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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Big Ambition Behind Educational Innovation
Elective Curriculum, with both immersive and extended field course offerings that require students to deepen their understanding of the “knowing” and “doing” of business leadership. Innovation can also happen on a smaller scale, through gradual but persistent View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
New Magazine Makes Its Mark
Phillips and Nelson: Book reviews are their business. Courtesy Allison Nelson and Jon Phillips Three years after launching Bookmarks magazine, a bimonthly guide to new books, Allison Nelson and Jon Phillips (both MBA ’95) are still View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Successful Internship Matchmaking: “With Citadel, I could be myself.”
Sarah refine her search. “I looked at industries hyper-dependent on people, and concentrated on technology and financial services.” Like her HBS colleagues, Sarah launched a campaign to “reach out and connect to people,” perusing the... View Details
- Profile
Oliver Bladek
Early in his career as a consultant with McKinsey, Oliver Bladek recognized the hard impact of so-called "soft" skills. "I was working on a major, $10-billion oil project that included everything from drilling thousands of wells to transporting View Details
- 29 May 2013
- Blog Post
Four Weeks on the Road with MBAs Across America
business, Made Collection. We helped the Collection refine their target audience and customer acquisition strategy, and Mike and Hicham managed to fit in a jam session with some of their resident musicians, too! We also explored Boulder’s... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
that it must faithfully replicate the real-world situation it's testing; that it has to be conducted efficiently, at a reasonable cost; and that its results have to be accurately measured and used, in turn, to refine its design. These are... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
recommendations to the School at the Board's spring meeting. Stay tuned - I will give you a progress report in a subsequent issue of the Bulletin. In addition to these standing committees, two other committees are focusing on pertinent issues. The nominating committee... View Details
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Cherian Kurien
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? For me the purpose of an MBA is to develop and refine one's political, economic and social worldview, by debating, listening to and understanding the views of the faculty and fellow... View Details
- Web
Tools of the Trade | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
transitioning to a management position in the organization’s New York office. “Part of being happy in your career involves knowing what sort of role you enjoy. HBS helped me refine my career interests,” says Varón. “Getting my MBA also... View Details
- 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 Education class, an exercise... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Profile
Lindsay Hyde
skills to an existing business.” She’s found mentors, support, and tough love within the Women Founders’ Forum, an on-campus group led by Senior Lecturer and serial entrepreneur Janet Kraus, which helps women test entrepreneurial ideas and View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Lovepop Woos The Sharks
at you. And you usually have some kind of introduction beforehand—the investors usually have some information coming into the meeting. You walk into the “Tank,” and it’s brand new. Did you refine your pitch specifically for the show? Yes... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
being the cost of it. That was the inspiration." Since its founding, BlueOak has been developing plans for mini-refineries that use proven, capital-efficient refining processes to extract precious metals and rare earth elements from... View Details
- 16 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘The Strategist’
organization. But, in the end, it is the strategist who bears the responsibility for setting a firm's course and making the choices day after day that continuously refine that course. That is why strategy and leadership must be reunited... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery
- 31 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
5 Things on My Mind in the Second Year of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program, we were surprised by how mature the joint degree program felt, thanks to the dedication of the faculty and staff. We are thankful that they are listening to our feedback to refine the program even... View Details
- 04 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Presenting…an Alternative to Company Presentations: Evercore Grabs Attention with Interactive Events
engaged our first-year Associates in a conversation,” says Walker. “We asked them, ‘What was great about our campus presence? What did you like about the other presenters? What should we do on campus that students would really appreciate? Help us View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
New BEI Director: Lynn Schenk
chair, Professor Mike Toffel, to refine and implement a strategy designed to leverage BEI’s intellectual capital, its network, and its executional capabilities. She will also be responsible for overseeing BEI’s overall strategy and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving
model where people can assess the different approaches and collaborate on refining the best solution.” Interactions with a variety of crowds — including students and exec utives in his classrooms, fellow researchers, and the HBS alumni... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Christensen Center: Open for Business
and refine their teaching techniques. After he analyzed the tapes of the first-year courses, for example, he worked with the professors to help them learn from videos of their teaching and from each other. Videotaping classes is one of... View Details
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Sebastien D'Incau
Sebastien. "We got to contrast three different cities," he says, "and I got to interview Chinese consumers to help a sports-apparel brand refine its global strategy." Back-to-back visits to Google China and Baidu were... View Details