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- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
pieces, including the blueprint, the Constitution, to another country you don’t get a working democracy.” Eleanor Cannon’s sunny, spacious classroom at St. John’s School in Houston is well appointed, with bright white dry-erase boards covering two walls and a View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
A History of Women at HBS
for women was viewed as nothing short of radical. “A ‘Daring Experiment’: Harvard and Business Education for Women, 1937–1970,” tells the story of how coeducation at HBS evolved from an eleven-month certificate program in “personnel... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)
of his first assignments—an analysis of the economic feasibility of a Canadian hydroelectric plant—required him to master the FORTRAN and COBOL programming languages. "Building a computer model was no mean... View Details
- 14 Jun 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in East Asia
Starting last fall and continuing through the coming year, Dean Srikant Datar is traveling to meet with alumni around the world. On June 5 and 8, more than 300 alumni in East Asia gathered to celebrate and connect with each other at "An Evening with Dean Datar" events... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Field remain strong. From 1994 to 1997, he headed the HBS Canadian Initiative, a program conceived by former HBS Dean John H. McArthur in part to enable a geographically and culturally diverse group of qualified Canadian students to... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
Championing the HBS Fund
solutions. “Growing up in Greece in the 1980s, there were not many career opportunities,” says Stavropoulos, who appreciated the liberal arts education that Harvard offered. Although he enjoyed literature and writing, he pursued computer... View Details
- 12 Jan 2023
- News
‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data
repaid in 98.2 percent of instances. “That’s an implied default rate of about 1.8 percent,” Ballard says. For comparison, one SBA loan program included in the data had a trailing 10-year default rate of 17.6 percent. “That’s pretty night... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Gifts Create Frist Financial Aid Fund
Expressing gratitude, Brit K. Dewey (MBA ’96), managing director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid, said the two gifts will allow the School to continue to innovate to meet student needs. “These gifts will help fund a new loan-assistance View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Future Vision
about what we can do post-pandemic. We’ve already begun to experiment by inviting alumni to the hybrid classroom as participants in case discussions. Professor Karim Lakhani, for example, led a Short Intensive Program (SIP) last January... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
If your idea of a Ph.D. in business conjures up visions of spectacled scholars toiling in solitude in the library's darkest, dustiest corners, think again. At HBS, students in the School's Doctoral Programs are doing much more than... View Details
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
neighborhood-development strategy of mixed-income housing, a cradle-to-college education pipeline, and community wellness programs that have helped to revitalize Atlanta’s troubled East Lake neighborhood. Funded by philanthropists,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Virtual Plant Tours and Beer Game Dysfunction
exercise, administered in the computer lab. A software program simulates a supply chain from retailer through wholesaler and distributor up to the beer factory. Students take roles as a participant in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
team, an experience that convinced him that he needed more management skills. By his own recollection, he was virtually “clueless” about the very special place to which he was heading. His application to the MBA Program caught the... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
the basic premise is this: Computers get smart, become self-aware, take over, sometimes take on the shape of Arnold Schwarzenegger, and try to eradicate humanity. Here's a refresher, courtesy of Terminator 3: “The virus has infected... View Details
- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
computer storing the data was not on campus. Doris at the dot-matrix printer, with a Decmate at the right Doris came to Alumni Records in 1979 after two years with the HBS Fund. That was the year HBS records were computerized using the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
years in the Young Presidents’ Organization — the first woman from Queensland invited to join — Russo had sharpened her business skills and bolstered her confidence through seminars and conferences, including a weeklong YPO program held... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
cloud. Not long thereafter, Microsoft introduced a new programming language designed specifically for quantum computing. (In addition to novel hardware, quantum computers require new software to exploit... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
another HBS case discussion in the spring of 1978, calculator in hand, Bricklin (MBA '79) had an epiphany: there should be a computer program that could speed up the tedious View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
What’s On?
KILAR After working at Amazon.com for nine years, in 2007 Jason Kilar (MBA ’97) became CEO of Hulu, the service that brings popular television programming and movies to computers via high-quality streaming... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
many future entrepreneurs - accidental or otherwise - in his faculty role as the Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration. After graduating as a Baker Scholar, Brierley entered the DBA Program and worked as a research... View Details