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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
MBA curriculum, as well as a new prematriculation module on information technology. And in the elective curriculum, there’s a steady stream both of new courses and of new materials. We’ve built a significant degree of flexibility into our... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Raising the Barrio
Inter-American Development Bank—and a politically challenging one. It wasn’t until Buenos Aires’s former mayor Mauricio Macri was elected president of Argentina in 2015 that all the pieces for the investment fell into place. (Rodríguez... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Courting the Poor
the second-year elective Managing Service Operations. Launched in 1957 with a single department store, Magazine Luiza operated as a family-run business until 1991, when the niece of one of the founders, Luiza Helena Trajano Rodrigues,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Books
mix of oversight, decision-making, and advisory roles. “Boards are most likely to be effective,” they write, “if their structures are design-ed to suit the circumstances of their company and the role the board has elected to play.” For... View Details
- 13 Dec 2011
- News
Harvard Business School Launches US Competitiveness Project
January HBS will release results of its first-ever comprehensive alumni survey on US competitiveness, including unique data on where companies locate business activities globally and why they move activities into or out of the US. In the spring, HBS will convene... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
but in July 2009, the government postponed the call for bids just a few hours before deadline.) The case elicited a broad range of student responses when HBS associate professor Gunnar Trumbull taught it for the first time last December in the View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
stages. In the second-year MBA elective Building Business in the Context of a Life, she works with women (and men) in their late 20s "for whom the 'future' is their first job." The course challenges students to look further ahead and... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
thoughtful and entertaining talk on "Prospects for Stability in Sub-Saharan Africa." Slabbert, one of the architects of the first democratic elections in South Africa in 1994, is a former leader of the opposition in the old South African... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change
financial services companies as it determines its stand on a matter of increasing public prominence. Oberholzer-Gee teaches the case in Strategies Beyond the Market, a second-year elective that focuses on the interplay between business... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Andrew H. Tisch
Tisch has long been committed to numerous philanthropic and social causes, including the Young Women's Leadership School of East Harlem, a public high school established by his wife, Ann, in 1996 to provide a single-sex educational option to inner-city girls in New... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
Do You See What I See?
In the second-year elective The Moral Leader, students read and discuss a wide selection of literary sources, confronting complex moral challenges and developing the analytical skills and judgment that will be required of them as business... View Details
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
worked on was in the aftermath of the first election of Mandela in South Africa. So, all of that was exhilarating to me in many ways. I traveled extensively. So, one way that I became intrigued with art was that perhaps 30%, 40% of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
to get inside the system.” Nielsen decided to run for the Seattle school board and was elected in 1993. For the next eight years, he and other reformers on the board pushed through some remarkable changes, making Seattle one of the most... View Details
- 18 Mar 2021
- News
Authentically Leading with Blind Ambition
for Leading in Crisis and True North Groups. Bill has previously served on the boards of Goldman Sachs, Mayo Clinic, ExxonMobil, Target, Novartis and The World Economic Forum USA. In 2014 the Franklin Institute presented Bill with the Bower Award for Business... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Better Mousetraps: At Product Design Fair, Student Ideas Get Real
Actually, we like to see them fail as often and as early as possible," Assistant Professor Stefan H. Thomke said with a wink as he watched students in his elective MBA course Managing Product Development (MPD) set up their display booths... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Rock Gift to Support Entrepreneurial Studies
entrepreneurship group runs a first–year course called The Entrepreneurial Manager, sixteen elective courses, the Business Plan Contest, summer fellowships in entrepreneurship, and a wide range of research projects and publications.... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Students craft their post-HBS lives
thought-provoking exercise,” says Leslie Perlow, “but it leaves them with lots and lots of questions.” Those questions inspired Perlow to develop a new second-year elective called Crafting Your Life. “The course was created primarily by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
as a sublime integration of operations and marketing,” says Deighton, who taught the case to MBAs for the first time this fall in the elective course Consumer Marketing. “Patterson understands that if you want shelf space you need to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
entrepreneurship itself. At HBS we define entrepreneurship as the pursuit of opportunity beyond the resources you currently control — so, obviously, creativity is a big factor.” In her new elective course, Leading Innovative Ventures, HBS... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
Davin Chow, Adam Prewett, and Kevin Yttre (all MBA ’08). Tripsas, who teaches the Linear case in the elective Leading Innovative Ventures, sees the instructive qualities of flexibility, experimentation, and risk management in Herp’s... View Details