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01 Jun 2013
News

Five Bright Ideas

ISSUE FOCUS: EDUCATION INNOVATION Bright Idea #1 Training the Global Workforce, Gratis Mike Feerick (MBA 1993) FEERICK: At the grade school he attended in Ireland. "Knowledge and understanding," he says, "are being unleashed via the web... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

08 Nov 2024
News

Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection

HBS Latino Alumni Association Banquet Marks 20 Years The HBS Latino Alumni Association (HBSLAA) held its 20th Annual Banquet on October 5, bringing together 80 alumni, guests, and current HBS students for dinner and a panel discussion at the New England Aquarium in... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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

01 Dec 2006
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The Hard Way

market the grapes, Russo negotiated the transactions. At age 17, she left high school after failing to pass a requisite Grade 10 English exam and quickly parlayed her one marketable skill — typing sixty words a minute without error — into... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Sep 2013
News

The First Scrum

course. I actually did some decent preparation, and I think that was the first time I got a respectable grade in it. Gerald Flannelly (MBA 1966): I'll never forget playing on a field on Randall's Island in New York City. It was covered... View Details

Keywords: rugby; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

02 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 2

(B) Dorothy LeonardHarvard Business School Supplement 912-406 Professor Gupta has imposed two new policies on his class midway through the term: 1) no use of the Internet to locate additional information on the company in the case; 2) an increase in the percentage of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

interrupted, and the resultant patchwork of schooling in Holland and Washington, DC, resulted in poor grades and caused him to reject all thoughts of going to college. A stint in the US Army began his personal turnaround. With the help of... View Details

01 Sep 2010
News

RX for Change

expenditures in the United States have ballooned to an estimated 17 percent of GDP, well above that of other countries — yet those extra dollars don’t result in better care. According to a 2010 Health- Grades report, patient safety... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

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

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 Apr 1998
News

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

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