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- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
around the world. They are so different in culture-- Virginia and China, no connection there, really. And then later on, Switzerland, Italy, France, Spain-- everywhere I go, you find humans, cultures, across such geographies use the same 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
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
to the case method of separating the wheat from the chaff.) Nixon led McGovern in our Presidential class poll, the reverse of '73's, probably because fully 38 percent of our class were veterans. Thanks to Professor John Kotter, there's no... View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
mistakes, and all the while they fed it books, dictionaries, the Bible, encyclopedias, everything. They tested it, endlessly, reinforcing the methods that had led to correct answers and amending the mistakes, which meant tweaking the... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
to apply what they have learned in the classroom is a logical extension of the School’s vaunted case method, says Moon. “The case method is so powerful because it is such a close proxy for decision-making in the field,” she explains. “But... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
method that can be applied to everything from everyday decisions to strategic issues in business to global social challenges, the authors provide 30 detailed, real-world examples to transform the way you approach problems and take you to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
was not an unwelcome relic from the past but widely associated with modernity and upward mobility, with a big market among urban professional women. From the perspective of many in the United States and Europe, the beauty companies could be seen as employing modern... 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
- 23 Aug 2011
- News
New Kid in School
the same way Art Schleifer showed us in Managerial Economics in my first year at HBS. And I do try to use the Socratic Method when I teach. You can’t hide in my classroom.” View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
is hard to overstate." Carliss Y. Baldwin, the William L. White Professor of Business Administration at the School, commented, "Bob's methods have been applied to an enormously wide range of economic problems, ranging from pure theory to... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
2014 to simultaneously promote more sustainable agricultural methods and educate others about indigenous culture—the seed, if you will, for an alternative to the high-yield, soil-depleting cycle of tilling, pesticides, and fertilization... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
ladder, and the stories that other successful women have shared with her. Eberle Walker also shares insights from fellow CEOs across a range of industries who use creative, forward-thinking methods to support women throughout an entire... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
to survive." Bhide also points to "certain attitudes and skills" that spell entrepreneurial success. One is "the ability to make decisions in real time, with very limited information," a skill that may ring a bell with HBS grads. "Yes, the case View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Sparking Internet Commerce
tastes with a precision heretofore unimaginable. (Any purchases, of course, also augment a user's profile.) "It's the Holy Grail of marketing," says Grouf. Known as "collaborative filtering," this method of accumulating data has been a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Making the Case for Maine: HBS Club and State's CEO Discuss Business Issues
Since the case method was introduced to management education by HBS in the 1920s, its approach to understanding business through real-world examples has been employed in thousands of classrooms throughout the world. Last May, the HBS Club... View Details
Keywords: Janine Brunell Looker
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Feedback
lecture was to read the New York Times obituaries every day to see who had been successful, and then learn what made them successful. No case method for the General. We listened and learned. —Bill MacDowell (MBA 1955) via alumni.hbs.edu... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
In Brief
future of women in leadership in business and society, including an on-campus summit April 4–6, 2013. More FIELD 3 Tests Students In an innovative complement to the case method of instruction, the entire Class of 2013 spent the 15-week... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Survey Spotlights HBS Experience
“favorable.” Case method of teaching 86 % Case materials 84 % Faculty 84 % Elective courses 81 % Other class members 78 % Section experience 78 % Required courses 75 % Grading system 67 % Study groups 57 % Extracurricular activities 56 % View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
proven method for allocating an organization’s energy, time, and resources across “the three boxes”: the present (keep the current business going), the past (forget what made the business successful), and the future (create the new... View Details