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21 May 2019
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Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS

grades in school. Thomas Yao - MBA ‘19 “You’re pretty good for an Asian kid!” As a Chinese boy growing up in Germany, I learned to deal with acts of everyday racism. I had always been a passionate soccer player and assumed that at some... View Details

01 Sep 2022
News

Your Family, Your Work, Your Way

business of day-to-day score keeping. So one of the common things I see a lot of parents do is, basically give themselves like a letter grade every single day. Like, oh, I stayed really late at work to finish that important meeting. And I... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

John McArthur

a good grade on the paper. A week later, he smiled and shook my hand as I received my diploma. I still cherish the photo I have of that handshake. —John Roush (MBA 1992) Dean McArthur was absolutely pivotal in my career steps and choices,... View Details

Keywords: Dean

01 Dec 2001
News

September 11: A Community Reflects

grading and attendance requirements— which had been affected by the tragedy— would be reimposed. "As a community, we are still struggling to come to terms with the impact the tragedies have had, and will continue to have, on our lives,"... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning

year, she reports, topics raised during orientation weigh in heavily on language, class participation, and acculturation challenges. No wonder. In the Business School's case-based curriculum, where 50 percent of the grade is based on... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

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Power and Influence - Course Catalog

both required and recommended, supplement the case material. Course Requirements Grades will be based on two components (each accounting for 50% of the final grade): (1) class participation (including class attendance, contribution to... View Details

02 Jun 2021
News

On the Road Less Traveled

good student and a reasonably good athlete, but when I went to Yonkers orphanage, I decided my ticket out of this situation was private college. How do you get to private colleges? Good grades and athletics. Those were the two things that... View Details

01 Jun 2020
News

Homeschooled

better diagnostics and ways to remediate students who are behind grade levels. That’s something we can do. There’s also a possibility that we have school closures again in the fall. If that happens, we want to help districts, teachers,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; online learning; Educational Services

01 Dec 2012
News

From Where We Stand

Whether missing an attempt to clear a high jump or losing an election, my grade school "failures" taught me that I needed more training, better campaigning and connections, and sometimes, another outlet for my energies. I also learned... View Details

17 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

Overview and Syllabus Harvard Business School Course Overview 807-123 Explains the mission, philosophy, structure, and classroom and grading policies for the second-year MBA elective International Entrepreneurship. Purchase this overview: View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2016
News

Vive la Madeleine!

children,” she says, sitting at a break table near the workers’ locker area. “All my brothers and sisters worked at Jeannette. At the time it was a big company and easy to get work. I had good grades in school but wanted something else.”... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova

17 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 17

Government Inspections: Evidence from Restaurant Hygiene Inspections and Online Reviews By: Kang, Jun Seok, Polina Kuznetsova, Yejin Choi, and Michael Luca Abstract—Restaurant hygiene inspections are often cited as a success story of public disclosure. Hygiene View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Sep 2018
News

Havana Rising

it,” says University of Havana economist Ricardo Torres. “We’ll soon have it.” The daughter of a Japanese social worker and an expert in Japanese history (Harvard professor Andrew Gordon), she spent third grade in a public school in... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

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