of responsibility and power. I encourage each of us to use that power... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
could choose what type of company we would work for. He encouraged us to pick a company whose values we'd be proud of. Where the new economy is going I don't think there is a new economy — it's the same economy, the same consumers, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
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Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse
leaders of organizations that worked with Enron acted with a different set of values and purpose.” Encouraged by the afternoon, Clark announced plans for an Enron session for MBA students later in the spring and said he would create... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Happy New Year: The HBS Alumni Board's Newest Members Look to the Future
Board? I encourage alumni interested in our work to contact any board member. We would love to hear ideas about ways we can further our alumni engagement and continue to find ways to give back to HBS. View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Complements to the Case Method
Learning by Doing: Stock Pitching When it comes to getting an edge in a stock trade, HBS finance professors Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy urge students to go straight to the source. “We encourage them to get out in the field and... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
making business decisions," observes Lecturer Thomas J. Kosnik, who teaches Entrepreneurial Marketing. "Entrepreneurial Marketing encourages students to embrace analysis and logic while remaining open to the experience of creativity,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)
encourage them to forget about the technical nomenclature and focus on the essence of processes and systems, using common terms and visual analogies," he says. Berglund had wanted to become a doctor since he was ten years old but deferred... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 22 Oct 2013
- News
Pulling the Plug
then one day in 2008, Stata contacted Giler to encourage him to check out this wireless-electricity startup he had invested in. "It's a good case for networking," Giler says. He returned to the campus a couple of years ago to discuss a... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
entrepreneur, and two other cofounders, Keshavjee launched Honey Care Africa (HCA)—with Jiwa as director—to encourage beekeeping as an opportunity to enhance farmers' incomes. "From its inception, HCA has had an explicit triple... View Details