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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Batten Gift to Support Residential Campus
contributed $5 million in 1924 to build the School’s campus on the Boston side of the Charles River. From the outset, the HBS campus was designed to support a new kind of education for managers. It was created as a residential campus —... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
who is invested in keeping it that way. The book presents a new vision of how health care could work if it were truly designed to meet consumer needs, creating a call to action on how to demand and help create such a system. A wake-up... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Vision: Into the Breach
meanwhile, were seven times less likely to experience a ransomware attack than the industry average. The company’s advantage, claim cofounders Rotem Iram (MBA 2013) and Roman Itskovich (MBA 2012), is a combination of cybersecurity savvy... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries
sponsored concurrent fact-finding trips to the area. Designed both to introduce students to northern California's booming industries and to help them in their job searches, the January trips also included a networking event with HBS... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
A Bridge to the Future
Returning to the place where their HBS experience began, students in the MBA Class of 2015 convened with sectionmates in their first-year classrooms in late April to participate in an innovative new capstone course. Bridges, part of a... View Details
- 06 Dec 2012
- News
New Thinking on Healthcare Reform
Tim Brown, president and CEO of the design firm IDEO. Christensen then drew a parallel between the evolution of the computer industry and what is slowly taking place in healthcare. Initially, people had to take their problems to the sites... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Clarity and Concision By Soo Ping Lim (AMP 160, 2001) Write Editions Highly readable and succinct, Clearly Write provides direct, definitive and practical guidance on how to write with clarity and concision. The book is distilled from four decades of View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
night shift took over my bunk while I was observing and interviewing the day shift. The food was great, and most of the time I arrived and departed by helicopter.” Looking back on the project, she rates it “the best field research View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
cartridge system to allow users to change the musical content of the toy. “This was a very obvious design for us because we came from the computer software industry,” explains Abercrombie. “We wouldn’t... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
get behind their ideas, going through fertility treatments while launching a company, managing investor expectations, prioritizing mental health, setting benchmarks, hiring to fill experience gaps, and even returning VC funding. “It takes... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
“Creativity does have a reputation for being magical,” says HBS professor Teresa Amabile. “One myth is that it’s associated with the particular personality or genius of a person — and in fact, creativity does depend to some extent on the intelligence, expertise,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
develop a personal investment blueprint, design a solid financial plan to help you gain number clarity, hire an advisor who understands you and values your voice at the table, interpret the mumbo jumbo of investment language, and pull it... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
Mark Verdi Jan Swartz Rob Swartz Mark Verdi Jan Swartz Rob Swartz In 2018, long-time friends Mark Verdi and Jan Swartz (both MBA 1996) were part of the first cohort of MBA alumni to attend The Reflective Leader, a program designed for... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
figure it out, someone who shouldn’t, will,” Peterson warns. This is the kind of in-the-trenches managerial decision-making that a new HBS Executive Education program for health-care administrators aims to help. Launched last fall, Managing Healthcare Delivery (MHCD)... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
recommend that a bright, young associate with five years of experience pursue an MBA, the answer was, “No, absolutely not. She would advance just as quickly staying with us.” A number of recruiters said that what they value most is the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
first-order importance. The second part is whether I have a clever way of studying it. Can I design an experiment to isolate exactly what I think the causal mechanism is? It’s not just that A happens and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
By Invitation Only: How We Built Gilt and Changed the Way Millions Shop by Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (both MBA 2004) (Portfolio) The founders of Gilt Groupe reveal how they built the web’s most famous fusion of high tech and high fashion. Sample sales... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
rooted in the popular MBA elective, The Coming of Managerial Capitalism: The United States, an offering designed in the 1980s by HBS professors Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., and Richard S. Tedlow. To expand this course into the global arena... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
class, a masterful faculty member who can bring the most out of them, cases and exercises that ground discussion in real-world problems, and a campus designed to support a fully engaged residential learning community, together create an... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
The Heart of Change by John P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen Searching for a Corporate Savior by Rakesh Khurana Making Markets: How Firms Can Design and Profit from Online Auctions and Exchanges by Ajit Kambil and Eric Van Heck Leading Terms:... View Details