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- 01 Dec 2017
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A Shared Vision for a Better World
because he was impressed by, among other things, the case method and by several alumni colleagues at Chemical Bank. “It was clear they had been superbly educated,” he says. Upon arriving on the HBS campus, he quickly found community and... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Classroom Hijinks: Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
competitive nature of HBS. Most endearing are the thank-you celebrations of professors during the last class, several of which are on YouTube. For a professor’s method of handling pranks, see MBA 1984-6A. HBS administrators probably... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
Sustainable Farming in the Arid World
Philipp Saumweber (MBA 2006) started Sundrop Farms to bring sustainable horticulture to the arid world, growing high-value crops using seawater and sunlight and bringing jobs to communities that previously had no agriculture sector. In this interview he explains to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
that point and have tried to use that lesson throughout my life. See Every Side Jacqueline Beato (MBA 2009) THE GREATEST LESSON I took from the case study method at HBS is that opposing viewpoints are all based on different experiences;... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Changing Nature of Research
Rivkin, the C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration and senior associate dean for research. “The world’s problems are becoming increasingly complex and no longer lend themselves to a single method of research.”... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Expanding Horizons
confidence that Nishant needed to help him launch his own firm after leaving a larger company. “The case method emphasizes practical learning, which prepared me for my role at Kedaara,” he says, noting that the School’s alumni network in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
approach present? Is there an underlying logic and method to his approach that, well beyond the diplomacy of the 1970s, offers practical guidance for meeting today’s negotiation challenges—from diplomacy to business, finance, and law? By... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
management methods in American business," finished fourth, followed by IBM's Thomas J. Watson, whose "computers enabled the automation of well-informed decision-making, allowing business and the work force to migrate from manual labor in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
compensation committees have focused on them without thinking hard about alternatives. Expensing, I think, would actually liberate companies by enabling them to choose among a variety of compensation methods they've heretofore been... View Details
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
classmates. It was as hard as finding a top-rated horror flick in a sea of streaming options, Liang realized. The dance world had a discovery problem too. Case Centennial See how HBS is celebrating 100 Years of case method teaching and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
(INSEAD), today’s leading European business school. Scaling each of these peaks, Doriot bucked the prevailing system. Although he helped implement HBS’s famous case study method early in his teaching career, after the war Doriot... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
efforts, with satellite stores outside the museum and Web and catalog sales bringing in significant income. Sensory overload can easily sap a museum-goer's energy, and taking a break from the collections to eat is often an effective View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
New Virtual Classrooms Expand Digital Learning
upcoming programs,” notes Nancy DellaRocco, executive director of Executive Education. “We could not have reopened our doors virtually so quickly without the new classrooms. The timing was fortuitous.” In recent years, Chandler explains, HBS has been experimenting with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
HBS Online Certificate Programs Offer Unique Insight Into Business
with virtual classmates around the world, and “cold calls” are incorporated into this highly social learning experience. “We took a digital-first approach that leveraged aspects of the case method where it made sense and included features... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Transferring Skills From The Military to the Private Sector
she was 18 she’s mostly been surrounded by people in the military. “The case method challenges me to speak up; it forces me to be a contributing member of the class,” she says. “I’ve been extremely impressed by my fellow classmates, and I... View Details
- 13 Jun 2016
- News
Brenda Bence (MBA 1991)
Brenda Bence (MBA 1991) Harvard Business School was the only business school to which Brenda Bence (MBA 1991) applied for admission. “I wanted a learning process that was practical and pragmatic,” explains Bence. She liked that HBS used the case study View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Business Suits You: Experimenting with Professional Identity
junior professionals in consulting and investment banking firms. She found that these individuals had various methods of discovering how to create an effective image for themselves as senior managers. The most prevalent form of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Faculty Books
Herzlinger exposes the motives and methods of figures in the insurance, hospital, employment, governmental, and academic sectors that have crippled the U.S. health-care system. She proves how the current system, organized around payers... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Bottom-Line Discrepancies
particular, the changing nature of employee compensation. By taking these items into account, one could reconcile tax returns with accounting statements. In the last decade, however, a huge, unexplained difference between the two methods... View Details
- 02 Jul 2008
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No Pulp Fiction Allowed
case method of instruction, contending that it teaches skills largely irrelevant to what managers actually do. Mintzberg devotes the second half of his book to a description of what works in management education, much of which is going on... View Details