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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dean Clark Reflects on the School’s Key Initiatives
the world. Professor David Garvin, for example, developed a multimedia case — in real-time — that followed the newly appointed CEO of a local medical center as he attempted to turn around the organization. Professor Michael Porter “virtually” cotaught an View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
distractions, the time groups spend in discussion is enhanced. Overall, technology seems to have delivered a vastly streamlined approach to class preparation. It’s time to head back to Aldrich for Assistant Professor Alan MacCormack’s View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
interest is examining the interactions that occur between and across the various functional and product boundaries of the firm, which is the subject of his popular MBA elective Advanced Competitive Strategy: Integrating the Enterprise.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
expect we haven’t seen the last of it. When it comes to corruption here, the bad guys don’t even have to be clever. But, to her credit, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who is Africa’s first elected female head of state and a graduate of Harvard’s... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Past Informs the Future of Work
related to growth and efficiency. In a variety of case studies, students in the MBA elective Managing the Future of Work consider technological trends reshaping today’s workplace and actions business leaders can take. In particular, cases... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
would be the book value, roughly $50 million. The third option is to maintain current levels of operation until the situation becomes clearer. Reinhardt has taught the case in his Energy course in the second-year MBA elective curriculum,... View Details
- 25 Mar 2021
- News
Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy
Press, proposes that entrepreneurial thinking will be the key to government’s ability to solve big problems (written by Professor of Management Practice and Richard L. Menschel Faculty Fellow Mitchell B. Weiss). Scaling Minority Businesses, a new MBA View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
Suzhou amid COVID-19, while exploring the bigger problem of China's labor shortage of migrant workers. Choudhury will teach the case in his elective course, Managing Global Operations, next spring. California Research Center—When the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
Wilkins (MBA '70), and Terry L. Jones (MBA '74) and awards for civic and community service to Benaree Pratt Wiley (MBA '72) and Kenneth A. Powell (MBA '74). (Powell was also recently elected president of the HBS African-American Alumni... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
partisan issues. But we do advance science and document the consequences of decisions that we make as a society. And while businesses like GE, Wal-Mart, and Johnson & Johnson are showing real leadership on the environment, some of our national View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
philosophical fit was there, he felt, even if it left many scratching their heads. Currently taught by Marquis in the MBA elective course Commerce and Society, the case details Burt’s Bees’ pioneering initiative to formalize and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
during this period is extraordinary and has been made possible by the fact that we canceled all elective procedures. One of the puzzles we’re beginning to think about is how to transition the workforce back. How do we continue to have the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Lessons from a Megacity
with Senior Lecturer John Macomber’s new field method course Building Cities, part of the Immersion Experience Program (IXP) in the MBA Elective Curriculum. That’s how Schultz and her three teammates found themselves navigating between... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision
hadn't really thought about this problem until he visited Peru and noticed that hardly anybody there wore glasses. Back at HBS, in Associate Professor Stefan Thomke's elective course Managing Product Development, Houghton started... View Details
Keywords: eyeglasses
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
have to rely on diesel generators. That is a lot of the same kind of stuff you do in an emerging economy. It’s the same thing you do in a new city in India or China.” Macomber teaches the MBA elective Building Cities: Infrastructure and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
woman's election to the American presidency. In 1997 I cofounded the White House Project - with Barbara Lee, a civic activist working out of Brookline, Massachusetts, and Marie Wilson, president of the Ms. Foundation. We ran a ballot in... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details
- 03 Mar 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)
identities, so there’s a fractured sense of self out there. And the moral bar has lowered. We no longer trust the media to be a fair watchdog, nor our elected officials to act with integrity. Detecting deception is not a parlor trick;... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Jimmy Lai Chee-ying: Rags, Riches, and Risk
will still be the print medium.” After Taiwan voters ended more than a half-century of one-party rule in presidential elections last year, Lai knew he had to move to the island. Taiwan, he says, “is the only democracy in Chinese culture.”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Taking Attendance
HBS, where Jones took an entrepreneurship in public education elective with Stacey Childress (MBA 2000), who now heads NewSchools Venture Fund. Childress urged her to enter the field, but Jones, intent on paying off her loans, opted for a... View Details