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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
employ and train a cadre of professional directors to serve on corporate boards (see sidebar, page 35). And HBS professors, drawing on their areas of expertise, have attempted to influence the debate through opinion pieces in major... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
says. “It’s not only helped me in my campaign, but it’s also helped me in my work in homeland security and national defense. The title of ‘Harvard MBA’ doesn’t win many votes, but the problem-solving ability does.” Taylor says his HBS View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
started planning that school, now known as Year Up. Headquartered in Boston with sites in three other cities, Year Up’s mission is to help “disconnected youth” access real career opportunities through an intense year of training in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Faculty Books
business school education. Drawing on archival material from business schools, foundations, and academic associations, he traces how university-based business schools, founded to train a professional class of managers similar to doctors... View Details
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
Tulip, a four-star hotel in Festac, into a position as a telephone operator at the Radisson Blue Hotel in Victoria Island. WAVE is expected to train 25,000 people by 2019. “We have to start leveling the playing field. It should matter... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Last Look - September 2007
Our thanks to MBA 1976 classmates John Adams, Dottie Stephenson (both Section C), Sam Yates (Section D), and many others who provided details about this model rocket launch in Harvard Stadium. Yates wrote: “We had a first-year Marketing case called ‘Estes Rocket... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
No Sweat
When he’s not researching empirical asset pricing, behavioral finance, and portfolio choice, Assistant Professor Lauren Cohen’s fondness for heavy lifting moves into the physical realm. Here he works out with an 800-pound tire while View Details
Keywords: weightlifting
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
is very human—frail. And, in fact, very few people graduate these days with any training of how to make a software package hard. There are people who learn how to do that and they write military systems, and even those aren’t perfect.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
Norman A. Berg, OPM's faculty chairman. "The program is devoted entirely to training practicing entrepreneurs and is the most distinctive entrepreneurial offering of any kind anywhere." The predecessor of OPM, the Smaller Company... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
philanthropic foundation, it struck me how much we could benefit from importing in that community, the management skills, and rational decision making, and the logic that I had been trained in, in the business world for the first 18 years... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
Packard Foundation, involves ramping up leadership and skills training for nonprofit executives. “With trends in the sector pushing toward larger, more complex organizations focused more on how to deliver results, there’s an increased... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
3-Minute Briefing: David Perpich (MBA 2007)
loved entrepreneurial ventures and media. After college I cofounded a training school and booking business for DJs called Scratch Music. At HBS, I did a field study with five other people about happiness. The basic takeaway was that when... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Research Brief: A Path to Moral Management
different and potentially less laudable norms, the principles that students held during their management education can become corrupted and will no longer be reflected in their behavior,” he says, adding that the key is finding a way to reinvent View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Honored for Addressing Business and Societal Issues
program of The Aspen Institute, surveyed programs at 313 schools. They discovered that less than 20 percent of business schools are training MBAs to manage the social and environmental challenges facing business. That finding prompted the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Terry Virts (GMP 11, 2011)
INTO THE BLUE: Virts, poised for a space-walk training session in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory near Johnson Space Center. (Photos by NASA) An astronaut with NASA since 2000, Terry Virts (GMP 11, 2011) piloted the space shuttle... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Charlie Rose Interviews Goldman CEO Paulson
wouldn’t be there — but the kids would,” he said with a laugh. From then on he took the 4:42 p.m. train home, gave his kids a bath, and read them stories before continuing to work after they’d gone to sleep. Another former Goldman... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Mission in Motion
"bridge" year of service learning and leadership training in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Related Links Sizing Up Social Impact A Healthy Profit Making Change Bringing It Back Home Opening the Door Change begins in the classroom, too,... View Details
Keywords: summary
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
assist the city's children. It was during this time that he became involved with the Outward Bound USA organization, which he saw as an educational resource for the Boys and Girls Clubs. After participating in the program himself, O'Neill was so impressed with its... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
As much as Kendall loved the nuts and bolts of manufacturing — he even trained on the company's assembly line and became a certified welder — he decided that the demands of a career in manufacturing would leave little time for community... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Investigation Leads to Sanctions, Recommendations
sanctions on the offending students as a condition of graduation. It also recommended continued training for faculty, staff, and students on managing section norms and behavior more effectively, specifically in the area of sexual... View Details