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- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Seeding a Better Future for Colombia
countries with the highest potential to increase the world’s agricultural production.” Roughly 4,000 visitors walk through Colombia’s pavilion each day, experiencing high-tech simulations of its five different climate zones. In addition... View Details
- 19 Sep 2019
- News
Predicting Human Behaviors
front of a faux dashboard. A large monitor simulated the view through a windshield as a car drove on a quiet suburban street. On one side of the road, a woman walked casually down the bike lane. On the other, a young boy with a backpack... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
The Next Lessons
on the eve of graduation. “Khan Academy started, for the most part, with me producing content. As it grew—our whole team working with others to write exercises and simulation software—we started to realize, hey, this is a pretty good... View Details
Keywords: William Weber
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
simulate it, which means, on the computer, you would launch a golf ball at it and watch it come off. And the simulation program would measure the speed the golf ball was moving at, its spin, all that. And it... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
The Evolving Case Method
Simulations and role-plays complement and reinforce the power of traditional case method instruction and have become fixtures of several courses. Professor David Garvin explains how this has worked in Leadership and Corporate... View Details
Keywords: the case method
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
The Next Big Swing
Oscar-nominated 2011 adaption of Michael Lewis’s Moneyball. But well before baseball stats went Hollywood, Tippett was quietly turning industry heads with something decidedly less flashy: a graphics-light, stat-heavy computer baseball View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
engineered our way into the problem; we have to engineer our way out of it. How do we find these new molecules? Unfortunately, we can’t simulate molecules the same way that we simulate larger physical... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
James McKenney Remembered
full professor in 1968 and was named the John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration in 1989. He retired from the active faculty in 1996. McKenney introduced the first computer-based simulation exercise, the Business Game, to the... View Details
Keywords: Information
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Step By Step
because of the running and walking. It felt like a way to honor him, and it still does. Every time I run, I can speak to whomever I want, and that includes my father. In many ways, running a marathon simulates life’s journey. During a... View Details
- 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 chain, seeing only the orders... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Preparing Future Leaders for Tomorrow’s Challenges
prepare for reentry into the workforce. Oberholzer-Gee and his faculty colleagues are also exploring what concepts and skills are most effectively learned using technology and online platforms. For example, simulations and multimedia... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Flight Path
mall in Los Angeles. November 2016 DRL partners with Bud Light to find the next professional drone racer, recruited through DRL’s online simulator and a live tournament. February 2017 DRL signs a multiyear title sponsorship with German... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96
Foundations is organized to build community by allowing each student to meet virtually every other student in the cohort. Foundations begins with a simulation in which students inherit a failing business and must turn it around using... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds
business owners in need of strategic planning and competitive analysis. When the team pitched the HourlyNerd model to classmates at FIELD 3’s simulated stock market, which allows peer “investors” to evaluate the business plans, the stock... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 04 Dec 2014
- News
Hacking Health Care
way: a project leader pinpoints problem areas and organizes a hackathon that is attended by an audience of 200 to 300 participants. Doctors and nurses on the front line engage with software developers who are eager to break through the industry morass—resulting, for... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot
McAllister (MBA 1965) KAPOOR: We think these fleets will be a game-changer for people with disabilities. The question is really when that will happen. The challenge is that the vehicles have to learn all the possible scenarios they’ll encounter on the roads, and they... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Scott C. Bolick
twice the 67 days usually needed to complete the arduous battery of simulated combat missions. The ordeal left Bolick 36 pounds lighter than when he started and further weakened by viral infections that required two overnight... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Students craft their post-HBS lives
workshop—students bring their spouses or partners to class to work on how to have effective relationships. Crafting Your Life employs self-assessments, written exercises, workshops, and a simulation all developed specially for the course.... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
which means that all employees are “really focused on efficiency,” Wallace says. They developed a multilayered interview process to match the right person for each job, as the wrong hire can be extremely costly. It culminates with a two- or three-hour exercise that... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Reinventing Marketing
Professor V. Kasturi Rangan, the required Marketing course has been revamped to include new initiatives such as a marketing-strategy computer simulation (called "Pharmasim") and a module on new product development, developed and taught... View Details